UQD or UQW for my application?

[Striker]

I will be applying my LSP on my single stage painted Mustang which will be megs m21 sealent.

In the past I would wash the vehicle and dry it with UQD. Helped with the drying process and I thought I was adding protection.

Since the car is sealed, should I stick with th uqd after washes or jump to the uqw??

 

[The Guz]

Use UQW as a drying aid. That will leave protection behind. Use UQD to remove light dust and finger prints.

 

[Loach]

Either is fine in my experience. UQW will leave stronger protection behind compared to UQD, and Meguiar's recommends UQW more for that wax & dry purpose because of that. Since the car is already sealed, using either shouldn't be a problem. If it's been a few weeks I might switch over to UQW, and then reapply M21 after a few months.

 

[Pats300zx]

I would go with UQW. It's a great drying aid, super easy to use, and adds more protection than UQD.

 

[Accumulator]

I've never used UQD but UQW is now one of my stardard drying-aid products. With the vehicle already washed, I don't see a need for the cleaning ability of a QD unless there's some wildcard factor involved (in those cases I usually use IUDJ as my drying aid instead of a conventional QD).

 

[Striker]

Do you use the flooding method than proceed to finish it off w UQW?

 

[The Guz]

I do.

 

[Accumulator]

Do you use the flooding method than proceed to finish it off w UQW?

I can't use the flooding-rinse method in my current shop, so I blow most of the water off with the AirWand before using my drying aids (e.g., UQW). Not sure if that factors in, but it might since it leaves far less water on the vehicles than the flooding-rinse used to back when I could do that.

 

[Striker]

Bought some uqw and it was on sale for 8.99 up here in Canada. Excited to use it.

My polishing fiasco should be done end of this week.