Cladding product test.

[Lemonxxs]

I am doing a simple test of products for cladding....Cause I was bored today and it is gonna rain tonight...



Pics are in my album linked below...

My Truck Album on another site



Some Sample pics from album

and

here is what I did...



Products used in Alphabetical order:

1 303 Aerospace Protectant

2 Klasse Sealant Glaze

3 Pennzoil All-in-One

4 NXT Wax not used on panel #3

5 NXT Rubber/Vinyl/Plastic Protectant

6 Stoner's Trim Shine

7 Turtle Wax Tire Shine



Preperations:

CLEANING:

Sprayed Meguiars all purpose cleaner mixed with water at 8:1 ratio and

Scrubbed with stiff brush and let dwell for 2 mins keeping wet with mist of water from spray bottle as required.

Rinsed with running water.

Dried with clean cotton towel.

Sprayed rubbing alcohol and let dwell for 2 mins.

Wiped with clean towel.

Let remaining alcohol evaporate.

Rinsed with running water.

Wiped with clean towel.

Let air dry.



APPLICATION:

I applied products in random areas by applying to clean cloths for each.



For product #1 I applied and then let sit for 10 mins then applied second coat and then let sit for 15 mins and then buffed with clean towel.



For product # I applied and then let sit for 15 mins and then buffed with clean towel.



For product #3 I applied and then let sit for 2 mins and then buffed with clean towel.



For product #4 I applied to cladding and let sit for 15 mins and then buffed with clean towel for. NOTE: This one stunk right away; as I could not see a difference so I did not test on bed panel



For products #5, 6 & 7 I applied and then let sit for 10 mins and then buffed with clean towel for each.



NOTES:

On bed panel I taped off areas so as not to cross contaminate too much. Also you can see better what untreated looks like where the tape was. One side has no product and is easy to spot.



They were pretty much all the same for application to me.

Supposed to rain tonight so I should be able to tell which ones run onto paint.

Warm here 65-80F so this should help accerate any evaporationof product.



After 1 1/2 weeks....They all stink...hehehe

Pic does not do it justice have to see close up to get the real UNeffectiveness of these products on this type material...



But then I tried Future floor wax...WOWZA...but have not had rain or washed yet for full test...but looks way better then others from get go..and feels dry and slick without oily feel...

time will tell....



Peace





PEACE!

 

[Accumulator]

Good test :xyxthumbs I look forward to your reports.



Future = wowza huh? Sure wouldn't have expected that! Very interesting...

 

[wash-girl]

I, too, look forward to learning your results. In practice, of the products you are testing, I have used:



2 Klasse Sealant Glaze

5 NXT Rubber/Vinyl/Plastic Protectant

6 Stoner's Trim Shine

7 Turtle Wax Tire Shine



My absolute best results for appearance, durability, and run resistance have been with the TW Tire Shine. Stoner's really resists running, but doesn't have quite as good durability. The NXT ran and streaked terribly on the cladding, no matter how much buffing I did (but it's great on tires). And the Klasse just did not give me the shine or darkening effect that I wanted on the cladding (though it's my sealant of choice for the paint).



The other product that I use for "quickie" details is ArmorAll Detailer's Advantage Tire Foam. If you have any room left, you may want to add it to your experiment--not bad at all.



Thanks also for "taking one for the team." It takes a brave Autopian to drive around with your cladding looking like that.

 

[Lemonxxs]

Heck it looks no worse then when I have not detailed for a few weeks when sitting at airport...



I think I pretty much have made up my mind as to the outcome...



No products ran onto the paint...guess I have been doing this for 3 years on cladding and finally got technique down..hehehe



SG...did not look good nor did it hide anything....

TW tire shine...did not last as long as Trim shine nor NXT protectant....on sides...heck it was gone very quickly....

NXT looked probably the best of all of them....on both the side and the flat panel...



Soon I will figure out how to make little arrow thingies pointing to each area and saying which is which...



Lots of DEW on it today...and after sun comes out I will take my final pics.....and then clean this crap off and put some FUTURE on it...hehehe....

 

[Lemonxxs]

I have put letters on the pics to denote what product they stand for:



A = 303 Aerospaces Protectant

B = Turtle Wax Tire Shine

C = Meguiars NXT Plastic Rubber Protectant

D = Stoners Trim Shine

E = Pennzoil All-in-One

F = Klasse Sealant Glaze

G = Meguiars NXT Liquid Wax



Check em out...pick your fave....



these are pics after product has been applied....please refer to album for older pics...and notice the dates to and comments to get an idea.

the test is 2 weeks old.



Here is link to my album of other pics...:

 

[Gonzo]

Now I hope you can remove the stripes and blotches.......

 

[Lemonxxs]

The stripe is the untreated cleaned parts...so covering it all up is easy...just clean again...then apply product....



So no problem to make look good again



these tests areas look like crap now...and no better then untreated areas....