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i flooded the panel and it appears the wax has dissappeared. how much protection can wax really give??
 
qaz393 said:
i flooded the panel and it appears the wax has dissappeared. how much protection can wax really give??
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Allot of protection is determined by the actual product used, the surface preparation to ensure the product properly bonds to the finish, this is very important.

I use sealants topped with waxes such as Collinite 845 and get 5 months of solid protection through a long snowy New England winter.
 
i used 845 on a car that was washed not clayed after. no swirls or scratches in paint.
 
You got a bird bomb, no etching, and you are complaining?
 
yakky said:
You got a bird bomb, no etching, and you are complaining?
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i always remove it the evening of/morning after (basically before the sun can attack the spot again)
 
Wax, sealants, and even coatings are a sacrificial barrier to protect your paint/clear.
 
I like sealant so much better. I just switched to wolfgang 3.0 and it seems to last way longer and seems to be more durable. Just redo the panel that was bombed. It shouldnt take too long. My car was bombed last week and it came off the wolfgang with just a spritz and a wipe but it wasnt on there very long. My mother in law saw me wipe it and told me after that I am too obsessed with my car. This from a woman who bleaches her whole house. I never understood how people can take care of their house and ignore their cars. If you leave that crap on too long it will burn through anything. Just be glad you had some wax for protection.
 
Julesh said:
I like sealant so much better. I just switched to wolfgang 3.0 and it seems to last way longer and seems to be more durable. Just redo the panel that was bombed. It shouldnt take too long. My car was bombed last week and it came off the wolfgang with just a spritz and a wipe but it wasnt on there very long. My mother in law saw me wipe it and told me after that I am too obsessed with my car. This from a woman who bleaches her whole house. I never understood how people can take care of their house and ignore their cars. If you leave that crap on too long it will burn through anything. Just be glad you had some wax for protection.
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You should have peed at her house with the seat down. Tell her she's too obsessed with her house. :props:

And I agree, just re-wax that panel or even just that spot and be glad you didn't have worse problems.

Mark
 
I got a little sparrow bomb on the bumper the other day that I didn't notice til I got home and did a walkaround.

Crap was only the size of my fingernail but it still ate through my fuzion and blacklight. Had to hit it with Scratch x 2.0 a couple times to get rid of the etching. bugger
 
qaz393 said:
i flooded the panel and it appears the wax has dissappeared. how much protection can wax really give??
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If by protection you mean how thick a layer of wax is, then, you have to visualize measuring in millonths of an inch.

For example: Most clear-coat-paint top-coats from the factory are (and I'll give them the benefit of a doubt) between 2.0 and 2.5 mils thick.
This is equal to approximately: .0025 inches; 65 microns; 64,000 nanometers. Not too thick!

By comparison (measured under an electron microscope) a layer of wax, and other LSP's, are, at most, 17 nanometers thick...thinner depending on how "heavy-handed" one is in its removal/buffing.
17 nm is approximately equivalent to: .017 microns; .00067mils; .00000067 inches.

Wax, other LSP's, are indeed, very, very thin. Your "Sacrificial Barrier" was, indeed, thin as thin can get...Yet the errant bird-bomb was somewhat halted by your LSP. That, plus you got to it in the nick of time.

And to think....with every product you hear "Thin is In". Like the old Limbo song..."How low can you go"?

Be Grateful for your escape from bird-bomb etching pergatory....Some of us have not been so fortunate!:(

Bob
 
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