ONR works fine for me on my subaru's soft paint. What's more important is to make sure you use a soft, long-nap microfiber towel, and use proper technique (dont drag the dirt across the paint, fold up the towel and use the different sides, etc.)
6 oz per gallon is the QD strength. I currently use 8 oz per gallon as a bird bomb spray in my car's emergency kit. I have soft paint and use long-nap microfiber towels for this purpose with no ill effects.
You could also mix up another bottle of ONR at a bit higher concentration than a QD and you should be just fine. I use it in my emergency kit to clean up bird bombs with no problems. Just make sure not to drag a dirty mf towel over you paint and use a lot of solution.
I bought some microfiber towels from their site a few times- the towels seem of good quality so far and the prices are a bit more reasonable than the cobra towels on AG.
typical cheap honda paint. I would suggest Dr. Colorchip for all of the little inevitable chips you are going to get. Worked pretty decent on my old SI before I traded it in.
I have a satin white WRX and I love the combo of WGDGPS and Dodo Diamond white hard wax, or light fantastic soft wax (basically the same thing). Looks outstanding with the pearl flake in the sun.
Optimum Car wax is what I currently use on my OC'ed WRX- its the best quick wax I have tried. Pinnacle liquid souverain spray is a close second but the durability isnt as good.
For a QD I mix up optimum no-rinse at QD dilution ratio.
You should search the forums for opticoat 2.0 posts. Chris from optimum basically answered all of your questions on other threads.
Coatings are valuable because they save you from removing clear-coat from your car when you do a paint correction. Theoretically you could apply opti coat 2.0 and...
I like most of the PB products I have tried but the last time I used natty's red on my car there was one spot that absolutely would not come off...I had to eventually use some IPA to get it off. Thankfully it was a very small spot but it was extremely annoying.
It was almost like the dye left...
Love it love it love it. Wanted badly to buy a lightly used S2000 before deciding on my 13 WRX. Prices on low mileage used examples were a bit absurd...albeit this is IMO one of the top three Hondas ever made (NSX and Inegra Type-R are the other two).
Gorgeous job on the car.
I wash my LC CCS foam applicator pads in the washer with no problems at all..gets them much cleaner than washing with dawn by hand. I will try my LC flat pads next to see how they come out.