General Car Care & Repair Reviews

Well today I am going to tell you about a product that will make you want to throw away the shammy for good. After hearing from a friend about this product and seeing how effective it was on his car I decided to give it a shot myself. I bought the hydra flexi blade about a week ago and this is the first time I have used it on my car and ...  Read the complete review

Firepower Car and Bike Pills - Advantages: Increased Fuel Economy, Increased Power, Reduced Emissions - Disadvantages: None

Just started using a new fuel conditioner call the Firepower pill. Its just been launched last week at Brands Hatch. The pill seems to do the same job as Optimax petrol but without having to pay 6p a litre for the bernefit. Given it was developed by Shell in Australia I guess that shouldn't be a suirprise. It is available for Bikes and ...  Read the complete review

Never use the Lex Autocentre on West Street, Bedminster, Bristol. They are a complete ripoff. I have been there on previous occasions and have found them expensive but good. I only recently realised HOW expensive (and also how incompetent) they can really be. I own a Ford Mondeo (which I am going to sell now), which is pretty ...  Read the complete review

Ever got fed up with the paintwork of your car? I'm not talking about the colour, but what happens to older cars, especially in dark colours, or bright red - oxidising. Oxidising makes the paint lighten in shade. Unfortunately it does not do this uniformly, but is more likely to show itself as light-coloured streaks. ...  Read the complete review

I have had some bad experiences when I have taken my car- a peugeot 206 into garages to be fixed/ serviced in the past.Being ripped off has be my speciality! Though not any more!!! I had been taking my car to the main dealers, because I didnt want to break the warranty!The last time I took it, it was for a service, a run of the mill oil ...  Read the complete review

The best car wax you can buy! (updated for 2005) Let me give you a little bit of background. I've owned interesting performance cars for many years. I've been area & regional organiser for a number of car clubs & have often displayed cars in concours events. I've used Autoglym products for 24 years & have had ...  Read the complete review

On Opinion On Mer Polish & Other Mer Items What can I tell you about this product, well how about its Fantastic. I have never in all my life found a car wax that is as good as mer. we bought a £30 pack while attending a local steam engine gathering about 8 months ago. The pack contained: 1 Litre of Mer polish 500ml of bumper ...  Read the complete review

Everyone nowadays seems to knock Halfords and rightly so in a lot of places but some Halford stores are getting so good that they even know that woman know a bit about cars and do need to buy things to repair them. There is such a massive difference between the smaller Halford shops and the large super halford ones. The smaller ...  Read the complete review

There are a lot of woman drivers around nowadays. Good ones too. Some even know a little bit about cars. When our car needed new spark plugs, I went into Halfords armed with all the details of what I wanted and how to find them. Okay it was written down for me and yes this was a man that wrote it. On entering Halfords I was ...  Read the complete review

Car polish is car polish, right? Well yes, but there are different types for different jobs. The trick is choosing the right one for the state your car is in. Soft liquid waxes are very good for cars where the paintwork is pristine with no dead paint. For cars that have some oxidisation (dead paint) an abrasive polish is needed to bring the paint ...  Read the complete review

... Wonder Wheels by nature. Having not washed my car for a couple of weeks, the alloys were covered in baked on brake dust. Erk! I thought, that's going to take some scrubbing to get rid of that. I headed to the local Halfords and had a quick look for a wheel cleaner, and there it was 'Wonder Wheels'. Yes it sounds ...  Read the complete review

I looked at my Alloy Wheels the other day and decided that it was high time I got rid of all the baked on brake dust. Every time I clean my car it looks sparkling - except for the front two alloy's. No matter how much scubbing I did, they never seemed to get any cleaner. After much deliberation, I decided to take a trip to my local ...  Read the complete review

Eurocarparts.com I would recommend this company one hundred percent, not only do they carry vast stocks of spares and accessories for most makes of European cars and some vans but their prices are well below normal dealers and their service both over the net or on the phone could not be more helpful. ...  Read the complete review

Halfords, what a gathering of helpful souls who know arse about cars!! The product i procured was a complete scratch reparir system, you got a little rubbibg sponge, a primer, a top coat and a little brush thing for £6, bonus i thought, i consult two different members of staff who told me, on inspection of my car, that this set was exactly ...  Read the complete review

Now then, over the years I have tried various glass cleaning products with varying degerees of success. Windolene, water with various additives including Methylated Spirit (interesting due to it's flammable nature! Don't smoke!) and washing up liquid. I have found though that most products always leave some sort of residue behind ...  Read the complete review

I only allow the finest products to clean my car, and there are none finer that AutoGlym. The AutoGlym Car Polish Shampoo cleans away dirt leaving a stunning shine, and when followed with a treatment of AutoGlym Super Resin Polish the end result is a showroom quality shine that lasts. My car is black and so shows the dirt very easily, and ...  Read the complete review

When you buy a new car (or a used car for that matter), you should get an ‘owner’s handbook’ or something similar which provides you with only the very basic information on the specification of the car, how to check the oil level, fill the windscreen washer bottle, and so on. The overall message given by these handbooks ...  Read the complete review

The Battery Master is not a charger it is just a small power unit to keep a fully charged battery fully charged. The unit is left in the mains and connected to the battery all the time while the car is not in use. Batteries in cars left unused will drain power as a natural discharge, and if an alarm is fitted the drain ...  Read the complete review

I have recently bought myself a car and thought that I would like to give it a really good clean. After going down to my local car care retail shops I have come to realise that there really is not a lot of information out there about the products and why they cost so much! The guy behind the counter was no help (probably because I am female) ...  Read the complete review