Re: Looking to get that Wet look, Help Please
About Malm`s Wax:
Their Concentrated (liquid) Carnauba Wax is about $35.00, but at 1/2 pint (8 fluid ounces). that is a little pricey for a wax-waster (sorry 512 Detail and Ronkh!) like myself, even if used judiciously.
Then again, I could move up to their Extreme Concentrated Carnauba Paste Wax at ONLY $250 and it does not say how much is in the container not is it covered by their money-back guarantee because it is custom-made per order.
Not dissing their carnauba products; they must have a customer base that apparently still buys their products, or they would not be in business.
This product was the "cat`s meow" in the 1970`s and 80`s, as it was advertised in car-related magazines galore (you know, those glossy "printed things" with information & COLOR pictures that came in the snail-mail or were on newsstands every month before the Internet took over).
I still have some Coral Blue AutoFobulin that Dennis Weaver (AKA;"McCloud") used to sell in TV Infomercials. It was good stuff in the late 80`s-early 90`s, until I started using Liquid Glass. But I digress.....
Re: Looking to get that Wet look, Help Please
ttforcefed- Glad I didn`t give offense, hard to know how things come across online.
I hear you on how some products smell :D
See how preferences vary?!? I hated how P21s looked on my (sorta-silver) Jag so much that I stripped it off, and I *never* bother doing that.
Sounds like the Ital is just right for you on your red cars, and I like that your Diablo is silver :D
Re: Looking to get that Wet look, Help Please
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Accumulator
Malm`s is wonderfully hydrophobic. For "just another liquid wax that nobody`s even heard of" it`s really great stuff...again, assuming that it`s basically the same now as it was 30-some years ago.
So true. It really is great stuff (my experience so far). I`m guessing it was more well-known back in the day?
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Originally Posted by
Lonnie
About Malm`s Wax:
Their Concentrated (liquid) Carnauba Wax is about $35.00, but at 1/2 pint (8 fluid ounces). that is a little pricey for a wax-waster (sorry 512 Detail and Ronkh!) like myself, even if used judiciously.
They claim that 1/2 pint should be good for 25 midsize cars. Less than $2 to do a car, they say. For a wax-waster, like those mentioned above, it may not come close to 25.
For me, if it can keep up with the big boys at a higher price point, then the 35$ isn`t bad at all.
Re: Looking to get that Wet look, Help Please
Lonnie- Eh, I somehow missed your last post on this thread :o I haven`t priced/used it since forever and didn`t know the current price. It might indeed be a little pricey for people who don`t apply nutty-thin the way I do, but if you do apply it that way it takes *SO* little to do a vehicle that a pint (the size I got IIRC) oughta last for many years.
JustJesus- It *might`ve* been more popular then, but only because Boutique/Small Co. Label Detailing Lines weren`t such a Big Industry with so many players. Their "Kit" with Polish, Finishing Polish/Glaze, and Wax was rather unique for the time, and they were how I found out about the Cyclo (my older one still has a Malm`s label on it). I mean, *NOBODY* else sold a complete kit like that, with a RO polisher, back in the early `80s. And you could still do a lot worse today even with all the New Best Things that keep coming out.