Pick 1 - Wax - Sealant - Coating

[Mike Phillips]

Pick 1 - Wax - Sealant - Coating


What is your category of choice and why?


Car Wax - Synthetic Sealant - Ceramic Paint Coating

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/722/wax_sealant_coating.JPG


You're not picking the actual products, but one of the CATEGORIES.



Car Wax
Synthetic Sealant
Ceramic Paint Coating



:)

[mk9750]

In my barely informed opinion, I'd go:

1A) Coatings
1B) Sealants
3) Waxes

However, my exposure to waxes is limited to well before I got serious doing this. Between my lack of experience, and improvements that have likely been made in wax technology, I might have my list wrong. But it's the way I lean right now.

[Strong66]

Synthetic sealant, i can get 6 plus months out of FK 1000, I'm going to polish my car at least once a year so no reason to go with a coating.

[FUNX650]

Pick 1 - Wax - Sealant - Coating


What is your category of choice and why?



Car Wax
Synthetic Sealant
Ceramic Paint Coating


Category?:
2. Synthetic Sealant

Why?:
An easily renewable, man-made ingredients based
LSP that (at least from my experiences/perspective)
does not “gray-out” as quickly as does the more
natural-ingredients based car Wax.



Bob

[dlc95]

2. Synthetic sealant.

• Durability relative to ease of use.
• Not requiring perfect or bare paint.
• Light polishing/cleaning abilities found in select (liquid) sealants saves time.
• Spray on, wipe off application of some sealants is convenient.

[Coatingsarecrack]

Pick 1 - Wax - Sealant - Coating


What is your category of choice and why?


Car Wax - Synthetic Sealant - Ceramic Paint Coating

http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/722/wax_sealant_coating.JPG


You're not picking the actual products, but one of the CATEGORIES.



Car Wax
Synthetic Sealant
Ceramic Paint Coating



:)

Sio2 spray (blackfire/cosmic spritz/cure) count as sealant or coating?



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[BudgetPlan1]

Coatings

1. Great Self Cleaning Abilities: Our cars see rain and often get rained on in the morning and then sit outside in the sun in the afternoon; don’t like waterspots. I like clean cars but don’t like cleaning cars. And with an affinity for black cars, need all the help I can get.

2. Durability and resistance to environmental contamination like water spots and bird bombs. Don’t wanna have to worry about running home and immediately dealing with removing things that would otherwise etch bare (or sealant or wax covered) paint. Like hard water spots did to our Corvette during the sealant years. Also has to last cuz I don’t wanna be hauling out compounds and polishes every Spring, given reasonable maintenance. Yes, the 2nd year I'll likely be living with some light scratches and marring perhaps but in my world, laziness sometimes trumps consistent perfection. And 2 years, 40k miles is all I expect (or want) from a coating.

3. Appearance: Well, stuff has to look good. Has to accentuate body lines, curves and hard edges. It needs to make me stop and admire it when walking towards it, walking away from it or catching a glance in the garage when I take out the garbage. I can choose various complimentary products to alter the look a bit should the mood strike me and still maintain decent self-cleaning characteristics.

I might make an exception for Polish Angel Master Sealant though...never seen an LSP that looks so luscious.

[Farmallluvr]

2. Synthetic sealant.

• Durability relative to ease of use.
• Not requiring perfect or bare paint.
• Light polishing/cleaning abilities found in select (liquid) sealants saves time.
• Spray on, wipe off application of some sealants is convenient.

pretty much my opinion as well but I would add that it's nice to have an upsell option thats affordable for most people and having them there for application or re application provides an oppurtunity for upselling something else as well.

[PaulMys]

Synthetics.

This includes Collinite products, some of my favorites to this day.

[Markymapo]

Synthetic for me. Lasts 3 to 6 months n then I get to try another one.

[Oz_TCH]

Wax.

Longevity does not matter 'cause I like to Wax on Wax off often.

[acuRAS82]

1) Sealants
2) Wax
3) Coatings

I really love good waxes, but I don’t have a garage queen to work with, so sealants are my choice. I love the opportunity of polishing 1-2x per year and trying topper combos on my LSPs, so coatings are out. Sealants look great these days (typically candy coated vs the old sterile-shine days), they’re pretty durable (3-6 months), generally the most affordable per application (even the most expensive sealants usually max around $40 per 8-16oz bottles) and are so easy to apply. You can top them with anything if you need to touch as often as I do.

I love SiO2 sprays but sealants are my pick regardless if these are considered sealants or coatings. Top SiO2 sprays or a beauty wax might be my favorite date night choice, but fine sealants are what keep me happy through 8-10 months of the year.

[pickles]

I'm a sealant guy. easy to use, nice durability, nice looks. Prefer sprays due to time and sizeof vehicles.

Have recently gotten into spray SOWO ceramics as they have taken off with multiple brands. Also like that I can use sprays on windows and chrome too.

[Thomkirby]

Simple, #2 Sealant
A product that works with paint and most topping products.

Kirby

[Dr Oldz]

Fun topic with no wrong answers in my opinion.

For me it’s Wax. For a bunch of personal reasons.

1 Love me Nuba.

2 I do detailing for money. Repeat business is a big part of my profit. I don’t believe a vehicle should only be “detailed” once every year or so. I like to perform 3-4 good quality details a year with typical decontamination processes. So longetivity isn’t an issue for me.

3 I can wax a vehicle and set it free minute after. Meaning a vehicle doesn’t have to stay in the shop for 12+ hours so water/moisture doesn’t ruin the bonding process. This is a big reason for me as most people want their vehicle back the same day when possible.

4 I prefer the look of a Nuba in most cases.

5 There is one way to achieve the just waxed look. And that’s by just waxing! ;)

6 I enjoy collecting/using different waxes!