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Here are the best car waxes you can buy that will give you great results and help protect your paint.

Not everyone has the time to wax their car regularly. Traditional paste wax can take over an hour to apply, with a thorough process of rubbing, buffing, and cleaning up afterward. If you’re looking for an easy and efficient way to give your car’s finish a layer of wax protection, consider spray waxes. While spray waxes don’t last as long as traditional paste wax, they can be applied in as little as 15 minutes, depending on the size of your car. Spray waxes are designed to offer a good level of protection with less effort; they work better if your car already has a layer of existing wax protection.

There’s a long list of reasons to own a good pressure washer. For us car fans, a pressure washer means more effective, efficient car washing – akin to having a coin-operated car wash stall at home. For homeowners, pressure washers offer even more utility, from power-cleaning decks, driveways, and siding, to spraying out gutters and scrubbing down grills.

If you want to keep your car’s finish pristine and shiny, you’ll need to do more than just regularly give it a wash. Spending the time to do a thorough detailing session every couple of months makes a huge difference in protecting and maintaining your car’s finish. If you’re looking for the best car detailing products, you’ve come to the right place.

It’s never a bad time for a road trip, but we can think of at least one member of your family who might be less than thrilled about your cross-country excursion: your car.

Properly caring for your vehicle is no easy task, especially if you plan on owning it for years. It might happen slowly, but the abuse your car takes on a daily basis will slowly wear on its appearance, damaging the finish and paint. Sure, routine washes help keep that coat of paint shiny and nice, but to truly preserve it for years, you’ll want to regularly give it a coat of wax. But we all know that takes quite a bit more effort than just washing your car.

Give your car the care it deserves.

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The wheels on a car can be extremely frustrating to clean, since they come in a variety of finishes and many have intricate designs filled with tiny crevices and hard to reach areas. Multi-spoke or mesh design wheels are notoriously difficult, especially if you’re just using a standard hand mitt for cleaning. Do yourself a favor and get a quality wheel cleaning brush, this way every inch of your wheels are spotless after a wash, without requiring a significant amount of effort.

We’ve all been there—you’ve been out on the road for way too long, and you’ve neglected your car’s interior to the point that you’re a little embarrassed. You don’t have the time to run to get your car detailed, but you want to at least tidy things up a bit before you have to pick someone up. Over the years we’ve seen several car cleaning product companies offer up solutions, but how well do they really work? That’s why we’re here. Recently the folks at Meguiar’s—one of the bigger players in the auto detailing space—sent out some of their latest and greatest for us to trial. With an 800-mile road trip on the agenda, pointed towards rural Quebec in December, I knew full well that there was no chance of keeping the car spotless. What better time to give these Quik Interior Detailer Wipes a test run to see how they do at cleaning “interior plastics, vinyl, leather, rubber, metal, and even LCD and navigation screens”, per their marketing materials. For the most part I had high hopes, though I couldn’t help but doubt their efficacy on a touchscreen display.

A car that reeks of smoke smell and cigarettes can lead to a host of problems. Those issues can range from small inconveniences such as dealing with uncomfortable passengers in your vehicle to major ones such as consistent exposure to third-hand smoke, which can be dangerous to your health.

Want to keep your vehicle shining like the day it was built? If not, what’s wrong with you?

Researchers over the at The Netherlands’ Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) may have found a breakthrough that could eliminate the task of washing our cars forever.