For those of you who haven't heard- Croftgate is a newer car care company that's on the up and coming. (By the way- I am not on their pay role and I do not work for Croftgate.) I caught wind of them not too long ago and ordered one of their sample packs just to give them a try, because I have always been on the lookout for the best products I can get my hands on for the best price. The only thing that made me nervous about them is that they have a waterless system, and that their products are what i have come to call "multi-use" products- which means one product/multiple uses. I usually seek out products that do one thing, because it seems like they typically do it better. However, I have found myself an exception...

I have always kept and maintained an ARSENAL of cleaning products from Mothers/Meguiars/and various other big brand name providers for traditional care car products to keep my car clean and protected. I was one of those guys that could spend 7-9 hours detailing my car on any given Saturday to make sure it looked great. I had never used a waterless system before, and quite frankly I was very skeptical. But, it was a sample and I decided- why not give the products a shot? I wasn’t completely sure how to use the products, and I messed up. I gave feedback to the representative who contacted me and I promptly received a reply from Frank Defeo, which was impressive to me because he is such a big name in Croftgate, contacting me- simple little user of sample pack, and all because my feedback to them was something other than perfect. Frank contacted me personally on the phone, and he was adamant and would settle for nothing less than perfection, because he knows that these products work wonders if you do it right. After Frank went over the correct way to use the products, I went back out to the car, and here is where the wow comes in. I received my sample pack over the winter, and my car is too low to go into car washes, so I had a good 4 months of winter gunk built up on it. Just keep that in mind… You can all read or watch the videos about how versatile the products are, and that is extremely impressive in and of itself. For instance, the Aquanil-X will safely remove even MONTHS of built up winter grime from your paint, even behind the tires where the buildup is the worst, and leave a fantastic shine behind. Plus it will clean and polish that annoying black plastic with a beautiful even finish (which I could not even achieve with a product SPECIFICALLY designed for this purpose- Mothers Back to Black). If you sprayed any other product on your windows it’d be a nightmare to try to get the streaks to go away, but Aquanil-X will clean your windows like Windex instead! The shine and clean that it leaves behind speaks for itself. What doesn't is the staying power of the clean. I cleaned my car fully for the first time over a week, roughly 722 miles, an unusually and consistently large pollen count, and a whole weeks worth of rain, and the car has picked up only minimal dirt, less than I have ever seen in the 5 years of owning this car (which is saying a lot for a BLACK car). The tire shine is also awesome because it’s like a 3 in 1. 1- It cleans your tires. 2- It cleans your wheels. 3- It leaves behind an even shine across your tires that WILL not sling, because it’s dry. I have owned just about every form of tire shine you can buy, and they all sling, but this one really did not sling, because you can’t sling it if it’s not wet! And so on and so forth, anyone who owns these products can tell you how amazing they are.

I was able to achieve all of these fantastic results, and all the while saving approximately 140 GALLONS of water per wash, and using environmentally friendly compounds. I have also DRASTICALLY reduced both the size of my car cleaning product inventory (which is nice when your limited on space), as well as my car cleaning time (Which is nice when you don’t have enough of that either!) due to Croftgate. This saves me space, and by reducing the amount of products I have to buy, its saves me money. PLUS I am helping to save the environment, as well as my time- and can still make my car look immaculate. Not only do I love the products, but I love the company as well. They promptly sent me out a sample back, and they followed up with me to make sure I loved the products once I received my samples. When my feedback to them was something other than perfect, I was contacted personally by Frank (Who is a great guy by the way!) and wouldn’t settle unless it was perfect, because he knows that these products work wonders. Plus the customer service they is offered is spectacular. Frank has been super helpful and present throughout nearly my entire Croftgate experience. Take it from a converted skeptic- just give it a try! You will NOT be disappointed!I have had such a wonderful experience, from customer service, to company, to product- I couldn’t have asked for anything better.

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By the way- For more information about Croftgate, their products, etc - check out their website at http://www.croftgateusa.com/

I forgot to throw this out there- But all of their products are EPA certified and approved!

And for anyone else out there that feels like their car has a big target on the top of it for birds- the Multi Clean is where its at. I keep a microfiber and multi clean right by my door at my apartment because I get a new pile of bird s*#t on my car almost every day. For those of you who are familiar with paint care, you know that you have to get that mess off your paint before it starts to eat its way through the clear, and the multi clean lets you do that safely and easily without the need to clean your car if you don't feel like it or simply don't have the time.