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Autoglym seems to have the same reputation in the detailing world as Muc-Off does in the biking world.
That’s only because it’s not manufactured by virgins halfway up an Andean mountain out of unicorn tears and sold at a price of more than £1000 per millilitre. And because you can buy it in Halfords.
Autoglym in reality produce some bloody good, if slightly conservative, stuff and have been doing the car detailing game for longer than most “detailers” have been alive.
It all started when dads around the country decided they'd gone off the swirly psychedelic patterns in their new car's bonnet, that had been made by the gravel their kids left half embedded in the sponges they'd found in the kitty litter.
Also - those unhelpful people in the EU banned asbestos, despite repeated appeals and objections from the British Government of the day (a Tory Gov as it happens 🤔).
As a result of no longer being able to make brake pads from the Wonder Material, they changed to one that generated a lot more wear - both to the pad, and to the disc/drum. All that extra new wear had to go somewhere. Some goes down the sewers in the run off from the road. And a fair bit of it adheres to the fancy schmancy alloy wheels that most cars didn't have in the 70s and 80s.
For me, if definitely relates to the cost of the car and how long I'll have it.
After the engine had a terminal failure on the estate, I got a cheap (£400) stop gap as a run-around for 4 or 5 months. Guess how little care thst got.
But when I subsequently spent the same as 40% of the cost of my house purchase price, and will probably have it for another 10 years, I've taken a bit more care of it.