So after many months (11 to be exact) of not re-Klassing and using no QD, but washing with Pinncle Bodywork Shampoo, I've come to some conclusions (hypotheses, more like it), but they are only limited to the circumstances to which I have applied to my car.
1) Klasse lasts a long time. A lot longer than I thought. You will find that with frequent washing (with PBS) it actually revitilizes the finish (it does say that it has conditioners in it). It's an effect similar to QD, you can feel the oily slickness when you are drying the car.
2)PBS keeps the Klasse beading. After every wash with PBS the car beaded. Beading as in beading like Klasse does, sort a split between beading and sheeting, like an accelerated beading but not perfect sheeting.
3) When Klasse began to fail you can see a difference in the beading that was caused by the PBS. All of us have been looking for a means to determine if Klasse (or any wax for that matter) and here I believe is one of them. What the PBS did was setup a similar circumstance for one to observe beading under. Usually, when determining beading (rain or whatever) there can be uncontrollable factors. By washing them away should, in theory, it rids the car of these influnces.
4)The beading stopped after Klasse failed. It failed for two consecutive washes. There was no beading, I literally could see that there was no protection, you could see the water wetting out. I could tell that week when it rained that it still wasn't beading.
5)By the third wash after it stopped beading, the beading came back. This, IMO, is the condition behavior of the PBS, depositing and conditioning with its oils on the Klasse less paint. Also as you know (or as they have tested), paint beads. The paint has continued to bead since (3 or 4 washes).
6) This happened to different parts on my car differently. The first parts to stop beading and start up again was the glass. They stopped sometime in the early fall (I think I posted when it happened). The Klasse on the paint failed I think early last month. The beading now, IMO, looks different than Klasse beading.
Well, that's pretty much what happened from what I could tell. Not very scientific, but it seemed to prove of some benefit. Don't know if anyone has stuck around long enough to do something similar but there was my version.
1) Klasse lasts a long time. A lot longer than I thought. You will find that with frequent washing (with PBS) it actually revitilizes the finish (it does say that it has conditioners in it). It's an effect similar to QD, you can feel the oily slickness when you are drying the car.
2)PBS keeps the Klasse beading. After every wash with PBS the car beaded. Beading as in beading like Klasse does, sort a split between beading and sheeting, like an accelerated beading but not perfect sheeting.
3) When Klasse began to fail you can see a difference in the beading that was caused by the PBS. All of us have been looking for a means to determine if Klasse (or any wax for that matter) and here I believe is one of them. What the PBS did was setup a similar circumstance for one to observe beading under. Usually, when determining beading (rain or whatever) there can be uncontrollable factors. By washing them away should, in theory, it rids the car of these influnces.
4)The beading stopped after Klasse failed. It failed for two consecutive washes. There was no beading, I literally could see that there was no protection, you could see the water wetting out. I could tell that week when it rained that it still wasn't beading.
5)By the third wash after it stopped beading, the beading came back. This, IMO, is the condition behavior of the PBS, depositing and conditioning with its oils on the Klasse less paint. Also as you know (or as they have tested), paint beads. The paint has continued to bead since (3 or 4 washes).
6) This happened to different parts on my car differently. The first parts to stop beading and start up again was the glass. They stopped sometime in the early fall (I think I posted when it happened). The Klasse on the paint failed I think early last month. The beading now, IMO, looks different than Klasse beading.
Well, that's pretty much what happened from what I could tell. Not very scientific, but it seemed to prove of some benefit. Don't know if anyone has stuck around long enough to do something similar but there was my version.