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Earlier this week I received my order including Crystal Seal. The only bummer is that I had to wait for today to give it a shot. Originally I was going to try it on a black Lexus but I changed my mind and used my own car - white Civic. Just in case the product went ape on me, I tried it on my car first. My worries were all for nothing, this product is super easy to apply. No problems at all.
I figured I would take the chance to clean the entire car, so I dragged out the gear.
I started with the wheels. Meg APC + Wheel Woolies.
Before washing the car, I soaked it with Meg APC to help loosen the road grime and/or bugs. That part worked fine, but I also thought it may remove the wax, in this case Optimum Spray Wax. Nope, beaded like crazy after the APC.
At this point the car was really clean, the road grime all rinsed off and the paint was beading. I could have dried it and quit.
For the wash I decided to try a new soap, Duragloss 901. 901 worked great in the foam gun, lots of suds, good cleaning ability. I didn't use a bucket with soap, just the foam gun and a bucket of clean water to rinse the mitt.
I love this wash mitt. I have a cheaper one I picked up at a chain store but it is no where the quality of this. This one came form a freebee offer at PBMG, I love it. It would be another write up to describe why.
I spent about an hour going over the car with TPNS.
Again, here is another place I could have stopped. The car looked great. But nope, I wanted to try the Crystal Seal.
This is where the black car would have helped. I wanted to take a few pics of the application but on the white car it was tough to see the product. It self leveled so quickly, that setting up a pic with the right angle and lighting was too big a challenge on white paint. So I just focused on even application and moved over the entire car in less than ten minutes. I must say this is by far the easiest LSP I have ever applied. There was no need for me to follow up with spots that didn't self level because the product just disappeared into the paint. I could see the streak of the product applying and turn away for a second, and it's gone. Just shiny paint left behind. I found myself wanting to use too much product, but one spritz to prime the pad and one on each panel proved to be more than enough. No buffing, I just walked away. My phone (ya no cool camera yet) won't capture what I see, but here are a few pics. The shine is silly, I couldn't stop laughing.....I am a big fan of Wet Diamond, and I can't wait to use that first and top with this, but this alone is amazing. Ease of application, more depth, more shine. Durability is the only hope I have left, I guess. Since it is Blackfire based, it should last.
Thanks for reading!
I figured I would take the chance to clean the entire car, so I dragged out the gear.
I started with the wheels. Meg APC + Wheel Woolies.
Before washing the car, I soaked it with Meg APC to help loosen the road grime and/or bugs. That part worked fine, but I also thought it may remove the wax, in this case Optimum Spray Wax. Nope, beaded like crazy after the APC.
At this point the car was really clean, the road grime all rinsed off and the paint was beading. I could have dried it and quit.
For the wash I decided to try a new soap, Duragloss 901. 901 worked great in the foam gun, lots of suds, good cleaning ability. I didn't use a bucket with soap, just the foam gun and a bucket of clean water to rinse the mitt.
I love this wash mitt. I have a cheaper one I picked up at a chain store but it is no where the quality of this. This one came form a freebee offer at PBMG, I love it. It would be another write up to describe why.
I spent about an hour going over the car with TPNS.
Again, here is another place I could have stopped. The car looked great. But nope, I wanted to try the Crystal Seal.
This is where the black car would have helped. I wanted to take a few pics of the application but on the white car it was tough to see the product. It self leveled so quickly, that setting up a pic with the right angle and lighting was too big a challenge on white paint. So I just focused on even application and moved over the entire car in less than ten minutes. I must say this is by far the easiest LSP I have ever applied. There was no need for me to follow up with spots that didn't self level because the product just disappeared into the paint. I could see the streak of the product applying and turn away for a second, and it's gone. Just shiny paint left behind. I found myself wanting to use too much product, but one spritz to prime the pad and one on each panel proved to be more than enough. No buffing, I just walked away. My phone (ya no cool camera yet) won't capture what I see, but here are a few pics. The shine is silly, I couldn't stop laughing.....I am a big fan of Wet Diamond, and I can't wait to use that first and top with this, but this alone is amazing. Ease of application, more depth, more shine. Durability is the only hope I have left, I guess. Since it is Blackfire based, it should last.
Thanks for reading!
