IBIZ - Ever heard of it?

nycpassat, do a search for IBIZ. Evidently its kind of a joke around here. I had some so I wanted to see what people thought about it. After doing a search I found several references to it, with not anything particularly favorable. It is a cleaner/wax and most prefer to keep the two seperate it seems. I am new to all this so this is just what i gleaned from reading, don't take it as gospel.
 
Used to hang with a car club a while back that swore by the stuff. One of their guys was suppossed to be a distributor and claimed he was one of the only sources for the stuff. When I suggested doing their cars with my stuff (all 3m at the time), they laughed at me, and told me ibiz was the best ever.



I got some to try out on my car (then a, 91 civic that was well maintained by me), and I was totally unimpressed with it. True, it did clean things a up a little, but it did nothing to enhance shine or gloss. in fact, I hit the the hood with my Fill N Glaze on one side, and then some Mother's liquid carnuba on the other side, and left the ibiz in the middle of the hood. The sides with the glaze and carnuba looked a lot better. When I showed my results to the guys, they just dismissed it, claiming that since i work in a body shop, that I probably screwed around to make the ibiz look bad.



Just to show them in person, i prep-soled the whole hood, and did the process all over for them with a twist- this time I combined the glaze and then topped it with the carnuba. This made four differnt sections that had product on the hood. The section with ibiz looked ok, the section with just the glaze looked good, the section with carnuba looked better, and the section with glaze/ carnuba looked best. Even after they saw this, they basically dismissed what I had to show them.



Shortly after, I was dismissed from the club. I have no doubt that the president (who also happed to be the guy pushing this stuff) was responsible for me getting the boot. I'm still cool with most of the guys, but after getting kicked out, i pretty much stayed out.



Personally, I would sooner use my gold class liquid wax than use that stuff. At least the gold class will give a decent shine.
 
I tried the IBIZ wax a few months ago and was not impressed at all. the shine was average. Directions tell you to remove the wax right away before drying. But if its warm and you dont get it off while wet there is alot of residue left behind and compared to todays waxes and polishes thats just not acceptable. I have waxes that are 10 years old now and dont leave that much residue. needless to say I only had to try it once and the IBIZ has made it to the used wax bin where the rest of the best ever waxes have ended up. I prefer the Clearkote Vanilla Moose wax these days if you want to use a carnuba. also P21S carnuba is also a great wax. I like all of P21S product line. they just make good quality products that really work well.



Later, 04MysticCobra.
 
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