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I find this test fascinating actually. Some of these products were ones I had researched then passed up basically for one reason or the other.

Trust me man, I get you. A friend of my wife's had a brand new (at the time) 2016 GTI that was black. I had a 2007 White Toyota Matrix. Using the same wax, his car was like woah. Mine wasn't as mirror shine. But at the same time though, because the car was black you kind of expect the super...

Same here in Ontario (province of Canada) Still requires front and rear. BS.

Looks great.

+1 for cleaner wax. Easier process, wash it and check if it needs costing then just wax it with some kind of a cleaner wax.

Sometimes I'm very disappointed in Essence. Sometimes it surprises me. Well done as always, that's probably the nicest Jaguar F-Pace I've seen in a long time but then again, dealerships don't have someone of your caliber to paint correct there either.

"Old 2 door chevy" Mike, your sense of humour kills me :D

Surface coating over the paint coating is actually oddly chemically synergistic. It's basically almost a dedicated topper that can be used on its own, judging by what it is meant to be used on.

Looked up the SDS, the film is from the Quick Detailer. Fast Finish and CMX on the paint won't cause this. I'm actually wondering if you gave the quick detailer a thorough shake before you used it? Good general practice for any spray products you use. Film is most likely caused by the PDMS and...

You make me miss my white car. There's something about a white car in a black paved parking lot...

The Mothers clay kit is awesome. I use it for for when I do a car that's only seen the brush wash "paint protection wax" at gas stations. Generally speaking, I use the CarPro clay block. Just quicker on a car that's had decent protection.

The Porter Cable is honestly not a bad machine. It was my first polisher as well, I bought it from an autogeek reseller in Canada, and got a kit with the polisher, and like 6 pads or so. I bought a bunch of other LC flat pads and off I went. My first time polishing, well, I figured I can't do...

If I just looked at the pictures, I wouldn't have even known there was a scratch. Well done. In the future though, keep track of where you compounded. You really don't want to compound yearly. Best case scenario, you compound once when you first get the vehicle, then with good washing...

Cleaned up the Mazda. Car was dirty from being driven in the rain so a rinseless McKee 37 wash. Touched up the tires too. Finished off the Lexus yearly detail, had to spread it out in two week time just because one step needed a 7 day curing process and work. That pesky thing that lets sleep...

I started off with Meguiar's ultimate series. I never joined the MOL forums, but at the time at Canadian Tire (I'm Canadian, Canadian Tire is like autozone but has everything from convection fryers, car stuff, and outdoor stuff and everything in between) they had the Meguiar's Ultimate Products...

Too kind sir, this is just some research I did to try and understand coatings better for myself. Ended up going down a rabbit hole of LSP stuff.

No siloxane itself is meaningless, kind of like saying sealant. Siloxane on it's own is just two oxygen molecules and a silicon molecule. However how many they stack and are put together(proprietary formulas) means what it makes. Sio2 is a simplification of a specific build up of siloxane in...

+1 for what Mike said about the 21mm. 5 inch pad on a 21mm long throw is pretty damn beast.

To be honest you can skip the HALO or the PPF renewal. You can buff the PPF with blackfire AIO. Just use a white polishing pad.

If you skipped reload, you did yourself a favor. I find all reload does is kill the self cleaning and hydrophobic of cquartz.