Maxshine produces detailing tools and accessories, and the items stocked here are the small pieces of workshop kit that make a job tidier: the Bucket Buddy for keeping brushes and bottles organised on a bucket, Detailing Swabs in packs of ten for vents, badges and switchgear, and a 100ml measuring cup for mixing dilutions accurately rather than guessing. Small items, but the measuring cup in particular pays for itself in chemical saved.

Because most detailing chemicals are concentrates, and eyeballing a ratio wastes product and gives inconsistent results. A 1:20 dilution mixed by eye can easily end up at 1:10, which doubles your cost per wash, or at 1:40, which leaves you wondering why the product underperformed. Measuring once means the ratio on the bottle is the ratio you actually get, and it makes results repeatable between washes.

They reach the places brushes and cloths cannot: air vent slats, around badges and emblems, switch surrounds, seat rail gaps, window seals and the seams in door shuts. They are consumables, so use them once on genuinely dirty areas and discard rather than trying to clean and reuse them. They are also useful for applying small amounts of dressing precisely to trim edges without getting product onto adjacent paint or glass.

It is if you work through a car in a set order, because the time lost is in hunting for the right brush with wet hands. The Bucket Buddy keeps brushes, bottles and applicators on the rim of the bucket rather than on the floor where they pick up grit, which is the more important benefit: a brush that has been resting on a driveway should not go back on a wheel, let alone paint.