Could applying outside after sunset in winter or on a wet humid day signifigantly reduce coat lifetime? What with the fine potentiol condensation forming on panels.
I don`t really know, but I do suspect that those conditions might be a bit of an issue.
Perhaps leaving the coat haze sit for a few hours before wipping off is the key? How long do you leave it sit? I leave it sit for around 20mins, any longer and fine debris will start to fall on car.
That might help a bit, but if it results in marring from contamination then I dunno if it`d be worth it. I usually just apply to the whole vehicle and then buff off, but if I let it sit a while longer/shorter it never makes a discernible difference.
I have dropped doing the windows now as it clearly doesn`t offer any advanatge & just adds way more time, and on all my windows the water beading usually stopped after just a few weeks.
Eh, I never LSP glass and couldn`t care less if my glass beads or not so I wouldn`t/don`t do it either. But then I do my glass very frequently even though my vehicles are all garaged and basically pampered. Doubt I ever go a week without cleaning at least the windshield and might do it daily. But that`s just me...if you don`t care, and if your vision isn`t compromised, then why bother?
I have also dropped doing the door jams & under bonnet unless someone can convience me why its worth it? The wax usually gets in tight areas & on rubbers that are hard to wipe off & potenioal just wearing down paint in doing so. Under bonnet rust has formed over time in tight areas like around bolts that wax couldn`t get to anyway
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No question, those areas can be a challenge to do, takes some time and effort. That said, I can`t imagine why you`d get LSP on surfaces where you don`t want it nor why there would be any "wearing down of the paint". Some vehicles are more prone to rust than others, but IME keeping everything clean and well-LSPed helps to significantly minimize that; note that my vehicles are OK in this regard despite being pretty old and subjected to Ohio winters. Yeah, doing some stuff can take a *LONG* time but IME it doesn`t need done very often.
Eh, same answer: if you don`t care then it doesn`t matter.
For a car outside all the time What causes the wax coat to break down & dissapear? Sun/UV? rain/being wet for long hours? Can`t see the shampoo being the culprit as gargage cars get washed too.
I figure it`s a combo of all those environmental factors. Some shampoos *are* really hard on LSPs, but there are plenty that are not.
Another annoying problem I have is wile applying wax the foam app & inside can slowly get small bits of debris in it no matter what.
Probably just the fine stuff floating around outside. Only thing to do is swap over foam app.
Eh, that sort of thing is why I haven`t worked outside since the mid-70s (and only briefly then). I`d hold the tin in your hand with your hand covering its opening to at least keep that from getting contaminated.
Are yellow ebay foam apps fine? They tend to have a slight coarse feel when first applying the coat to clean paint.
Do the CD-test to know for certain.
Eh, I get the feeling that between your situation/environment and the various demands of this Detailing stuff, that you`ve hit a point where you have Autopian Perfection on one hand, and "Oh, [screw] this [stuff]" on the other and you`re leaning towards just going with the latter. Spend enough time here at Autopia and you can start to think that every vehicle oughta be perfect all the time and that nothing else is OK, so it`s All or Nothing. IMO that`s a false dichotomy and you can keep stuff pretty nice without making it a huge deal. But if you want somebody to give you a pass and say it`s OK to just not care about Detailing, well...OK, it`s all up to YOU. As long as any neglect doesn`t impact the safety of you or others (rusted through brake/fuel lines comes to mind as I`ve bought cars with such issues) then this stuff simply doesn`t matter unless you want it to.
