All Meguiar's car washes are non-detergent, so it's not like using dish washing detergent.
Hyper-Wash is a concentrated car wash soap for use at commercial car washes so one should expect the cleaning ability to be on par with the competition for products that cater to that segment of the market otherwise how could it compete?
Who takes their car to a car wash?
How dirty are cars taken to car washes?
My guess is it will have more cleaning ability than a product like Gold Class but not offer the slickness and conditioning agents a product like Gold Class offers. Still a great car wash for the category.
For years now I've been adding to conversations like this that when it comes to how well a coating of wax or paint sealant will hold up to washing it's not just the car wash soap, it's also
anything that touches the paint including a strong blast of water from a pressure washer to your choice of wash mitt material and even the material you remove the water with, these are all variables that have contact with the coating and thus have the potential to have an effect on the coating.
Because online enthusiasts tend to be a more on the
extreme AR side of any detailing conversation, sometimes, (actually almost all of the time), I'll adjust my writing to that mindset and post something like this,
From an extreme AR perspective,
If washing your car with
ANY car wash solution and a fuzzy wash mitt, (pick the mitt of your choice), isn't
adding wax or paint sealant...
what's the opposite of adding?
Or, from this extreme AR perspective,
Say if you used the best car wash solution on earth and the known best, softest, least aggressive wash mitt on earth and the best skill and ability to gently move the mitt over the paint only enough to loosen any surface dirt so that it can be rinsed off,
If doing the above did NOT remove any wax or paint sealant at all, then theoretically you would have the same measure of protection on the paint then when you started.
Correct?
Now if you were to
not add any more wax or paint sealant, would you lose any of the previously applied wax or paint sealant if you were to repeatedly wash the car for say... 100 times? What about 1000 times? What about 10,000 times?
The point is nothing lasts forever and wax and paint sealants are meant to be
Sacrificial Barrier Coatings that are meant to wear off. They are meant to
sacrifice themselves so that your paint doesn't have to; That is they are supposed to
give themselves up so your paint doesn't give itself up.
And the good news is that you and I can quickly and easily replace this sacrificial barrier coating by simply re-applying a coating of wax or paint sealant.
Most of us cannot quickly and easily add a new coat of paint to the car.
Does the above make sense?