richy
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I was sent a sample of an All In One product to beta test. The goal for this product was to remove fairly decent defects while imparting some amazing protection at the same time. The protection element in this formula comes from hundreds of formula revisions to get it right. The product is not coming from whom you might believe either...that's all I am going to say about the source. Here is the bottle that was sent to me:
My test mule was going to be my mother in law's 2001 Sunfire. A car going on 15 years old! I have maintained it for her since she bought it several years ago and have used it as a test mule before. Here is what it was looking like on Thursday:
Check out the big plastic lens here. It looked terrible and was going to get some additional love other than the AIO.
I was on a tight schedule and needed to do this car on Thursday night (and off to my day job on Friday morning), plus I had another car coming Friday after work that needed to be done on Saturday. Sunday I'm going to my first pistol competition for the year, so nothing was going to interfere with that! My garage was barely warm enough to work in:
The paint on this car had some light scratches. I wanted to try a few different pads to see whether it would have the strength to knock them out. I tried a yellow Buff & Shine as well as the burgandy Megs pad. Although it did not remove all the defects, it certainly gave the paint some crazy gloss and magnified the metallic. As far as removing the defects, I'd say only 70-75% of them. Not enough in my book. It is being re-formulated to give it some more teeth. It's using a brand new abrasion technology too, I'm told. The other amazing (and I mean amazing) thing about this product was how slick the paint was the next day!! I walked by it going out of the garage on my way to work and I stopped to feel the paint (how many of us are guilty of that, eh?!?). I was BLOWN AWAY by how slick the surface was! Slicker than UWW; slicker than FK 425. It beat them all. In fact, I would say it was the slickest paint surface I had ever touched.
Oh, and as far as the back plastic piece goes, I used my TB black wool + M100 followed by white B/S + M205 + the beta AIO on a white B/S pad too. I was delighted with how that turned out.
The only downside I could see with this product was how extremely hard it was to clean out of the pads. LA Totally awesome was Totally Awful when it came to try to remove the product. The only thing that would get it out of the pad was paint thinner. You KNOW it's strong when! The pads did come clean after using that followed by LATA to clean the thinner out.
Here is how it looked:
Examination under LED lighting:
Here is an example of a scratch that it didn't remove:
All in all, for an all in one, it shows promise. I am looking forward to the next sample to test. Meanwhile, I've got to come up with another test mule!
Thanks for looking. Comments always appreciated.
My test mule was going to be my mother in law's 2001 Sunfire. A car going on 15 years old! I have maintained it for her since she bought it several years ago and have used it as a test mule before. Here is what it was looking like on Thursday:
Check out the big plastic lens here. It looked terrible and was going to get some additional love other than the AIO.
I was on a tight schedule and needed to do this car on Thursday night (and off to my day job on Friday morning), plus I had another car coming Friday after work that needed to be done on Saturday. Sunday I'm going to my first pistol competition for the year, so nothing was going to interfere with that! My garage was barely warm enough to work in:
The paint on this car had some light scratches. I wanted to try a few different pads to see whether it would have the strength to knock them out. I tried a yellow Buff & Shine as well as the burgandy Megs pad. Although it did not remove all the defects, it certainly gave the paint some crazy gloss and magnified the metallic. As far as removing the defects, I'd say only 70-75% of them. Not enough in my book. It is being re-formulated to give it some more teeth. It's using a brand new abrasion technology too, I'm told. The other amazing (and I mean amazing) thing about this product was how slick the paint was the next day!! I walked by it going out of the garage on my way to work and I stopped to feel the paint (how many of us are guilty of that, eh?!?). I was BLOWN AWAY by how slick the surface was! Slicker than UWW; slicker than FK 425. It beat them all. In fact, I would say it was the slickest paint surface I had ever touched.
Oh, and as far as the back plastic piece goes, I used my TB black wool + M100 followed by white B/S + M205 + the beta AIO on a white B/S pad too. I was delighted with how that turned out.
The only downside I could see with this product was how extremely hard it was to clean out of the pads. LA Totally awesome was Totally Awful when it came to try to remove the product. The only thing that would get it out of the pad was paint thinner. You KNOW it's strong when! The pads did come clean after using that followed by LATA to clean the thinner out.
Here is how it looked:
Examination under LED lighting:
Here is an example of a scratch that it didn't remove:
All in all, for an all in one, it shows promise. I am looking forward to the next sample to test. Meanwhile, I've got to come up with another test mule!
Thanks for looking. Comments always appreciated.
