RAJ27

Car polish | Products | Auto Express

Reading their review/test of Car Polishes, they always go for Turtle Wax products. Is this purely based on them getting a back hander from them or is fact?

What's your views? BTW they have tested 50 products, so there is a wide range.

RAJ27

anyone?

eldudereno

They've always liked that Turtle Wax Gloss Protection stuff.

Cannot believe they've awarded Meguiar’s Gold Class only 2 stars. I've been using Meguiars for 4 or 5 years now and am more than happy.

StickyMicky

it depends on what you are looking for

gold class is average at best compared with others IMO

eldudereno

What's better then for similar money?

StickyMicky

"car pride fst wax" is about the same for less money

i used to use meguiars gold class here at work for the half decent cars in dark colours, and NXT for the lighter coloured ones.

gold class has been a bit of a pain for us with smearing but does look quite nice when finished, durability is crap, 2/3weeks max IMO

"car pride fst wax" is about the same effort, same`ish shine for a lot less money (i picked up 10 tins @75p in the local cash and carry)

durability is much better, a few months at least!

the problem is that meguires stuff is made for people who want to buff the car every weekend, so it never lasts very long IMO


have to say, since i trialled the FST stuff here at work on afew customers cars, they could notice the difference, and i started useing it on my own, with much improved results.

it can be a PITA to get off dark coloured cars in direct sunlight, but a damp microfibre cloth works wonders............

eldudereno

I can get Meguairs NXT for 50p...beat that!!!

ps, it's only a capfull though....you didn't mention that this Car Pride stuff is about a 1/3 of the size of a normal bottle of wax.

Don't agree about the durability of the Gold Class, only 2/3 weeks!!...no way

StickyMicky

the car pride tin is the same size as my nxt tin ?

just checked, FST stuff is 180gram tin size, maybe a tiny bit smaller ?


the main point is IMO.
paying big bucks for a named brand is sometimes a bit pointless, from my vast experience of using different waxes and polishes over the years

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

Now there is some good advice coming from our resident polisher. One day my car may make it up to your place Micky

StickyMicky

are you from the north east?


*makes a note of yet another northern username he should avoid getting into arguments with* pmsl



gold class just never lasted for me, unless i topped it with nxt over the top, the way i looked at it, its not designed to last, its the weekend bufftys choice, which sells due to good advertisements.


i had a good chat with one of my suppliers once about megs stuff, this bloke has people making his own polishes up to sell to the trade and he let me into a few little secrets

the "chemical resistant" spray heads that megs sell as there own are not
they are just generic spray heads with a bit of cash slapped on the price, i cant remember the specifics but the supplier could get me them for vastly reduced prices if i wanted.

Minitrue

I was in the toon the other week and I was going to bring my bus up for a fettle, but it was getting on and I thought that youd have sloped off for the evening.


MoT

Luminous

iTrader: (3)

Yes, I am up near Darlington, you may see me at a TTS meet this at some point

StickyMicky

if its not booked in you have no chance i`m afraid

constantly booked up about 2 weeks in advance pretty much all the time nowadays

Minitrue

Mick; at 21mpg on the way up (from a f*cking diesel!), I could only have afforded a wash!