The ultimate guide to car care

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  The best tyre inflator compressors tested by Parkers 2025
  Why are tyre inflator compressors so important? Your tyres are the only part of a car that comes into contact with the road, so it’s vitally important to keep the rings...
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  The best diesel engine cleaners
  Diesel engine cleaners are still a mainstay of the car care routine of diesel owners despite diesel cars being in decline across the UK. Not much can come close to...
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  The best ceramic coating for cars 2025
  It’s time to unravel the pros and cons and explain the intriguing world of ceramic coating products for protecting your car. This form of automotive paint protection is shrouded in...
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  The best affordable car cleaning upgrades
  Giving your car a good scrub-down can be far more beneficial than you think. To some, the meticulous process of carefully applying cleaning products in the correct order serves as...
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  The best quick detailers for your car tested 2025
  Quick detailers are incredibly multifaceted car care products. They are manufactured to enhance gloss, remove small bits of muck (like dust), and even add a thin layer of paint protection....
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  The best microfibre car cloths
  The internet is awash with simple hacks to make your car look better. Some are better than others; using an old toothbrush to remove embedded crumbs from your interior is...
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  The best car polishing kits
  Before we guide you into what the best car polishing kits on the market are, we should explain what they are. Car polish is an abrasive substance that removes part...
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  The best tyre dressing 2025
  The idea of applying the best tyre dressing to a freshly washed car really is the final step, except for maybe stepping back and admiring all your hard work. The...
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  The best wheel brushes for deep cleaning alloys
  Filthy alloys are an inevitability, which means part of any good car cleaning product selection has to be some good alloy wheel brushes. This is especially evident if you’ve ever...
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  The best glass microfibre towels for streak free windows
  You’d be forgiven for thinking that a glass microfibre towel was just a glorified cleaning cloth. Well, you’d be wrong, and that’s okay. Not everyone geeks out on microfibre towels...
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  The best odour eliminators for a car interior
  Smell is an important part of keeping a car interior clean, it doesn’t matter how meticulously vacuumed it is, if it smells like a sewer monster nobody will want a...
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  The best glass polish: Streak-free vision
  Cleaning the glass on your car is often overlooked, yet clearly, it makes sense. Car shampoo is excellent at getting grub and dirt off your vehicle, and while it will...
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  The best dent repair tools
  It’s a frustrating fact of car ownership that vehicles can pick up dings and dents, whether from a stray supermarket trolley or a careless driver bumping into your pride and...
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  Cleaning oil and grease out of your clothes: A cleaning guide
  There’s nothing worse than getting oil on your clothes. Thankfully, we at Parkers hate this too, so we’d had a good look at ways to remove grease and oil from...
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  The best impact drivers for DIY and car care
  Seized screws, nuts and bolts are a real chagrin for anyone who’s ever tinkered with an old car. The easiest way to shift these jammed nuts is to invest in...
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  The best work boots for safe garage work
  Garages can be perilous places, there’s no doubt. Aside from the possible slipping hazards, fuel spills and large four-wheeled machines willing the knock of an unsuspecting knee, there’s usually an...
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  The best crawlers for your garage
  Movie garage scenes are all the same. As mise en scènes go, they’re some of the most richly embellished backdrops Hollywood has to offer, and near invariably begin with a...
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  The best interior dressing to protect your car's dashboard
  A car’s interior can take a right battering from the sun, a key reason to invest in the best interior dressing. Housed under what is effectively a glasshouse, summer days...
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  The best Ring Automotive tyre inflators 2025
  If you’ve ever owned a portable tyre inflator, you may not have known what brand it was but there’s a fair chance it was a model from the Ring Automotive...
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  Bosch UniversalVac 15 review
  For a long time, in the war of the best vacuum cleaner, we’ve championed corded vacuum cleaners over cordless ones. In return for having a power cord, you get more...