AutoMagic Products

[imported_Bence]

I source my elastic clays from Optimum... No restrictions in Europe.



And yes, the majority of US clays are plastic, and made by either Shinyo Chemical Co., aka Joybond, or Source Chemical Co. (both Japanese). AWC's only "achievement" was/is to limit the healthy competition and block the US customers from using high quality elastic clays.



True, any clay manufacturing company can produce clays to an exactly set specs. I'm using Source clays too, and under the Riwax brand name they are light grey, not exactly plastic, not elastic, but somewhere in between. You can stretch them a bit then they tear. And yes, the old grey OptiClay was the best, but Bilt Hamber's soft clay is also wonderful (dunno the manufacturer).



Hey David, are these AM products the only worthy ones? Here in Hungary the original importer abandoned AM and switched to Meguiar's...

 

[autoaesthetica]

Magnificent

EZ Suds is a cheap nice soap, wash and wax is nice as well

Hydroshine

Enzyme

A bunch of their stuff is really nice certainly better than our area's house brand garbage... comparable to top stuff. Though some local mark ups are getting ridiculous.

 

[Dan]

I source my elastic clays from Optimum... No restrictions in Europe.



And yes, the majority of US clays are plastic, and made by either Shinyo Chemical Co., aka Joybond, or Source Chemical Co. (both Japanese). AWC's only "achievement" was/is to limit the healthy competition and block the US customers from using high quality elastic clays.

Compared to software patents, I think the clay patent was so benign. It was a real invention that someone put R&D into. Good for them. Its not like it was a patent on "on-click."

 

[David Fermani]

Hey David, are these AM products the only worthy ones? Here in Hungary the original importer abandoned AM and switched to Meguiar's...

I'd say so. Those mentioned are my all time favorites. Plus Special Cleaner(713). Not that I'm that huge of a fan of Meg's entire line, their polishes are decades beyond AM's. They haven't had any new polishes/compounds in ages. Their Risk Free line is a step in the wrong direction.

 

[Junebug]

Hey Dave, the only AM distributor in my area quit selling AM. He sold all he had a deep discounts but looking at some of the products, you could tell by the faded labels that they had sat for years. It reminded me of the Duragloss stuff in some auto parts stores! So the Risk Free was a bust? I had thought about trying it since it was Cyclo centric. But, looks like I avoided another disappointment.

 

[imported_Bence]

Thanks David.

 

[bryan]

Magnificent

EZ Suds is a cheap nice soap, wash and wax is nice as well

Hydroshine

Enzyme

A bunch of their stuff is really nice certainly better than our area's house brand garbage... comparable to top stuff. Though some local mark ups are getting ridiculous.

i used to use a lot of AM stuff years ago, but then their pricing went way up and I have gone to comparable products from other supplies.

I have used:

EZ suds

Wash and Wax

Banana magic

MAgnificent (still use it regularly)

Spoke

Body Shine

Magic Mist

HD carpet cleaner

Carpet and interior cleaner

Spot shot aerosol(still use it)

foaming carpet cleaner

enzyme

BC1 BC2, polish and swirl remover (not great stuff)

tire shines and the blueberry water based stuff

hot shot, 777



All were decent products that worked, except the polish and swirl remover. The price point just became not competitive in my are

 

[autoaesthetica]

i used to use a lot of AM stuff years ago, but then their pricing went way up and I have gone to comparable products from other supplies.

I have used:

EZ suds

Wash and Wax

Banana magic

MAgnificent (still use it regularly)

Spoke

Body Shine

Magic Mist

HD carpet cleaner

Carpet and interior cleaner

Spot shot aerosol(still use it)

foaming carpet cleaner

enzyme

BC1 BC2, polish and swirl remover (not great stuff)

tire shines and the blueberry water based stuff

hot shot, 777



All were decent products that worked, except the polish and swirl remover. The price point just became not competitive in my are

Yup we saw the same thing as a reseller as well as a user. The pricing on some stuff doubled - and they want us to hold a small piece of their market here, but there is just nothing we can do with their pricing..



To be brutally honest here, The cost of cheaper raw materials, hydroxides and alkali cleaners really hasn't gone up but some of the APC/degreaser and wheel cleaners have shown that price increase..makes me wonder their strategy on this because the local reps lost us on that HUGE increase.



Really nice cleaners though... shame.

 

[autoaesthetica]

And yes, BC2 is actually decent for what it is..sorta like a SRP... but the rest of the polishes need serious improvement.