£1 MucOff equivalent

TOMathon

Without wanting this to dissolve into a discussion about the relative pros and cons of mucoff bike cleaner, I just thought I'd let you all know that there's litre bottles of a very similar looking pink 'no more dirty bike' in poundland.

I've not used it yet, but I'm sure the price will cover up many discrepancies. Hell, for a pound, it's a decent value trigger spray.

santahul

Worth a try. I've never been that impressed with mucoff anyway. Asda do a big cheap bottle too but I've not tried it yet.

UncleFred

Water to get all the loose stuff off, and then Pampers baby wipes to get it in clean and shiney, cheaper than Muc off Wipes!

ilovedirt

I've never seen the point of mucoff, what's wrong with a hose and a sponge?

geebee2

I do use it (Mucoff), but what I do is fill a whole spray bottle with hot water, then just put a couple of squirts of mucoff in.

Seems to work pretty well when diluted like this, and a bottle then lasts a long time.

gilesjuk

Mucoff is a degreaser?

Water ain't going to get any oily mess off the bike. But in many cases that's a good thing if the oil and grease is where you want it.

Never had any problems using car shampoo. I've even used washing up liquid, although I was told it has salt in it (not good for steel).

johnsav

for a quick wash i use car shampoo too.

if im doing a full on clean i take all the drivetrain off and degrease it seperate to the bike. then clean and wax the frame on its own.

never really bothered with sprays like mukoff, waste of money in my opinion!

Raymondavalon

johnsav wrote:

for a quick wash i use car shampoo too.

if im doing a full on clean i take all the drivetrain off and degrease it seperate to the bike. then clean and wax the frame on its own.

never really bothered with sprays like mukoff, waste of money in my opinion!

You wax the frame? OMFG, now I've read it all....

MucOff works as does Sh¡tShifter, but admittedly they charge way too much for both products.
I do use them though and prefer to buy the bulk 5L bottles and use it to top up the spray bottles.

As for this "equivalent" from PoundLand, has anyone actually tried it?

johnsav

yeah sure, why not

Briggo

Ill stick to my fenwicks thanks.

Raymondavalon

Briggo wrote:

Ill stick to my fenwicks thanks.

Ah, I forgot about that stuff, great product and IMO Fenwicks hand cleaner absolutely rocks.. and smells like heaven..

Tim.s

+1 for Fenwicks.

The refill sachets are only a pound so once you have the trigger bottle its just as cheap as whatever they are selling at poundland with the added bonus that you dont need to visit poundland to get it.

pots74

I have a much cheaper option for you!
It's called a soft brush and a bucket of hot soapy water?! :?
Car alloy wheel cleaners are fantastic!

Meatfox

i ride my bike to the local drive-through carwash after a ride.
works a treat and gets my clothes washed all in one go
choice

milfredo

I used a Fenwicks bottle and it lasted years. It recently ran out so I've been using washing-up liquid and notice no difference. Even if it contained salt you are surely rinsing the soap off afterwards anyway and re-applying oil to drive train. As the Fenwicks was £10 and lasted years the economy of using washing up liqiuid was roughly the same.

Rich9

I use a product called 'Elbow Grease'. My mum gets it from Skipton Market and I just nick a bottle from the cupboard when i go over :P

paulbox

Tim.s wrote:

+1 for Fenwicks.

The refill sachets are only a pound so once you have the trigger bottle its just as cheap as whatever they are selling at poundland with the added bonus that you dont need to visit poundland to get it.

Poundland in Hackney were knocking it out for free last week...

razorjack

saw that today in Poundland, any one tested?

cooldad

Five years, two months and one day.

Good effort but not a record.

rockmonkeysc

Very impressive. Must be close to the record.

Jonesinamilion

Despite the negative comments, I quite like mucoff bike cleaner!

I've used car shampoo and also diluted household goods like fairy liquid etc...

I find that mucoff cleans perfectly well BUT the best busting is that it seems to leave a slight coating that offers a sheen and also seems to make the next clean jst tha little bit easier?

I'll be happy to try the poundland version, it's probably just the same stuff in a different bottle minus the associated branding costs!

sniper68

Fenwicks F1.
1ltr bottle is £9.99 and dilultes to make 11ltrs so works out at £0.90 per ltr.
10p a ltr cheaper than Poundland

cooldad

From the makers of Squirt, 500ml makes 12.5 litres, or so, so around 58p per litre.

http://in2dust.co.uk/product/bio-bike-5 ... ncentrate/

Best deal, some Squirt, a bottle of ready mixed stuff, and a bottle of concentrate. (It's not 2 bottles of concentrate - their web guy must work for On One as well, and is slightly brain damaged.)

http://in2dust.co.uk/product/bio-bike-c ... uirt-lube/

Giraffoto

I bought some of the Poundland stuff - it works OK on the bike, and is also quite good for the wheels on my car.

loudog

Muck off- great
no more dirty bike - great

to be honest if its pink and you say its for cleaning bikes then hell, I believe you.

If you put a bike cleaner out there you'd have to be pretty ballsy if you knew it was shite! Its just pink soapy water.

Nod 'ard!

pilch

The pound land stuff is just pink water as far as I could tell, no perceptible difference between that & water in terms of magical cleansing properties - save yourself a pound, its pretty wanky IMO

doomanic

MucOff is 3 for 2 at Hellfrauds at the moment and price-matched if you reserve through the website.