BoatBanter.com - FWIW Car wax

On Wed, 04 Apr 2012 20:13:40 -0400, Earl wrote:

Happy John wrote:
Consumer Reports recently tested various car waxes. The winner, at 69 points, was:

Meguiar's NXT Generation Tech Wax 2.0 G12718 for $18+ http://tinyurl.com/6s5ltyx

The runner up, and CR Best Buy, was:

Nu Finish NF-76 http://tinyurl.com/7jl4rue

I've been using the stuff in the orange bottle on boats, cars, trucks, and campers for a long time.
Works well, and the price is definitely right!
Did they test Collinite?

http://www.collinite.com/marine-wax/

Nope. Here's what they tested. Kinda hard to read. Start with the name, next comes price, next line
is the score, last is the cost/oz, finally the oz/bottle. The little circles didn't come out.

Meguiar's NXT Generation Tech Wax 2.0 G12718 see here $18.00
69
1.03 18
CU Best Buy Nu Finish NF-76 see here $8.00

68
0.50 16
CU Recommended Meguiar's Gold Class Carnauba Plus G7016 see here $13.00

68
0.81 16
CU Recommended 3M One Step Cleaner Wax 39006 see here $10.00

67
0.63 16
CU Best Buy Meguiar's Cleaner Wax A1216 see here $7.00

65
0.44 16
CU Best Buy Mothers California Gold Carnauba Cleaner Wax 05701 see here $8.00

64
0.50 16
CU Recommended Autoglym Super Resin Polish see here $15.00

63
1.36 11
CU Best Buy Mothers FX Synwax 20016 see here $11.00

55
0.69 16
CU Best Buy Zymol Z-503 see here $15.00
55
0.94 16
CU Best Buy Turtle Wax Carnauba Cleaner Wax T-6 see here $7.00

51
0.44 16
CU Best Buy Eagle One Gel Wax with Carnauba 705110 see here $10.00

48
0.63 16
CU Best Buy Turtle Wax Ice T-468 see here $17.00

40
1.06 16

Paste Wax overall score

CU Best Buy Nu Finish NFP-80 see here $8.00

71
0.57 14
CU Recommended Turtle Wax Ice T-465 see here $17.00

68
2.13 8
CU Best Buy Mothers FX Synwax 20011 see here $14.00

56
0.81 18
CU Best Buy Meguiar's NXT Generation Tech Wax 2.0 G12711 see here $17.00

55
1.55 11
CU Best Buy Mothers California Gold Carnauba Cleaner Wax 05500 see here $12.00

54
1.00 12
CU Best Buy Meguiar's Gold Class Carnauba Plus G7014J see here $13.00

47
1.18 11
CU Best Buy Turtle Wax Carnauba Cleaner Wax T-5 see here $7.00

35
0.50 14