Power Cleanse with Megalodon and Two Face: Top-Notch Wheel Cleaners from Chemical Guys
The Ultimate Detailing Experience: Chemical Guys’ Megalodon Towel and Two Face Wheel Cleaner Review
Who doesn’t love spending a weekend washing, scrubbing, and drying their car? Not me. While I appreciate the results of a good wash and detail, I’d rather be doing just about anything else. Luckily, companies like Chemical Guys keep sending me new products to test and ogle. Otherwise, my poor car would hardly get washed, and I’d be stuck running it through the paint grinder every time I stopped for gas and a slushy.
For this review, I’m focusing on two impressive products from Chemical Guys: the Megalodon Twisted Loop Drying Towel and the Two Face Color-Changing Wheel Cleaner.
The Bottom Line
The Megalodon Towel is massive, measuring 2 x 3 feet and weighing nearly 2 pounds. It dries streak-free from the first pass and left my entire crossover dry without needing to wring it out. It’s great, doesn’t leave scratches or swirls, and doesn’t feel or smell strange. This may become my new regular drying towel.
The Megalodon isn’t cheap at $39.99, but with proper care, it’ll last for years (I’ve only washed it once). Is it worth it compared to the 50-pack of noname microfiber towels from Amazon? That’s not for me to decide. Some of you are still using old t-shirts to dry your car, so make your own priorities. I can tell you that this does everything promised, better than I thought it would, and has changed my mind about blanket-sized towels.
Two Face Wheel Cleaner
For my four 19-inch wheels, I used about a quarter of the 16-ounce bottle. It sells for $14.99, so that’s $3.75 per car wash. I gave each cold wheel a good coating, and the front wheels were far dirtier than the rears. The yellowish product in the bottle sprays on mostly clear, then immediately turns purple as it reacts to the iron in the brake dust. It was roughly 55°F when I washed my car, and I gave it about 2 minutes of dwell time before hosing it off. There was still a very light coating of brake dust on the wheels. I used a Chemical Guys Wheelie Brush and soap after washing the rest of the car to get the wheels perfectly clean.
Overall, I’m happy with the Two Face as a wheel cleaner. It performed the way it did compared to the dozens of other wheel cleaners I’ve used in the past. There are less expensive wheel cleaners, even from Chemical Guys, that are just as effective, but because they spray on more effectively, will work out to be even cheaper per wash. I’m not sure I’d go out of my way to buy Two Face on its own, but as part of one of Chemical Guys’ discounted bundles, it’s a great choice.
The Ultimate Detailing Experience
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