Turbo Wax Photo Contest - Join us... it's FREE! Part 2
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Some time back I got a phone call from someone overseas, they wanted to "Test" our products and make an article about them, the person stated "Mr. are you sure ? good or bad we will publish it " I replay Go for ! so we send them our entire line.
Im warning you First............... This is a VERY LONG post,
"Dear Turbo Wax"
To start with, I was apprehensive about using my own vehicle. I was adamant that there were better, more deserving, choices. You know, nice paint jobs, cars worthy of detailing. It was pointed out that an already well-groomed and polished example would definitely benefit from these products. But? What about the less well cared for cars, like mine, and the majority of vehicles on the roads? Issuing more of a challenge, and a real test of the products being used. My car is used everyday as means to get around, abused as a daily driver. As a ‘typical’ vehicle owner, when it comes to cleaning, I’m about one stage above the ‘ol bucket and dishwashing liquid with the dirty kitchen sponge on a hot afternoon in the driveway kinda guy. You know, about ten minutes a month, begrudgingly, at the local ‘insert generic brand here’, drive in and wash place, with as little cash outlay as is humanly possible.
For me any cleaning and the products utilised have to have a systematic approach, easy, and quick to use, with effective results without requiring special applicators, tools, or a degree in astrophysics to ensure that my car ends up looking like one from a TV advert. I have high expectations for little amount of effort; I’m the perfect consumer, and general everyday guy on the street.
Wanting to make this as authentic as possible, to really put these products to the test, I decided to go UN-washed for a couple of weeks. Down here in the Southern half of the World our weather patterns are very random; we go from baking sunshine, to heavy rain, back to hot sunshine in the space of an hour. A couple of weeks with dust and dirt, with the addition of rain then sunshine to bake on the muck, it’s probably equivalent to a couple of months anywhere else around the globe.
Where I reside has many native trees, which in turn harbour birds, many native, and birds, even native ones, make messes from great heights. It’s one of Gods unwritten bird laws; thou shall make messes on vehicles. It’s almost a loosing battle; their indiscretions usually hit the Bulls-eye and end up all over the car. I just shut my eyes and try not to see these as I saunter into my driver’s seat, in blissful naivety. I have found that the cleaner the car the easier it is to remove and with reduced effort as well. My hope was that once cleaned, properly, the removal of such mess would be with the simple wipe of a cloth, not the usual forceful rub and smearing action that I usually employ. Soon it would be revealed; I had paid my tribute to the great Gods of cleaning and sacrificed many good tee shirts, and other items of clothing, as well as rags thus far in my life. It was time to reap the rewards of finally using a decent cleaning agent, and wax.
I was fortunate on my choice of wheel, as it’s not too intricate and full of lace-like lattice and webs of frilly alloy for show. In saying that, my wheels do have that amazing magnetic attraction with brake dust that every car owner deals with when detailing a car properly. Second only to windows for cleanliness, and shiny tyres, a dirty set of wheels really does detract from the overall look of the car. I use a more ‘aggressive’ brake pad, and as such it emits a lot of excess dust that always manages to find its way onto my wheels, and sticks like the proverbial. This is one job that I know is fruitless and relentless in an attempt to keep clean; anything that can take these continuing issues away and keep the cleaning to a minimum is a great thing in my books.
My paint itself has seen better days. Well, it’s black, mostly, and sticks to the surfaces of the car panels, so it does its job, just without any lustre or shine. I’ve never been too fussed about it; it just exists, hanging around the car. I held no faith in it ever looking more than just that. I had cleaned it and on a couple occasions actually waxed it, to little avail. I pretty much reserved myself to thinking that keeping it clean was all it was destined to be the rest of its life. Oh, how wrong could I have been?
Let the games begin.
The half hour challenge; like most people I have limited time to spend on the things that I enjoy doing. Why take up that time with the, let’s face it, chore of cleaning your car? It is only going to get dirty again. I had an absolute limit of 45minutes to complete the exterior cleaning. I wanted to do it without breaking sweat, or causing my heart rate into Lance Armstrong territory. A tall ask, but one that I was confident with, due to the advanced formula of the Turbo Wax solution. Within half an hour, I wanted to see a noticeable improvement and within the three quarters of an hour a total transformation. Using the products, only as recommended, even thought it was pretty straight forward, and required little thought.
Who’d have thought that by spending an hour on your car that it would have such an impact on your own driving style? That’s exactly what happened, once I’d completed this clean. I backed out of my driveway, tentatively, making sure that I looked both ways ensuring that there was no traffic. My usual ritual is based on the opinion that other traffic will stop, and what’s another scratch? This time I drove sedately, taking more care, increased awareness of the surrounding cars, and people, for two reasons. Firstly, less chance of scratching, and secondly, the fact that my car looked fine! And I knew it, so did everyone else, I noticed. Seeing the reactions to my extremely shiny car slipping its way through the streets, and the air, filled me with a sense of pride, and a reason to keep it looking this way. Driving with more care, become less liable to abuse it, and drive in a way that could scratch the paint, or for once, actually care for it.
Once the dust settled, I was in AWE of the results! The fact that I actually did it without too much in the way of mental strain, requiring only elbow grease, made those results even more worthwhile. I’d never really been that enthusiastic about washing cars, c’mon they just go and get dirty again. Why bother? Rejoice! I have been converted. The World is a better place again! When the results are THIS good, with such little effort, why not continue to use simple easy to use technically superior products regularly? I proudly started my car, to park it underneath a bunch of native trees, complete with native birds, sitting at a great height ready to action the next attack mission on my car. Oh, well, it was fun, and I’d go through the exercise again. I’ve decided to keep up appearances, and do my bit to keep the planet sparkly and shiny, one car at a time. I’m doing my bit! Are you?
Now, I know that you’re expecting the results to be outstanding, or incredible, and for me to wax lyrical bestowing the virtues of this product. Yet make it seem like I was genuinely impressed. Well, you’d be, somewhat correct. I am genuinely impressed; enough that I’d suggest anyone, make that everyone, should use this product. I have, quite honestly had my expectations changed, for good. Never again will I darken the doors of the usual places expecting a finish like this, unless they use Turbo Wax products, of course. The photos do not do the resulting cleanliness, sparkle, and shine of my car the justice that it deserves. Since the article, I’ve had many favourable comments; I even had one guy ask if I’d purchased a new car since I had last seen him.
The tyre walls soaked up the Turbo Wax Tire Gel Combo, wheel cleaner and blackener, giving the tyres a deep lustre, but not overly shiny like the silicon based products that are usually used. I was pleasantly surprised as unlike every similar product that I’d used to date, didn’t end up splattered all over the wheel arches and guards making a mess of the nicely cleaned and polished car.
On a couple of spots, I cheated! Yes, I did! There was an opportunity to show the differences that utilising the correct products for the job would herald a worthwhile improvement. As well as show off some of the rest of the range. Used after the initial wash, the treatments were applied to two areas, both HEAVILY scratched; I’d say the result of a too closer brush with a tree, or shrub. Both of these blemishes on the paint had me convinced that only a proper cut and polish would make them disappear. I was proved so wrong, and thankful for it. Costing way less than a cheap and nasty cut and polish at the local panel-beaters the deep cuts in the paint virtually completely vanished. I even noted this with a few pictures, but these pictures just don’t do the justice that the products used should have. You don’t have to trust me completely on this, so long as you try it for yourself; I know that you’ll experience what I did, and wonder why you never did this earlier.
Im warning you First............... This is a VERY LONG post,
"Dear Turbo Wax"
To start with, I was apprehensive about using my own vehicle. I was adamant that there were better, more deserving, choices. You know, nice paint jobs, cars worthy of detailing. It was pointed out that an already well-groomed and polished example would definitely benefit from these products. But? What about the less well cared for cars, like mine, and the majority of vehicles on the roads? Issuing more of a challenge, and a real test of the products being used. My car is used everyday as means to get around, abused as a daily driver. As a ‘typical’ vehicle owner, when it comes to cleaning, I’m about one stage above the ‘ol bucket and dishwashing liquid with the dirty kitchen sponge on a hot afternoon in the driveway kinda guy. You know, about ten minutes a month, begrudgingly, at the local ‘insert generic brand here’, drive in and wash place, with as little cash outlay as is humanly possible.
For me any cleaning and the products utilised have to have a systematic approach, easy, and quick to use, with effective results without requiring special applicators, tools, or a degree in astrophysics to ensure that my car ends up looking like one from a TV advert. I have high expectations for little amount of effort; I’m the perfect consumer, and general everyday guy on the street.
Wanting to make this as authentic as possible, to really put these products to the test, I decided to go UN-washed for a couple of weeks. Down here in the Southern half of the World our weather patterns are very random; we go from baking sunshine, to heavy rain, back to hot sunshine in the space of an hour. A couple of weeks with dust and dirt, with the addition of rain then sunshine to bake on the muck, it’s probably equivalent to a couple of months anywhere else around the globe.
Where I reside has many native trees, which in turn harbour birds, many native, and birds, even native ones, make messes from great heights. It’s one of Gods unwritten bird laws; thou shall make messes on vehicles. It’s almost a loosing battle; their indiscretions usually hit the Bulls-eye and end up all over the car. I just shut my eyes and try not to see these as I saunter into my driver’s seat, in blissful naivety. I have found that the cleaner the car the easier it is to remove and with reduced effort as well. My hope was that once cleaned, properly, the removal of such mess would be with the simple wipe of a cloth, not the usual forceful rub and smearing action that I usually employ. Soon it would be revealed; I had paid my tribute to the great Gods of cleaning and sacrificed many good tee shirts, and other items of clothing, as well as rags thus far in my life. It was time to reap the rewards of finally using a decent cleaning agent, and wax.
I was fortunate on my choice of wheel, as it’s not too intricate and full of lace-like lattice and webs of frilly alloy for show. In saying that, my wheels do have that amazing magnetic attraction with brake dust that every car owner deals with when detailing a car properly. Second only to windows for cleanliness, and shiny tyres, a dirty set of wheels really does detract from the overall look of the car. I use a more ‘aggressive’ brake pad, and as such it emits a lot of excess dust that always manages to find its way onto my wheels, and sticks like the proverbial. This is one job that I know is fruitless and relentless in an attempt to keep clean; anything that can take these continuing issues away and keep the cleaning to a minimum is a great thing in my books.
My paint itself has seen better days. Well, it’s black, mostly, and sticks to the surfaces of the car panels, so it does its job, just without any lustre or shine. I’ve never been too fussed about it; it just exists, hanging around the car. I held no faith in it ever looking more than just that. I had cleaned it and on a couple occasions actually waxed it, to little avail. I pretty much reserved myself to thinking that keeping it clean was all it was destined to be the rest of its life. Oh, how wrong could I have been?
Let the games begin.
The half hour challenge; like most people I have limited time to spend on the things that I enjoy doing. Why take up that time with the, let’s face it, chore of cleaning your car? It is only going to get dirty again. I had an absolute limit of 45minutes to complete the exterior cleaning. I wanted to do it without breaking sweat, or causing my heart rate into Lance Armstrong territory. A tall ask, but one that I was confident with, due to the advanced formula of the Turbo Wax solution. Within half an hour, I wanted to see a noticeable improvement and within the three quarters of an hour a total transformation. Using the products, only as recommended, even thought it was pretty straight forward, and required little thought.
Who’d have thought that by spending an hour on your car that it would have such an impact on your own driving style? That’s exactly what happened, once I’d completed this clean. I backed out of my driveway, tentatively, making sure that I looked both ways ensuring that there was no traffic. My usual ritual is based on the opinion that other traffic will stop, and what’s another scratch? This time I drove sedately, taking more care, increased awareness of the surrounding cars, and people, for two reasons. Firstly, less chance of scratching, and secondly, the fact that my car looked fine! And I knew it, so did everyone else, I noticed. Seeing the reactions to my extremely shiny car slipping its way through the streets, and the air, filled me with a sense of pride, and a reason to keep it looking this way. Driving with more care, become less liable to abuse it, and drive in a way that could scratch the paint, or for once, actually care for it.
Once the dust settled, I was in AWE of the results! The fact that I actually did it without too much in the way of mental strain, requiring only elbow grease, made those results even more worthwhile. I’d never really been that enthusiastic about washing cars, c’mon they just go and get dirty again. Why bother? Rejoice! I have been converted. The World is a better place again! When the results are THIS good, with such little effort, why not continue to use simple easy to use technically superior products regularly? I proudly started my car, to park it underneath a bunch of native trees, complete with native birds, sitting at a great height ready to action the next attack mission on my car. Oh, well, it was fun, and I’d go through the exercise again. I’ve decided to keep up appearances, and do my bit to keep the planet sparkly and shiny, one car at a time. I’m doing my bit! Are you?
Now, I know that you’re expecting the results to be outstanding, or incredible, and for me to wax lyrical bestowing the virtues of this product. Yet make it seem like I was genuinely impressed. Well, you’d be, somewhat correct. I am genuinely impressed; enough that I’d suggest anyone, make that everyone, should use this product. I have, quite honestly had my expectations changed, for good. Never again will I darken the doors of the usual places expecting a finish like this, unless they use Turbo Wax products, of course. The photos do not do the resulting cleanliness, sparkle, and shine of my car the justice that it deserves. Since the article, I’ve had many favourable comments; I even had one guy ask if I’d purchased a new car since I had last seen him.
The tyre walls soaked up the Turbo Wax Tire Gel Combo, wheel cleaner and blackener, giving the tyres a deep lustre, but not overly shiny like the silicon based products that are usually used. I was pleasantly surprised as unlike every similar product that I’d used to date, didn’t end up splattered all over the wheel arches and guards making a mess of the nicely cleaned and polished car.
On a couple of spots, I cheated! Yes, I did! There was an opportunity to show the differences that utilising the correct products for the job would herald a worthwhile improvement. As well as show off some of the rest of the range. Used after the initial wash, the treatments were applied to two areas, both HEAVILY scratched; I’d say the result of a too closer brush with a tree, or shrub. Both of these blemishes on the paint had me convinced that only a proper cut and polish would make them disappear. I was proved so wrong, and thankful for it. Costing way less than a cheap and nasty cut and polish at the local panel-beaters the deep cuts in the paint virtually completely vanished. I even noted this with a few pictures, but these pictures just don’t do the justice that the products used should have. You don’t have to trust me completely on this, so long as you try it for yourself; I know that you’ll experience what I did, and wonder why you never did this earlier.
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well it finally stopped raining and got warmer for a day, so I cleaned the box up. I used the wheel cleaner and tire gel, and the car shampoo. here are the results. I like the products alot, did their job very well, the only thing I noticed is after going into town after I got done, is the spin off of the tire gel. So if you put on more then one coat to get a high shine make sure you wipe off extra.
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thanks for the review, that's why we send that quick guide tips 
if you put the gel in the grooves or apply too much just like all other products will sling, I think that was your case, next time put a very THIN coat if you want more shine wait 15 minutes then apply another THIN coat , then you be good to go !
thanks again for taking the time to post the review !
if you put the gel in the grooves or apply too much just like all other products will sling, I think that was your case, next time put a very THIN coat if you want more shine wait 15 minutes then apply another THIN coat , then you be good to go !thanks again for taking the time to post the review !
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Originally Posted by TurboWax
thanks for the review, that's why we send that quick guide tips if you put the gel in the grooves or apply too much just like all other products will sling, I think that was your case, next time put a very THIN coat if you want more shine wait 15 minutes then apply another THIN coat , then you be good to go !
thanks again for taking the time to post the review !
if you put the gel in the grooves or apply too much just like all other products will sling, I think that was your case, next time put a very THIN coat if you want more shine wait 15 minutes then apply another THIN coat , then you be good to go !thanks again for taking the time to post the review !
they are learning that turbo wax products are in another league
btw gotbox looking good
good work SE brother
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Originally Posted by TurboWax
thanks for the review, that's why we send that quick guide tips if you put the gel in the grooves or apply too much just like all other products will sling, I think that was your case, next time put a very THIN coat if you want more shine wait 15 minutes then apply another THIN coat , then you be good to go !
thanks again for taking the time to post the review !
if you put the gel in the grooves or apply too much just like all other products will sling, I think that was your case, next time put a very THIN coat if you want more shine wait 15 minutes then apply another THIN coat , then you be good to go !thanks again for taking the time to post the review !
I will do the wait next time and try that, Thanx.
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Originally Posted by prboyxb
Originally Posted by TurboWax
thanks for the review, that's why we send that quick guide tips if you put the gel in the grooves or apply too much just like all other products will sling, I think that was your case, next time put a very THIN coat if you want more shine wait 15 minutes then apply another THIN coat , then you be good to go !
thanks again for taking the time to post the review !
if you put the gel in the grooves or apply too much just like all other products will sling, I think that was your case, next time put a very THIN coat if you want more shine wait 15 minutes then apply another THIN coat , then you be good to go !thanks again for taking the time to post the review !
they are learning that turbo wax products are in another league
btw gotbox looking good
good work SE brother
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there you go!
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Any more reviews ? I have to justify the next contest if we don't get any feedback it is going to be hard to bring it back, I do understand the weather is not good but please keep this in mind
if we don't get any feedback it is going to be hard to bring it back, I do understand the weather is not good but please keep this in mind
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Girl Power !!!!!!!
Got an email from a "customer " a Girl, I know she purchased our entire line of products, Holly Batman !! another happy customer...........My Guess,The car is a Nissan, Pulsar JN15 (Sentra B14 to you guys).
It was all done by HAND! No machines, the girl believes that the result is better by hand.
Got an email from a "customer " a Girl, I know she purchased our entire line of products, Holly Batman !! another happy customer...........My Guess,The car is a Nissan, Pulsar JN15 (Sentra B14 to you guys).
It was all done by HAND! No machines, the girl believes that the result is better by hand.
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my next victim I call it proyect "2005ax"
it was done by hand with clay bar pre wax and paint protector
I found it used in a car lot with rebate because of the condition of the paint
the sales man told me that it had been on the lot for almost tre months
i got a bargain so
wash it with car shampoo and clay bar
then went with the pre wax
paint protector
tire gel one coat
the little ax done!!!!
everything posible with a help from my son
and my little four amigos
i was palning to sell it but it came out so great that is a keeper!!!!!
another one to the family
it was done by hand with clay bar pre wax and paint protector
I found it used in a car lot with rebate because of the condition of the paint
the sales man told me that it had been on the lot for almost tre months
i got a bargain so
wash it with car shampoo and clay bar
then went with the pre wax
paint protector
tire gel one coat
the little ax done!!!!
everything posible with a help from my son
and my little four amigos
i was palning to sell it but it came out so great that is a keeper!!!!!
another one to the family