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Car Care Towels Part 3: The 8-Sided Towel

If you’ve been reading the “Car Care Towels” series, you’re already sold on micro fiber. And you know which towel to use when. Now, let’s wrap things up with some tips that’ll teach you how to take...

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Fall Motorcycle Clean-Up Part 1: The Wash

In the summer, I let myself forget about driving cars and only think about riding my two-wheeled pride and joy. Problem is, the warm days are fading! With that in mind, I decided a good cleaning was in...

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Fall Motorcycle Clean-Up Part 2: The Polish & Wax

In the previous installment, we went through the basics of cleaning and drying your bike. Now, let’s look at how to perfect and protect your ride with polishing and waxing.  Afterward, there will be no...

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Spray-On Car Wash: Ferrari Clean-Up

After a recent  road trip with his dad, Richard pulled this Ferrari 456 into the garage. They’d covered 1,700 miles and five states in four days, and we thought it’d be nice to clean up the old girl...

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Introducing: Griot’s Garage Heavy-Duty Wheel Cleaner

As a long time owner and enthusiast of German cars, I’ve had my fair share of battles with brake dust-covered wheels (I’m sure many of you have, too). While I’m still a huge fan of our original Wheel...

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Undercarriage Detailing Secrets You Need to Know

You take care of the obvious stuff… Paint, interior, glass, wheels and tires. But what about your wheel wells, suspension parts, frame rails, and all the other bits tucked away on the underside of your...

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Water Spots: The Cause & Cure

Water spots take many different forms across the various surfaces on your vehicle. The two most common (and frustrating) are the spots left behind on your paint and glass. Let’s take a few minutes to...

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That’ll buff right out (no, seriously)…

Generally speaking, the phrase “that’ll buff right out” comes with more than just a hint of sarcasm. However, there are the occasional situations when a scrape or a scuff on car paint looks scarier...

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Tire Care Secrets Part 3: Inspection and Maintenance

We sometimes take them for granted, but you can learn a lot about a car by looking at its tires. Whether it’s for myself, friends, or family, I help inspect and maintain quite a few well-loved cars....

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5 Gotta-Know Wax Application Tips

Griot’s Garage has collected some great car care tips and tricks over the last 21 years. We also learned a few things while developing our new Premium Carnauba Paste Wax that will definitely help you...

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WIN THIS! Griot’s Car Care New Arrivals Collection

Recently, a request to bring back the Griot’s Garage Logo Sign popped up on our Facebook page. In fact, quite a few of you chimed in that you’d like  more red in the garage. We love feedback from our...

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Introducing Griot’s Garage Glass Sealant

We experience a healthy amount of rainy weather here in the Pacific Northwest (okay, probably an unhealthy amount of rainy weather). While I’m not usually one to talk positive about gray skies and...

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Waxes & Sealants: Which is right for you?

If the most important step in caring for your paint is keeping it clean, a proper coat of wax or sealant to protect your paint is a close second. But with five different options from Griot’s Garage for...

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What drying towel should I choose?

Making a choice between similar products can seem like a game of eeny, meeny, miny, moe. In these cases, having some simple data can help us differentiate and make the best decision for our own needs....

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Finishing Touch: Choosing The Right Dressing

Dressings beautify vinyl, rubber, and plastic with a finishing sheen and often contain protectants to ward off UV damage. Introduced over 19 years ago, Vinyl & Rubber Dressing was the first such...

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We Asked: Where do you use Speed Shine?

One might think Speed Shine®, a best-selling Griot’s Car Care product for almost 20 years, was beyond improvement or innovation. But in our constant quest for perfection (and realizing some of the best...

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Top 10 Wheel Cleaning Tips and Tricks

Wheels are a focal point of any automobile, so keeping them sharp and shiny is key. You never get a second chance to make a first impression! The task can be especially challenging because wheels get...

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Absorbency Showdown: The Great Towel Tussle

Our towels pack away so much water even camels get envious, but exactly how absorbent are they? I was charged with finding this truth, and it isn’t as self-evident as one would expect. Meet our five...

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Picking The Right Leather Care

Leather interiors are the embodiment of luxury. They feel like opulence, smell like extravagance, and carry an aura of affluence about them like no other part of the automobile. Leather is also an...

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Picking The Right Pad… Micro Fiber Vs. Foam

The product development team has been on the rev limiter and new gear has been coming at us like pylons on a slalom course. Their revision of our foam pads and creation of a new line of micro fiber...

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