trekker
08-11-2010, 01:14 PM
Hey Everyone!
I was just wondering what kind of wash you guys use to get all the old wax and sealant off vehicles when you're just doing a typical wash and wax.
This morning I did a white GMC Envoy. It had horrifying amounts of iron filings in the paint that had created a healthy speckling of rust spots on most of the vehicle. I noticed while rinsing off the heavier debris, it certainly had some type of protection on it because it was still beading fairly strong. On most of the vehicles I do, I pre-soak with either CG Bug Bugger or OPC @ 3:1. Then I use CG Wash & Gloss at a fairly heavy dilution, probably around 0.5 oz. per gallon. I also used hot water, I have access to it from the spigot. This usually preps the paint pretty good for claying. However, after washing/rinsing the paint was still beading strong. Now, CG Wash and Gloss isn't considered a maintenance soap by any means and with an OPC dwell I figured it would strip it off. Dried the paint and decided to go to Aquartz Iron Cut to start eating away at the iron filings. The LSP was giving it a really hard time though. It worked but not near as good as it does on bare paint. So I let the Iron Cut dwell for a while and rinsed it off. It hadn't produced near the result I've seen it do before. So I figured I would clay (Riccardo Blue) to see if that would help out, and it knocked back whatever LSP was on there pretty good. So I did a second application of Iron Cut and it did a great job.
I was wondering if Dawn would have took care of this problem to begin with? I know a lot of folks here on the AGO use it to strip everything off to get the paint ready to work with. Would it have worked on whatever LSP I described?
Let me know what you think!
Thanks! :xyxthumbs:
Ben
I was just wondering what kind of wash you guys use to get all the old wax and sealant off vehicles when you're just doing a typical wash and wax.
This morning I did a white GMC Envoy. It had horrifying amounts of iron filings in the paint that had created a healthy speckling of rust spots on most of the vehicle. I noticed while rinsing off the heavier debris, it certainly had some type of protection on it because it was still beading fairly strong. On most of the vehicles I do, I pre-soak with either CG Bug Bugger or OPC @ 3:1. Then I use CG Wash & Gloss at a fairly heavy dilution, probably around 0.5 oz. per gallon. I also used hot water, I have access to it from the spigot. This usually preps the paint pretty good for claying. However, after washing/rinsing the paint was still beading strong. Now, CG Wash and Gloss isn't considered a maintenance soap by any means and with an OPC dwell I figured it would strip it off. Dried the paint and decided to go to Aquartz Iron Cut to start eating away at the iron filings. The LSP was giving it a really hard time though. It worked but not near as good as it does on bare paint. So I let the Iron Cut dwell for a while and rinsed it off. It hadn't produced near the result I've seen it do before. So I figured I would clay (Riccardo Blue) to see if that would help out, and it knocked back whatever LSP was on there pretty good. So I did a second application of Iron Cut and it did a great job.
I was wondering if Dawn would have took care of this problem to begin with? I know a lot of folks here on the AGO use it to strip everything off to get the paint ready to work with. Would it have worked on whatever LSP I described?
Let me know what you think!
Thanks! :xyxthumbs:
Ben