rover137
06-14-2021, 04:03 AM
I have recently put CarPro Lite on both mine and my wife’s car. No complaints for my car. I wash it weekly and using Elixir for as a drying aid and the car is garaged.
The issue is with my wife’s car which has been coated for around 2 months now. This car sits outside and it is winter here in Aus now and we get below zero in the early mornings 2-3 times a week. Now when I first coated I put reload on as it sits outside etc. I washed the car about 2 weeks after and all was well. The next 2 weeks we had a lot of rain so all your usual lovely grime was going in all the usual places like behind the wheels on the lower panels, mirrors, front bumper and rear bumper. The car is driven maybe 70km daily.
This wash was a lot more difficult. Even after snow foaming the car and then a hand wash with Reset, the beading was still a little slow on these panels. As the car is white, I could also see the grime build up which was like little black specks on the paint in these locations with the rear being the worst. I then bought CarPro lift. This got maybe 40-50%% of this grime off including a hand wash. So I then mixed Lift in a spray bottle diluted 1:15ish and sprayed all these panels after the usual snow and hand wash routine. I then took my mitt with Reset and hit those panels again. The grime and black specks came off and beading was restored! Magic! I was happy. So 2-3 weeks later I washed it again using Lift and Reset. Again this grime was built up as we have had a lot of rain. So I did the spray bottle trick which got maybe 80% of the the specks off and restored beading by 95% (only aforementioned problematic panels effected). At this point I had foamed, hand washed and sprayed my Lift mixture on these panels so I did not want to hit it again with anything and just left it after throwing some Elixir on top.
Does anyone have a solution or is this as good as it gets? I feel like the coating ‘clogs’ easily and it’s not like I’m washing it once every 6 months or something and I am using some rather aggressive methods. I would prefer not to use Lift in the cannon and then in the spray bottle every wash (2-4 weeks) if I can help it. With the car being white this grime is very easy to see. Before CarPro Lite the car had Megs HCW on it and this was never an issue even when the car was left for 1-2 months wittout a wash in the winter months.
There is no salt on our roads as it snows a tiny amount maybe once a winter.
Thanks!
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The issue is with my wife’s car which has been coated for around 2 months now. This car sits outside and it is winter here in Aus now and we get below zero in the early mornings 2-3 times a week. Now when I first coated I put reload on as it sits outside etc. I washed the car about 2 weeks after and all was well. The next 2 weeks we had a lot of rain so all your usual lovely grime was going in all the usual places like behind the wheels on the lower panels, mirrors, front bumper and rear bumper. The car is driven maybe 70km daily.
This wash was a lot more difficult. Even after snow foaming the car and then a hand wash with Reset, the beading was still a little slow on these panels. As the car is white, I could also see the grime build up which was like little black specks on the paint in these locations with the rear being the worst. I then bought CarPro lift. This got maybe 40-50%% of this grime off including a hand wash. So I then mixed Lift in a spray bottle diluted 1:15ish and sprayed all these panels after the usual snow and hand wash routine. I then took my mitt with Reset and hit those panels again. The grime and black specks came off and beading was restored! Magic! I was happy. So 2-3 weeks later I washed it again using Lift and Reset. Again this grime was built up as we have had a lot of rain. So I did the spray bottle trick which got maybe 80% of the the specks off and restored beading by 95% (only aforementioned problematic panels effected). At this point I had foamed, hand washed and sprayed my Lift mixture on these panels so I did not want to hit it again with anything and just left it after throwing some Elixir on top.
Does anyone have a solution or is this as good as it gets? I feel like the coating ‘clogs’ easily and it’s not like I’m washing it once every 6 months or something and I am using some rather aggressive methods. I would prefer not to use Lift in the cannon and then in the spray bottle every wash (2-4 weeks) if I can help it. With the car being white this grime is very easy to see. Before CarPro Lite the car had Megs HCW on it and this was never an issue even when the car was left for 1-2 months wittout a wash in the winter months.
There is no salt on our roads as it snows a tiny amount maybe once a winter.
Thanks!
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