Very intresting that it`s washing of relatively easy and not bonds to the paint. Where I live and winter time you often needs to use a tar remover in the prewash procedure. Or my wash media gets stained with tar and other contaminants so use it gets a safer wash for me.
If I come across large gobs of goo, I`m using a demoted Eagle Edgeless in that area instead of the wash mitt. I`m trying not to use to many chems as I wanna see if the coatings have provided enough protection for easier removal of the stuff.
Will looking forward to your experience to clay the 22ple coating and what you think about it.
Gonna proceed very carefully with lotsa lube; don`t wanna mar the surface...hopefully the `soft glass coat clay` works as advertised.
Always looks very clean after your decon washes of fleet vehicals you do. What car schampo do you use?
For these fleet vehicles, have some Poorboy`s World Super Slick & Suds Concentrated Car Wash but sometimes i just grab the bottle of Dawn dishwashing soap (*gasp*) from the kitchen. Usually use Gyeon Bathe on vehicles that matter but being fleet vehicles, economy sometimes prevails.
The joy of working with fleet vehicles is that sometimes you can try things you`d never think of doing to a personal vehicle.
You put down alot of work in your testing and I am gratefull that you share it with us!
Thanks...its been a very interesting and educational process for sure. A very valuable takeaway for me with all the posts is having others comment on the process and suggest things that I don`t know about which ends up making my life easier.
An important thing to remember is all of this us being done by someone with pretty limited experience in the detailing world. I`ll read directions on products, search the forums for a little background on others experiences and then have at it, making my fair share of mistakes along the way. The list of "Things that seemed like a good idea at the time..." grows daily.
One thing coating-related that is beginning to become clear is that among all the products I`ve tried, there really haven`t been any bad choices...all pretty solid products that pretty much do what they claim to do (for the most part; longevity is always a wildcard depending on use/maint)
All are slightly different in this area or that but at the end of the day, all work reasonably well. All are glossy, some slightly more than others, some softer look, some harder look, some bead better, some sheet better. Among the more common/mainstream/popular choices, it`s becoming apparent that they`re popular because they work; the key to `coating happiness` is identifying a specific set of characteristics that appeal to your own tastes/needs and then finding a product that ticks off as many of those boxes as possible.
That`s what I`m taking away from all if this anyway.
