What are your fav local finds?

What are some of your favorite local products that you pick up? Where do you get them from?

Awesome APC- Dollar General Good for all purpose cleaning

Blue Magic Wheel Brightener- O'Reilly's Pretty good wheel cleaner, and leaves nice shine

AA tire foam- Wal-mart Good for wheel wells, side rails... and really huge bumpers

Blue Coral Dri-foam carpet cleaner- Wal-mart Good for maintainence carpet cleaning.... leave fresh, crisp scent

3M Scour pads- Target Excellent for working with your leather cleaner!!!

 

How about the Clay Magic clay? Or the spray bottles at Targer? Or the Vroom gray MFs at Target?

 

I've been using the LA's Awesome APC as well and think it's great for the price

My aditions to the list include: Duragloss / 303 protectant / Collinite 845IW / Amazing Roll Off / Green Viking MF's (target)

 

S&W plastics - great place for bottles/dispensers/jugs

Home Depot- grout sponges!

walmart - Stoners IG, green 3m tape, AA tire gel, eurow mitts, ww window towels, plastic containers for MF/pads.

 

Gray Vroom MFs from target are nice for the money
Clay magic from autozone
SIG of course (although now I always reach for the surf city)

Ive found the 303 line at boating stores, but its usually alot more expensive then online. They sometimes have Collinite and other stuff too.

I still use all the OTC mothers metal polishes, they work good enough for me

If you've ever been to www.carcareonline.com , they have a store about 10 min from my house, so I get to feast on all their goodies. (NICE mf, P21S, Zymol, etc...)

I wish I could find druagloss locally... ive looked everywhere

 

i was just about to mention clay magic...stuff works great..and its CHEAPPPP...cant go wrong with it...ive used it on higher end cars and have had no problems with it...cleans great...

 

i've never seen clay magic at autozone.... do you have to specifically ask for it?

 

I thought I was the only one... I never see Clay Magic in Autozone!!

 

hmm thats weird...its on the shelf with all the other detaling products...you might want to ask if they have it in the back or a diffrent store...because it really is a great buy

 

I have Clay Magic in my local Autozone. It's in car care product section. Again, stores vary from state to state, city to city. $10.99...

 

CD2 Engine Detailer, Folex

 

Collinite (Harbor Freight Tools)

Magic Eraser (Target)

 

Folex- Target
Nascar Tire Shine- Biglots
Blue drying towels -Walmart

 

-Duragloss at CarQuest naturally
-TurtleWax MF applicator pads at Big Lots
-Some bits and pieces at AutoZone such as a few Megs products here and there and found some ClayMagic there as well
-viking and Meguiar's MF towels at O'Reilly's
-Oh, and one of my latest ones I'm reall happy with is a small toilet brush I bought at Kmart. It's bristles are on the softer side but still firm enough for wheels and the body is plastic, so no worries on screwing up your wheels.

 

Don't know if this has been said.. but I was at Advance Auto Parts today and noticed they had the Surf City Garage line in their cleaning aisle. The prices seem to be the same as they are online. I bought some Grime Destroyer and when the cashier rang it up he said "damn that's expensive.. you know we have some cheaper stuff". It was $9.99 for a 24oz bottle.

 

Love it, thanks for the heads up. I'll pop by next time and get some!

 

Hm, didn't know they had CM at Autozone. My Meg's Professional Mild is running out as well.

 

From Home depot...

Zep Premium Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner
Zep Citrus Cleaner and Degreaser Concentrate
Folex

 

Totally awesome APC @ dollar tree
vroom towels @ target
aquapel @ harbour freight
gliptone body bar @ R&S Strauss
sprayway glass cleaner @ walmart
zep spray bottles @ home depot
folex gallon @ lowes

 

Armor All Original - less than $25 a gallon at Wal Mart, bright satiny sheen on tires. No browning, water based, decent durability.

Purple Power - $5 or so a gallon at Wal Mart, works great on engines, textured wheel wells, etc.

Vroom (towels, soap dispenser, mitts, etc.) - towels are great on jambs, rims, etc. I love the cheapie soap dispenser, and the mitts are a staple of my arsenal.