Questions RE Collinite 915 and 476

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pwaug

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This will be used on a non metallic black VW--



For those of you have used 915 and 476:



Is there much difference in look between these two? Have you seen a difference in durability?



I know they need to be applied in a thin coat, but have you had better results doing this by hand or with a DA?? If with a DA how do you put the product on the pad?



Collinite says to allow a section to haze and then wipe off, but is it OK to do the whole car then buff off?



Thanks!!
 
To my eyes, 915 has just a little more reflectivity, which I don't particularly like on black, red, or yellow. I'd use the 476 in your case. By hand or PC doesn't matther, works great either way. As long as you are in the shade and apply thin, you can do the whole car and buff off later.
 
I have both and like them a lot. I use 915 on top of 845 on my black Tahoe.



476 is part of my winter prep. I also use 476 on the Vette chrome rims.
 
Of those two, I've only used the 476S, but anyhow...



pwaug said:
I know they need to be applied in a thin coat, but have you had better results doing this by hand or with a DA?? If with a DA how do you put the product on the pad?..
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I generally do it by hand as I question whether a) there's any practical/functional diff (unlike M16 which really seems to respond to machine application) and b) it's as much of a hassle to get out the polisher and put it away again as it is to just do it by hand and the little hand-application pads clean up easier than the larger machine pads.



BUT..yeah, I do sometimes do it by machine just because I like doing it that way :nixweiss



Collinite says to allow a section to haze and then wipe off, but is it OK to do the whole car then buff off?
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I pretty much always apply to the whole car before buffing it off. EXCEPTION is on black exterior plastics, I always W-O-W-O on those surfaces, especially with a paste like 476S.
 
Accumulator said:
BUT..yeah, I do sometimes do it by machine just because I like doing it that way :nixweiss
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When you apply by machine how do you put the wax on the pad???
 
pwaug said:
When you apply by machine how do you put the wax on the pad???
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With paste waxes, I usually use a plastic razor blade or a spatula/scraper/etc. to transfer from the tin to the pad. Then I work the wax into the pad a bit (not deeply, more to evenly distribute it) and finally use the [transfer tool] to scrape as much wax as possible back *off* the pad.



Remember that it takes *very* little wax to do a proper job. A tin of Collinite paste wax oughta last for many, *many* years even if you're doing Suburbans/etc. all the time.
 
Thanks guys!! Poxy looks great on the black Golf, but I'm only seeing about 3 months before it starts to fade, it's not too resistant to bird bomb damage and I don't want to be touching that thing any more often than I have too so I'll give the 476 a try.



Occurred to me that the last tiime I used a paste wax was on my 55 Chev in High School and that was nearly 50 years ago--how time flys!
 
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