Quick update!
Added our car to the testing. My truck will be washed and moe pictures will be taken when the weather clears up. Had a few moments to take pictures tonight of the car. The magnum was split into test panels as well using almost all of the same waxes/sealants. They were applied April 27th.
Stripping the previous wax.
Yeah, it was stripped... blowing air on the water just rippled it, wouldn't come off the paint.
Stripped versus Waxed with Optimum Car Wax from a few months earlier.
The waxes! Optiseal, Wolfgang Sealant, Collinite 476, and Colinite 845 in the Microfiber wrap.
Clean car outside, May 13
After a burst of water.
You can see the edges pretty clear!
Some individual feedback.
- Collinite 845 beads up very well. The great part is the synthetic blend allows the wax to bead up, and sheet depending on how the water is applied to the surface.
- Optiseal is still slick, and protecting as it should. Since it is a sealant, and the hood is almost parallel to the ground, there is not much sheeting, but more puddling. If the hood were sloped more, it would have sheeted off the surface.
- Collinite 476 is a paste wax that usually leaves a lot of beads. This was, again, the case. Uniform beads that look great! A little "bead" highway too.
- Wolfgang Sealant, like the Optiseal, it is hard to judge it on a parallel surface, but it is still protecting.
Some pictures you might find interesting.
The "unprotected" surface on the right, whereas the left is protected with collinite 845. Very minor filling, but it darkens the finish definitively.
The "unprotected" surface on the left, whereas the right is protected with collinite 476. A little filling ability, but again, the darkening.
I will try to keep this updated as well.
Wash was with Meguiars D111 Shampoo plus with ONR added.
