Greased Lightning - Showroom Shine Review

A few months ago whilst I was washing my car in the usual way. You know, water, car shampoo, sponge, and polish. An old guy who lives down the road decided to chat to me and tell me all about some new car wash stuff that you just sprayed on, and wiped off.  I immediately thought he'd been at the whiskey, and was spouting rubbish.

However, i then have an investigate on the internet and discovered that the product he was talking about "Greased Lighting, Showroom Shine" was actually quite a hit! So i decided to trust his adhoc review, and give it ago.

I bought it from the LivingTV website, for £19.99 - which came with two micro fibre cloths.  I've just finished using it and i am pretty impressed with it!

All you do is spray it on the car, wipe it over with one cloth, and then immediately wipe it off with another cloth. It's easy, and it does remove light dirt, and give the car a shine with ease. just as it says!

It does say that it removes road grime, but this isn't completely true. I would recommend washing any dried on bugs, and road grime off first before using this.  Also not recommended to put on the windscreen.  It does work to clean plastic, but you need to wipe it off immediately to stop it drying too much, otherwise you will get white marks on it!  If you follow the above, then you will be pleasantly impressed!

Here's some pics of our cars after finishing using the product:

Car Wash Calamity

Whilst waiting for my turn at the Car wash in Sainsburys I was kept amused by the people already in there.

Anyone with a 1/3 of a brain would know that the windows need to be shut, the mirrors in, and aerial down. None of these things had happened here, and whilst the brushes were about to start pummelling the car in a soapy showdown, the car owners were trying frantically to hang out the windows and sort these issues out. They failed, and during the process the passenger got the best hair shampoo ever!

After the car wash had stopped, they spent 2 minutes picking up what was left of the aerial, and mirrors. No doubt it was the fault of Sainsburys, and not the idiots themselves! Most entertaining visit to the car wash... of the year!

Using washing up liquid to wash a car!

There are a surprising amount of people who think that its a waste of time buying special car shampoo, when you have washing up liquid to hand. This is a huge mistake to make!

Yes you may use it, and the car may look clean - but the contents of washing up liquid is actually harmful to car paint. Not only will you be taking off any wax or polish that's on the paint surface, the washing up liquid will react with the paint and in a few years time will basically be ruined. The bodywork may even start to corrode as a result of not having decent paint protecting it.

It could look like this if you continue this shocking behaviour:

So - don't risk it and don't be a cheap arse.  Buy some proper car shampoo and ensure your car paintwork is protected for as long as possible!