What products do you feel are underrated and get overlooked?
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What products do you feel are underrated and get overlooked?
I am going to predict that there are going to be a lot of older products in here and unfortunately this business is so competitive that a lot of old, solid products products are forgotten about.
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Not too many products are underrated and overlooked here at AG.:D
One not sold here is Rust Oleum never wet for glass. I use it all the time. Easy to use, cost effective, works excellently and lasts for months.
I'm going to say DG 253.
A close second may be Optimum Car Wax (OCW) spray.
Both of these are dirt cheap, and they always give excellent results year after year.
I would say anything from Duragloss[emoji56]
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Duragloss 101.
It can clean up some paints very nicely, and the protection it leaves behind is substantial.
Duragloss Aquawax.
Very durable spray sealant - even as a stand alone LSP.
You know, Paul.
There is something about Optimum.
Their products are super easy to use for the most part, but for me there was a pretty huge learning curve. I feel that some of the poor results people get with them is more a result of a mis communication with the manufacturer.
I'll use Opti-Seal as an example.
I've had the same bottle from about 2015 or 2016. I really wanted to like it, but I never did. It reminded me of Turtle Wax Ice Liquid Polish, the clear stuff they released in 2007. I had a difficult time with that stuff too. I had issues knowing how much to apply, how long to let it set, etc, etc.
With Opti-Seal, I thought applying with a foam applicator was not what I wanted to do, so I sprayed directly to the paint, and wiped with a standard terry weave microfiber. It never looked like it was protecting the paint - with neither the water behavior, or the look. So I made myself try the foam applicator. Same thing.
Over the summer I discovered that Opti-Seal really liked a surface that was polished with one of their polishes before hand. This left me with great water behavior. My mom's car was done with Hyper Polish / OOS in August, and still looks great, even as she uses the in bay automatic touchless to wash it.
But just last week I think I found yet another way to go about it. I had a bad habit of applying OOS without it leaving a wet film behind. I don't think that left enough active ingredients to get the product to work right. The next thing was that I wiped it off to soon afterwards, and/or got it wet too soon after application. So I hit the pad with one spray, and applied it until the film was getting weak, and then added another spritz, and so forth. The next thing I did was wait for most of the film to flash until gently wiping with a TRC Pearl. Then I kept the car dry for an hour or so. One morning I applied OOS to my gf's windshield, and she said it sucked. I applied it like how I'm describing here, and she loves it!
So even though Optimum products are super easy to apply, sometimes it takes a minute to truly "figure out".
And I have to say, I absolutely love Optimum Car Wax. It was all I used to protect our cars summer 2021. I have a picture of it fighting off a bird dropping on my car. Opti-Seal on my new mower keep the dust way down on it. If I could get away with just having that as my sealant, I'd be a very happy man!