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Old Dec 29, 2008 | 10:56 AM
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whats the difference

ok guys other then personal preference, is there a difference in the turbo wax brand wax and the meguairs nxt brand wax? i know theres a slight price difference but as far as durabilty and shine is there one. thanks
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 12:04 AM
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 12:08 AM
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turbo wax is very very good...

i have never used the nxt stuff but i think turbo wax is so good...

i use it on MINI's and VW's and BMW's...
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 12:10 AM
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i mean the reason i ask is because the individual products around hte same price but if one out performed the other id buy it, im just not wanting to have the turbo wax shipped to me and have to wait for it
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 10:23 AM
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Thank you for your interest in our product line, I wish some of the other users could comment, however, I can tell you that you wont be dissapointed, currently we have Free shipping

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/turbowax-97/free-shipping-christmas-144794/

I don't know if this helps any, I found this on the internet long ago, look at the date and even our bottles had the first type of labels

http://www.markostar.com/DayPics/071805/

Here you can find some additional information

http://turbowax.heavenforum.com/your-first-forum-f1/
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 11:21 AM
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man this is silly question but you wouldnt have like a very small bottle sample that u send out just to do a car one time would ya? it could start to sway peoples views. i mean i want to but the 120 kit if more people say its the good stuff
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 11:31 AM
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i have never used turbo wax, but i have heard good things. I use Meguiars clay bar and wax and some other stuff Meguiars makes and i love it, so i would have to recommend Meguiars, and its not too expensive either.
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 11:32 AM
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Originally Posted by bikeboyben14
man this is silly question but you wouldnt have like a very small bottle sample that u send out just to do a car one time would ya? it could start to sway peoples views. i mean i want to but the 120 kit if more people say its the good stuff
how about this...

ill go outside and use the turbowax stuff on my swirled to hell truck and give you before/after and side by sides....
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 11:45 AM
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i guess that works, im just wanting to some to more info on it before i drop the cash, right now im using turtle wax ice and im not that impressed iwth it, but i have some people that use some meguairs and there cars look good
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 12:07 PM
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yea....turtle wax = bad

meguires is good and my dad swears by it...

turbo wax is good and i love it...

in the end they will be comparable, and one may look better but the other may last longer...
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 12:23 PM
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i think im just gonna go and get the turbo wax, i mean if it doesnt look good for whatever reason at least i know i tried to make it work and then i can i just compare to my friends with their meguiers
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 04:44 PM
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Originally Posted by bikeboyben14
i think im just gonna go and get the turbo wax, i mean if it doesnt look good for whatever reason at least i know i tried to make it work and then i can i just compare to my friends with their meguiers
hey man ill tell you what...

if you buy them and are not happy with them i will buy them from you for the price of the meguires stuff...
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 04:56 PM
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Easy tiger...........

What about this, if you are not 100% happy with them, I will refund your purchase 100 %
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 05:34 PM
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wow heck i think thats good enough of incentive to buy it. i mean if your gonna stand up behind your products like that then its gonna be good enough for me, now to choose the products i need

now laser do you work for turbo wax or do you believe in their products that much
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Old Dec 30, 2008 | 09:26 PM
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From a magazine editor just in case

Dear Turbo Wax"

To start with, I was apprehensive about using my own vehicle with your products. 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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Old Dec 31, 2008 | 09:18 AM
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Yes there are products are great. I am waiting for the scratch remover to come out so I can try it. All of their stuff is top notch. I need to try their quick wax spray for in between waxes.
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Old Dec 31, 2008 | 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by bikeboyben14

now laser do you work for turbo wax or do you believe in their products that much
i truthfully have no affiliation with them at an employment level...

i am just someone who was a naysayer of a brand i "hadnt heard of" and they offered me an incentive similiar to yours and i have been sold on them ever since....

i really would stand behind their products all day/everyday...

and juan i wouldnt mind buying them from him as my stock is starting to get a lil low...
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Old Dec 31, 2008 | 10:52 PM
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Its never easy to deal with the "nay Sayers", it is a difficult task, one by one we had people crossing to our side, what we do is beyond the "sale" of the product, I know for fact we have taught about 25 people from the forum how to used a buffer step by step, product by product, email by email, one at the time.There's no magic product here, It is a great product but I challenge anyone to come even close to our customer service, we are in a league of our own.

Take this as another example, read real good, why a Magazine Editor could even endorse this product, they approached us like many people do, they try our products and here's the end result.


Happy 2009 ! (click on image for larger view)



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Old Jan 1, 2009 | 11:40 PM
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[B][COLOR="Blue"]Its never easy to deal with the "nay Sayers", it is a difficult task, one by one we had people crossing to our side, what we do is beyond the "sale" of the product, I know for fact we have taught about 25 people from the forum how to used a buffer step by step, product by product, email by email, one at the time.There's no magic product here, It is a great product but I challenge anyone to come even close to our customer service, we are in a league of our own.

This is ultimate truth...
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Old Jan 1, 2009 | 11:49 PM
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lets put it this way

i used to get my car professionally detailed once every 3-4 months...

then i get on here and contact Turbo wax and order **** from them

My first time detailing a car EVER came out cleaner, nicer, and more shiny with turbo wax products

and plus i got all the **** i needed to do a full detail for under 100 bucks...good stuff at a good price...\

TURBO WAX FTW!!!
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