Morris Minor Owners Club

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I've always found Mer needed too much elbow grease, whereas Autoglym is much less work

I have to disagree as Mer can be applied to a wet car so that saves leathering off time and you can apply it in the sun which you cant do with other polishes and being a lazy sort of car cleaner as well it suits me.

57traveller wrote: An example of a Blitz waxed car.

GOOD GRIEF that is a very very persuasive argument you have there

I use turtle wax during the year after a wash just to keep the paint protected, but my dad uses autoglym on his jags and swears by it. I have found pre-rallies a product called Nu Finish is wonderful- really brings up old paint. Don't know if you can get it in UK though.
I love the sound of this Mer stuff- is it available in Australia? If not what is it made of and I'll see if we have anything similar. My paint is very dull at present, so I'll try anything!
Cheers.

So Guys and Gals - What do you recommend on the wood? Obviously some kind of work over a long term involving varnish - but for a regular wash???

Nikki

I use Autoglym - the Super Resin Polish one. It gives a good shine, although I'd wondered about topping it up with the super shiny over-the-top coat as well.

hi there i use maxwax its good on crome glass and the paint work .when i can get cheap er i will use that as i have always done this one work very nice on any metal including the kichen sink (i kid you not )

I think Mer is a bit like a mix of T-cut & polish. It is quite good but very hard work. And I never got the 'mix with the washing water' thing to work!

If the paint work is dull there is no substitue for T-cut or mild cutting compund (can't remember the name and it's out in the cold garage but it's in a yellow bottle!) and lots and lots of elbow grease. A tip - don't bother to polish it off - wash it off. But you must dry and apply a good polish within the hour!

The best polish I have used is Autoglym - easy to apply, easy to polish off and excellent results - with all qualities of paintwork. But it is expensive!
Thats just me - I hate cleaning cars (much rather be fiddling with the oily bits!) so I pay more for a easier to use polish!

mer is the bet i have used in along time good shine and long lasting and is good for chrome

Skeggysteve wrote:I think Mer is a bit like a mix of T-cut & polish. It is quite good but very hard work.

I would be supprised if Mer has t-cut - cutting compound - type qualities. It certainly doesn't say that it cuts back and I would have thought that a good few years of hard polishing would remove all the paintwork if it did Mer say that the polish sets as a protecting resin on top of the paintwork.

I certainly dont think its hard work though. It's just like all the other polishes ive used including Autoglym.

Skeggysteve wrote:And I never got the 'mix with the washing water' thing to work

I don't get that either!

mer is definately abrasive, we started using it on the veteran car and when the rags we were using turned red we stopped

Multiphonikks wrote:So Guys and Gals - What do you recommend on the wood? Obviously some kind of work over a long term involving varnish - but for a regular wash???

Nikki

I just wash it (rarely) and don't touch it when I polish the paintwork (even more rarely), then rub down the flakey bits and re-varnish every summer (OK, almost every summer). There was a thread some while back about wood treatments and an article about it in Minor Matters a year or so ago. I think the conclusion was to stick with what it's currently got on it unless you want to sand it all off and start agin with a microporous varnish.

Oh, and make sure all the drain holes are clear and haven't got insects nesting in them etc.

I have used Mer in the past, however I use a combination on my supra, and I would try this...

For the paint work...
33% Colour Magic (To suit the base colour)
33% Meguairs Gold Glass
33% Autoglym super resin...


For the glass...
autoglym glass polish and then a layer of rain-x

For the rubber trim
autoglym bumper care

for the leather..
meguairs gold leather polish

for the wood...
Pass... my car doesn't have any wood...

for the chrome
autoglym metal polish or autosol if it needs a proper rub down

Goes on easy, and gives a hell of a shine....

Kicks the butt off mer in my opinion.....

This is what I use on my non morris car, so your mileage my vary..

Gav

Matt wrote:mer is definately abrasive, we started using it on the veteran car and when the rags we were using turned red we stopped

Matt, what Mer were you using? Mer seems to be a pretty standard polish for classic cars and I would have thought that they wouldn't sell too much if it wiped off the paint like that! I use it with a white cloth and give it a good rub (no funny stuff) and there is absolutely no trace of paint on the cloth.

A lot depends on the paint on the car, if it has been re-sprayed in a two pack with clear coat you wont get any colour rubbing off, not until you have gone through the clear coat that is!

The veteran is definately not 2 pack, it is probably cellulose. The mer was in a blue bottle with a gold top...

Matt wrote:The veteran is definately not 2 pack, it is probably cellulose. The mer was in a blue bottle with a gold top...

yeah, I guess that's the difference, mine is 2 pack. And that's the polish I use so I suppose it must have some abrasive qualities then.

Just thought I'd add my bit. I used to T'cut my vehicles every 3 months, Just to get rid of tar spots, and keep back any rust. Then I would wax the car with simonize(used to be turtle wax) this is not a cream or paste, it's carnuba wax sort off greeny in colour, quite solid and can be used on wood as well. It would take a while to apply WAX ON WAX OFF! danielson! But would give a real deep shine(admired by neighbours) and would shrug off general grime, and when washed would just need a shammy off and would sparkle. stop

James

I use Autoglym and I've got a huuuuuge bottle of the stuff, but it doesn't seem to give the depth of shine I'd like. I've wondered about buying a bottle of their Extra Gloss Protection stuff, anyone used it?