Petinej- Welcome to Autopia!
I too think you oughta consider a better shampoo (another vote for 3D Pink) and also a more durable LSP (e.g., FK1000P). I`d go nuts if I had to do anything except wash for months on end, even in the winter.
Petinej- Welcome to Autopia!
I too think you oughta consider a better shampoo (another vote for 3D Pink) and also a more durable LSP (e.g., FK1000P). I`d go nuts if I had to do anything except wash for months on end, even in the winter.
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Thanks for the warm welcome! This place is awesome. I was on my way to trying other LSP but found that nothing survived below the door handles for very long 1-2 weeks. I figured that it was the soap or process I was doing. I know this is a tough question to ask but what soap would do best at removing road grime without hurting a conventional wax or sealant? Carpro reset says safe for coatings but says nothing about wax. Maybe because they don`t sell wax?
I got motivated and used up the last of meguiars GC yesterday as it was above freezing. So I am ready to purchase.
What I was thinking about is using a product to put on the grimey parts and then wash the car normally after that. But really don`t want to make things to complicated. I got 4 cars to wash on a regular basis until the kids move out.
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Reset is your best bet although I read somewhere the said it could hurt waxes. Problem is I would think anything that affects traffic film is gonna affect a wax.
Just the name of the game if you wanna keep using waxes. Maybe try a coating or sealant.
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Sorry for the late reply
While some cars/paints/panels just don`t stay waxed (e.g. the rear bumpercover of my wife`s A8), I can usually get many months out of the FK1000P (which I`ve never tried on her car). Washing with the 3D Pink, or Griot`s (regular) Car Wash, or my preferred 50:50 mix of the two, has basically zero effedt on the FK. As in, I`ll wash over and over and over without having to rewax.
With all those cars to keep nice, the FK1000P and those shampoos are what I`d do/recommend since I basically don`t do coatings. That approach works so well that I don`t believe I`m missing much by skipping the coatings either (and yeah, I`ve used them before so it`s an informed opinion). Easy for me to spend your money for you, but a tin of wax and a jug of shampoo or two strikes me as a pretty low-cost option to try out, and I really am confident that you`d be happy. (Hey, if you try `em and you`re *NOT* happy, let me know.)
Thanks for the reply. After a knee surgery a couple of weeks ago I bought 3D pink and love it. I, like you, have tried other non wax products and haven`t seen great results. I appreciate your help and letting us know what you use. I have used collinite 30 years ago, I grew up about 5 miles from the plant. I have tried a very old bottle and it seems to out protect the other things I have tried. Honestly I have one more product to try because I already purchased it over the winter. When that is done so am I. Well for now.
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Ah glad the Pink is working out OK for you (and that the knee surgery apparently went OK too).
Before latching onto the Fk1000P, I was *all* about the Collinites You won`t go wrong with their waxes, which are the only ones that anybody here has had outlast the FK (different people just get different results I guess).
That`s neat that you were so close to their facilities! Note that their 845 Insulator Wax can be great on exterior trim as well as paint.
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