Cleaners & Auto Care

Find a variety of auto care & cleaners at Harbor Freight. We carry everything you need to clean and restore your leather, upholstery, carpet, and interior. You can also restore your paint's gloss and shine with products that remove oxidations, scratches, swirls, dullness or other contaminations. Shop for auto care products to make your car look and feel brand new again, complete with lasting protection for all your vehicles’ surfaces in the interior and exterior. Deep clean and protect your car like a pro and avoid those expensive car detailing services.

Types of Cleaners & Auto Care

The main types of auto care are car washing and auto detailing. A car wash is the best time to clean the exterior and interior of the vehicle. Meant to clean environmental debris like fallout, oxidation, tree sap, tar or other contamination from your car's clear coat. Auto detailing is a maintenance service that can extend the life of most external and some interior components of your car by removing bonded contaminants and leaving the surfaces both clean and protected from harmful UV rays, scratches and fading.

Car wash soap is formulated with a balance of surfactants and detergents to effectively remove dirt, grime, and road contaminants from the vehicle's surface without damaging the paint or finish. Car polish is designed with fine abrasives and special compounds to remove minor imperfections, restore gloss, and enhance the shine of the paintwork, leaving a protective layer that helps guard against environmental elements.

When cleaning your car, it is best to create a DIY checklist of the most important auto detailing tasks such as: clean floor mats, vacuum interior, clean & protect the dashboard, center console, cupholders, door panels, and steering wheel. Be sure to use glass cleaner and microfiber towels to remove oil, smoke residue or fingerprints from interior glass, and to remove streaks, smears or bird droppings from the windshield and other exterior automotive glass.

To maximize shine and remove oxidation, swirls, scuffs, dull paint or scratches, Harbor Freight offers many types of polishers and buffers, including variable speed rotary polishers, random orbital buffer polishers, random orbit dual action (or DA) polishers and a dual action forced rotation polisher. Be sure to shop our wide selection of polishing fleece, cotton and microfiber bonnets, as well as several sizes of foam compounding, polishing and finishing (waxing) pads that use hook and loop attachment styles.

Harbor Freight also sells a wide range of compounds, polishes, waxes, sealants and spray waxes and spray sealants to deep clean and add hydrophobic water beading, shine, gloss and protection to your paint.

When detailing it is important to have a large selection of premium microfiber detailing towels for cleaning glass, paint, leather, cloth, vinyl, plastic, wheels, tires and more. We offer different sizes, including 12" by 12", as well as 12" by 16" multi-purpose microfiber cleaning cloths, as well as large 16" by 24" glass cleaning diamond weave microfiber towels, and extra large 24" by 36" plush microfiber drying towels, as well as real leather chamois. Be sure to also get microfiber chenille wash mitts and microfiber wash & bug sponges to wash the exterior of the car. Lastly, be sure to get grille and wheel cleaning brushes to remove stubborn brake dust and bug guts.

To complete your car cleaning detail, be sure to rinse away any soap used, car debris removal, vacuuming hard to clean dirt, apply upholstery cleaner for stain removal, rear window cleaning, spraying rims/tires, spraying windows, and waxing your car.

Here are some Cleaners & Auto Care to choose from:

• Pressure Washers
• Cleaners & Degreasers
• Soap, Polishes & Waxes
• Towels, Sponges & Brushes
• Variable Speed Polishers

You’ll also find many Cleaners & Auto Care products suitable for many DIY applications. All Harbor Freight Tools offer exceptional value, high-quality, and affordable prices.

2-in-1 Microfiber Chenille Wash Mitt

This versatile, two-sided wash mitt scrubs and lathers. One side has a strong microfiber mesh for scouring away tough dirt and grime while the other side has chenille pile for washing or dusting. Suitable for wet or dry use, this wash mitt is clear coat safe.

• Use wet or dry
• Super soft microfiber
• Clear coat safe

Check out this product to learn more.