Best car bug cleaner 2024
Halfords Bug & Tar Remover
- Price: Around £6
- Size: 500ml
- Cost per 100ml: £1.20
- Rating: 3.5 stars
- Website: halfords.com
At around £6 for 500ml, the Halfords remover is half the price of many of its rivals here. Rather than being used as a pre-wash, the fluid can only be applied and then removed with a microfibre cloth, after being left to dwell on the car for between one and two minutes.
The strong smell suggests the liquid is working hard, but it left a disappointing amount of our fly behind on the first application – and needed a second go to get rid of it completely.
Karcher Insect Remover
- Price: Around £10
- Size: 500ml
- Cost per 100ml: £2.00
- Rating: 3 stars
- Website: kaercher.com
Unsurprisingly for a cleaner from a pressure washer maker, this fluid needs to be rinsed off with a powerful jet of water to be effective. It also needs to be left to dwell for between three and five minutes, which seems like an age when waiting to wash your car. It also meant the fluid dried out on the warm day of the test.
However, even after letting the pressure washer do the work, there were still remains of our fly on our car’s paintwork.
Verdict:
The Best Buy here is CarPlan’s No1 Super Bug, and not just because it is currently such a bargain. It has strong cleaning power and is versatile enough to be used to clear other paint contamination too.
Angelwax’s Revenge also cleans really well, especially if used as part of a pre-clean routine when you are already planning to use a pressure washer. It could have won if it had matched the CarPlan’s value.
Third place goes to Autoglym. Its Active Insect Remover cleans well but looks pricey.
- CarPlan No1 Super Bug
- Angelwax Revenge
- Autoglym Active Insect Remover
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