My dealer who I have ordered my Fabia with, mentioned about Autoglym Lifeshine treatment for the car when its delivered.

My old mans Golf Plus had the treatment and he dosent think its worth the money.

Opinions please.

Regards

Grahame

Its a total waste of money..all salesmen get large comission on it

Leave well alone...at those prices.

If you really want it, you can apply it yourself by buying it £15 from eBay

As Chris says - waste of time. If you care for your car there are better ways of keeping it in tip top condition. If you take it to IMO or the £5 hand jobs then don't waste your time with it as it'll be stripped within a couple of washes and that's your £200 down the drain!

Check out cleanyourcar.co.uk, detailingworld.co.uk and performancemotorcare.com for useful advice.

In short, don't bother with the AG Lifeshine, dump your sponge for a wool wash mitt, use a wash bucket and a rinse bucket, rinse the car down first, use a foam or pre-cleaner of some kind, polish with something like AG Super Resin Polish, protect with Extra Gloss Protection and top up with a good wax, again AG HD Wax is very very good for the money. Dry and buff with plush microfibre cloths. Poundland do a very good one for drying for £1 and Asda do a pack of 6 suitable for polishing in their 2 for £5 offer.

Hope that helps

Theres another one they try and sell called super guard. My friend use to work in the Skoda dealer and one day whilst waiting for him to let me in the detailing bay I over heard him say about this £300 kit to these people he was selling a Yeti to. After he was done I asked him what it was and he explained to be the same as AG. So I asked him how much it was actually worth and he said £25ish. I couldn't believe it! I then went into there detailing bay and ****ed half the professional range of it on my car and it looked worse for wear afterwards!

As someone who has Lifeshine on their car (my Audi came with it for free as it's a lease car) I think it probably does what it says on the tin. If you polish it every 3-6 months with SRP and them top it up with EGP it will keep your car looking super-sparkly. As I understand it, what you are paying for a very high quality preparation step, followed by application of a long-lasting lsp. Now, no-one complains when Baker21 charges £300 for that, so I don't see why, if it's done properly at a dealer, anyone should whinge on about what poor value it is.

The actual products themeselves can be bought for buttons - what you SHOULD be paying for is a very good quality detail. If the dealer detailing-monkey spends 20 minutes on it, then don't pay for it. But don't begrudge someone a profit for a day or so's work with a DA and some elbow grease.

Ask Baker21 or someone like him how much he will charge to prepare your car with Lifeshine or Supagard and I suspect you'll find you're pretty close to dealer prices. Of course if you get Baker21 to do it, it'll be done right

As someone who has Lifeshine on their car (my Audi came with it for free as it's a lease car) I think it probably does what it says on the tin. If you polish it every 3-6 months with SRP and them top it up with EGP it will keep your car looking super-sparkly. As I understand it, what you are paying for a very high quality preparation step, followed by application of a long-lasting lsp. Now, no-one complains when Baker21 charges £300 for that, so I don't see why, if it's done properly at a dealer, anyone should whinge on about what poor value it is.

The actual products themeselves can be bought for buttons - what you SHOULD be paying for is a very good quality detail. If the dealer detailing-monkey spends 20 minutes on it, then don't pay for it. But don't begrudge someone a profit for a day or so's work with a DA and some elbow grease.

Ask Baker21 or someone like him how much he will charge to prepare your car with Lifeshine or Supagard and I suspect you'll find you're pretty close to dealer prices. Of course if you get Baker21 to do it, it'll be done right

This is the problem..It isnt applied correctly at the dealers...FACT!!

Baker DOES do it right!! He is well justified at charging what he does

I repeat as said earlier..DONT GET IT DONE BY A DEALER!!

Edited 3 September, 201015 yr by ChrisRs

As someone who has Lifeshine on their car (my Audi came with it for free as it's a lease car) I think it probably does what it says on the tin. If you polish it every 3-6 months with SRP and them top it up with EGP it will keep your car looking super-sparkly. As I understand it, what you are paying for a very high quality preparation step, followed by application of a long-lasting lsp. Now, no-one complains when Baker21 charges £300 for that, so I don't see why, if it's done properly at a dealer, anyone should whinge on about what poor value it is.

The actual products themeselves can be bought for buttons - what you SHOULD be paying for is a very good quality detail. If the dealer detailing-monkey spends 20 minutes on it, then don't pay for it. But don't begrudge someone a profit for a day or so's work with a DA and some elbow grease.

Ask Baker21 or someone like him how much he will charge to prepare your car with Lifeshine or Supagard and I suspect you'll find you're pretty close to dealer prices. Of course if you get Baker21 to do it, it'll be done right

I wish I did charge that much....................

This is the problem..It isnt applied correctly at the dealers...FACT!!

Baker DOES do it right!! He is well justified at charging what he does

I repeat as said earlier..DONT GET IT DONE BY A DEALER!!

Thanks for the kind words.........

Worth adding here my 2p to the OP, the product isn't great whether it be Supaguard, Lifeshine or Diamondbrite but there are LSP's on the market that will do a much better job in terms of durability and reduce the maintainence schedule that you will have to perform.

Some of the AG products such as Glass Guard and the Interior Protectant is pretty good but for the paintwork your better off spending your own money on something from an online seller and applying it correctly, this is however just my opinion.........

Worth also noting that many dealer on site valeters and detailers will have limited time to apply such products, this is not their fault just the nature of the business........... :S

I had it done on my car and would agree that it is not worth the money.

I have become a keen (but very amateur) detailer since this time and reckon I could (and do!) do a better job myself.

Looking back, I would have been better off getting a Baker-job done on the car for the money and topping it up with a bit of TLC myself. On saying that, despite all the snobbery that goes on with detailing products, I think the Autoglym stuff is pretty good and was pleased with the bag of products that came with the Lifeshine - of course I could have bought them all myself with a bunch of money left over for a professional detail

Thank you for the updates and opinions. This being my first new car and on a budget, I think I will pass on the dealers offer and look after the car myself,. Both dealers I went to when looking at a P/ex considered my car a good clean example with good paintwork, so I must be doing something right!

Regards and Thanks

Grahame

no-one complains when Baker21 charges £300 for that, so I don't see why, if it's done properly at a dealer, anyone should whinge on about what poor value it is.

The actual products themeselves can be bought for buttons - what you SHOULD be paying for is a very good quality detail. If the dealer detailing-monkey spends 20 minutes on it, then don't pay for it. But don't begrudge someone a profit for a day or so's work with a DA and some elbow grease.

Never in a month of Sundays will it be applied to 'detailing' standard. The dealers have neither the time nor inclination to do so. Unless you have evidence to suggest otherwise? I wouldn't have let them near brand new Audi paintwork personally, if the treatment was free or not.

They make enough margin at the moment giving the products to the YTS lad to run round the car with. And they still manage to shift this option to punters. Why are they suddenly going to start doing it properly? To the average car buying public LifeShine and its peers are as good as it gets.

Steve

Never in a month of Sundays will it be applied to 'detailing' standard. The dealers have neither the time nor inclination to do so. Unless you have evidence to suggest otherwise? I wouldn't have let them near brand new Audi paintwork personally, if the treatment was free or not.

They make enough margin at the moment giving the products to the YTS lad to run round the car with. And they still manage to shift this option to punters. Why are they suddenly going to start doing it properly? To the average car buying public LifeShine and its peers are as good as it gets.

Steve

I'm not sure why everyone is climbing all over me for my post. It very clearly says;

1. You are not paying £300 for the products

2. It is worth the money only if you get the preparation work done to a high standard

3. It only works long-term because you have to buy into the whole concept of regular polishing with SRP and then the application of a good LSP (EGP)

4. If you have it applied by Baker21 it will be done right

I don't see what I've said that varies from any of the other posts afterwards.

@Baker21 - you'd have charged £300 to do the Audi the way it was done for me (it took them 3 attempts to get it right!)

@Wardy - I agree that the general public think these products are miraculous. I had no choice in the matter about having it done or not. The reason the leasing company has this done is that it's an option that actually increases the resale value of the car at the end of the contract. I found that hard to accept, but they are very hard-nosed people and they wouldn't do it if it didn't make them something on the deal.

Edited 4 September, 201015 yr by wja96

Thanks to everybody here. I cancelled my add-on Lifetime and opted for the sound upgrade instead.

it's an option that actually increases the resale value of the car at the end of the contract.[/quote

Exactly and what better reason to have it done.

It is possible to buy AG products directly from the area distributor and these prices are SUBSTANTIALLY cheaper than halfrauds. You also have the option of the commercial valeters range and some of it is nice stuff.

Last time I purchased from them I purchased 5 Litres of SRP for the same price as 1L in Halfrauds.

Just heads up which I hope helps. Oh and to find them just type "Autoglym distributor for........." in Google which is how I found the Bristol area one.

Tom