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Can anyone recommend a gentle weekly soap that will not change the hydrophobic qualities of a coating? I am going to coat my car with EXOv2 this week and I am concerned that most soaps containing a gloss agent will alter its properties.


All recommendations/feedback will be appreciated!

Thanks!
 
Most soap will not change the hydrophobic of a coating.
But personally I am using adams soap to wash my truck that is coated with c1 and exov2

Great amount of suds and lubrication.
 
Megs shampoo plus
CG Maxi Suds II
Optimum car wash
 
I use CG Citrus Wash and Gloss and it does not affect the hydrophobic qualities of Exo v2
 
On a related note, does the automatic car wash soap interfere with the hydrophobic properties of sealants/wax sealants?
 
shane83 said:
On a related note, does the automatic car wash soap interfere with the hydrophobic properties of sealants/wax sealants?
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I've always wanted to run through a touchless car wash with my coating on. I hear they use stronger chemicals in their soap to compensate for lack of agitation, so I never tried while I was only waxing or sealing my car. But now with a coating on, I'd really like to find out!
 
I've taken my car through touchless car washes for three straight months last winter with just DG 105 sealant protecting the car with no harm to the sealant. I'd expect a coating to be a no brainier doing the same thing.
 
I use Prima Hydro Wash and it cleans and smells great . It leaves nothing behind highly recommend
 
As a general guide, any product which claims to add gloss, enhance sheeting etc. will be designed to leave a film which can degrade the hydrophobic character as long as it is present. However, since none of these types of products will strip a coating, it is simply a matter of time until the film washes away - so no harm is ultimately done.
 
PiPUK said:
As a general guide, any product which claims to add gloss, enhance sheeting etc. will be designed to leave a film which can degrade the hydrophobic character as long as it is present. However, since none of these types of products will strip a coating, it is simply a matter of time until the film washes away - so no harm is ultimately done.
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How does the film degrade existing protection? If anything it's an extremely temporary layer of protection added to existing lsp
 
Does Meguiars Gold Class have any degreasers in it or anything that will shorten the life of a coating like Opti-Coat 2.0/Opti-Coat Pro or C- Quartz Finest?
 
Kaban said:
Does Meguiars Gold Class have any degreasers in it or anything that will shorten the life of a coating like Opti-Coat 2.0/Opti-Coat Pro or C- Quartz Finest?
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No it's very lsp safe
 
rjd598 said:
How does the film degrade existing protection? If anything it's an extremely temporary layer of protection added to existing lsp
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It will not do a whole lot to degrade the coating itself (although it may do a little). I was more specific about degrading the hydrophobic character. We work with most of the major raw material suppliers (i.e. the ones who actually make the ingredient which adds gloss/sheeting/etc.) and I have never encountered a surfactant additive which gives contact angles much beyond 75 degrees. Contact angles of your coating should be notably higher than this. So, effectively, the surfactant film would be less hydrophobic than the coating on which it sits and hence the surface hydrophobicity would be less with it present than without.
 
Willy Wang said:
I've always wanted to run through a touchless car wash with my coating on. I hear they use stronger chemicals in their soap to compensate for lack of agitation, so I never tried while I was only waxing or sealing my car. But now with a coating on, I'd really like to find out!
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Coming from the north east I can say the strength of the wash chemicals are double, sometimes triple, in the summer than they are in the winter. A Little hot water and a dash of soap will clean salt off of a car in the winter every time. Chemicals get pretty harsh in the summer when you have so much grease, bugs, and other factors to deal with. I know specifically the one "acid" in the wash gets jacked up.
 
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