Recently stumbled accross this product www.5starshine.com Anyone heard of them or tried it? 5 years worth of protection. They claim the Military uses it for salt air/water protection. Website`s interesting.
dr427
03-08-2003, 08:40 PM
I did some research on it a while back, and found several other websites sell something identical. The website`s were nearly identical, but they denied knowing each other (toughguard.com).
Also, they want people to sign up and get referall commissions on each one sold ($49 ea.) referall was something like $15. Almost network marketing like. A guy on the Honda Odyssey board bought some and liked it, but said the bottles ($49 kit) were only good for 1 or 2 vehicles and were applied much like Zaino (strip, mix, apply, etc.). Plus he hasn`t had it long term, so if it was just a sealant the effects would still be working and it would be too early to tell if it was going to last 5 years.
This is the company that owns the patent:
PPS Patent (http://www.gardgroup.com/ppspatent.htm)
They have been selling on ebay for a while. And when reading his site he tries to sell other things (3000 mile myth book, Website hosting or something). The website was Pop up hell BTW.
Here is the US Patent:
Patent (http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,081,171.WKU.&OS=PN/5,081,171&RS=PN/5,081,171)
Personally I am VERY skeptical and besides scratches will happen over the course of 5 years and it won`t protect against that!
The absolute BEST is the Half way down the page is a 1985 Cougar that they claim has used 5 star shine for 17 years (applied when new). If you read the patent link it didn`t happen until 1992. It may have taken 7 years to patent, but the inventor sold his idea to the company above which had to have been after 1992 I would guess. So was the sealant formula using this technology long before it was patented or what?:nixweiss :nixweiss :nixweiss :confused: :confused:
Everything just seems shady to me.:cool:
dr427, thanks for the review. I figured it was bogus, but, since I hadn`t heard of 5 Star, I thought I`d share what I`d found.