Rob T
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Wolfgang Fuzion Review
Introduction:
I was lucky enough to obtain a tub of barely used Fuzion via a trade with Sportscarhiatus. I had to give up a few products that I really love (such as some Menzerna polishes) in order to make the trade fair. It's easy to have buyer's remorse, even if it is a trade. Did I give away my beloved Menzerna polishes for an LSP that won't look any better than the ones I already have?
I'd seen plenty of pictures with vehicles that had Fuzion on them that looked great, and read enough reviews that gave high enough praise that I knew I wanted to try it.
One of my other concerns in trading for the Fuzion was whether it would attract dust like many carnauba's do. Dust attraction really drives me nuts! I had heard mixed opinions on this subject, with some saying that Fuzion does indeed attract dust, and others saying that they experience no such issue.
Process:
I had just polished my new 2010 Chevrolet HHR SS a few weeks before I received the Fuzion, and I had also put three coats of Opti-Seal on it. My initial plan was to remove the Opti-Seal and just have the Fuzion on the car. Well, there was rain in the forecast, so I decided I wasn't going to mess around too much and waste time, so I decided that I would just put the Fuzion on top of the Opti-Seal.
I washed the HHR with ONR prior to application of the Fuzion. I did not use Optimum Instant Detailer as a drying aid this time as I just didn't want to put any more variables into the equation thanwere necessary.
Product Description:
I like the labeling on the container. The Fuzion logo just looks cool! The wax itself is a very light reddish/pinkish color, and it has a few small bubbles in it.
The smell is great, very enjoyable!
The AG website describes this product as follows:
"Wolfgang Füzion Estate Wax is a hand-crafted blend of carnauba wax, German Super Polymers, and proprietary ingredients that yield unequaled shine and protection. Our unique formula fuses the best attributes of carnauba wax and paint sealants to create the ultimate car wax. Wolfgang Füzion Estate Wax has been enhanced with more glossifiers for a more intense wet look and improved slickness.
Wolfgang Concours Series is a collection of products built around German Super Polymers - the long-lasting, high-bonding, crystalline polymers that give Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealant its irresistible gloss. Wolfgang has been at the forefront of synthetic auto enhancement for several years, but with our newest creation, we went back to the drawing board.
Wolfgang Füzion Estate Wax represents a new era in which the traditional car wax fuses with cutting edge, synthetic ingredients to form the ultimate high gloss, high bonding car wax. With Wolfgang Füzion, nothing is compromised."
Ok, that all sounds great (if not like some serious marketing lingo), but can it really live up to that type of hype?
Application and Removal:
This is a "WOWO" product, meaning (and yes, this is stating the obvious for most of you here) that you wipe the wax on, then almost immediately wipe it off. There is no need to allow the wax to dry or haze before removing.
Fuzion may very well be the most pleasing LSP that I have ever used in terms of application. Note that I am not just saying that it was the easiest, I am saying that it was the most pleasing. I think the easiest LSP's to use are the WOWA sealants such as Opti-Seal and Ultima Paint Guard Plus. But they are not nearly as pleasing to apply as Fuzion!
Fuzion across the paint fairly easily, with only a little resistance from the foam pad that I used to apply it. I continued to enjoy the pleasant (fruity?) smell of the Fuzion as I applied it to one panel at a time and removed it with a clean MF towel. I split the hood in half doing each section separately. I was careful to apply a thin coat, and this was easy to do.
Removal of the Fuzion was an absolute breeze. It came off easily and cleanly. It did not leave any haze behind at all (and believe me, this can really be an issue with red paint). This is one of the easiest to remove LSP's that I have used (right up there with Blackfire's Wet Diamond). I was able to make my way around the entire vehicle fairly quickly, but I was not rushing because I was enjoying it so much.
Results/Impressions:
So, does the Fuzion live up to the "hype"? Well, I've always been a bit skeptical of high cost/high end waxes, but I have to say that at least on red, Fuzion is one of the very best looking LSP's that I have ever used! It seemed to work very well over the Opti-Seal.
We all know that prep accounts for the vast majority of how the paint will look when we are finished detailing the car, and the LSP will make up a very small percentage of the final look of the paint. While I certainly agree with that, I can say with confidence that Fuzion made a distinct/noticeable improvement in the appearance of my non-metallic red paint!
If the LSP makes up 10% of the final appearance, Fuzion really pushes it to the max.
The Look:
How do I describe the look that Fuzion gives? It's difficult, but I think the best that I can say is that Fuzion gives great clarity to the paint (with no hazing whatsoever, which is a very important consideration for red paint), with very good depth (the red paint looked more like a pool filled with paint than when it just had the Opti-Seal on it). In addition, Fuzion made the paint look not just wet, but liquid in appearance. Is that a distinction without a difference? I don't know, but I know what I mean when I say it!
In short, Fuzion has great clarity, depth, shimmer, glow, and wetness. It also provides very good reflections as well, which so often seems to be in conflict with also having good depth.
Fuzion does seem to be the best of both worlds in terms of "fusing" the advantages of a sealant with the advantages of a carnauba.
Durability/Protection:
It's too early to really tell as I've only had the Fuzion on for a few weeks, but I can tell you that I drove the car in two days of rain, and the beading looked very good. Not as small or tight as something like 845 IW, but very good. Also, the water was sheeting off the hood at highway speed easier than it was with just the Opti-Seal.
I washed the car after the rain made it filthy, and it cleaned up very easily. The Fuzion seemed to shed dirt well.
Conclusions:
I personally love Fuzion! Really, this is an excellent product and I could not be any happier. I'm going to go ahead and put a coat on my silver Lotus as well to see how it looks on lighter colors. The only negative thing that I can think of regarding this product is the price, but if you can wait for a sale, or buy one of the smaller sample sizes, this is a product that gets my highest recommendation! :dblthumb2:
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Introduction:
I was lucky enough to obtain a tub of barely used Fuzion via a trade with Sportscarhiatus. I had to give up a few products that I really love (such as some Menzerna polishes) in order to make the trade fair. It's easy to have buyer's remorse, even if it is a trade. Did I give away my beloved Menzerna polishes for an LSP that won't look any better than the ones I already have?
I'd seen plenty of pictures with vehicles that had Fuzion on them that looked great, and read enough reviews that gave high enough praise that I knew I wanted to try it.
One of my other concerns in trading for the Fuzion was whether it would attract dust like many carnauba's do. Dust attraction really drives me nuts! I had heard mixed opinions on this subject, with some saying that Fuzion does indeed attract dust, and others saying that they experience no such issue.
Process:
I had just polished my new 2010 Chevrolet HHR SS a few weeks before I received the Fuzion, and I had also put three coats of Opti-Seal on it. My initial plan was to remove the Opti-Seal and just have the Fuzion on the car. Well, there was rain in the forecast, so I decided I wasn't going to mess around too much and waste time, so I decided that I would just put the Fuzion on top of the Opti-Seal.
I washed the HHR with ONR prior to application of the Fuzion. I did not use Optimum Instant Detailer as a drying aid this time as I just didn't want to put any more variables into the equation thanwere necessary.
Product Description:
I like the labeling on the container. The Fuzion logo just looks cool! The wax itself is a very light reddish/pinkish color, and it has a few small bubbles in it.
The smell is great, very enjoyable!
The AG website describes this product as follows:
"Wolfgang Füzion Estate Wax is a hand-crafted blend of carnauba wax, German Super Polymers, and proprietary ingredients that yield unequaled shine and protection. Our unique formula fuses the best attributes of carnauba wax and paint sealants to create the ultimate car wax. Wolfgang Füzion Estate Wax has been enhanced with more glossifiers for a more intense wet look and improved slickness.
Wolfgang Concours Series is a collection of products built around German Super Polymers - the long-lasting, high-bonding, crystalline polymers that give Wolfgang Deep Gloss Paint Sealant its irresistible gloss. Wolfgang has been at the forefront of synthetic auto enhancement for several years, but with our newest creation, we went back to the drawing board.
Wolfgang Füzion Estate Wax represents a new era in which the traditional car wax fuses with cutting edge, synthetic ingredients to form the ultimate high gloss, high bonding car wax. With Wolfgang Füzion, nothing is compromised."
Ok, that all sounds great (if not like some serious marketing lingo), but can it really live up to that type of hype?
Application and Removal:
This is a "WOWO" product, meaning (and yes, this is stating the obvious for most of you here) that you wipe the wax on, then almost immediately wipe it off. There is no need to allow the wax to dry or haze before removing.
Fuzion may very well be the most pleasing LSP that I have ever used in terms of application. Note that I am not just saying that it was the easiest, I am saying that it was the most pleasing. I think the easiest LSP's to use are the WOWA sealants such as Opti-Seal and Ultima Paint Guard Plus. But they are not nearly as pleasing to apply as Fuzion!
Fuzion across the paint fairly easily, with only a little resistance from the foam pad that I used to apply it. I continued to enjoy the pleasant (fruity?) smell of the Fuzion as I applied it to one panel at a time and removed it with a clean MF towel. I split the hood in half doing each section separately. I was careful to apply a thin coat, and this was easy to do.
Removal of the Fuzion was an absolute breeze. It came off easily and cleanly. It did not leave any haze behind at all (and believe me, this can really be an issue with red paint). This is one of the easiest to remove LSP's that I have used (right up there with Blackfire's Wet Diamond). I was able to make my way around the entire vehicle fairly quickly, but I was not rushing because I was enjoying it so much.
Results/Impressions:
So, does the Fuzion live up to the "hype"? Well, I've always been a bit skeptical of high cost/high end waxes, but I have to say that at least on red, Fuzion is one of the very best looking LSP's that I have ever used! It seemed to work very well over the Opti-Seal.
We all know that prep accounts for the vast majority of how the paint will look when we are finished detailing the car, and the LSP will make up a very small percentage of the final look of the paint. While I certainly agree with that, I can say with confidence that Fuzion made a distinct/noticeable improvement in the appearance of my non-metallic red paint!
If the LSP makes up 10% of the final appearance, Fuzion really pushes it to the max.
The Look:
How do I describe the look that Fuzion gives? It's difficult, but I think the best that I can say is that Fuzion gives great clarity to the paint (with no hazing whatsoever, which is a very important consideration for red paint), with very good depth (the red paint looked more like a pool filled with paint than when it just had the Opti-Seal on it). In addition, Fuzion made the paint look not just wet, but liquid in appearance. Is that a distinction without a difference? I don't know, but I know what I mean when I say it!
In short, Fuzion has great clarity, depth, shimmer, glow, and wetness. It also provides very good reflections as well, which so often seems to be in conflict with also having good depth.
Fuzion does seem to be the best of both worlds in terms of "fusing" the advantages of a sealant with the advantages of a carnauba.
Durability/Protection:
It's too early to really tell as I've only had the Fuzion on for a few weeks, but I can tell you that I drove the car in two days of rain, and the beading looked very good. Not as small or tight as something like 845 IW, but very good. Also, the water was sheeting off the hood at highway speed easier than it was with just the Opti-Seal.
I washed the car after the rain made it filthy, and it cleaned up very easily. The Fuzion seemed to shed dirt well.
Conclusions:
I personally love Fuzion! Really, this is an excellent product and I could not be any happier. I'm going to go ahead and put a coat on my silver Lotus as well to see how it looks on lighter colors. The only negative thing that I can think of regarding this product is the price, but if you can wait for a sale, or buy one of the smaller sample sizes, this is a product that gets my highest recommendation! :dblthumb2:
A Few Pictures:
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