Jay Leno Garage - All Purpose Cleaner and Interior Detailer Review by Mike Phillips

[Mike Phillips]

Jay Leno Garage - All Purpose Cleaner and Interior Detailer Review by Mike Phillips



Tested out two more product in the new Jay Leno Garage Advanced Vehicle Care line. As the Jay Leno Garage line of products evolves it will include something for ever area of you car that needs to be cleaned and protected.


Jay Leno Garage All Purpose Cleaner and Interior Detailer




Every complete line of car care products includes a quality all-purpose-cleaner and an interior detailer. The APC is for doing grunt work like cleaning oily or grimy messes and the interior detailer is a spray detailer for the inside of your car like an exterior spray detailer is for the outside of your car. Both are like tools in a master mechanics tool chest for performing specific tasks.


Here's what Jay Leno's Garage has to say about the products...

Jay Leno Garage All Purpose Cleaner

• Easily breaks down oil, dirt and grime
• Use to clean engine bays, wheel wells, plastic trim and tough interior stains
• Biodegradable, non-caustic

JLG's All-Purpose Cleaner is a powerful cleaning solution that is formulated to break down oil, dirt and grime. Use to clean engine bays, wheel wells, plastic trim and tough interior stains.




Jay Leno Garage Interior Detailer

• Restores and protects luster
• Safe for all interior surfaces

Jay Leno's Garage Interior Detailer is a gentle cleaning formula designed to aid in the cleaning of sensitive interior surfaces. Safe for use on plastic, rubber, vinyl and leather surfaces.



So pretty straightforward product descriptions and pretty straightforward products. There shouldn't be any mystery surrounding what these products are and how to use them. If you're new to the car detailing world you might not be familiar with interior detailers. This is a category of product introduced about 10 years ago for quickly cleaning a modern car's interior while leaving a little protection and improving the appearance of the wide variety of surfaces found in new cars.

I know from experience that the materials and surface in new cars are a lot different and I would also say more sensitive to traditional dressings like Armor-All. Back in the 1960's and 1970's you could use an Armor-All type product on just about any car without any issues. No so anymore. Some surfaces in modern cars will react with some ingredients and make the surface sticky or look splotchy. And modern materials used in new cars last longer without the use of a dedicated dressing. It was common to see the vinyl dash in a car from the 1960s and 1970s crack over time. When is the last time you saw the dash on a new Toyota or Ford crack? Me? Like never. I never see dashes cracking any more and that's because just like the phone in your pocket is out dated if you bought it yesterday, the chemistry used to manufacture modern car interiors also advances about as fast as technology in other sectors of our manufacturing world.

So instead of a dedicated dressing that may or may not work, or may or may not screw things up... now days you're just as well off using a product that lightly cleans and is completely safe on all surfaces and that's what the Jay Leno Interior Detailer is all about.


Test Vehicle - All original 1957 Oldsmobile Fiesta Stationwagon



I borrowed this car from Mike Stowe's car collection to test out some new Jay Leno products besides the all-purpose-cleaner and the interior detailer as well as to test out a new compound and polish. Mike bought this out of a museum a few years ago and outside of hotroding it with an updated 455 Big Block Olds engine, tricked out transmission and some one-off custom wheels, the rest of the car is all original including original lacquer paint and the original vinyl interior.

But... while the interior may be original and while this car may have spent most of it's life in a museum, it's far from clean inside. So after doing an extreme show car makeover to the outside of the car I tested out the APC and the interior Detailer.


Perfect companion product
While the Interior Detailer is NOT a dedicated vinyl protectant it's actually the perfect companion product for the all-purpose-cleaner BECAUSE even though wiping off the all-purpose-cleaner will remove most of the cleaner and the grimy dirt it loosens, following the all-purpose-cleaner with a very liquid interior detailer acts like RINSING to re-liquefy any cleaner and grime still on the surface and then fully remove this mess and at the same time leaving the vinyl surfaces looking better and feeling better to the touch.


Scroll down the page and we'll take a look at the JLG APC first... (Jay Leno Garage All-Purpose Cleaner)

[Mike Phillips]

Continued...


First of all... this car is cool! and the inside is huge! Like your living room huge!

It's also looking old as the vinyl is all dull and lifeless looking as it has decades of dust build-up.





Here's the Jay Leno Garage All Purpose Cleaner and note the bright, vivid white color of the microfiber towel? This is going to change. Just because a car is displayed in a museum for a large portion of its life doesn't mean it doesn't go down hill on both the outside and the inside. This interior is LONG OVERDUE for a good cleaning.











Cool looking, tri-color door panels. Also grimy from years of being neglected...





This is the fold-down passenger seat to allow the kids or family pets to move between front and back of the stationwagon. The white vinyl is also dirty and unsightly when you fold the seat down.







Clean now with a little bit of Jay Leno All Purpose Cleaner...






The dirtiest part of the interior is the driver's section of the seat.





It just looks old and neglected...





A little APC...





Followed by a little wiping....





The dash is wicked cool looking but also dusty with an oily like film on it...







Driver's door is also in dire need of a good cleaning...







Here's the wagon part of this stationwagon... pretty cool for back in the 1950's....





These are the fenderwells covered with vinyl...











Years of neglected on this towel...





A long ways from where it started...




And all that dust, dirt and grime was hiding the beauty of the interior colors....

[Mike Phillips]

Continued....


Time to rinse, clean and leave a natural looking sheen...


You can use an foam applicator pad like you see below or dampen a microfiber towel to apply the Jay Leno Interior Detailer. Everything and every surface that was cleaned with the APC will be re-cleaned and treated with the interior detailer.








Tech tip
By spraying the product onto an applicator pad or microfiber towel and then using one of these items to apply the product you can avoid getting overspray on things like gauges or widows.... it's called,

Precise product placement








Time to hit the dash...















Use a clean, separate microfiber towel to wipe off any excess and any residual product or grime off the surface...





That's a natural sheen, not a greasy or oily blinding shine....

[Mike Phillips]

Continued....


Done - outside and inside...








Final thoughts...


Jay Leno All Purpose Cleaner
There's a ton of all-purpose-cleaners on the market, if you don't want to do any research and instead want an all-purpose-cleaner that you can trust to be the two most important things that you want from an all-purpose-cleaner (even though you might not know you want these two things), and those are,

1. Safe
2. Effective

Then go with the Jay Leno All Purpose Cleaner and use it like I demonstrated in the pictures above. After using it, apply some form of conditioner, protectant or like I used an interior detailer.



Jay Leno Interior Detailer
Chances are if you're reading this you don't own an incredibly bitchin ride like this 1957 Oldsmobile Fiesta Stationwagon with a 455 Olds BBC engine but instead you're driving some form of transportation kicked out of an assembly line somewhere in the world manufactured in the last 10 years. If so then you want and need an interior detailer. It's an incredibly safe choice for whatever materials are in your Kia, BMW, Ford, Nissan, Lexus, Chevy, Dodge, Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar, etc. etc. etc., to clean it SAFELY and keep it looking factory new.


Be sure to get extra microfiber towels when order these products. You can never have too many microfiber towels.


On Autogeek.com


Jay Leno Garage All Purpose Cleaner

Jay Leno Garage Interior Detailer

Jay Leno’s Garage Black YoYo Applicator – Large

[Mike Phillips]

***Update***


Products are now live on the AG store...

[The Guz]

Great write up Mike. The Jay Leno line is evolving nicely.

[Mike Phillips]

Great write up Mike. The Jay Leno line is evolving nicely.

Thanks Mike.

Tell you what... the interior on this old Olds looks 1000 times better than it did when it first arrived.