Beats-um All

[rusty bumper]

Has anyone ever heard of this product?

beatsumall.com

[Teak]

I have been to their website before, only because it turned up in google search results. I made a list of one time of companies which sold or manufacture detailing chemicals and list had nearly 400 companies. So there is a lot of small companies out there.


Eric

[gb387]

Never seen them, not sure I would give them a try. Are there companies out there that make "generic" car care products then package them the way a small business might want? Ex. So of those 400 companies the majority of them are the same product just different package?!? Anyone know?

[Teak]

Originally posted by gb387
Never seen them, not sure I would give them a try. Are there companies out there that make "generic" car care products then package them the way a small business might want? Ex. So of those 400 companies the majority of them are the same product just different package?!? Anyone know?

IMHO, the four hundred plus companies breakdown like this, some are major companies which people have heard of, regional companies, some are small bathtub brewers, and many are private label companies.

Eric

[Mosca]

Sounds to me like that company from California, what was it? Stuf.

Stuf is a good product, just nothing exceptional. There's no reason to choose it over anything else. I'd be willing to say that this is possibly very much the same.


Tom

[the other pc]

Never heard of the stuff. Could be great I guess.

I do have to say I love their sales spiel.

"...a group of newly retired, hard core Hot Rod enthusiasts, after showing cars and being around car shows most of their lives, knew the wax products available were inadequate..."

Boy, I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard how some random guy started business because "everything available everywhere" didn't work. (Then maybe I could buy some Zymol Vintage Glaze.)


"...After tremendous research, they learned that the key ingredient would need to be the finest Carnauba..."

Tremendous research? It takes tremendous research to come up with that? That Carnauba is good wax?


"...They learned how, (with the help of real chemists), to develop a formula without silicones, ******'s, polymers or abrasives..."

And I suppose these "real chemists" had this Nobel Prize worthy bit of scientific insight all to themselves? I guess they were just sitting on it until "Doug" came along. It certainly never would have occurred to them that the existing multi-billion dollar finish care industry might have a use for it and be willing to pay for it.


"...Naming this breakthrough miracle wax that would give a crystal clear shine and remove most scratches, scrapes and stains, was the next step..."

I love that, "breakthrough miracle wax". Stop the presses! There's a breakthrough discovery in wax that nobody's ever heard of before! It's called "Carnauba"!

And how do they propose to remove "most scratches" without abrasives? They must have some secret laws of physics too.


"...New products to go along with the wax, were now in demand. Formulas with the key ingredient, Carnauba were developed and produced here in the USA..."

There's that amazing "new" ingredient, Carnauba, again. Who could have ever imagined that those pretty palm trees had such a use?


PC.

[rusty bumper]

I talk on a computer forum occasionally and I asked the members if anyone did any car detailing, and how I liked Meguiar's products, etc.....

windowsbbs.com/showthread.php?p=262127#post262127

One member was commenting about how they liked "Beats-um All" and how it would remove paint overspray. They offered to send me a sample to try for myself. I might take them up on their offer and see if it truly does what they claim.

Not knocking their product, but it would take a stick of dynamite (so to speak) to get me to leave Meguiars.

[DETAILS2]

Tried the product in the mid 90's pick it up from a shop that cleaned every car that was serviced. I was working on a Coke machine and saw the guy buffing with it so I started to converse with him about detailing products, we covered everything from consumer to body shop lines and we both have tried them all but being a Cali-Dude and grew up on Meg's I stuck to my guns then he said take this bottle because as the name states beats um all.
Next time you're in the area stop by and tell me what you think!!!
The product is a great one-step product used it on service vans single stage paint and it came out white as pearl nice shine held up pretty well. By the time I went back to that part of the state I dropped by the old guy was gone. The product is made in the Oakridge, Tenn. area but never could source a contact because the printing on the bottle is smeared. Bottom line good stuff for a pro with high speed skills would use in the trade realm if could source but my personal choice will always be Mequiar's

[rusty bumper]

Originally posted by DETAILS2
Tried the product in the mid 90's pick it up from a shop that cleaned every car that was serviced.

Does it remove paint overspray without a buffer?

[photoryan]

Re: Beats-um All

"...They learned how, (with the help of real chemists), to develop a formula without silicones, ******'s, polymers or abrasives..."

And I suppose these "real chemists" had this Nobel Prize worthy bit of scientific insight all to themselves? I guess they were just sitting on it until "Doug" came along. It certainly never would have occurred to them that the existing multi-billion dollar finish care industry might have a use for it and be willing to pay for it.

PC- At least they used "real chemists" instead of the budget "high school chemists" that I see advertised all over the place now-a-days.

Oh, I kid. I really can't say anything positive or negative about the product itself. But I can say that the website of a company can make a huge difference to the professionalism of a company. Their website looked like a generic cookie-cutter HTML website that they paid someone $50 to make. I can speak out of experience on this because I noticed a huge response from clientele and colleagues once I changed my photography website over to a professionally made site.

[rusty bumper]

Re: Beats-um All

A blast from the past.

I forgot about this thread.

[photoryan]

Re: Beats-um All

A blast from the past.

I forgot about this thread.

Ok. That's weird. I didn't even see the date. I have no idea how I found this, then. Kind of sad, especially after 5 years that the website still is (what I assume) the same.