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Whole bunch of good stuff cut out...
If NOTHING CHANGES UNLESS IT HAS TO.....
help us all understand your perspective why these terms are evolving and the good, bad, ugly associated with it.
I don't know if single person is given or due credit for the below, I know I use it often in my work,
"Words mean things"
I can remember back to when we did NOT have all the great products we have today. Specifically, all the great abrasive technology available today that did not exist before clearcoats were introduced. I was calling on body shops when body shops were converting over from shooting solvent-evaporation lacquers and enamels to basecoat/clearcoat paint systems. Back then, about the best abrasive technology available was Meguiar's early #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #9 cleaners and polishes.
All of the brands we all talk about (and some take for granted), simply did not exist. The introduction of the Internet leveled the business and marketing playing field and made it possible for the average entreprenurail type person to launch their own product line and from this we now have an abundance of brands for car detailing supplies. Some good, some less than good.
Back to a few years ago, before the Internet. Back then we did not have great AIOs or cleaner/waxes. About the best cleaner/wax I knew of and used was Meguiar's #6 and #19 and this was because the abrasive technology was diminishing abrasives.
Since then, and just in the last few years, some really good one-step cleaner/waxes (or cleaner/sealants or AIOs - whatever you want to call them), have come out onto the market and they work so good that they can in some instances replace both compounding and polishing. Here's an example. Even I was surprised with what I was able to do with this one-step product.
Review: BLACKFIRE One-Step Cleaner/Wax by Mike Phillips
And "normally" I would do a traditional multiple-step process to a car like this, that is,
Compound
Polish
Wax
I've been so impressed with some of the new cleaner/waxes I've used that I decided
in my own mind that some products are so good it's simply not fair to
lump them into the cleaner/wax category. So as my normal tendency, I just came up with my own term and shared it.
Note: ANYONE with the inclination can be a writer and do like me, create new terms out of thin air. The rest of you don't have to accept it if you don't want to, that's up to you. What I've seen over the years is most people do accept it and now look at how these terms I also coined are part of our normal, everyday lingo.
There are more, maybe I should make a list. But those are the top three terms I either coined or made popular simply by speaking them in classes, in videos or on TV plus writing tons of text using them including 5 books. (yes, I use the term Test Spot on my boat book too)
And again - ANYONE can do as I've done,
just start writing.
But to your question,
help us all understand your perspective why these terms are evolving and the good, bad, ugly associated with it.
I believe the reason these terms are evolving is to enable everyone to speak about the same topic, idea or product and everyone has a uniform understanding of what is being spoken about.
I did NOT come up with the terms used in the ceramic paint coating and I probably would NOT have used the terms I listed in the first post of this thread. I don't know who decided to use the word "install" instead of "apply" or "high spots" instead of "smears", and off the cuff, I don't like them. BUT like I've also said, once the genie is out of the bottle, it's kind of tough to put him or her back into the bottle again.
I originally wrote this article just to have an article sharing what I wrote in the first post of this thread. I don't know about the rest of our forum members or all the hundreds of lurkers we get here each day but I spend a portion of my life teaching people the craft and art of car detailing in all it's dimensions and when I start to reference information over and over again, instead of typing it out each time I need to reference it I write an article about it and then I can simply share the article and avoid spending so much time typing the same thing over and over again.
Make sense?
