Caring for Your Car’s Finish Through the Winter

Winter is the hardest season of the year on your car. Ice and snow make driving difficult, damage windshield wipers, and put a strain on tires. Extremes of cold can be hazardous to your engine, and make every part of your car more fragile. And then there’s the road gunk. Winter is the worst time of year for road gunk of various kinds. Rain and other weather comes and goes,

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Removing Road Tar the Easy Way

Road tar, also known as bitumen or asphalt, is generally used as a binding agent for the production of asphalt concrete, which is what many roads, parking lots, and even airport runways are made of. This is because road tar is extremely sticky and viscous, and not soluble under normal wear or weather, which is good for binding mineral aggregates together to make roads, and extremely bad for your car’s

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Common Car Stains and How to Treat Them

Americans spend an average of 3 hours per day in their cars. Thanks to long commutes, traffic congestion, urban sprawl, after school activities for kids, running out to pick up dinner, running errands on the weekend, and so on, it often feels like we live in our cars. And if you live someplace, you naturally want to keep it clean, and looking and smelling nice. Because we spend so much

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Lifter-1 Products Around the House

Here at Lifter-1, our first job is auto care products. Our Lifter-1 Bug & Tar Remover can safely and effectively clean sticky substances like insect guts, sap, and tar from your car’s finish, windows, bumpers, grills, and headlights. We also produce our Lifter-1 Carpet Stain Remover to clean carpets and floor mats, and our Lifter-1 Upholstery Stain Remover for auto upholstery and fabrics. But while auto care may be the

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Say Goodbye to that Musty Car Smell With an Interior Carpet Cleaning

Food and drink spills, pet accidents, muddy footprints, and grease spots are just a few of the things that pose inevitable threats to the beauty of your vehicle’s interior. What’s more, all of these substances can not only leave stubborn stains on your once-spotless automobile carpets, but also harbor odors that can transform every car trip into a nasal nightmare. If you’ve ever taken a ride in a car that

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Keep Your Classic Car Looking Classy Inside and Out!

While for some of us cars are merely means of getting from Point A to Point B, for others they’re a lifestyle. And if you belong to the latter category, you know that image is crucial—even the slightest flaw in the process of restoring a classic car is unlikely to go unnoticed. Car nuts are known to go to extraordinary lengths to obtain a perfect reproduction of a frame, an

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