Thoughts about the old, In with the New.

Accumulator said:
No worries on the :argue mikenap but I appreciate your wanting to make sure.



The problems, and maybe I oughta put that in scare-quotes, are two-fold:



1) Pseudo-holograms, which are sometimes *VERY* minor. I could remove ~90% of them and have it look *perfect* even under the SunGun in a dark shop, and I do mean perfect. But, Accumulatorette and I are both utterly fanatical about anything resembling holograms and in just the right (natural) sunlight, with a certain combo of viewing and illumination angles, and two people who are *really* good at spotting such stuff (one person moves between the sun and the panels to affect a "partial shade to full-sun transition" while the other person also moves to spot that "transitioning rainbow-shadow" affect)...well, they were still there in places.



IPA was only somewhat effective and my old version of PrepWash wasn't much better (the new stuff works pretty well), so this took *ages* to sort out 100% and we had to work at a certain time of day/sun position, so it took a few different days, hence my tendency to rant on the subject. (Props to my wife for helping out!)



2) Similar, but different effects when the M205 is followed by something like ZAIO; a *very* minor, barely visible residue from where the ZAIO seemed to "bring the residual oils up to the surface to get mixed with the ZAIO residue" (or at least that's how it seemed). Said residue was a bear to buff away, but at least re-ZAIOing was usually effective.



This one only happened once, but that was on the beater-Tahoe so it was a lot of territory to clear up. At least I could spot this problem under both incandescents and the SunGun.



Again, both these issues were so minor that I can easily imagine most people never seeing them even after a good inspection. And maybe some glaze/LSP/whatever would sort it out OK :nixweiss



While those are the only "problems", they also make me a little nervous about trying to apply a potentially finicky LSP without a very thorough stripping. Not that I've ever really thought/worried about doing that.



Thanks Accumulator, that's a very detailed explanation! I've also found 205 oils can be hard to FULLY remove sometimes, but I've never experienced (yet!) what you're describing. I was kinda curious if the problems you'd had were of the LSP-bonding/LSP-longevity variety. Have you found those pseudo-holograms to dissipate with time? Thanks again for the response.
 
mikenap said:
.. I was kinda curious if the problems you'd had were of the LSP-bonding/LSP-longevity variety...



Can't say as I've never left the oils on in situations where that could be a consideration :nixweiss



FWIW, I did leave 'em on when I did my pal's Jag showcar, just put Autoglym SRP + 476S over top and everything seemed OK, never noticed any problems down the road either.




Have you found those pseudo-holograms to dissipate with time?



Sorry, but again, I never let them go long enough to find out. Heh heh, neither my wife nor I will be caught dead in a vehicle with any holograms (pseudo or otherwise) so we spent forever sorting that out. They did not dissipate over the few days it took us to solve the problem though. If I had to guess, I'd expect them to dissipate over (enough) time though, oils like that always seem to...but if they're locked in under a good LSP it can take a long, long time.



I guess I see this as another of those cases where I don't want people looking for new problems that they don't worry about now, but rather to just be aware that said problems might crop up and have a plan to sort them out.
 
So Items I'd like to hear more on

FK425 (what's diff btwn that and 215?)

Washes--thinking about prep sol or the like--but still haven't figured out which foamer I want to buy (i don't have a pressure washer...)
 
Alexshimshimhae said:
..Washes--thinking about prep sol or the like--but still haven't figured out which foamer I want to buy (i don't have a pressure washer...)



Note that PrepSol is a solvent, not something you spray or foam.
 
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