danlewisnet

So let's compile what everyone uses. I'll pull together the results and edit the original post. Let me know if I missed anything. Feel free to flame what others use.... hah - jk.


What products do you use to CLEAN your 8?

1. Window Cleaner

2. Wheel Cleaner (stock rims)

3. Washing Soap

4. Interior


What products do you use to DETAIL your 8?

5. Exterior Trim (black parts)

6. Exhaust Tips

7. Tires

8. Exterior (Wax...)

9. Interior (Dash...)

10. Interior (Leather...)


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1. Windows:
2. Wheels:
3. Soap:
4. Interior:
5. Trim:
6. Exhaust Tips:
7. Tires:
8. Exterior:
9. Dash:
10. Leather:

snipaz2420

1. Windows: windex or armor all wipes
2. Wheels:power washer
3. Soap:mr.clean
4. Interior:swiffer the piano black parts and just vac carpets
5. Trim: nothing
6. Exhaust Tips:nothing(dont know what to use)
7. Tires:armor all or whatever the car wash people use
8. Exterior:mr.clean auto wash or car wash on cold day
9. Dash:nothing
10. Leather:nothing yet

Raptor2k

1. Windows: Armorall window wipes

2. Wheels: Eagle one soap =/

3. Soap: Eagle one soap

4. Interior: Damp towel, duster

5. Trim: Nothing yet, should get something soon

6. Exhaust Tips: Nothing yet, haven't really ever cared about the stock exhaust, just used some dishwasher. I'll be getting something for it once UPS decides to not lose another MS exhaust and actually have it at my front door.

7. Tires: Nothing, don't see the point.

8. Exterior: Porter Cable, Poorboy's SSR 2.0 and 2.5, Zaino Z-2, ZFX, Z-PC, Z-6. Zaino is so...convenient. Protects paint (so chips are reduced), can last for several months, gives a carnuba-like shine...Sal Zaino is truly a pioneer to the car detailing world. Apparently there's some new Zaino products that will be coming out soon which are going to be ridiculously good. Can't wait...

9. Dash: Meguiar's wipes, I do want to get the Aerospace 303 eventually

10. Leather: Meguiar's

Phantom Menace

1. Windows: I bought this foam sparay formulated especially for tinted windows (no amonia) but I forgot what it is called...
2. Wheels: Honda Motorcycle polish! It's great for any surface--doesn't leave streaks or residue and creates a static barrier against [brake] dust
3. Soap: Any foamy & concentrated auto soap that contains wax (e.g. Turtle Wax Concentrated Car Wash, etc.)
4. Interior: Permaplate interior renewer; Armor All Leather wipes; Honda Motorcycle Polish.
5. Trim: Turtle Wax ICE
6. Exhaust Tips: Mother's Chrome/Metal Polish & Honda Motorcycle Polish
7. Tires: Eagle One Tire Shine
8. Exterior: Meguiars Tech Wax (Paste); NuFinish Car Polish; Permaplate Paint Renewer; Zymol...I take turns using different products. So far, The Meguiars has been the most reflective but the NuFinish has lasted the longest.
9. Dash: Honda Motorcycle Polish
10. Leather: Permaplate interior renewer; Armor All Leather wipes; Honda Motorcycle Polish.

NgoRX8

iTrader: (1)

1. Windows: Clay bar, Meguiar's Nxt Liquid Wax
2. Wheels: Wash + Soap, Clay bar, Meguiar's Nxt Liquid Wax (I have aftermarket wheels)
3. Soap: Meguiar's NXT Car Wash
4. Interior: Damp towel, Microfiber towel
5. Trim: Clay bar, Turtle Wax Ice
6. Exhaust Tips: Blue Magic Metal Polish
7. Tires: Black Magic Tire Wet
8. Exterior: Meguiar's NXT spray detailer, Meguiar's or Mother's Clay bar, Porter Cable 7424, Meguair's Deep Crystal System, Meguiar's #9 Swirl Remover 2.0, Meguiar's #7 Show Car Glaze, Meguiar's NXT Liquid Wax, Menzerna Intensive Polish, Menzerna Final Polish II, P21S Carnauba Paste Wax
9. Dash: Microfiber towel
10. Leather: Mercedes Benz Leather Cleaner

i think that's all i can remember at the moment

exceldetail

1. Windows: Usually water and a microfiber
2. Wheels: Charliesoap
3. Soap: Optimum NRWS/Armour All Concentrate
4. Interior: Charliesoap/303
5. Trim: One Grand ERV or Do it All.
6. Exhaust Tips: Mr Buffer
7. Tires: Four Star Tire Gel
8. Exterior: 1Z, Optimum
9. Dash: 303
10. Leather: 303

ken-x8

1. Windows: Windex, or whatever is in the bucket at the gas station
2. Wheels: Same stuff I use for the body
3. Soap: Meguiar's..got a couple of types on the shelf
4. Interior: Don't spill anything!!
5. Trim: Same as the test of the exterior
6. Exhaust Tips: Nothing
7. Tires: Nothing
8. Exterior: Meguiar's soap and Tech Wax
9. Dash: Microfiber towel - dry to dust, very slightly damp if there's gunk
10. Leather: No leather in my car

Ken

StealthTL

iTrader: (1)

My poor car gets very little attention, it's usually grimy beyond belief, but the inside gets a lot of Formula 303.

Dash - 303,
trim - 303,
exterior black bits - 303,
leather seats - 303 (sorry, but that coated leather stuff is closer to plastic than leather!)

Outside - whatever they put in that car wash sprayer at the Shell station!

S

Nopstnz

1. Windows: Stoners Invisible Glass
2. Wheels: Soap and water
3. Soap: Mr clean Autodry soap
4. Interior: Aerospace 303
5. Trim: Aerospace 303
6. Exhaust Tips: English Custom Polish
7. Tires: Aerospace 303
8. Exterior: Mr Clean Autodry
9. Dash: Aerospace 303
10. Leather: In my case cloth, Vaccum Cleaner

UFGator12

1. Windows: Stoner's Invisible Glass
2. Wheels: Meguir's
3. Soap: Meguir's Gold Class Concentrate
4. Interior: The damp towel I used to dry the car with.
5. Trim: Son of a Gun! for all black trim and engine bay... basically a bottle of grease.
6. Exhaust Tips: Soap and water.
7. Tires: Armor All foam spray.
8. Exterior: As in wax? Meguir's NXT Tech liquid wax. Works wonders.
9. Dash: The damp towel I used to dry the car with.
10. Leather: Nothing. I haven't been able to find anything that doesn't make the seats greasy looking.

All being applied with Vroom microfiber towels/rags/ and cloths. Leaves the best color on the RX8, BB, looking quite spiffy!

Manatnac

I use Menzerna products and am quite happy with the long lasting shine, easily kept that way with Meguires detail liquid. Amazing how shiny it looks after 4 months of rain and road gunk using Meguires along with microfiber towels.

chickenwafer

iTrader: (9)

1. Windows: Windex and a micofiber towel
2. Wheels: Meguaris Hot rims
3. Soap: Meguairs Super-Suds
4. Interior: Black Magic interoir shine
5. Trim: Usually just soapy water, no special product (yet)
6. Exhaust Tips: Mother billet/metal polish
7. Tires: Black Magic tire gel with Megauris applicator
8. Exterior: Mother Reflections spray wax, Black Magic wet shine spray detailer
9. Dash: Black magic
10. Leather: I don't got leather In AZ leather sucks, so I really don't care. But to clean my seats I use a shop vac and a lint roller.

BRGREEN8

1. Windows: stoner's invisible glass
2. Wheels: dont have stock wheels, i just wax my aftermarket
3. Soap: meguiar nxt soap
4. Interior: this japanese thing i got from super autobacs, works really well on cloth.
5. Trim: meguiar nxt tech protect
6. Exhaust Tips: wizard's metal polish
7. Tires: eagle one tire shine
8. Exterior: meguiar 3 step detail
9. Dash: same as number 5
10. Leather: meguiar gold class rich leather spray

ac3mastuh

iTrader: (1)

1. Windows: Stoner's Invisible Glass
2. Wheels: DuPont Teflon Wheel Cleaner
3. Soap: Meguiar's NXT Soap
4. Interior: Microfiber Cloth for most everything
5. Trim: Meguiar's NXT Tech Protect
6. Exhaust Tips: Blue Magic Metal Polish
7. Tires: Meguiar's NXT Extreme Tire Shine
8. Exterior: Meguiar's Speed Detailer (every wash), Meguiar's NXT Solid Wax (once every 2 months), Meguiar's Gold Class Clay Treatment (once every 6 months)
9. Dash: Meguiar's NXT Interior Protect
10. Leather: I don't have leather in my 8 but I use Meguiar's Leather Wipes for the rest of the cars in my family.

As you can see, I am quite the Meguiar's fan. So far I have never tried a Meguiar's product that was substandard.

dying_here

1.Windows: Stone's invisible Glass, Autoglym Window Polish, RainX interior + Exterior. Autoglym Fast Glass
2. Wheels: Windex, Micheline Brake Dust Repellent, Autoglym wheel cleaner
4. Soap: none, yet to wash the car on the driveway yet, apparently its illegal?
5. Interior: Aerospace 303, Autoglym Rubber and Vinyl
6. Trim: Aerospace 303 Autoglym Rubber and Vinyl
7. Tires: Turtle Wax Tire Foam, NXT 3.Tire Shiner, Turtle Wax Tire Gel
8. Exterior: Turtle wax ICE!, Turtle Wax ICE quick detailer, NXT Tech wax, S100, Autoglym Ultra Deep Shine
9. Dash: Aerospace 303, Autoglym Rubber and Vinyl
10. Leather: Simonez Leather conditioner/cleaner, Autoglym Leather care
11. headlight/plastic: Meguiar's PlastX

GameGuy369

iTrader: (1)

Hey I like the detail you have in that. I just got my RX-8 and would like to keep it as nice looking as possible, because basically, this car was designed to be shown off.

Anyway, what do you use for applying the wax and everything? And on Meguiar's site, where is the NXT Solid Wax you mentioned or the Gold Class Clay Treatment? Can you link me?

Leesha

1. Windows: Microfiber wet cloth 3M or windex
2. Wheels: Meguiar's Car Wash
3. Soap: Meguiar's® Gold Class™ Wash
4. Interior: Meguiar's Leather Conditioner/Cleaner Spray
5. Trim: Nothing
6. Exhaust Tips: Nothing
7. Tires: Armour All - Black Tire Gel
8. Exterior: Meguiar's ScratchX - Scratch Remover - only when needed
9. Dash: Original Armour All
10. Leather: Meguiar's Gold Class™ Rich Leather Spray

DarkBrew

1. Windows: windex or armorall wipes
2. Wheels: armorall car wash, dry with towel.
3. Soap: armorall car wash, dry with microfiber sponge
4. Interior: detergent and water with microfiber sponge, Swiffer, vacuum carpets
5. Trim: Mother's back to black
6. Exhaust Tips: English Custom Hot Chrome Polish
7. Tires: Just wash them
8. Exterior: Meguires Wax and polish
9. Dash: Wash, swiffer
10. Leather: Vacuum out any dirt, wipe off anything else

6speed8

1. Window Cleaner - Adams Polishes Glass Cleaner, Sprayway, or Stoner's

2. Wheel Cleaner (stock rims) - Zaino Car wash (Z7)

3. Washing Soap - Zaino Car wash (Z7)

4. Interior - mild soap/water mixture - Zaino Leather cleaner or Lexol for leather

5. Exterior Trim (black parts) - Aerospace 303 or Mother's Back to black

6. Exhaust Tips - Nevr-Dull

7. Tires - Zaino Perfect Tire Gloss or Meguiars Endurance

8. Exterior (Wax...) - Zaino

9. Interior (Dash...) - Vinylex

10. Interior (Leather...) Zaino or Lexol

For the black pastic in the wheel wells I use Adams Polishes Undercarriage Spray

staticlag

1. Windows: Armour-All Window Cleaner (works better than Windex for bug mess)

2. Wheels: Armour-All Carwash liquid

3. Soap: Zaino Soap

4. Interior: Compressed Air for dust, or Window Cleaner on piano black surfaces

5. Trim: Don't bother anymore, I wax too much

6. Exhaust Tips: Armour-All Soap or Zaino soap. Leftover polish removes the golding.

7. Tires: meguire's hot-shine

8. Exterior: Zaino kit

9. Dash: Compressed Air or warm water and a bit of dawn soap if I need it.

10. Leather: Warm water and a bit of dawn soap if I need it.

ndtechie09

1. Windows: Sprayway
2. Wheels: P21S Wheel Gel topped with Chemical Guys Wheel Gaurd
3. Soap: Chemical Guys Citrus Wash N Gloss via Foam Gun
4. Interior: Chemical Guys Matte Finish
5. Trim: Chemical Guys Silk Shine
6. Exhaust Tips: Some professional stuff I have laying around
7. Tires: Z-18
8. Exterior: Chemical Guys EZ-Creme and JetSeal 109
9. Dash: Chemical Guys Matte Finish
10. Leather: Danase Leather RX

altspace

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Poor Boys entire lineup.

Ericok

1. Windows: Water and microfiber cloth
2. Wheels: Water & Mr Clean Magic Eraser
3. Soap: Turtle Wax Ice car wash
4. Interior: Water and microfiber cloth
5. Trim: Turtle wax Ice
6. Exhaust Tips: Castrol Super Clean
7. Tires: Tire Shine
8. Exterior: Zaino Z-CS
9. Dash: Water and microfiber cloth
10. Leather: Lexol

rovic

What products do you use to CLEAN your 8?

1. Window Cleaner: Water/Microfiber (tried this internal gel for no fog...sorry forgot the name...didn't really work and was difficult to remove)

2. Wheel Cleaner (stock rims): Sonus

3. Washing Soap: Meguire's Gold (use to use Mr. Clean System. Works good but kinda pricey when you have to replace the filter. Also without a bucket my mit got dirty. Had to rinse it once and awhile to not rub dirt into the car. Went back to bucket.)

4. Interior: Armor All Wipes

What products do you use to DETAIL your 8?

5. Exterior Trim (black parts)-Back to Black (when needed)

6. Exhaust Tips-English Custom Polish - for High Temp Metal (I think I got the name wrong but there's a thread in here to clean 'golding' on RB Exhaust, for stock just used regular soap&water).

7. Tires-Dupont Teflon Tire - comes in black bottle (used to use meguirs gel, but the Dupont product works well, lasts long, and no need to wipe)

8. Exterior (Wax...) Sonus Clay, Klasse AIO & SG, Sonus Acrylic Spritz between coatings.

9. Interior (Dash...) Armor All Wipes

10. Interior (Leather...) Meguires Leather Cleaner/Conditioner (spray)

9krpmrx8

iTrader: (46)

Where can you buy Aerospace 303 online? And do you apply it with an applicator pad or spray it on.