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The last couple of years, I have been using Meguiars Hybrid Ceramic Wax, and TW Hybrid Ceramic Spray coating. I have been underwhelmed by the lack of durability of the beading on the TW, and the Meguiars has been only somewhat better. Given the rave reviews I was reading of both products before...

I have been reading about different blades here, and occasionally come across someone saying that they still have the original blades the car came with (or they haven't replaced their blades in several years), because they treat the windshield with aquapel or something like that. I’m not sure...

Heat wave in my neck of the woods, wasn't sure I'd get the wax on before the surface was 80, so I just washed my minivan this morning (with my other car as well), and I'll wax early tomorrow. Doing it tonight isn't an option--by the time ambient temperature is below 80, it will be dark outside...

The past few years, I have used the Cobra Surpeme 530 MF towels (they appear to have dropped the Cobra name) I bought here for drying my cars. Love them. The Cobra soaks up the huge blobs, and then I like to use another mf for a quick pass, just to get random drops of water. What I have...

Mods, not sure where this belongs. Feel free to move this. This week I tried to restore a headlamp. 2005 Sienna, never done this before, so I used toothpaste, and then after rinsing it off, sprayed on some coats of clear coat. On one side, it worked fine. On the other headlamp, I sprayed too...

I do have 3 applicator pads that have come with synthetic wax purchases. I also have a skinny old pad that looks years old. In small parts towards the middle of the pad, it is starting to crumble away. Are these light pieces that come off, bad for the paint? They of course are going to be very...

Is it that the more grams per square meter, is better, for microfiber towels? A year ago, I bought the Cobra Supreme 530. Recently lost it, so I need to replace it. Instead of one large 24x36 towel, I'd like a 3-pack of 16x16s. I use this for drying off a car, after washing it. I follow up with...

I have recently started washing with my sponge and soap, all the windows in my cars, and this last weekend I started noticing light, straight scratches on one of the windshields. If my suspicions are correct--that it is caused by my sponge scraping dirt across them---I'm getting kind of...

My bottle of Meguiar's Supreme Shine Protectant is about to give out, so I'll want to get a new all purpose interior protectant (not for leather seats, just for anything vinyl/plastic inside the car). I have no real problem with this product at all, and at around 8 bucks, the price was ok. I...

I just washed my minivan today. It was waxed 4 weekends ago, and both for the initial rinse, as well as rinsing the soap off, there was a ton of beading. Up until now, I would have said it looked like a freshly waxed car. But lately, I’ve been seeing videos on Youtube of guys comparing...

I just borrowed an old bottle of cleaner wax (Megs Deep Crystal Cleaner Wax). I saw a pic the other day of someone having used cleaner wax on one half of the hood, and the difference was striking. Now my 12 year old minivan does not have major defects, but I haven't clayed it in years and...

I'm wondering how helpful it would be, to use a harsh soap to strip the old wax layer off the car, before putting on the new layer. Let's just assume that the same wax is being used for the old and new application (which will be the case, when I run out of the stuff I currently have). Does...

I was browsing the Collinite website and came across a note (on their page for 845, on their notes on page 4, for this product: http://www.collinite.com/assets/Uploads/Product-Tech-Sheets-PDF/TTech845pdf.pdf), that it should be discarded if it gets below freezing. This surprised me, as I had...

I got my car repainted a year ago. It has a five year warranty, not sure exactly what is covered. But I'd like to know if I can expect a problem, with a little bit of paint that looks like it is tearing away from the windshield washer spray nozzle. Just to let you know what normal is, the last...

I started wondering about this. Searching for "direct sunlight car wax" just gave me a bunch of web pages that talk about applying the wax in direct sunlight. I'm talking about if a lot of sunlight can shorten the life of the layer of wax that is already on your paint. Reason why I'm asking...

You folks have talked me into washing my MF drying towels. Now I have two questions: (1) Most of you have spoken about washing them in a machine. Why not just hand wash them? Is it good to use hot water---hotter than hands can stand? (2) Any particular reason why you use a dryer, instead of...

I just bought a new drying towel for my car washes. I have been using for the past 2.5 years, the Meguiar's waffle weave towel. Although it has worked well, for the past 2-3 months, it has gone downhill. It could still wipe water off the paint and onto the ground, but the towel would get much...

In my last thread here, you guys talked me into using two buckets, and a chenille mitt, which I got and used this morning. Two washed cars later, I have another question. I used my grit guard in the rinse bucket. I placed it in, and rubbed the sponge against the grit guard, and then rinsed it...

This last week, I just saw a few scratches in both vehicles, a day or so after washing. They were very short and straight, and one was in the back door, so its unlikely that this was caused by rocks hitting the paint as I'm driving. I'm not 100% convinced that they were created when I washed and...

I recently saw some sap on the hood of a car. I used isopropyl alcohol to remove the sap, which it did rather quickly. I read a lot about using alcohol on paint, and read that it removes everything on top of the paint itself, so I went ahead and applied some wax. After reading through 10-15...