Why I will never pay more than $20 for a wax!

[FUNX650]

This is the hood of my black 2011 Range Rover Sport.
Clayed
Polished with Meguiars 105 on a green lake country pad on a Flex rotary
Followed by 205 on a white pad and the PC 7424
Then Meg's show car glaze
Finished with . . . Wait for it . . .

RAIN DANCE CARNAUBA WAX!!!
($4 at Big Lots)

If I had spent that much money... {~ $668.00 }

on the "prep products" (machines, liquids, pads, clay/clay-lube, etc.)...

$4.00 for a wax would be all that I could afford!!




Bob

[Andr3wilson]

so technically...shouldn't your thread title be "Why I will never pay more than $4 for a wax!"?

and while you are at it, should make a couple more threads "why I will never pay more than $2 for a t-shirt!" because you can buy a couple of white Ts for $2

"why I will never pay more than $4.99 for a shoe!" because payless has some good deals

but don't stop there, "why I will never pay more than $1 for a cheeseburger!" McDonald everyday value menu

LOL

[swanicyouth]

This is the hood of my black 2011 Range Rover Sport.
Clayed
Polished with Meguiars 105 on a green lake country pad on a Flex rotary
Followed by 205 on a white pad and the PC 7424
Then Meg's show car glaze
Finished with . . . Wait for it . . .

RAIN DANCE CARNAUBA WAX!!!
($4 at Big Lots)

I couldn't imagine spending all that time polishing, prepping, planning just to slap a $4 was on their. While the pics do look great, paint looks great with nothing on it that's prepped right.

I kind of think like Rock does. Why buy anything "nice" when you can just shop for it all at the Dollar Store ???

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Not to mention putting this wax on such a nice vehicle. Dont you think it deserves more than the dollar store wax?

[BlkHemiLTD]

I'm not sure the wax had much to do with it after 105 and 205....

[Anthony@zerboautoworks]

You are making people butt hurt with your $4.00 wax.lol

[JAF06SE]

It does look good that's for sure. I agree with not spending more than $20 on a wax also. It took me quite a while to bring myself to buy the Meg's UPW only after the numerous awesome reviews on here. I just couldn't bring used to drop almost $30 to "try" something new when there are others that I'm happy with for under that. To be completely honest, I don't know how some of these companies that charge over $50 for a small container of wax stay in business. For guys like us that are regularly cleaning/polishing/waxing our vehicles, what's the point of buying a wax that is gonna last a year or so when we're gonna take it off before then. I'm a huge OTC detailing hobbiest. I have had great results with only OTC products ever since I've started cleaning cars before I could even drive. I just don't see the point of spending more that $20-30 for a wax. Yeah, you might have to reapply it a little more often but I don't think that's an issue with us lol.

[dc52nv]

Not to knock your $4 wax but if you took pictures before you applied the wax, I'm pretty sure the same shine would be there after all the prep products used.

[Theo_Auto_Fines]

The reflectivity is there ill give you that. But wheres the gloss? Paint almost looks a little dull to me

Hmm, I wouldn't call it dull..

All these designer waxes that costs upwards of $50 sounds a bit ridiculous to me. It might add a certain pop but at the end of the day its just car owners wanting to spend more money on their precious cars/trucks. Its human nature that if you spend more on something that must mean its greater than the cheap products, right?

[Setec Astronomy]

Well, I heard somewhere the pop is in the prep! Now where did I hear that...oh yeah, in the OP's sig.