Make it easy for yourself. Watch this video, get one of these kits. These are our top sellers for a reason.

Good: The Autostolz premium SiO2 wash and Enhanced Ceramic Spray wax are amazing products, they are super easy to use, just wash like normal with the cart wash and spray and buff as you dry with the enhanced ceramic spray wax.

Better: get set up to wash without scratching like a pro with our "I just want to clean my car and make it look shiny - Michelle kit". You get a decent clear bucket and a mitt slide to allow you to wash your mitt as you dip it in the bucket to reduce the chance of scratches. And you get a quality fireball 70:30 wash pad to safely wash without scratching and our favourite and super popular rockcar performer drying towel. Plus you get a free Rockcar Pegasus super soft microfiber cloth. This is an amazing kit at a great price to encourage you to up your game!

Best: add a second bucket and dirt trap to have a 2 bucket set up like a pro. Use the mitt slide in your rinse bucket and the flat dirt and grit guard in the bottom of your wash bucket.

Optional: Add a second performer drying towel if you plan to wash more than one car at the same time.

Pre washing doesn't remove everything but it makes the wash so much easier and faster, and reduces your scratch risk. Foam on a dry dirty car, let soak and then rinse off.

If you have a foamer already grab a bottle of the AUtostolz snow foam, if the highest foaming longest dwell time and most lubricating snow foam in our testing. Smells great too.

If you need a foam cannon for your water blaster, go the best foam cannon kit (with the clear bottle, black top) and choose the adapter to suit your water blaster in the pull down menu.

If you want something for a normal garden hose the Rockcar foam blaster kit (white bottle red top) will go on a normal garden hose. You wont get the thick shaving cream like foam that you get with the rockcar stealth and a water blaster, it will be more like bubble bath bubbles, but it will work well and is quick and easy to use as a pre wash without needing a water blaster.

If you want to step it up, Adam has made a kit of his Foam cannon set up with the twin shooter to flick between foam and rinsing, the high pressure water blaster trigger upgrade, and the flexible gravity pipe. Over the top, sure, but very cool. Makes the job easy and fun!

If you want to add a ceramic coating at home these are the ones we recommend. First wash with a wax stripping soap and then clay the Vehicle and wipe down with fireball reborn to ensure you get a good bond to the surface. Then choose between:

Autostolz enhanced cream wax: Very easy and great shine, its hard to beat the shine of a good carnauba wax, natural wax is e4nhanced with polymers to last typicaly 9-12 months and deliver high resistance to alkaline car washes. This is a low-risk products, and can be removed if needed, a true sacrificial later. 1 bottle will do many cars. Made in Germany,

Fireball Flash. Super easy, super fast, and wow. The hydrophobics on this are amazing. It will last up to 1 year, at which point simply repeat and reapply. Its a big bottle that will do couple of cars. The latest ceramic coating technology from Fireball who make the most advanced ceramic coatings in the world.

Fireball Angle Tears, will last longer, typically 1-2 years, it applies like a traditional coating, super easy though not as quick and easy as flash. Very impressive ceramic coating. Not as hydrophobic as flash but pretty close and ads amazing shine.

If you want to step it up, Fireball have a small batch of hand made high end pasts waxes. These are not cheap, not for everyone, the founder and head chemist of Fireball makes these himself by hand in very small batches with the highest quality ingredients and most advanced technology. This is for a very special car.

We did a durability test through autumn and Winter over 2025, Fireball and Solution Finish kicked everything to touch by miles, so we have discontinued a lot of the trim and tyre products we have as well, they just didnt measure up. If you cant find your old favourite any more its time to step upo, you will be impressed. they all looked about the same for the first for weeks, but then when the others faded these stayed strong.

For normal trim and tyres Fireball is the best option, its super easy, really natural looking and not all sticky and nasty. It has a really high SiO2 content which makes it super long lasting and its just realy nice to use. Choose between satin, gloss, Janus (a very nice gloss with pearl effect look, or the new Showcar which is the shiniest. They are all good, its personal preference the level of shine

For really faded trim, Solution Finish is the go. This is a proper restorer. Wear gloves, watch the video from the crazy founder who looks like he's a rock star (cool dude, that's how he looks when you meet him in real life). Solution finish black is the best for black and dark grey. The Grey version is very light grey, so unless your plastic is really light grey go the Black. This isn't a trim shine, its a proper restorer with ground up carbon. Once restored maintain with fireball for a better shine.

A little thing but makes the job easy is the Rockcar wave applicator. The pattern pushes products into gaps and between bumps of tyre lettering and the 2 foams help stop product soaking through keeping your fingers clean.

We have a lot of wheel cleaners, some noticeably better than others.

The Strongest and what we use ourselves is the Autostolz Wheel Cleaner. Its strong alkaline, which means you cant use it on bare metal., but on OEM/painted/clear coated wheels it's amazing at making the job fast and easy.

The safest wheel cleaner is Fireball Wheel & Tyre. Its a good cleaner but not super strong, you will need to rub a bit more but if your wheels are bare metal or other delicate material you don't want to risk this is your best safest option and a high quality products.

If you get a lot of brake dust consider adding Autostolz Brake dust and Iron remover. Brake dust is fine iron from werar on your brake pads. This isnt a wheel cleaner but a checmical that reacts with that iron brakign its bond to you can more easily remove it, changing colour as it does. It smessl like rotorua, but it works. We have a few iron removers, Autostolz is the most effective in our testing. Dragons Breath is also good.

We don't sell wheel acids, over time they can damage your wheels. We don't want that on our conscience.

The trick to cleaning wheels fast and easily is to have a range of brushes. We recommend a wheel barrel brush to clean the gaps and right through to clan all the wheel barrel. A soft flat split end brush for the fase of the wheel. A short stiff low profile brush for the tyres to really scrub them easily and fast, and a small boar hair detail brush to clean around the wheel nuts and the otherwise hard to get to corner bits. If your wasting time cleaning wheels you probably don't have enough wheel brushes.

If you want to make your wheels easier to clean, apply one of the protection products listed above like one of the Autostolz waxes or a Fireball Ceramic.

Most manufacturers make one products for "bug & tar", but bugs and tar are very different. Targeting products work far better.

Best for Bugs: Fireball bug cleaner expands and softens the protein of the bug carcase, making it easy to remove and reducing scratch risk. Not effecting on much else, but on bugs very, very good.

Best for Tar: Fireball Tar remover, it's impressive, you start spraying and you see the tar already start to run off. Again targeted not effective on bugs.

Best for Glue: Fireball Tar remover in our testing and customer feedback outperformed all glue removers. Even on interior glue like residue glue that was holding carpet down.

The kit has the best options

If water spots are on the surface, the best water spot remover kit will remove them nearly all of the time and is super quick and easy. If that doesn't work a light one step polish will. Try the water spot remover first as its quicker. The Chemical Guys water spot remover works very well, the Fireball is lighter, faster and less aggressive but we find in NZ it doesn't often have enough grunt. Grab the kit, there's a video in its description Adam did showing you how to do it.

In most cases a one step polish is all you need, the Autosotlz one step polish is amazing, and the Rocckar polishing machines make the job so much easier. The Rockcar 12 is a good machine but if you can make it work the Rockcar 15 is a lot better and nicer to work with, it gets the job done faster too with more3 power and a higher throw.

If it's really bad go for a 2 step polish

You don't have to use a machine, (though it does make it a lot faster and easier). Here's a good hand polishing kit.

If you just want to hide light scratches our easy shine kit won't fix them, but its easy and will help to hide them.

When polishing by machine after about 1/4 of a car the pads will be clogged and hot. To get a better result, get the job done faster and easier, and to make your pads last (a lot) longer, swap pads after about 1/4 of a car, using 4 pads or more per car. And wash your pads the same day so polsih doesnt dry inside the foam and make hard spots. dry them either like a plate in a dish rack, or on a clean surface velcro up so the water can run out (otherwise it sits on the glue holding the velcro and can cause this to fail prematurely.

Best for:

Natural and Nappa leather: Best Lether Kit

Vegan Leather, MB-Tex: Best Lether Kit

Alcantara and Sude: Alcantara ans Suede Cleaning Kit

Vinyl and Interior Plastic, either the Best Interior kit for Plastic Vinyl and Rubber, or the Best Leather kit which works really well to clean and condition plastic and vinyl as well, and with its natural ingredients helps to nourish plastic and vinyl as well.

If you have a bad smell like split milk, food, vomit, Valet Pro Enzyme Odour eater is the fix, its very unique and specialist, it has enzymes that compete with the bacteria for food and starve them off killing the bacteria that cause most odours. Its a proper fix for bad organic smells.

If you want your car to smell nice and fresh, Fireball have a new range of car fragrnaces that are really nice. These are not your average fragrances, we relaly like them. They are in 500ml bottles but include a small empty 100ml spray bottle to put a small among on to leave in the car which is a great idea.

Very popular and very polarising is Chemical Guys new car scent. This is like the coriander of car fragrances, most people love it but some hate it, the reviews are crazy they are either 5 stars or one star. Only one way to see if you like it is to give it a go!