any thoughts on how it compared to McKee's? I sometimes wonder if they don't share products. Could be wrong.
I’m sure PBL and Mckees are very similar, but PBL probably more concentrated and a marketed longevity of 18 months vs 12 months for McKee’s. I use the PBL and am very satisfied so far
even with bogo i have a hard time swallowing $40 for a glass coating.
A bottle probably allow you to do a lot of cars. For Gtechnique's product I believe you can do 10 cars per bottle. So that is only 4$ per car. Aquapel is about 5$ per applicator and you can only do the windshield with it. So 40$ per bottle is quite affordable.
Yeah that’s right. No need to buff off FlyByForte. Apply and it flashes off.
Opti-Glass takes a bit of effort to buff off.
Both are good. I can’t comment on how it will perform for real heavy rain since it was another little to no rain season here.
Here’s the instructions for FlyByForte that shows apply and let is flash off. This is why I have been leaning to sticking with it over opti-glass.
Mckee’s is even easier to use than opti-glass.
Optimum does claim rock chip resistance with their coating.
I guess the down side to it us you have to do three coats then possibly go over it a fourth time with the applicator. I usually do two coats on my windshield with Opti-glass, really only one is needed.
We don't get a lot of rain where I live anyway. The Aquapel actually worked great for me. I got over a year, but it takes some pretty good effort in a short amount of time. I did end up with some residue at the bottom of the windshield.
2015 F-150 Crew Cab Lariat
2016 Chevrolet Camaro 2SS
A bottle probably allow you to do a lot of cars. For Gtechnique's product I believe you can do 10 cars per bottle. So that is only 4$ per car. Aquapel is about 5$ per applicator and you can only do the windshield with it. So 40$ per bottle is quite affordable.
I would say you could pretty easily get 20 cars out of Opti-glass. I'm surprised it doesn't mention the number of cars you can get out one bottle of the Opti-glass. You can probably get more than 20 with doing side glass. That makes it less than 4.00 per application. Buy it at 25% off and you're under 3.00 per application if you get more than 20.
2015 F-150 Crew Cab Lariat
2016 Chevrolet Camaro 2SS
i think i'm going to give the carpro kit a try. For $20 I get a polish that i wanted to get anyhow plus the coating and applicators for $20 CarPro FlyBy30 Windshield & Glass Coating Kit
My sister has a bad wiper scratch i want to try and get out for her too. So I'll get these pads unless someone can convince me that the hand application is adequate. CarPro Rayon Glass Polishing Pad, glass leveling discs
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2015 Ford Explorer Limited
2019 Chevy Silverado RST Z71
I had been considering getting Opti-seal and just reapplying it to my window pretty regularly.
However; I recently aggressively polished my windshield to remove wiper scratches, using the carpro glass pads and ceriglass.
Immediately I noticed that none of my spray waxes would stick to my window. Three applications of d156 didn’t do anything, nor did any their non AG offerings in the same category.
The only thing I had on hand that did seem to stick was rain-x.
I emailed carpro about this and this was their response:
I did mention d156 in my email, so I’m not sure if that info applies to polymer based LSP products, which Opti-seal and d155 are.
I’ll say this though - it’s a very disappointing side effect of using ceriglass. Spray waxes were my go to on my windshield beforehand, because it’s just quick to apply them.
So I’m now unfortunately left wondering if something like Opti-seal would be a waste of money, and I should just get a dedicated coating (which is not appealing to me at all.)
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