What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

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Washing at home or pay and spray? If at home how are you rinseling?


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Garden hose

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Am I reading this right (below, from their website)? Is it trying to tell me if I continuously use the bottle I'll have a year of protection? I don't doubt your opinion (respect it heavily in fact) but this is certainly an interesting way to define durability. I can probably get 20-25yrs out of their graphene paste wax if we're assessing durability this way


1 year of shine & protection – one bottle will provide multiple applications to maintain that high gloss shine & protection through all the seasons

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Well I'm not sure what they're basing that off of but once applied it's dry to the touch, in a short amount of time and it's kinda like their old product that was that black dye product, thankfully this isn't a dye.

The product is $15.00 for 10 oz and I've got 1 coat on the Cruze, well see how often I've gotta reapply

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If it's a typical acrylic coating, IMO there is no blue tint mixed in, that blue appearance after you put it on is something to do with the curing process or just refraction.

EDIT: I mean, I think even the old black TW stuff turns blue like that after you put it on, until it dries. Eldo will confirm or tell me I'm crazy.

Your correct on all points, didn't know what that blue stuff was but I know this, it didn't turn my tires blown/tarnish like Optimum tire coating did

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Your correct on all points, didn't know what that blue stuff was but I know this, it didn't turn my tires blown/tarnish like Optimum tire coating did

Was that these same tires?

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Was that these same tires?

No but I tried on 3 different tires and they all turned that color, I'm sure it was a bad batch, I threw it away

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No but I tried on 3 different tires and they all turned that color, I'm sure it was a bad batch, I threw it away

I doubt it was a bad batch. I think it's a combination of tire compound/cleaning/previous dressing issue. We've all had tires (especially winter/snowflake on the mountain) that want to brown more than others, we've all used dressings that seem to promote browning more than others.

I that in some cases you may need to scrub the tire and let it breathe/drive for a few days and scrub it again in order to get the old dressing out of the tire, just like in that other thread where members were encouraging that member to drive on his new tires a bit to get the mold release out before dressing. I think Mike Phillips once said he didn't recommend coating a tire that had been dressed before, only a new tire that hadn't.

I coated a set of snowflake-on-the-mountain tires for an extended family member before the winter, and one or two of them started to get a brown tinge under the coating right after I put it on, but the others didn't. I chalk that up to inconsistent cleaning by me, or use of different tire cleaners on different tires, even though I scrubbed the bejesus out of all of them. Those are tires that liked to brown, and where I had used a blingy dressing due to owner preference. I did better on a set of tires on one of my cars that I did around the same time, which are regular all-seasons, and I used a different dressing on. Pretty much same prep, same coating, those tires still look fine.

I mean there's a reason not everybody likes coatings, because sometimes you get bad results. I really enjoyed my tires looking ok the whole winter this year. Glad this one is working out for you

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I really don't mind too much having to routinely reapply dressings. Coatings seem to have too many drawbacks to me. Maybe things will change with any product advancements in the future.

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I really don't mind too much having to routinely reapply dressings. Coatings seem to have too many drawbacks to me. Maybe things will change with any product advancements in the future.

So far I don't see any drawbacks here FWIW

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So far I don't see any drawbacks here FWIW

The biggest issue people seem to have with coatings (other than the initial cleaning and installation issues like browning) is that if you don't like the look, it's hard to change that (unlike with a dressing that you can just scrub off and try another), and if you curb a tire it can be more of job to "restore" it vs. a dressing.

Bill can futz with his tires/dressing all year round in his garage in FL, those of us with winter and no hose in the garage are a little more restricted.

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FWIW here's my Turtle Wax Mr. Cartoon Tire Coat on my tires

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