Meguiars: Professional vs. consumer products

[Stuff]

I'm looking to put an order together. I have always liked to buy things in bulk and that is why I'm looking at Meguiars professional line. I just want to know how several of the products from the "detailer line" stack up against the consumer products.

1. I would not give up my NXT glass cleaner for the world but the detailer line glass clean makes 11 gallons which sounds like a great buy to me. How do these two products compare?

2. I have been using GC soap but the detailer line "shampoo Plus 1" is only $5 more and you get twice the product. How do they compare?

3. I have been looking for a cheap product to buy in bulk and use as a wheel well dressing. Besides the dilution how do the "silicon free-dressing" and the hyper dressing stack up to each other?

4 And in general are the products from the "detailer line" any better or worse than the consumer products?

Anything else I should look at? Thanks a lot for any help.

[Scottwax]

Meguiars consumer level products are designed to work best by hand and their professional lines are formulated to work best via machine.

I've only used Hyper Dressing and at 3:1 it leaves a very nice sheen to tires and fenderwells.

[Dave KG]

I have used both the consumer line and the detailer line of Megs a lot, but now the vast majority of my Meguiars kit is from the Detailer or Mirror Glaze range. To answer your specific questions:

1) The Glass Cleaner concentrate is excellent. I perosonally find it a more effective glass cleaner than the NXT that I uses to use, and the fact that its available in gallon sizes to dilute seals the deal for me on this one.

2) Both the Gold Class and the Shampoo Plus are excellent shampoos. I personally find the Shampoo Plus to be a wonderfully lubricated shampoo which makes for a very safe wash. If suds are your thing, it productes plenty of these - I personally dont like this I tend to fill a bucket 3/4 with clean water and then add the shampoo and mix - that way I get a small amount of suds but a more lubricated wash solution (as half the lubrication hasn't disappeared in suds over the side of the bucket!). I would personally go for the Shampoo Plus over the GC, they are quite similar but for me the Shampoo Plus has the edge.

3) I only have experience of the Hyper Dressing personally, and this was just a sample that I was sent by a very kind fellow detailer in the UK - can be diluted to varying degrees depending on how shiny you want the overall finih and works very very well in wheel wells. No experience of the other dressing I'm afraid. I now use Autoglym Vinyl & Rubber Care (bought in bulk through the trade range, in 5L quantities) for wheel wells just now though.

4) Generally speaking, there is a wider range of more "dedicated" products from the Detailer range I would say. The consumer range has been designed to be easy to use for the average joe on the street who wants to make his car look good - and they work very very effectively at this... Some of the products in the detailer range are superior however in my eyes - for example Meguiars Last Touch is for me nicer than Meguiars Quik Detailer: better lubed, glossier looking finish, slicker. Thats just one example. I also prefer the Glass Cleaner and the Shampoo Plus. However, both of the product lines have been aimed at slightly differing (and in some cases widely differing) markets and both do perform extremely well in the markets they've been aimed at.

The one product that spring to mind to have a look at is Meguiars Last Touch spray detailer... excellent product with many uses ranging from general QD, to clay lube to drying aid.

[Lightman]

I've used megs products pretty extensively and pretty much find them to be the 'ford' of detailing supplies..they will get the job done but nothing spectacular..but of course there will be a few standout products...if you're looking to bulk up on supplies if I were you I'd get it all from chemical guys instead, I like their products a lot better. I don't work for a detailing product company for the record, just like the chem guys stuff a lot!

[Stuff]

Originally Posted by Dave KG

I have used both the consumer line and the detailer line of Megs a lot, but now the vast majority of my Meguiars kit is from the Detailer or Mirror Glaze range. To answer your specific questions:

1) The Glass Cleaner concentrate is excellent. I perosonally find it a more effective glass cleaner than the NXT that I uses to use, and the fact that its available in gallon sizes to dilute seals the deal for me on this one.

2) Both the Gold Class and the Shampoo Plus are excellent shampoos. I personally find the Shampoo Plus to be a wonderfully lubricated shampoo which makes for a very safe wash. If suds are your thing, it productes plenty of these - I personally dont like this I tend to fill a bucket 3/4 with clean water and then add the shampoo and mix - that way I get a small amount of suds but a more lubricated wash solution (as half the lubrication hasn't disappeared in suds over the side of the bucket!). I would personally go for the Shampoo Plus over the GC, they are quite similar but for me the Shampoo Plus has the edge.

3) I only have experience of the Hyper Dressing personally, and this was just a sample that I was sent by a very kind fellow detailer in the UK - can be diluted to varying degrees depending on how shiny you want the overall finih and works very very well in wheel wells. No experience of the other dressing I'm afraid. I now use Autoglym Vinyl & Rubber Care (bought in bulk through the trade range, in 5L quantities) for wheel wells just now though.

4) Generally speaking, there is a wider range of more "dedicated" products from the Detailer range I would say. The consumer range has been designed to be easy to use for the average joe on the street who wants to make his car look good - and they work very very effectively at this... Some of the products in the detailer range are superior however in my eyes - for example Meguiars Last Touch is for me nicer than Meguiars Quik Detailer: better lubed, glossier looking finish, slicker. Thats just one example. I also prefer the Glass Cleaner and the Shampoo Plus. However, both of the product lines have been aimed at slightly differing (and in some cases widely differing) markets and both do perform extremely well in the markets they've been aimed at.

The one product that spring to mind to have a look at is Meguiars Last Touch spray detailer... excellent product with many uses ranging from general QD, to clay lube to drying aid.

Thanks a ton. Lots of good information.

I took a look at the Chemical Guys stuff. Looks like they have a lot of nice products too. I'm going to have to read more reviews and figure out how much products from each side would cost. Thanks for the help. Anyone else have any other advise?