Re: Can I Get Some Quick Guidance With My New CarPro Products?
Thank you so much everyone for the advice and guidance!
My IronX and Spotless will be coming in the mail later today. Hopefully IÂ’ll have time to do everything and it doesnÂ’t get delivered too late.
As for the IronX, I think IÂ’ll start by doing one panel at a time to see how it reacts in my environment- South Florida heat...
As for the Spotless, thankfully, it was only a free sample size, so I guess weÂ’ll see how it goes.
I really hope the IronX decon wash revived my ceramic coating!
Re: Can I Get Some Quick Guidance With My New CarPro Products?
Other reason I wouldn't use spotless is because it kills hydrophobic properties on coatings. I used it once, never again. To be honest, I'm not 100% sure how much damage Spotless does to coatings and other protection forms. It does work well for cleaning dirty rims though..
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That's good to know! I had purchased the larger size bottle of Spotless and was extremely disappointed. I'll use it to clean wheels now rather than let it go to waste.
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Interesting, never heard of anyone using Spotless to clean the wheels.
Re: Can I Get Some Quick Guidance With My New CarPro Products?
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Mike Phillips
Just to chime in,
I normally use iron removing products as a part of a PREP WASH, not as a part of maintenance or restoration/cleaning.
For you situation, here's what I would do.
Step 1: Spray Iron X over body panels of the car - avoid any anodized trim - like common around windows.
Allow to dwell 2-3 minutes but don't let it dry on the surface.
Step 2: Rinse off entire car including Iron X
Next, wash like I show here using CarPro Reset as your wash.
How to safely wash a ceramic coated car by Mike Phillips - Traditional Hose & Bucket Approach
:)
To share my results, it did not go well.
Here was my process:
1) Washed my car with Reset
2) Dried with leaf blower
3) Sprayed IronX generously to cover each panel
4) Let it sit for about 2 min
5) Agitate/smear with damp microfiber mitt very lightly
6) Hose off
7) Wash again with Reset
8) Detail with ECH2O
It seems as if parts of my coating that were beading water fine before doing this, are now performing worse. And for the parts that were not beading water before, they remained unchanged, if not worse.
I guess you can say that the paint/coating feels a little smoother as if there were actually contaminants lifted from the surface, but it did not fix my beading problem. I am not sure what else to do.
I can tell some contaminants were removed because prior to this, if I lightly ran my fingernail(s) along the paint, I can feel the contaminants- very tiny and raised from the surface. Whereas now, they are still there, but not as much/many/significant.
On the bright side, the paint looks great. I think lifting the contaminants really brought out the black color, gloss, depth, and shininess... I just wish it would have brought back the coatings properties.
At this point, I am very disappointed with myself. I feel like I applied the coating wrong from the start and just made matters worse. I almost want to just remove it and use Meg's Hybrid Ceramic Wax as I have that on 4 other vehicles and it is giving better results than my ceramic coating.
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Re: Can I Get Some Quick Guidance With My New CarPro Products?
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Mike Phillips
Where do you live?
South Florida. Parkland Specifically.
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Mike Phillips
Where do you live?
I think in the other thread he said he was around an hour and change from Stuart.
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BSoares
I think in the other thread he said he was around an hour and change from Stuart.
I remember that too. But last I remember, his shop/store was not taking public visits at the moment :(
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Dreichler
I remember that too. But last I remember, his shop/store was not taking public visits at the moment :(
Right, might be a few months until they do that again due to Covid-19