Recent content by Schlotzky

I am kind of trending that direction that coatings may not be the answer in this climate. I was really thinking the coating was going to help repel bonded contaminates better than it has, with all the talk of 'self cleaning'. So far my coating doesn't seem any different to clean than my DD...

I'm in Portland (area) too and am really only now starting to appreciate how annoying the rain is when trying to keep a new black vehicle perfect. My first car was black and I swore it off when i sold it, but here I am again, and it's worse than I remember! lol I was smelling the IronX on my...

Well I hit the truck with a thorough coating of Iron-X followed by a thorough wash with Reset. It was hard to tell if the Iron-X was doing anything, but after rinsing, I noticed quite a bit of purple on my driveway, so there must have been substantial build-up despite the truck spending 75% of...

This was my original thought the first time the coating seemed to fail, which is why my most recent application, I wiped the whole truck down twice with 90% IPA. But maybe even that wasn't enough and I should've used a different polish.

I live in the Northwest. We get a ton of rain, and you guys have drawn attention to my environment, which is an industrial zone where I park at work near an airport under the flight path, and my house is also under a normal flight path, though further from the airport. I didn't really consider...

I'll try the baggie test next wash. The truck has mostly been in the garage during the rainy season lately. Are there products similar to Reset? So far I've been very underwhelmed by all the CarPro products I've tried. So far they all smell terrible, are difficult to work with and streak...

I bought a brand new Brilliant Black Crystal Pearl Ram 1500 last December and kicked off my ownership by polishing out all of the dealer-incurred swirl marks with a clay treatment followed by Meguiars Ultimate Polish on a DA.; I followed the polish up with a thorough wipe down with about 15%...