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    Posted: 04-April-2007 at 13:10
This weeks Auto Express has tested 50 popular waxes and the results are surprising.

Meguirs gold class got 2 stars out of 5 citing that it didn't last long.

Poor Boys got 3 stars - great finish but doesn't last.

Autoglymn's 3 products got 3 stars with the super resin polish being best of the three.

Cars were waxed and checked for beading and durability after 8 weeks.

Winners were
1 - Turtle wax Platinum Extra Gloss £9.99
2 - Turtle Wax Gloss Guard £6.99
3 - Comma Top Gloss £4.99
4 - Simoniz Original wax £5.99
5 - Car Plan Nanomeric Seal & Protect £12.99


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Thats odd.

If you use SRP for a few years you wont have any paint left!

Megs 3 step stuff for me.
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Originally posted by muppet 2 muppet 2 wrote:

This weeks Auto Express has tested 50 popular waxes and the results are surprising.

 

No surprises really, you might have noticed the top 3 spend lots of money advertising in AE , i always take these reviews in magazines with a pinch of salt, as its always going to biased in favour of the advertisers.

 

Plus the people who conduct these tests normally don't know their arses from their elbows when it comes to these products!
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Originally posted by Bry535 Bry535 wrote:

Originally posted by muppet 2 muppet 2 wrote:

This weeks Auto Express has tested 50 popular waxes and the results are surprising.

 

No surprises really, you might have noticed the top 3 spend lots of money advertising in AE , i always take these reviews in magazines with a pinch of salt, as its always going to biased in favour of the advertisers.

 

Plus the people who conduct these tests normally don't know their arses from their elbows when it comes to these products!

Your not wrong there Bry, Evo subscription offer Free Turtle Wax Ice wax, Evo owned by Dennis publishing, AutoExpress also owned by Dennis Publishing. Spot the link

 

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I use the Meguiars 3 step system too. Far better IMO. I'm always very happy
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I take about as much note of AutoExpress reviews as I do the weather forecast in Greenland. 

That said, the majority of people that read AutoExpress are probably using these polishes/waxes already as they're amongst the cheapest out there and thats befitting of anyone who knows feck all about cars and thereby choses AutoExpress as their reference (all present company excepted).

I'll read anything about cars, purely from an enthusiasts point of view, but I stopped getting AutoExpress a very long time ago.



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Total Pish (sorry)

Turtle wax comes out smelling of roses, then 5 pages in they have a double page spread of advertising.

Never used turtle wax since I had my E36, horrible chalky stuff that did nothing for the car.
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