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Daily life takes a big toll on your car, but whether you want to remove muck from the outside, keep the interior showroom fresh, or even add extra luxury, there are thousands of accessories, cleaners and gadgets to make life easier. And after a year of testing, these are the best products we’d recommend.

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Chemical Guys Maxi Suds II&nbsp;

Price from £9.99 |&nbsp;Buy from Chemical Guys

Chemical Guys offers a range of snow foams – with scents such as Beer, Watermelon and Honeydew available – but this hybrid shampoo/foam is something else. We could enthuse about its ease of use, great cleaning power and perfect pH neutrality, but what amazed us was how much cleaning power the tiniest heavily diluted drop provided. This modest bottle, with a very modest price tag, produces up to 120 litres of highly effective foam.

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TruTrak FMT100

This GPS tracker fits to your car’s 12V battery. It’s hidden, doesn’t need charging and will fit any vehicle. You don’t need to buy a separate SIM card and you can speak to someone on the phone who’ll activate the unit in minutes should you find your car missing. The phone app shows live location and tracking history, and you can set alerts for the car entering set areas. It’s effective, simple and well priced.

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Best GPS car tracker 

MPOW CA148A Car Phone Mount&nbsp;

This wireless charging phone holder can either be mounted to a vent with a screw-tightened clamp or with included sticky pads and a flexible ‘gooseneck’. The plastics feel sturdy, it’s easy to adjust while driving, and it can detect if the phone is getting too hot under charging. Thanks to its straightforward functionally, 24-month warranty and the promise to fit any car, the MPOW was a clear winner in our tests.&nbsp;

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Best wireless charging phone holder 

Wolfteeth warning triangle&nbsp;

Price from £13.46 |&nbsp;Buy from Amazon

The Wolfteeth triangle is chunky and durable, yet compact enough to store out of the way. The red, flashing or static triangle warning lights are visible even in bright conditions, while the two-phase central lights make for a super-bright torch. It will take rechargeable batteries, and a cable to charge it via a USB socket is provided. Overall, it’s good value, feels solidly built and is useful in more than just emergency situations.&nbsp;

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Thinkware F200 Pro&nbsp;

The Thinkware is a truly modular dash camera, because as well as recording what’s in front, you can add extras such as a rear camera and GPS positioning. We’d recommend getting the latter, because it shows you where speed cameras are located, as well as alerting you when you’re straying out of your lane on the motorway. Optically, the camera captures a lot of detail. What makes it our pick, though, is that it also offers a high-spec, electrically frugal parking mode to help avoid embarrassing scrapes.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/news/best-dash-cams-2022/n22682">Read our full best dash cams test&nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;</a>

Best dash cam 

Turtle Wax Zip Wax

Price from £12.30 |&nbsp;Buy from Amazon

The Turtle Wax shampoo offers fantastic value at £12.30 for 2.5 litres, and you only need a small amount in a bucket of water to have it foaming nicely. It did a fine job of removing grime from the paintwork, wheels and chrome finishes of our test car. Plus, the wax aspect gives a nice shine and helped to keep the paintwork looking smart for a good time afterwards.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/news/best-car-shampoos-2022/n24633">Read our full&nbsp;car shampoos test&nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;</a>

Best car shampoo

Meguiars Ultimate Compound&nbsp;

The Meguiars polish did the best job when it came to scratch removal, even helping to remove a fairly noticeable supermarket trolley scuff on our car. It goes on smoothly and buffs to a really good shine, and left the paintwork looking lustrous for a good few weeks afterwards. It’s not the cheapest polish out there, but it is the best, whether bought as a general car polish or for tackling specific marks and scratches.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/news/best-car-polishes-2022/n24725">Read our full&nbsp;car polishes test&nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;</a>

Best car polish

VacLife&nbsp;

Price from £39.99 |&nbsp;Buy from Amazon

The VacLife feels solidly built, and the attachments – including a crevice nozzle and a brush head – fit securely, making it easy to get underneath seats. There’s also an LED light to help you see into awkward corners, plus a ‘detail’ brush which is great for cleaning out your air vents. The VacLife is one of the quietest budget vacuums we tested, despite also being one of the more powerful.&nbsp;

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Waze

Price from Free |&nbsp;Buy from App store

Waze is one of the most popular free navigation apps, and it’s easy to see why. The live traffic updates are effective, and useful for finding nifty ways around traffic. There’s no annoying in-app purchases, it’s compatible with Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, and the route graphics and traffic reports are great. Multi-stop routes are difficult to set up and you can’t search for electric car chargers, but those are our only gripes.&nbsp;

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Best sat-nav app

Leather Repair Company Deep Leather Cleaner and Conditioner&nbsp;

Price from £26.95 |&nbsp;Buy from Amazon

The Leather Repair Company’s leather cleaner is available as a kit that comes with a 500ml bottle of cleaner and a 500ml bottle of conditioner. It foams up nicely and gets dirt out of leather easily. Stubborn stains come off without much effort, and even without the conditioner, the leather is left supple and smelling good. It’s not the cheapest, but for the quantity and quality of product that you get, it’s still our favourite choice.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/news/best-leather-cleaners-2022/n25019">Read our full&nbsp;leather cleaners test&nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;</a>

Best leather cleaner

Diamond Shine Tyre and Trim Dressing&nbsp;

Price from £12.95 |&nbsp;Buy from Amazon

This tyre dressing did a brilliant job of getting our faded plastic trim back to a like-new finish, plus the applicator that comes with helps to get into nooks. It’s easy to layer on for a shiny finish, or it gets your rubber back to looking more clean with one application. It lasted well too, and kept the plastics and tyres looking fresh for a few weeks. At the price, this is a great buy.&nbsp;

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Best tyre dressing

Draper tyre pressure gauge 69924&nbsp;

This is a super-smart gauge with an analogue pressure dial and solid metal fixtures. It’s also easy to read, thanks to clear dial graphics, and it’s straightforward to connect to the tyre valve to get a reading. We favour traditional analogue gauges over digital options. Because tyre gauges are typically used once in a while rather than regularly, not having to worry about batteries that might have gone flat is a welcome relief.&nbsp;

<a href="https://www.whatcar.com/news/best-tyre-gauges-2022/n25147">Read our full&nbsp;tyre gauges test&nbsp;&gt;&gt;&nbsp;</a>

Best tyre gauges

Concours Auto Galactic&nbsp;

This car cover feels high in quality and fitted our car well while still leaving room for air to circulate. Most rain beaded and rolled off the material, leaving the bodywork feeling dry to the touch, even when water did pool on the cover for long periods. Securing straps that clip onto the cover and secure it beneath the car are provided; these can be removed to avoid getting blown around if let loose.&nbsp;

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