XSSIVE
07-08-2013, 03:58 PM
Now that AG sells Auto Finesse I guess I can post my interior quick detailer comparison I did a while back here since two out of three now sold by the geek ain't bad. :xyxthumbs:
I'm new to detailing forums but not new to forums (been on many car and guitar forums for many years under the same screen name "XSSIVE") and certainly not new to detailing, been doing that since 1999. I stopped detailing as a job in the mid 2000s but continued to do it on the side for car club members of the club I used to run, family members, friends for a few years longer and now I mostly just obsess over my own cars...everyone else can clean their own darn car hahaha.
So, to kick things off I decided to do a quick comparison of the three interior quick detailers I've been trying out. None of these are heavy duty cleaners meant to remove major stains or anything like that. The typical use is just to freshen up an interior, clean off a dusty dash, remove some finger prints and smudges or an oily mark on an arm rest or other light duty things on typical non cloth interior surfaces.
Based on that I decided to target the comparison between them on a few things I consider important when it comes to these quick interior detailers. The gloss level left behind, the sprayer and the scent left behind since you have to sit in the car and live with them for a while as they linger. I tend to spray the products on a microfiber towel then wipe it on the area I'm cleaning and don't often spray direct on the surface. However I figured I should mention the sprayers since in all my obsessive over analyzing of products I've come to actually have favorite sprayers. But that's a whole other rant.
My go to for quite a while has been 1Z Einszett Cockpit Premium since I'm always after a factory new finish with no real gloss or wet look to it. The next new contenders for me are Adam's new Total Interior Detailer and Auto Finesse Spritz.
http://davanzodesigns.com/intcleaners1.jpg
1Z Einszett Cockpit Premium has a good quality sprayer that puts out a fairly large amount of product per spray and remains fairly even meaning it doesn't shoot out larger globs or splatters on the left of the spray while the right of the spray is a finer mist of product which some lesser quality sprayers can sometimes do. It's has a water like consistency and smells of a combination of a clean soap and citrus. Not a bad smell but not the greatest smelling product ever either (personal opinion). I liked how it worked so I let the so so smell slide since effectiveness is more important than scent.
Adam's Total Interior Detailer has the standard Adam's black spray head which seems to be the same style as the standard Chemical Guys spray head just in black Vs clear. These sprayers put out a large quantity of product in each spray and can sometimes have an uneven spray with some larger splatters or globs to one side and a thin mist to the other but sometimes they work perfectly. It seems very dependent on how hard or how far back you pull the trigger as to how even the spray will be. This also seems to vary from sprayer to sprayer when it comes to this model spray head from both Adam's and Chemical Guys so it's more a sprayer manufacture occasional issue than an Adam's specific thing. Adam's TID has a water like consistency and smells just like a bottle of Johnson and Johnson's baby oil, a very clean fresh scent.
Auto Finesse Spritz has among the best sprayers in the detailing industry in my opinion, tied with Dodo Juice. It consistently sprays a very even very fine spray without splatters or globs. Spritz has a water like consistency and has a pleasant vanilla scent that isn't overpowering.
For the simple gloss left behind test I cleaned off my arm rest with some Adam's Leather and Interior Cleaner and taped off three small sections.
Here's the cleaned off panel with tape lines and no product applied to it.
http://davanzodesigns.com/intcleaners2.jpg
I sprayed each product on its own microfiber towel and rubbed it onto the surface, flipped the towel and wiped over it with a clean dry side.
I placed the bottles in the background so there was no confusion as to which area of the arm rest had which product. To clarify it we have Auto Finesse Spritz on the left, Adam's in the middle and 1Z Cockpit on the right.
In this photo with the tape line there it's hard to see any major difference at all between the three products.
http://davanzodesigns.com/intcleaners3.jpg
When the tape is removed however you can see that Auto Finesse Spritz and 1Z cockpit make no change to the arm rest from when I started with a freshly cleaned surface. The Adam's doesn't make the area greasy feeling or super shiny it just deepens the color and makes it look a bit richer and darker with a slight glow to it.
http://davanzodesigns.com/intcleaners4.jpg
So there you have it, if you're after no change from a perfectly clean new looking interior yet need a product to remove dust, finger prints, smudges, oily arm rest marks and protect the area from fading then Auto Finesse Spritz or 1Z Cockpit are the perfect choice and you can shop based on price or scent between them for this use. If you want an interior quick detailer that deepens the look of your dash and door panels yet don't want a greasy shiny slick mess like some other products then Adam's Total Interior Cleaner is the choice since both Auto Finesse Spritz and 1Z Cockpit leave the interior looking like you've done nothing at all to it which some people love and other people feel like they've wasted their time working with, all personal choice.
At the start I mentioned that 1Z cockpit had been my go to interior quick detailer but after using Adam's TID and Auto Finesse Spritz my Golf R (the test subject in the pics) will be getting Spritz from now on and my Dodge Nitro R/T will be getting Adam's TID. Why the change? After using them the Spritz is my personal favorite smell and since it works just as good as 1Z Cockpit yet sprays better and smells better I'm changing based on that. The change in my Dodge is because I like the slight deepening effect Adam's has on its dark charcoal grey interior and the scent is again better (IMO) than the 1Z Cockpit.
Hope my rambling helped some of you out. Sorry I couldn't go in depth on their cleaning ability but my cars are too clean for that haha and I'm not sure any of them are all that amazing at cleaning anyway. They seem more suited to dusty dash clean up.
-Mike
I'm new to detailing forums but not new to forums (been on many car and guitar forums for many years under the same screen name "XSSIVE") and certainly not new to detailing, been doing that since 1999. I stopped detailing as a job in the mid 2000s but continued to do it on the side for car club members of the club I used to run, family members, friends for a few years longer and now I mostly just obsess over my own cars...everyone else can clean their own darn car hahaha.
So, to kick things off I decided to do a quick comparison of the three interior quick detailers I've been trying out. None of these are heavy duty cleaners meant to remove major stains or anything like that. The typical use is just to freshen up an interior, clean off a dusty dash, remove some finger prints and smudges or an oily mark on an arm rest or other light duty things on typical non cloth interior surfaces.
Based on that I decided to target the comparison between them on a few things I consider important when it comes to these quick interior detailers. The gloss level left behind, the sprayer and the scent left behind since you have to sit in the car and live with them for a while as they linger. I tend to spray the products on a microfiber towel then wipe it on the area I'm cleaning and don't often spray direct on the surface. However I figured I should mention the sprayers since in all my obsessive over analyzing of products I've come to actually have favorite sprayers. But that's a whole other rant.
My go to for quite a while has been 1Z Einszett Cockpit Premium since I'm always after a factory new finish with no real gloss or wet look to it. The next new contenders for me are Adam's new Total Interior Detailer and Auto Finesse Spritz.
http://davanzodesigns.com/intcleaners1.jpg
1Z Einszett Cockpit Premium has a good quality sprayer that puts out a fairly large amount of product per spray and remains fairly even meaning it doesn't shoot out larger globs or splatters on the left of the spray while the right of the spray is a finer mist of product which some lesser quality sprayers can sometimes do. It's has a water like consistency and smells of a combination of a clean soap and citrus. Not a bad smell but not the greatest smelling product ever either (personal opinion). I liked how it worked so I let the so so smell slide since effectiveness is more important than scent.
Adam's Total Interior Detailer has the standard Adam's black spray head which seems to be the same style as the standard Chemical Guys spray head just in black Vs clear. These sprayers put out a large quantity of product in each spray and can sometimes have an uneven spray with some larger splatters or globs to one side and a thin mist to the other but sometimes they work perfectly. It seems very dependent on how hard or how far back you pull the trigger as to how even the spray will be. This also seems to vary from sprayer to sprayer when it comes to this model spray head from both Adam's and Chemical Guys so it's more a sprayer manufacture occasional issue than an Adam's specific thing. Adam's TID has a water like consistency and smells just like a bottle of Johnson and Johnson's baby oil, a very clean fresh scent.
Auto Finesse Spritz has among the best sprayers in the detailing industry in my opinion, tied with Dodo Juice. It consistently sprays a very even very fine spray without splatters or globs. Spritz has a water like consistency and has a pleasant vanilla scent that isn't overpowering.
For the simple gloss left behind test I cleaned off my arm rest with some Adam's Leather and Interior Cleaner and taped off three small sections.
Here's the cleaned off panel with tape lines and no product applied to it.
http://davanzodesigns.com/intcleaners2.jpg
I sprayed each product on its own microfiber towel and rubbed it onto the surface, flipped the towel and wiped over it with a clean dry side.
I placed the bottles in the background so there was no confusion as to which area of the arm rest had which product. To clarify it we have Auto Finesse Spritz on the left, Adam's in the middle and 1Z Cockpit on the right.
In this photo with the tape line there it's hard to see any major difference at all between the three products.
http://davanzodesigns.com/intcleaners3.jpg
When the tape is removed however you can see that Auto Finesse Spritz and 1Z cockpit make no change to the arm rest from when I started with a freshly cleaned surface. The Adam's doesn't make the area greasy feeling or super shiny it just deepens the color and makes it look a bit richer and darker with a slight glow to it.
http://davanzodesigns.com/intcleaners4.jpg
So there you have it, if you're after no change from a perfectly clean new looking interior yet need a product to remove dust, finger prints, smudges, oily arm rest marks and protect the area from fading then Auto Finesse Spritz or 1Z Cockpit are the perfect choice and you can shop based on price or scent between them for this use. If you want an interior quick detailer that deepens the look of your dash and door panels yet don't want a greasy shiny slick mess like some other products then Adam's Total Interior Cleaner is the choice since both Auto Finesse Spritz and 1Z Cockpit leave the interior looking like you've done nothing at all to it which some people love and other people feel like they've wasted their time working with, all personal choice.
At the start I mentioned that 1Z cockpit had been my go to interior quick detailer but after using Adam's TID and Auto Finesse Spritz my Golf R (the test subject in the pics) will be getting Spritz from now on and my Dodge Nitro R/T will be getting Adam's TID. Why the change? After using them the Spritz is my personal favorite smell and since it works just as good as 1Z Cockpit yet sprays better and smells better I'm changing based on that. The change in my Dodge is because I like the slight deepening effect Adam's has on its dark charcoal grey interior and the scent is again better (IMO) than the 1Z Cockpit.
Hope my rambling helped some of you out. Sorry I couldn't go in depth on their cleaning ability but my cars are too clean for that haha and I'm not sure any of them are all that amazing at cleaning anyway. They seem more suited to dusty dash clean up.
-Mike