Please help! Meguiar's Gold Class Rich Leather cleaner-conditioner ruined brand new seats !

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I'm going to go slit my wrists now.

Can someone please count the number of times he's said that in this thread? It would have to be about 10. Seriously....

I suppose if you can't put together a good argument, just keep repeating yourself, right?

Is that how attached or obligated you feel to your employer, Meguiar's, that you want to commit harakiri over critical remarks about their products?
And if you don't work for Megs why get so hysterical and defensive about it?

I wouldn't have to repeat myself if you stopped making this thread personal and addressed legitimate issues raised by dozens of other extremely disappointed customers instead.
 
are there pics? this would be a much better thread if we could see the effect ourselves.

As I explained earlier, when I originally posted this thread it was already dark outside and next day after I spend an hour rubbing my seats with Lexol my seats weren't as Armaroll-silicone-shiny as they were when I started this thread.
Do you want me to post pictures AFTER I cleaned up my seats with Lexol? Or do you want me now to wipe my seats with wet towel and snap a "shiny" picture, misrepresenting the evidence? Or do you want me to apply this silicone grease to my seats again so you can see how much it spoiled the looks of the brand new leather?

But I will post a 'before-after' picture on this thread, may be of old, dull shoes or even leather seats I find in a junk yard , just so everyone who visits this thread has more visible WARNING sign.
 
As I explained earlier, when I originally posted this thread it was already dark outside and next day after I spend an hour rubbing my seats with Lexol my seats weren't as Armaroll-silicone-shiny as they were when I started this thread.
Do you want me to post pictures AFTER I cleaned up my seats with Lexol? Or do you want me now to wipe my seats with wet towel and snap a "shiny" picture, misrepresenting the evidence? Or do you want me to apply this silicone grease to my seats again so you can see how much it spoiled the looks of the brand new leather?

But I will post a 'before-after' picture on this thread, may be of old, dull shoes or even leather seats I find in a junk yard , just so everyone who visits this thread has more visible WARNING sign.

its just that you said you spent an hour wiping with lexol "to no avail" so i figured you didnt solve the problem yet. if there still is some of that shine still left then feel free to snap a few pics and show us, shouldnt be too hard. if the shine is gone then this thread's problem is solved.
 
its just that you said you spent an hour wiping with lexol "to no avail" so i figured you didnt solve the problem yet. if there still is some of that shine still left then feel free to snap a few pics and show us, shouldnt be too hard. if the shine is gone then this thread's problem is solved.

You are right, after spending about an hour wiping my seats off with Lexol I still had a lot of nasty shine on them. But it already started to fade when I saw my seats next morning and by the end of second day most of the shine was gone, with some of the strongest shine remaining around headrests.

The problem is mostly solved (since I am acting in good faith I can't lie and say that car looks permanently destroyed or that seats shine today as they shone the day I greased them with those wipes) , but it doesn't mean that thread is closed . Members of this forum can (and do) post their opinion even after I thanked everyone for help and shared my optimism that damage doesn't appear to be permanent.
Now, when thAt happens I also come and post a reply: a natural occurrence, since this is my thread and I have first hand knowledge of what happened to my car seats as a result of using Meguair's Gold Class rich leather cleaner conditioner wipes.


And the biggest problem (beyond my individual experience) is that Meguiar's sells an Armorall-in-disguise , masking it under such phrases as the "Gold Class" , "Rich Leather", "non-greasy formula" and so on. As if Meguiar's was a hoodlum trying to sell you a box full of newspapers , fooling you to take it for an X-Box.
I think that is the most serious problem.
 
Glad you ended up having a positive experience with the Meguiar's Gold Class Rich Leather Wipes...I also found them to be terrific!
 
Is that how attached or obligated you feel to your employer, Meguiar's, that you want to commit harakiri over critical remarks about their products?
And if you don't work for Megs why get so hysterical and defensive about it?

I wouldn't have to repeat myself if you stopped making this thread personal and addressed legitimate issues raised by dozens of other extremely disappointed customers instead.

Lol you literally made me laugh.

Over and out....
 
Yeah, just Google it, you will see why so many people rate so poorly those wipes.
 
Straight from Autozones website.

This luxurious leather formula combines our cleaning, conditioning and leather protection formulas to safely and conveniently clean, moisturize and protect your fine leather. Our super luxurious textured wipe material is saturated with high levels of rich moisturizers, including aloe, to pamper your fine leather while protecting from spills, stains and UV damage.

  • Pre-saturated wipe conditions leather surfaces
  • Leaves a vibrant luster
  • Contains UV sunscreens to protect from wear and fading
  • Quick and easy application
  • Leather wipes
  • Quick and easy maintenance




Definition of luster

  1. soft sheen: a soft sheen of reflected light, especially from metal that has been polished gently
  2. shininess: a bright and shiny condition or tone
  3. splendor: the glory and magnificence of a great achievement


Now add vibrant in front of luster and you get "really shiny". You are misconstruing greasy with shiny. You can have one without the other.


You have been given a bunch of different ways to approach your problem none of them was good enough for you. You seem to only want to bash Meguiar's. So it is very apparent that nothing anyone says will be good enough for you.


The problem was not the product. The problem is you chose the wrong product for what you wanted. And then you improperly used it even with the instructions telling you to do a test spot. A Meguiar's rep even came in your thread and provided information to you all you could do was bash Meguiar's PR. All of the other people complaining about this problem also did not follow direction's and ended up with bad results also.


This thread should definately be locked. If not deleted. Just because you had a bad experience with a product designed to do something other than what you think it should have done does not mean that the manufacturer should be getting bashed for your inability to follow instructions.
 
Now add vibrant in front of luster and you get "really shiny". You are misconstruing greasy with shiny. You can have one without the other.


You have been given a bunch of different ways to approach your problem none of them was good enough for you. You seem to only want to bash Meguiar's. So it is very apparent that nothing anyone says will be good enough for you.

1. I did not misconstrue and confuse greasy with shiny. The product doesn't just give a lot of unnecessary, silocon-rich, Armorall type of shine that you would expect from a tire shiner, but it also makes seats very greasy and messy to touch. It took me about an hour of rubbing with Lexol to reduce the effects of this product on my seat, and even that took at least 12 hours to show positive results.
You may not wish to read my whole story or you may be motivated to misconstrue what I wrote, either way I have represented everything exactly as I observed.

2. Again, you don't seem to have taken a time to read my posts, but wrote your response based on your assumptions (or you willfully ignore what I wrote).

I have actually thanked everyone for good advise, it was defensive Meguiar's advocates who took it to personal level and started to attack my character that caused me to reply with more detailed clarifications and explanations of what this product did to my brand new seats. All the while I was trying to make sure that the focus of debate is the particular product and it's effects on a new leather, not my personal characteristics. Some people don't seem to like this approach and insist on making this an individual/personal/character disputing matter.

3. If you read my replies on two other threads (one of which I started) you will see that I have positive view of Megs professional grade products. Even in this thread I have repeatedly wrote that up to now I had only positive experience with their Professional grade exterior care products. It's their "Gold Class" that raises a lot of doubt about it having anything to do with high quality and , in particular, it's Meguiar's Gold Class Rich leather Conditioner Cleaner wipes that are screwed beyond any dispute.
So, again, you are misrepresenting facts here and allege something that simply isn't true. I am not in a Crusade to bash Meguiar's per se, but I am giving very detailed account of my experience with the specific product which they happen to manufacture.

Finally, as I suggested earlier to others, don't take my word for it. Just read my signature line, do your own search on Google and see for yourself what dozens of others have to say about this hideous product that, alas, came from Meguiar's. The fact that it is Meguiar's is what actually frustrated me, because if it was Armorall or some other known to be "super-shiny" effect producing brand I would know what it is and make my buying decision accordingly. But this frustration , if anything, only tells how highly did I esteem this car care product manufacturing company before (My bad! Will do my due diligence search online next time before trying any new product from them).


Best regards,

Carenthusiast
 
Quoting AUTOZONE?

No, the user above quoted Autozone. I quoted the part he added as his personal comment (I don't think Autozone addresses me directly on their website in regards to this matter).
 
Question to OP: Did you wipe the seats down AFTER you applied the product? Not hours later, but shortly after application.

Bill
 
Question to OP: Did you wipe the seats down AFTER you applied the product? Not hours later, but shortly after application.

Bill

Unfortunately I did not. If I did (I realize it now) there wouldn't be so much of a gloss afterwards.
 
Any pics of your seats. Will be detailing a new 2014 TSX for my brother. Want to see what this destroyed seat looks like compared to his new seat.
 
It's time to lock this thread. We all get the point. Now it's become a pissing contest among a few people and not accomplishing anything. 10 pages, we get it. Drop it already
 
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