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Review-Collinite Double Coat wax
I have used this product regularly for the last year or so on many different cars of all colors that get used in many different ways. Daily drivers, show cars, vintage racers, antiques, new exotics, you name it.
I've always like the soft feel of a car that's waxed with carnuba, but have never found one that offered much durability, until Collinite. This stuff is ridiculous. It's as hydrophobic as anything I've ever used and just keeps looking great and beading water week after week, month after month.
I'll preface this with the fact that using this, or pretty much any other straight carnuba car wax requires a very smooth, very clean, properly prepped paint. You can't depend on this wax to clean anything off of your paint. There are no cleaners. No abrasives. No solvents.
That said, once your paint is ready, a coat or two, which goes on and comes off quite easily (don't let it dry forever and don't apply to hot paint in the sun-common sense...) and you will have a very happy car. I use a damp, clean cellulose sponge to apply, about a panel at a time. I use a fresh microfiber to remove about 99% of the wax. It gets built up on that one as I go. I use another fresh microfiber with a touch of de-ionized water spritz or quick detail spritz for a final going over.
It doesn't seem to attract dust like some carnubas do, and washing a car off is a breeze, as nothing sticks. A good rinse removes most of the dirt, and then mitting it off with soap doesn't seem to degrade the wax at all, which is very unlike most carnubas. It does say "detergent proof" on the old-school can.
This stuff has been around forever apparently. My dad's buddy, a Corvette restorer, asked me to try it out and give him my thoughts. I'm glad he gave me a can and I've continued to keep this stuff in my truck.
Gar
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Nice review, I have this wax also and it is a really nice wax.
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So, do you think this wax looks as good as other less durable products? What have you used?
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great to know, just bought a can for a person in the family who just bought a new truck
Bill 1234
2004 audi a6 quattro (traded).
2015 Ford Escape 2.0l ecoboost 4WD
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Originally Posted by swanicyouth
So, do you think this wax looks as good as other less durable products? What have you used?
I've used Collinite 476 and Menzerna Powerlock on my white Dodge.
I believe Power lock gave it a wetter look vs Collinite.
I wonder what BigGar thinks however.
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Re: Review-Collinite Double Coat wax
Here's a red Mustang I did yesterday but with 915.
2011 Compass Latitude Bright Silver/ 2017 Nissan Rogue SV AWD Premium Glacier White
REFLECTIVE IMAGE DETAILING
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Originally Posted by Bill1234
great to know, just bought a can for a person in the family who just bought a new truck
You should give the truck a proper detail bill
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Re: Review-Collinite Double Coat wax
Originally Posted by goldendodo19
You should give the truck a proper detail bill
very funny goldendodo
Probably should, Car is being built in one of the Ford factories and then being shipped to dealer
Bill 1234
2004 audi a6 quattro (traded).
2015 Ford Escape 2.0l ecoboost 4WD
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Re: Review-Collinite Double Coat wax
Originally Posted by BigGar
You can't depend on this wax to clean anything off of your paint.
There are no cleaners. No abrasives.
No solvents.
Collinite 476s is, indeed, a really good wax...
But it does seem to have a solvent as one of its ingredients: Petroleum distillates---hydrotreated light.
(Or as we have come to know it: Kerosene.)
To be sure: It's a "low odor" solvent. But it's still a solvent.
And...With that it mind: Does kerosene have the ability "to clean"?
Bob
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk."
~Joaquin de Setanti
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