Car Detailing - What products are your go to?

[DFB FGXR6]

Originally Posted by bfets

How do these two compare to NV Snow? Similar in quality and performance?

CarPro Reset, NV Snow and Koch Chemie GSF are my top 3 soaps.

1st - CarPro Reset, for it's amazing slickness, great cleaning ability while remaining pH neutral and the fantastic scent. Can be used in a bucket wash and a foam cannon.

Score - 10/10

2nd - NV Snow. What grabs my attention with Snow is that it is almost as good as Reset and has an edge over GSF but for less money. The only thing that it looses over the other two is scent, which is still great but not outstanding.

Score 9.5/10

(Note - NV Snow+ is a higher pH variation on Snow designed for tougher cleaning/wax stripping. It foams extremely well but lacks any kind of of artificial scent and is very "chemical" in its aroma. My sister even noted it smells harsher than the other soaps we often use to clean her car. I tend not to "rank" this soap as it's not a product you will be using as often as the other pH neutral soaps, but I think it's worthwhile having.)


3rd - Koch Chemie GSF. This is one of those products that is an absolute pleasure to use, mainly owing to it knockout scent. It offers similar slickness to Snow and Reset. I find that it foams thickly but tends to dissolve quicker on the paint than Snow, it's this reason why I rank it in 3rd.

Score 9.0/10


I would challenge anyone to not be pleased with any of these soaps and it takes minute analyzing to separates them on performance. All measure 9 and above out of 10 in my opinion. For comparison sake, P&S Pearl would rate at 6/10, loosing points for it's very average foaming ability and generic scent. Meguiar's Gold Class would be 6.5/10, loosing points for it's gloopy consistency, making hard to measure out.

To the average person, all of these products are just car soap. But there are differences between them all.