Interior Shine Test:

Britemax Interior Dressing 

CarProductsTested Verdict: 85% - Nice finish, smells great, bad spray pattern 

What finish does it give?

Both in finish and feel, Britemax’s Interior Dressing is great. The shine is not overly deep, and furnishes trim with a smart look, and as there is no silicone in it (spray shop safe) the feel left behind is just like a waxed paint surface. There’s none of that sticky, gross residue left behind as some interior shines do – ready to ruin your best shirt sleeve, should you happen to lean on the door when driving.

Another plus with it not leaving behind a gummy finish or feel is that dust doesn’t tend to settle and stick to the surfaces as easily – helping to keep your interior cleaner, easier.

Whatever car’s trim you use the Interior Dressing on, it will not cheapen the look of it – but rather we found it improves it greatly and retains a smart finish.

How long does it last?

After many a test, we found it lasted for a good 2 – 3 weeks on average, and even then, a simple wipe-over on the trim with damp cloth will bring back a decent amount of shine.

We also used their Interior Dressing on the plastics and rubber in the engine bay (once we’d cleaned it using Britemax Grime Out), and it gave some superb results! The parts we used it on were given a fresh, vibrant and new look – and popping the hood a week or so later, it still looked just as great, even though we’d driven through a few downpours in that time.

Any other good stuff?

The Britemax Interior dressing smells great, and has the scent of freshly squeezed Orange juice. The aroma hangs around for a few days after you’ve used it too, which is nice. We also like the fact this is body-shop safe as no silicone’s are used. Lack of silicones also means a lack of that horrible, greasy finish that some dressings stuffed with silicone are guilty of giving.

At £12.95 for over 700ml of product, it may seem pricy but the Interior Dressing goes far and lasts a decent while, plus you are buying a quality product – you clearly get what you pay for here.

Any drawbacks?

The sprayer nozzle on the bottle we had fired too much product out, and the spray pattern itself tends to splatter the Interior Dressing, rather than misting it onto the surface. This is okay for larger surfaces, but for your dash and smaller areas it can make a mess of glass etc.

 Need-To-Know Info:

+ Leaves a fairly natural and non-greasy finish, smells superb

- Spray pattern not fine enough

Price: 709ml (24 fl. oz) – £12.95 / 3.78L (1 u.s Gal.) – £29.99

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Buy from: i4Detailing.co.uk or Britemax.co.uk or Shinearama.co.uk

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We were impressed with the Britemax Interior Cleaner. It’s easy to use, cleans well and leaves behind a really pleasant-but-unusual fragrance, which is hard to recognise but maybe there’s a hint of Ginger in there? It’s not an overpowering smell though, which some interior cleaners can be guilty of. The only problem we found was that the scent doesn’t hang around as much as we’d have liked.

The Interior Cleaner was very simple to use, and was a literal spray on, wipe away job with no fuss or arm-ache involved. Even only going over the plastics once and using a soft microfibre cloth to remove any excess, it still left a great finish.

When we used it on ingrained dirt patches on lighter-coloured plastics and where any muck was more obvious, we found that at least 80% of the grime was removed with just one ‘pass’ of the product. If you want to get right into the grain of the plastics and rubber trim parts though, we’d recommend spraying on the product and working it in with an old toothbrush or similar, and then removing the excess with a microfibre cloth.

That method should work well in removing most ingrained soiling.

After use, the plastic and rubber had a soft-sheen-look to it, and you could almost get away with it on its own without using a dressing. Almost.

As a bonus, you can also use the Britemax Interior Cleaner on other materials such as carpets and upholstery too where it seems to work pretty well, removing stains without adding more. Remember though, as with most products, over-saturate the area and spray on too much and you will make stains worse, even enlarging the area.

Overall score – 8/10 Simple to use and effective, Britemax Interior Cleaner leaves behind a classy soft-sheen finish.

+ We like the ease-of-use, fragrance and finish

- You can get through a bottle pretty quickly, making it a little pricy. The smell doesn’t linger as long as we’d like.

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Grimey car door before being cleaned with Britemax interior cleaner

And the results - looking fresh and spotless again

Several weeks worth of dirt left behind...

... Which cleaned up quickly and easily. Only a few ingrained bits were left behind.

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Car Interior Plastic and Trim Products Test: Valet PRO Interior Revived – 500 ml – £4.62

An aerosol spray. We found this stuff to be excellent and it really does do exactly what it says on the can. This isn’t a cleaner though, so make sure your door panels etc have any ingrained dirt removed first.

After lightly misting the product onto the car’s interior trim, we used a microfibre cloth to polish it up.

The finish on both flat and textured plastics looks very classy and gives a good shine without being overly glossy (which a lot of silicone sprays are guilty of). Any plastics that looked tired or even faded were refreshed and perked up again and a rich lustre was added to them.

The Interior Revived spray also neutralises bad smells well too.We used it on an interior that smelled strongly of dog and the bad odour was halved a couple of days later after the initial nice scent of the spray had gone.

When used again the bad odour all but disappeared. A small negative is the slightly overpowering scent when the spray is being used (we recommend opening all the car doors and and use it in a well ventilated area).

A huge plus with this product is that the shine will last for absolutely weeks and weeks. We couldn’t believe just how long it did last, and the shine just would not budge! Excellent.

9/10 Good price, leaves a very classy and crisp finish on interior trim and also revives it excellently too. Will last for weeks and weeks.

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Interior Plastic and Trim Products Test: Armor All Protectant (Semi-Matt and Gloss) 300 ml – £3.99 / 16oz – $6.49

We were highly impressed with these. They cleaned very well, removing the majority of stubborn stains from the car’s plastic surfaces and not much of the product is needed either. We still have over half a bottle of each left months later, and that’s after at least a dozen applications of the stuff!

They also left a good quality finish, with the Gloss not being overly-shiny and the Semi-Matt leaving a nice silky finish. They were non-greasy and worked well in restoring faded plastics. To get the best results, we used a decent quality microfibre cloth and where necessary we sprayed the product directly onto the cloth to save it getting onto glass and upholstery.

The shine from these two should last a good couple of weeks, and as application is easy, it’s not exactly hard to get your interior plastics and rubber looking first class again.

9/10 Worked excellently and both leave a quality finish. Priced well as only a little is needed for a decent job.

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Interior Plastic and Trim Products Test: Armor All Dashboard Wipes (Matt and Gloss) 15 wipes – £2.99/25 wipes – £3.99

Armor All (U.S) 25 wipes Combo Pack – $13.99

After seeing the Armor All wipes around in the shops for a while now, we were eager to see how they performed. We were happy with the results as they picked up dust and grime well, and didn’t just push it around. They have plenty of moisture in them and you could get at least a full dash and a door card wiped over with just one wipe. They did leave some slight streak marks on some of the flat plastics, but the streaks weren’t overly obvious. The Matt and Gloss finishes were very obviously different visually, especially the day after using them.

The one slight negative we found is that you get a slightly better product and far more wipes for just £1.00 more from Big Wipes.

7/10 Cleaned well, left a nice finish and smell. More expensive than the competition but handy for keeping in your glove box.

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Interior Plastic and Trim Products Test: CarPlan EcoCar Dash Cleaner 500 ml – £4.99

A pump action spray. We were highly impressed with this as a cleaner. It doesn’t leave any shine behind, but rather does what it says on the bottle and cleans. It cleans very well too as it happens. It will cut through dust and grime easily and removed any marks that were present on the door panels. It left a neutral and non-sticky finish which we liked, and brought up plastics and rubber trim up superbly and also smelt really good too (Ginger and Lime scents we thought). It’s also eco-friendly so any of you that worry about environmental issues can rest as it ‘contains coconut derived detergents; vegetable based glossing agents and natural fragrances’. A slight negative is that the spray came out too fast and covered too much of a large area, getting onto the glass and upholstery.

9/10 An excellent interior cleaner. It is well priced, smells great and is eco-friendly too.

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Interior Plastic and Trim Products Test: CarPlan Flash Dash Wipes (Matt & Glossy) 15 Wipes – £1.49/25 Wipes £2.99

We weren’t impressed with either the Glossy or Matt versions of these wipes. Although they had plenty of moisture, they didn’t pick up dirt very well, and tended to push it around instead. They also left a lot of streaking on both textured and flat surfaces, and even after using a soft cloth afterwards to buff them out, they were quite stubborn to remove.

The whole point of interior wipes is to be able to do it all in one go, and these just didn’t come up to standard. They are available in several different scents including Citrus Orange and Apple.

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4/10 These wipes failed to impress. They didn’t pick up dirt well enough and left behind a lot of streaks.

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Interior Plastic and Trim Products Test: CarPlan Flash Dash Citrus Dashboard Shine 500 ml – £3.99

An aerosol spray. If you like a nice shine to your cars plastic, then this product should be rather suitable for you. It can be sprayed directly onto the surface or applied onto a cloth first, preventing overspray onto glass or car seats etc. It worked well and is easy to apply on both flat and textures surfaces, leaving a shiny but non-greasy finish. The finish wasn’t overly ‘rich’ and has a nice silky look to it. At 500 ml, the can should last a while as not too much is needed to cover large areas. It smells nice too and also comes in 4 other scents (Wild Fruit, Vanilla, Orange, Apple). The only slight negative is that when spraying it can be slightly overpowering and chemically, but fine once the excess is wiped off and the product has dried.

The shine should last around 2 weeks, although the scent wears off after about 3 days depending on how often the car is used.

Note: Make sure you apply this product in a well ventilated area. Keep your car doors and windows open, and if using in a garage leave the garage door open too.

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Interior Plastic and Trim Products Test: BIG WIPES Automotive Interior Protectant Wipes 40 wipes – £4.99

We found these to work as well as the Interior Wipes on the dash, doors and centre console. They went a long way and have plenty of moisture packed into them and getting into the more annoying dusty gaps was easy work. They picked up all the dust well and didn’t just spread it around the surfaces.

They leave a nice Matt finish and have UV protectants in them which will protect your interior plastics in the long run. However, we found that their Interior Wipes did just as good a job and did many more jobs than these wipes so were better value for money overall.

8/10 Good at what they do, and well priced, but the Interior Wipes do more. Buy them if you want to UV protect your car’s plastics.

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BIG WIPES

Upholstery Cleaner Test: BIG WIPES Automotive Interior Wipes 40 wipes – £4.99

Now these were pleasantly surprising to us. They worked excellently and did far more than we expected they would. They promise to remove not only dust from the dash and doors, but also grime from carpets and upholstery too. And they did. Very well. They cleared up an extremely dusty dash with no fuss at all, and left no lint behind either. We liked the fact they got into all the little gaps where dust gathers, like around the gear-gaiter holder. They also cleaned up some rather bad stains from the seats and head-lining with ease. One wipe goes a long way and will clean up all the dash, the front doors and centre console.

These wipes leave a natural Matt finish. One slight negative – they left a slightly streaky finish to ‘flat’ plastics. However, we found that once the wipe is dry you can use it to polish off the streaks. The wipes leave no stickiness on hands either, in fact you can use them to keep you hands clean as they are dermatologically tested – cool!

9/10 Superb product. Great value for money and handy to keep in the car too.

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