Whats the difference?

[buddy89]

What the difference between white wax, black wax, colourX, m66 etc. They are all Cleaner waxes/AIO, so what the real difference? Does m66 have an more aggresive cut being that its in the professional line?

Cheers

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Whats the difference?

Great question, and the answer may surprise you!

Any cleaner wax basically puts three processes into a single bottle: clean, polish, protect. ColorX is essentially the consumer version of M66, both of which are sort of like a typical cleaner wax on steroids. Used regularly they do wonders for keeping swirl development in check, and provide a nice shine while being very easy to apply and remove. Black Wax and White Wax take the three-in-one approach and mix it up a bit. While either one can be used on any color car (there are no pigments, colorants or dyes in either one), Black Wax was formulated for darker colors and White Wax for lighter colors. Which means what, exactly? Well, darker colored cars (black, red, dark blues and greens, etc) tend to benefit more from a polish that can darken and enrich the color. Because of that, Black Wax offers light cleaning ability but a pretty serious load of polishing oils to do what dark colors benefit so much from. Lighter colors can suffer the ill effects of embedded dirt in the pores of the paint, which tends to dull down the color and make it look a bit lifeless. We see this a lot with older white paint that starts to yellow with age due to these impurities embedding into the paint. A deep cleaning is what really helps these lighter colors (whites, silvers, golds, yellow, etc) and brings back the brilliance of the shine. So White Wax makes use of a pretty serious cleaning component (it actually uses the same abrasives found in M101!!) while offering just a small amount of polishing oils. Both Black Wax and White Wax offer slightly better protection than either ColorX or M66.

This graphic tells the story quite well. M66 and ColorX would basically be like Cleaner Wax here, except with each of the three components being just slightly larger in comparison to Cleaner Wax, but less than either WW or BW.

[davey g-force]

Re: Whats the difference?

Does m66 have an more aggresive cut being that its in the professional line?

D151 is slightly more agressive than M66. I think WW might be too..

[buddy89]

Re: Whats the difference?

Wow, thanks for the wealth of information in that reply mr stoops! Thats awesome.

So using the same abbrasives as m101, ita not going to have the same cut though correct?

[The Guz]

Re: Whats the difference?

So using the same abbrasives as m101, ita not going to have the same cut though correct?

No it will not. But it will still give you good correction.