Went to an open day yesterday with a friend of mine to a place called ikustoms who also had a wax company come along to show off their products. Seen alot from these two companies on instagram and was keen to see the stuff in action. Theyre quite big on the VAG scene and they have a stand today on at DC12 which a friends car was on it, which i didnt know about till a couple of days ago! Small world eh!

Anyway, this guy called Michael was showing us the way they have designed their products to basically to have as little contact as possible.

The conventional way i would wash a car is to snowfoam it, rinse off then with a bucket of shampoo, wash the car. He pointed out with his stuff is that you snowfoam first, rinse off and then using the same principle as you would with snowfoam, is to spray on the shampoo and using a mitt with only water on it, is to then wash it off. Never struck me before but thats quite a good way of doing it.

One point he made is how much products can change their ability when re-acting with other chemicals. So when he said about mixing up shampoo, which is a ph neutral product, to anyways use de-ionised water, as it doesnt contain any chlorine or fluorine, which in turn can turn it into a more alkiline product.

At this point it's going to sound a bit extreme. But ( and i wish i had taken more photos at this point ) was telling us this the cars that were being washed at the time were spotless, really was blown away by how good they were.

One thing that struck me aswell is that the range is very shot and simple. I've done all the reseach over time finding the best ways to detail a car, that this took the time scale down by a country mile. It goes like this

Snowfoam>wash>wax>detailing spray. Thats it!
Couldn't believe it was this short, and upon asking him why he doesnt polish or anything, he said because it doesnt need it.

So his test vehicle, which was a 2 yr old mk6 golf, he said he's never done any correction on it or polished it or whatever, Only waxed.

So he freely let us have a go with this wax he had, to try out on his car. The stuff you can use on anything, paint and trim! As he was using it he was using an applicator and doing it by hand aswell. Also to note, when i wax im normally re-appling wax about 5 times onto a pad from the pot to do one side of a car. This stuff you only have to have one application of wax onto the applicator to cover one side. Unreal stuff!

At the time when he was saying, there was this mint g60 rallye that had only been waxed. The bloke had actually at one point left the wax on for 3 days and when he came back to it it was still malleable like it had just left the pot, no drying out no nothing! He did actually have a specfic wax made for his colour code which was pretty handy!

So yeah some photos. The van has had the same work done, and it was on air ride!


g60 rallye by Jack_Pearson, on Flickr


g60 rallye by Jack_Pearson, on Flickr


Untitled by Jack_Pearson, on Flickr


Untitled by Jack_Pearson, on Flickr

Two things i bought ( being a clever ttwat i had small change with me ) all of their stuff was £6 each which i thought was good. The wax is a little bit more at £40 but he said if you used the amount he used, once a month the wax would last 10 years

Untitled by Jack_Pearson, on Flickr

Thats all, sorry for the mouthfall! Just thought i'd open up some eyes to different ways of doing things! Going to try these two out this week and see whats what

Thanks for Reading.