Product Review: Mother's Polishes, Wax, and Cleaners

I own am 08 Mercedes C300, and I am guilty of neglecting the poor thing. The carpet is tinted with a soft brown haze, there is makeup in the gear box boot, and the outside, don’t even get me started… She stays outside, so you can imagine the hard water stains on the doors and fenders. Thanks to our friend John Nadri, we have some great detailing products from Mother’s that brought my car back to life.

We first scrubbed down and vacuumed at our local car wash. We did not towel off the car and brought it back damp to the garage. Starting from the inside, we used Mother’s VLR spray all over the seats, dash, steering wheel, and any where my powdered makeup landed. Next after scrubbing in the VLR, we used the new Mother’s Leather Wash Foaming Cleaner for a deeper clean and to restore the leather especially in the back seats. Once the leather was done we moved on to the outside to clay bar. Yukio explained that cars should be clay bar’d 2 a year to remove the contaminates that are trapped within the top coat. 

The clay bar system comes with two small gummy like bars of clay (duh) that smell like cinnamon and Showtime spray that generously gets applied to the car so the bar can “glide” over.  My car was so abused from the elements, it felt like I was reading brail with how much the little bar was collecting. After every few passes, it is important to kneed and fold over the bar for a fresh patch of clay to continue removing all the gunk within the paint. While I was still clay bar-ing, Yukes helped expedite the process by laying down and buffing in Mother’s synthetic wax Liquid & Paste. The wax comes with a round sponge to apply a generous coat on the already clay smudged areas. I was told it is better not to buffer in a circular motion, rather horizontally and vertically, just enough to where it will haze. 

While we waited for the hazing to settle in, we used Mother’s glass cleaner for the windows, rear view mirror, windshield, and rear window. Pretty explanatory. I took care of the glass while Yukes applied Mother’s Back to Black tire renew to my Achilles Radial shoes and polished them to a shiny finish. The final step was taking a super soft microfiber towel and going over the no longer hazed wax on the car for that final glossy finish. My car hasn’t looked this good, well, since the last time Yukio detailed it about 5 onths ago, and of course when I first tested it off the lot at the dealership. It is so shiny you can CLEARLY see any reflection that comes it's way!

 

 so pretty!

I highly recommend Mother’s polishes-waxes-cleaners products to anyone who is serious about keeping a show car appearance or just have a lot of pride in their important investment. Big thank you to John Naderi for generously hooking us up and of course, Yukio for being patient and teaching me the ropes in proper car detailing.