Andrew P. Collins Every dog owner has this realization eventually: Holy crap, dog fluff is hard to get out of automotive carpet. You can run a vacuum across your floors over and over, and somehow, some way, still find fur. That’s because a lot of dog hair is curly or sprig-shaped—it literally weaves itself into your car’s rug fibers, and even a strong vac can struggle to extract it. You need mechanical separation, which is what the Grubbie Edge Pet Hair Removal Tool does. In the past, I had been using an old wooden ruler, or just my fingers as claws, to scrape my dog’s fluff out of my cars’ carpets as I vacuum. That method sort of works, but it’s arduous, and the result always looks incomplete. This little device from Chemical Guys is much better. It’s got big strips of little claws that are made of a firm-but-piable material that won’t damage carpet, and an easy grab handle for good ergonomics. Since there are grabbing edges on multiple sides, you can finagle it into corners and crevices much more easily than your whole hand. Basically, what you do is corral the dog hair with the Grubbie Edge into a line just like you’re sweeping dirt on a floor. Then, once the hairs are loose, you can either pick them out and toss them into the environment like tumbleweeds (some bird will be stoked about it for nest-making material) or easily suck them up with a vac. The Grubbie Edge’s only real downside is that it’s a little too fat to run through the deep trench between the front seats and door sill, where a lot of fur gets trapped. Maybe the next version will get a longer skinny edge. But you can just work carefully with a vacuum crevice tool on that one. Andrew P. Collins I went through my E46 coupe last night, which pretty much always carries a few pounds of dog hair, and was really pleased with the results. It grabbed more fluff than I could even see. The car’s interior is grey, and Bramble the dog, my co-pilot, is a merle (grey, black, white, a little brown), so a lot of her hair blends right in. I love her dearly, but “a lot” is the operative word when it comes to how much fluff she’s ejecting at any given time. Looking at these photos, the camera really isn’t doing the before-and-after justice. But it really does work—I wouldn’t have bothered writing this thing up if it wasn’t good. Andrew P. Collins Bramble is half Australian shepherd, half golden retriever, and seems to be shedding about nine months a year. Suffice it to say, she gave the Grubbie Edge thing plenty to work with, and I really was impressed with its effectiveness. I liked the ergonomics and form-factor, too. It’s quite easy to hold and so soft that there doesn’t seem to be any risk of marring interior bits accidentally. You can grab one of these from Chemical Guys for $14.99, and word to the wise, Chemical Guys runs deals and discounts all the time, so poke around the site while you’re there, and you can probably score more stuff in a bundle. There are few greater joys in life than going for a drive with Bramble the dog. Now I can be slightly less annoyed when it comes time to clean a car she’s been in! Recommend any car-care products we should test? Hit me up at andrew.collins@thedrive.com.