Polishes & Waxes

Stamina is at the heart of this category as polishing is hard work and you do not want to be doing it every other week. So we put 25 top sellers on a bonnet and watched to see how they beaded water over six weeks to find the wax or polish that will protect your paintwork longest.
 
Winner
Simoniz Original Wax
Contact: 0161 491 7391 www.holtsauto.com
Price: £7.99
It will never win any prizes for ease of use but this hard paste in a traditional tin is old school wax at its best. Put in the effort and you will be rewarded with the kind of protection most polish and wax rivals can only dream about. A class act that can trace its roots back 100 years.
 
Commended
Comma Car Polish
Contact: 01474 564311 www.commaoil.com
Price: £4.99
It may be a more user-friendly liquid but, like our champion, this Comma polish is not the easiest to put on requiring a fair bit of effort to buff. Persist, though and you’ll get a protective finish that will shrug off water for weeks. Our pick of the liquid polishes.
 
Nielsen Flawless Polish
Contact: 01283 222277 www.nielsenchemicals.com
Price: £6.99
If the other polishes here sound a bit like hard work then track down a bottle of Flawless from UK producer Nielsen. Since the formula was tweaked a couple of years ago Flawless has new found stamina that is a match for the best giving your paintwork lasting protection.