I don't understand why CFMoto has released a cleaning polish for its side-by-sides. Not in a, "Why is this brand making a cleaning polish?" sort of way, I get most manufacturers have white-label products for all sorts of things. But why there's even a market for cleaning polishes for your side-by-sides at all?
The whole concept feels antithetical to the basic concept of a side-by-side, as these are machines that are meant to be used, abused, and put away wet, drenched in mud, and beaten to the absolute inch of their lives. They're meant to be dirty. They're meant to be dusty. They're not meant to be clean, let alone shiny and polished like your dad's 1968 Ford Mustang GT.
These things are tools. You have to be a special kind of anal retentive to need to not just hose down your side-by-side, but to go through the process of polishing that damn thing, too. OK, I might know one guy this is for, but he's a lunatic.
Hi, Joel!
The polish is part of CFMoto's "Crafted" lineup of cleaners, which also includes an all-purpose cleaner, chain lube, glass cleaner, high gloss detailer, leather and vinyl cleaner, and a tire shine. Everything you'd want if you were keeping a classic Ferrari, Chevrolet, or Mercedes-Benz pristine. But they're being marketed for folks with a damn side-by-side, the most utilitarian, farm equipment-adjacent, get dirty every dang day vehicle around.
Something only beat out by trophy trucks and dirt bikes. These are machines meant to be dirty.
I'm sure this will come as no shock to folks who know me, and it's a sticking point between myself and my father-in-law, but I use my vehicles and they get dirty. My truck? Dirty. My dirt bikes? Dirty. And my Can-Am Maverick X3? Well, in the five years I've owned it, I think I've only washed it a single time. In fact, I'm pretty sure the rear deck still has elk blood across it, and I know that there's definitely dirt and mud from last season.
Rain washes it down for me, and/or going through a stream or river crossing. Why the hell would I clean it only for it to immediately get dirty again? Now, that's not to say I don't service and maintain it, I do. I clean out the intake all the time. But if you ever see me polishing it, I may have had another head injury, cause that's just properly bonkers.
As for the CFMoto polish, you can pick it up for $17 and go to town. But $17 is a couple gallons of gas these days, and I'd rather have fuel in the tank than a clean vehicle that's about to get absolutely disgusting in 10, 9, 8, 7...
