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    Slowly moving away from Chemical Guys. What do you guys recommend?

    So I have been using exclusively Chemical Guys Products for about a year now and thinking of moving on.
    What do you guys recommend instead of the following products.

    Soap: CG Mr. Pink

    APC: CG Nonsense

    Sealant: CG Jet Seal

    Wax: CG Butter Wet Wax

    Polishes: CG V-line

    Pads: CG Hexlogic pads

    Clay bar: CG Clay bars(Obviously)

    Clay Lube: CG Lubber

    Stain Remover: CG Lightning Fast

    Degreaser: CG Orange degreaser

    I realize that I have more CG products than I thought.

    Thanks for your inputs.

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    Re: Slowly moving away from Chemical Guys. What do you guys recommend?

    What are you objectives? Do you only detail your own cars, detail for money on the side, pro detailer?

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    Re: Slowly moving away from Chemical Guys. What do you guys recommend?

    Quote Originally Posted by Setec Astronomy View Post
    What are you objectives? Do you only detail your own cars, detail for money on the side, pro detailer?
    I started my own detailing business. So professionally.

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    Re: Slowly moving away from Chemical Guys. What do you guys recommend?

    Soap: optimum car wash

    APC: Meguiars d101 Apc or optimum power clean

    Sealant: blackfire wet diamond or Wolfgang deep gloss paint sealant

    Wax: way too many too list

    Polishes: Meguiars, I primarily use m100, m101 and m205 menzerna, rupes polishes to go with their system

    Pads: rupes pads or lake country thinpro, hydrotech

    Claybar: I use nanoskin clay pad, mitt and sponges

    Claylube: I use ONR in a claylube dilution, more economical

    Stain remover: I use my APC for interior cleaning

    Degreaser: also use my APC for degreasing purposes

    As for polisher, what type of polisher do you currently have. The rupes system is awesome, but if you have a griots then I suggest the boss system.

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    Re: Slowly moving away from Chemical Guys. What do you guys recommend?

    Quote Originally Posted by usmcpab View Post

    As for polisher, what type of polisher do you currently have. The rupes system is awesome, but if you have a griots then I suggest the boss system.
    I have a PC and will receive a Flex Kompakt next week. Saving for a Rupes 15.

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    Re: Slowly moving away from Chemical Guys. What do you guys recommend?

    Slowly? You need to speed up!! Run! as fast as you can!
    But I still use their soap tho.

    What I use:

    Soap: CG Citrus, Meg Gold class, BF soap

    APC: Meg D101

    Sealant: klasse sealant glaze, Blackfire wet diamond

    Wax: Blackfire Midnight sun, C845

    Polishes: Menzerna and Meguiars M105+205, Meguiars D300 for MF pads.

    Pads: LC CCS, LC flat pads, LC hydro pads, Buff and shine Green polishing pads, meguiars MDX mf pads.

    Clay bar: Griots yellow clay, Blackfire aggressive clay bar, Nano skin fine clay wash mitt.

    Clay Lube: Diluted meguiars last touch to 1:1 (or use it as full strength since its so cheap )

    CG stuffs work, but for the same money, you can find much better and easy to use products.
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    Re: Slowly moving away from Chemical Guys. What do you guys recommend?

    Thank you all! Detailing is so addictive.
    Keep the suggestion coming.

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    Re: Slowly moving away from Chemical Guys. What do you guys recommend?

    You are actually in a great position.
    - Professional detailer.
    - Experienced with a brand name product line.

    May I suggest selecting one, and only one, brand name of products as you did previously with Chemical Guys.
    This will allow allow you to become directly familiar with a new product line, complete.
    Will also allow you to compare directly to the previous product line.

    The greatest benefit is:
    - As a professional, you will know for yourself in the real world what and which products work best.
    - Will also allow you to contribute on this forum comparison info, and general info, on both brand name product lines, which will allow the community to ask questions and get real answers.

    Suggestion:
    Go all in with Meguiars.

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    Re: Slowly moving away from Chemical Guys. What do you guys recommend?

    i also moved from these same products. i still use the hex pads, they havent really let me down nor blew me away but now i use
    Soap : cg citrus and meg gold class
    apc : cg non sense and all clean
    sealant: menzurna power lock
    Wax: cg 5050
    polishes: i love the hd speed with the orange pad, menzurna polish is great too
    pads: cg hex
    clay: just ran out of cg med clay
    lube: also ran out of that.

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    Re: Slowly moving away from Chemical Guys. What do you guys recommend?

    Good idea - you'll be happy you moved on from CG's products. Don't limit yourself to one product line, each brand has some very good and some not so good products.

    What I use:

    Soap
    Optimum Car Wash

    APC
    Megs D101

    Sealants
    - Menz Powerlock
    - Wolfgang DGPS
    - BFWD
    - CarPro Reload

    Wax
    - usually don't use with today's high performing sealants and coatings

    Polishes
    - Menzerna FG400/4000/2500
    - CarPro Essence/Reflect

    Pads
    Foam
    - Rupes Green, Yellow, White
    - LC Thin Pros, flats
    - Buff and Shine
    - CarPro Gloss Pads

    Microfiber
    - Meg's Cutting/Finishing
    - Griots

    Clay bar
    - Nanoskin Medium Wash Mitt
    - Nanoskin Fine Towel
    - Nanoskin sponges

    Clay Lube
    - DoDo Juice Born Slippy

    Trim/Tires
    - Perl
    - WETS
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    2019 Honda Odyssey - Obsidian Blue

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