Adam`s Polishes...by Chevy?

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Setec Astronomy

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I was looking at the Chevy accessories page (I mean at the Chevrolet website), and they are selling all kinds of Adam`s chemicals and accessories there (MF towels, brushes, applicators, etc.).

It was weird/interesting. My apologies if this has already been brought up.
 
If you pay enough money, you become the preferred supplier. Just as Barrett Jackson switched from the Meguiars wipe down crew to mothers and to whoever they have now.
 
Mike lambert said:
If you pay enough money, you become the preferred supplier. Just as Barrett Jackson switched from the Meguiars wipe down crew to mothers and to whoever they have now.
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Yeah, if I saw Meguiar`s or Mothers at the Chevy website, I wouldn`t have given it much of a thought. I just don`t think of Adam`s as a "well known national brand"...or to paraphrase Jason Sudekis from the outtakes at the end of Horrible Bosses..."they are now".
 
Hey, chemical guys is at Walmart now. Makes me wonder how many people are buying this stuff and putting it on the shelf. Most people don`t even put air in their own tires now, nevermind the time it takes to polish a car.
 
Accumulator said:
Eh, while I generally knee-jerk against anything that smacks of cynicism, uhm...Mike lambert nailed it:
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I`m guessing it`s more like a deep discount on the products (which I guess amounts to the same thing as "paying money"). It`s different from when Meguiar`s used to make some car company-branded products that said on the back in small print they were made by Meguiar`s. A little different but not that much different from the oil filler caps on some GM cars mentioning Mobil 1...I think that`s more about Mobil giving GM free factory-fill oil, rather than a GM endorsement of the product.
 
I was looking at another automakers accessories page, can`t remember who`s now, and I noticed they offered the Chemical Guy`s line in a similar fashion. I found it surpising as I hadn`t heard of anyone doing it before. I didn`t realize GM had gone with Adams.

Interestingly, a few years ago my wife won me a bucket of detailing stuff from a local Chevy dealership at a charity silent auction she attended. Based on some research I`m pretty sure the car shampoo and wheel cleaner were simply Chemical Guys products in "AC Delco" branded bottles. I`m glad to hear they moved up to Adams.

I wonder if it is simply easier to be a retail outlet for an existing brand rather than having to go private lable or re-market existing stuff under their own brand.
 
Does Adams make their own stuff? I always assumed it was Chemical Guys or a huge chemical company.

Mopar has their own branded line but I`m not sure who actually makes it for them.
 
Sizzle Chest said:
They..[Adams].. make/manufacturer their own.
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NOT in *any* way arguing, but I heard the opposite from somebody I`d consider credible (decades in the industry).

It can be hard to find out just who really makes what...not that I let that bother me; IMO good stuff is good stuff and the price is either OK or it`s not,the rest is just a question of where your money is going and whether you care.

wannafbody said:
Mopar has their own branded line but I`m not sure who actually makes it for them.
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Wonder if it`s still AutoInt/ValuGard...they definitely used to make the MOPAR/DC stuff (I got a nice stash of their rustproofing stuff from a pal there when they changed the labeling).
 
Our local Honda dealer sells Chemical Guys stuff as well. I think last time I was in there it changed to SmartWax which just looks like CG stuff re-branded.............
 
Mike lambert said:
Adams like a lot of them have the products made for them, several products use the same chemical company.
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This car-care product manufacturer and who-makes-what-for-whom "debate" has been in this forum for a very long time. I would think that their a several car-care chemical product contractors who will make almost anything for anybody (for a price). Northern Labs in Manitowoc WI (makers of J-Wax and Kit Car Wax) is one such contract facility, as is R Lewis Technologies in DePere, WI.
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Turtle Wax got rid of their product manufacturing facilities in Chicago IL and now contracts out that part of their business .

And doesn`t Warner Chemicals make Chemical Guys Products and some of Adam`s products, supposedly? (Ah, THE Great Debate, or more correctly, the Great Speculation.)

And wasn`t S100 Motorcycle care chemicals "the same" as P21S?

And then there is the Menzerna-Jescar similarities, although Jescar adamantly states they are different and from what I have read of their products reviewed in this forum, that appears to be true.

Then there is the acquisition of 3M`s Car Chemical Division bought by Meguiars. Good synergies?

Need I say more??
 
Lonnie said:
This car-care product manufacturer and who-makes-what-for-whom "debate" has been in this forum for a very long time. I would think that their a several car-care chemical product contractors who will make almost anything for anybody (for a price). Northern Labs in Manitowoc WI (makers of J-Wax and Kit Car Wax) is one such contract facility, as is R Lewis Technologies in DePere, WI.
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Turtle Wax got rid of their product manufacturing facilities in Chicago IL and now contracts out that part of their business .

And doesn`t Warner Chemicals make Chemical Guys Products and some of Adam`s products, supposedly? (Ah, THE Great Debate, or more correctly, the Great Speculation.)

And wasn`t S100 Motorcycle care chemicals "the same" as P21S?

And then there is the Menzerna-Jescar similarities, although Jescar adamantly states they are different and from what I have read of their products reviewed in this forum, that appears to be true.

Then there is the acquisition of 3M`s Car Chemical Division bought by Meguiars. Good synergies?

Need I say more??
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I thought it was the other way around, that 3M bought meguiars?
 
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