So I received a nice order this week and among other things it included Fuzion and Black Wow. 2 items that are highly recommended throughout this forum. Thought I would give a little feedback on both. Unfortunately a little good and bad.
Black Wow:
I've ordered alot of products in the last 2 months from AG and I have been extremely pleased with them all. Until Black Wow. I have to say that I am quite disappointed in the product. I will clarify though. I bought the product to hopefully correct a small section of rubber right next to my side windows and more importantly a 3-4 inch section where my convertible top meets near the top of my door jamb. Its sort of a rubberized piece of thin metal. It basically did little to nothing to correct the section and the piece looks much like a picture in the Black Wow description data on AG's website.
OK that said, I did use the product on a hard black plastic section that is recessed by my top and it looked very nice. It was more of a traditional textured plastic like you might find on the trim of an Xterra or Element.
So I'm disappointed that it did not work for me but I can see that in the right circumstances it could be quite useful. Unfortunately my car has little area that fits that condition. So to me, its not quite the magic product I had hoped for. I'll have to scope out our Tahoe for possible uses.
Fuzion:
2 questions I wanted to answer with this one. 1st, is it a good wax worth its costs. 2nd, is it as good or better than my much cheaper P21S 100%.
So the negatives first. I really have only 2 minor issues and both are around packaging. I personally am all about the product doing the job best. I would rather save $15 and not get a wooden box that has no use to me past the initial wow factor. This is after all car wax, its not a rolex watch. 2nd, my container top is sorta hard to get threaded to get the top back on. The P21S container is much nicer in fit/finish and its also shaped nicer.
Ok can you see that I am struggling for some negatives here???
I'll 1st say that about a month ago I did a full correction with Flex/Menz and did a coat of P21S 100%. You can see a few pictures in the thread
Taping Off before Polishing
So I cleaned up the car and stripped the P21S wax with P21S Paint Cleanser (which I like quite a bit BTW)
Then came the Fuzion. The product applied/removed very easily. I did all the work in my garage out of the sun. I have yet to pick up some nice lighting so under standard fluorescent lights it was actually hard at times to see what I had and had not done. Fuzion goes on with minimal "haze" and it is quite translucent in less than perfect lighting. No doubt some overlap in application.
Taking the product off I found a nice finish but it really was not overwhelmingly better than what I saw with the unfinished paint after cleanser. Fact is, in the garage the car looks awesome w/o a lick of wax. But, I just kept working and new I would do the full sun test when finished.
So the sun test says it all. Questions are now answered. Is is a great wax? Yes. Worth the money? Well thats relevant to expendable cash but I am not unhappy with the purchase at all. Does it look nicer than P21S? YES! And I'll note that until today P21S was the best looking finish I have had. It is quite nice. To answer a likely question, I have not used Souveran Paste yet. (Gonna win the August Give Away and try it then
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The clarity of the reflection is amazing. I noticed in several like pictures that w/ Fuzion you could see my reflection taking the picture and I was a good 10-15 ft away to get the entire car in the shot. The more I really analyzed the pix (and the actual car) the more amazed I was. I'm really glad because working in my garage (read sweating like hell) I was gettin a little concerned that I might be disappointed with this purchase. I don't think after such success in the last month I could have taken 2 let downs.
But you decide for yourself. I have a link above to my first pictures. I tried to do the same basic angles plus a few others. Here are the pix. I hope the picture compression when I upload these shows the reality of the pix. I was able to compare them at the 10 megapixel originals...
Hope you enjoy, I sure did!
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