Motor Trend Auto Shows

The average shelf-life of a Meguiar's product is 3 years. Don't know about Klasse.
 
about the shelf life of wax...it gets used up long before it gets old! :D

One thing that I do is take all of my car cleaning supplies out of the garage and bring them into the basement for the winter. Take a look at the labels of your products. Many of them will say <strong class='bbc'>protect from freezing.[/b] It's not a problem if you live in a warm climate, but here in the Northeast it can get colder than a penguin's posterior! I will bring what I need to clean and detail my vehicles to the firehouse and keep them in my locker, where they stay nice and warm and ready for use!
 
I had #26 Yellow Hi Tech wax that has been sitting for who knows how many years. Never frozen, but it did seperate into a clear liquid and a yellow pudding. So I shook it up, didn't really help, then I figured what the hey, took off the top, put it in the microwave for 15 seconds, and viola, it was good as new, returned it to a nice creamy yellow paste.



Give it a try, I didn't think it would work, my guess is the wax got heated up and melted and recombined with the other chemicals.
 
toy4two said:
I had #26 Yellow Hi Tech wax that has been sitting for who knows how many years. Never frozen, but it did seperate into a clear liquid and a yellow pudding. So I shook it up, didn't really help, then I figured what the hey, took off the top, put it in the microwave for 15 seconds, and viola, it was good as new, returned it to a nice creamy yellow paste.



Give it a try, I didn't think it would work, my guess is the wax got heated up and melted and recombined with the other chemicals.
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Please stop bumping ancient posts. This post is 6 years old...
 
I have a gallon of Meguiars #26 that is over 5 years old and is still as good as new. I usually shake it every so often with all my other products I don't use often.
 
jshillin said:
Please stop bumping ancient posts. This post is 6 years old...
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What's the harm in bumping an old thread? It's not like the information has gone out of date or anything. Now if this were about current events or something, I could see a problem. God forbid someone search...
 
While this thread is active again (and hey, what *is* wrong with bringing up an old thread :nixweiss ), I have a whole lot of products that are at least a decade old and some that are a *lot* older than that.



QDs do go bad after a while (like over 7-8 years), you can tell because they get thin/watery and lose their color.



My V1.0 VM went bad after 4-5 years but hey, I knew it was likely to react with the bottle and I hear the newer stuff doesn't do that.



I've had some leather treatments go bad after a decade or so, shoulda refrigerated them.



Other than those I have no age-related problems with my products. The wax I use on Interior wood (BHMA branded, made by Zymol) is over 20 years old as works fine even with a cracked jar lid. A while back somebody (SuperiorFine?) used some Meg's products from the '60s and they worked great. My old tin of Pro paste wax from '77 still seems OK.
 
Have any of you ever attended one of the shows produced by Motor Trend? There is one in Orlando around Thanksgiving and I was wondering if it was worth the three hour drive.
 
Angelo, I think ill be headed that way too tomorrow. I might have a couple of stangs trailing along but don't know for sure just yet. What time did you plan on heading over there?
 
Yeah, I had downloaded the floor plan and saw that there would be much less than what I had expected (NO AUDI!!! :cursing: )

I am hoping that the floor plan is not final. If, and I realize that it is a big "if" Lambo has some sort of representation, it would be worth seeing the look on my son's face. Even if it was the Swirl Master that Broker99 was kind enough to share with us.

BTW - thanks for the pics, Broker!
 
WonderTwin said:
Yeah, I had downloaded the floor plan and saw that there would be much less than what I had expected (NO AUDI!!! :cursing: )

I am hoping that the floor plan is not final. If, and I realize that it is a big "if" Lambo has some sort of representation, it would be worth seeing the look on my son's face. Even if it was the Swirl Master that Broker99 was kind enough to share with us.

BTW - thanks for the pics, Broker!
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No problem glad to share.
 
If you're going to a Motor Trend Car Show, pick up discount coupons at Subway... Free Admission on Friday, or $6 Admission on the Weekend. Then, as soon as you walk in the door, you can fill out a coupon for a free 12-month Motor Trend subscription. Then, you can use your ticket stub for a buy one-get one free 6 inch sandwich at Subway. :clap:

I'm not affiliated in any way... just cheap!
 
John Henry said:
If you're going to a Motor Trend Car Show, pick up discount coupons at Subway... Free Admission on Friday, or $6 Admission on the Weekend. Then, as soon as you walk in the door, you can fill out a coupon for a free 12-month Motor Trend subscription. Then, you can use your ticket stub for a buy one-get one free 6 inch sandwich at Subway. :clap:

I'm not affiliated in any way... just cheap!
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Wow, I'm tempted to drive to Florida for this ^ :biggrin:
 
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