Mitchell Grant

How I work

I test on daily drivers and work trucks, not showroom vehicles that never see a parking lot, because the products and methods that matter to my readers need to perform on paint that has actual history. For each product I track cost per application alongside results, because something that works brilliantly at ten dollars a use is a different recommendation than something that works almost as well at a dollar fifty. I test microfiber towels through repeated wash cycles to see how they hold up, foam cannons across different water pressures and dilution ratios, and ceramic sprays across multiple surface conditions including freshly washed, lightly contaminated, and older paint that hasn't been maintained. For stain and odor work I log what the stain is, how long it's been there, and which treatment sequence moved it, because dwell time and chemistry choice interact differently depending on the substrate. When a method requires safety precautions I include them in the procedure itself rather than as a footnote, because the time to read a ventilation warning is before the product goes on, not after.