S100 and water

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beanbag

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I washed my car with QEW. I don't think I dried it completely because my WW towel was starting to get moist and "load up". So there might have been a little bit of QEW left, but I figured that it didn't matter because it's diluted 1 oz per gallon anyway. Then I waxed over it with S100. The application went smoothly over areas that had UPP underneath. It felt somewhat crunchy and rough over areas that were last waxed about 3 months ago. (I might have even heard static crackling).



As soon as I finished the S100 application, it started to get dark, and moisture was condensing on my car. (Is this bad?) What I saw in the moisture were wipe marks and patterns that looked like waterspots. Thus I think that whatever the QEW left behind or etched, neither the S100 itself nor it's application can take out. Maybe next time I will mist the car with distilled water or a QD before waxing, since I don't want to seal in these spots.



I don't remember UPP or Medallion PPP having this problem, probably due to their higher solvent content.
 
S100 will take out extremely MILD spots after washing. It is not a cleaner wax so it will not take out anything else. It does seem to have a low solvent content.



With QEW try the 2 towel method, this is important, because QEW will leave streaks or smears if you let it dry on the surface.



If the surface is wet from moisture in the air, while you are waxing, I would think this would be bad for any wax.
 
I get that on my car too when I use S100 when I wash with Mother's Trigger Wash (another bucketless system). I don't get it when I wash with Gold Class.
 
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