MarkD51
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Of course folks, this is a little addendum to the "Turtle Wax Tire Coating Thread", and for the heck of it, I decided to try both the TW Endura Tire Coating, and yesterday also bought the TW Endura trim coating.
Test Bed, is my junker-mobile DD 2001 Kia Spectra GS.
So far, the Tire Coating I applied about 13 days ago is seemingly holding up just fine. Haven't washed them yet, but still nice and black. If the Tire Coating holds up, I might just throw this on my new 22" Nitto 421Q's on the Tahoe.
Anyway, onto the TW Endura Trim Coating........
Again, a dyed product, very watery, and was shaken, not stirred before application.
Now the original lower Trim Moldings are of course 14 years old. This car really isn't worthy of spending huge dollars on, with products like CQuartz DLX, Solution Finish, or GTechniq C4.
I've tried probably a dozen products over the past 10 years, you name it. Optimum Tire Gel, Bondo Trim Restorer, Megs, and probably even Armor All way way back.
I took a bucket of hot water, oddball junk almost empty bottle of garbage Zymol Wally World Shampoo, made up a sluice, small wash rag, soft scrub brush, and Purple Power APC, sprayed neat.
Just simply walked around the car with the APC, let sit for 10 minutes, came back with the Brush, Scrub, Shampoo-Hot Water, scrubbed, then wiped with the Shampoo Wash and Towel.
After this dried, I grabbed a Roll of Paper Towels, and a bottle of 70% IPA.
Yep, this ain't no 2015 Stingray, worrying about dilutions, and I wanted to be aggressive to get all the cruds of what only God knows how much stuff I've thrown at these trim pieces over the years. Nothing ever seemed to hold up all that well.
Well, after all was dry, and instead of using the larger Foam Applicator that comes with the Kit, I dug up a smaller piece of little foam sponge, donned a pair of Nitrile Gloves, and got to work.....
Sitting "Indian Style" on the Carport Slab, simply went around the car once, then came back and applied a second coat 10 minutes later.
First thing I noticed upon application, the dye in the product seemed to be hiding lots of pock marks, scuffs, and God knows what else after 14 years?
This car was originally sold in Alaska, probably to a Military enlistee, and brought here to the Desert Southwest 4 years later. Maybe even "Fang" the Polar Bear (Remember Soupy Sales) took a few swipes at the car as she cruised down the roads?! LOL
I waited ten minutes, then applied a second coat going around the car.
First impressions were, great, it looks OK, but looks like it lacks gloss and shine. At that point in time, I figured I could perhaps amplify gloss coming behind at a future point with some water based dressing, like Opti-Bond Gel or Tire Shine, or Carpro PERL?
Then we had rain after, and snow in the mountains, but nothing on the car got wet under the carport.
Every 1/2 hour I gawked at this coating, not really impressing me until about a few hours later, a really nice high gloss and glow seemed to appear after some better curing of this product. Right now, it looks really great!
Upon touch just earlier, dry to to bone, no transfer onto hands-fingers. And the gloss seems durable, that such feeling is not dulling down the gloss, which is good!
Joke of this product is, it sells for $15.99 at my local O'Reillys, but they had it mis-placed with another TW product and they honored their mix-up and let me have the Kit for $10.49! Luv those folks at O'Reillys!
For those looking for a dye type coating like Solution Finish, this might be a viable, cheap alternative?
And by my estimation, the bottle in the Kit is probably enough to do 6-8 full size Pickups-SUVs. Or, if the product doesn't last a year like they claim, one has plenty on hand to re-coat every so many weeks or months.
Of course folks, this review would be DOA without some pics, so here's a couple.
Mark
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Test Bed, is my junker-mobile DD 2001 Kia Spectra GS.
So far, the Tire Coating I applied about 13 days ago is seemingly holding up just fine. Haven't washed them yet, but still nice and black. If the Tire Coating holds up, I might just throw this on my new 22" Nitto 421Q's on the Tahoe.
Anyway, onto the TW Endura Trim Coating........
Again, a dyed product, very watery, and was shaken, not stirred before application.
Now the original lower Trim Moldings are of course 14 years old. This car really isn't worthy of spending huge dollars on, with products like CQuartz DLX, Solution Finish, or GTechniq C4.
I've tried probably a dozen products over the past 10 years, you name it. Optimum Tire Gel, Bondo Trim Restorer, Megs, and probably even Armor All way way back.
I took a bucket of hot water, oddball junk almost empty bottle of garbage Zymol Wally World Shampoo, made up a sluice, small wash rag, soft scrub brush, and Purple Power APC, sprayed neat.
Just simply walked around the car with the APC, let sit for 10 minutes, came back with the Brush, Scrub, Shampoo-Hot Water, scrubbed, then wiped with the Shampoo Wash and Towel.
After this dried, I grabbed a Roll of Paper Towels, and a bottle of 70% IPA.
Yep, this ain't no 2015 Stingray, worrying about dilutions, and I wanted to be aggressive to get all the cruds of what only God knows how much stuff I've thrown at these trim pieces over the years. Nothing ever seemed to hold up all that well.
Well, after all was dry, and instead of using the larger Foam Applicator that comes with the Kit, I dug up a smaller piece of little foam sponge, donned a pair of Nitrile Gloves, and got to work.....
Sitting "Indian Style" on the Carport Slab, simply went around the car once, then came back and applied a second coat 10 minutes later.
First thing I noticed upon application, the dye in the product seemed to be hiding lots of pock marks, scuffs, and God knows what else after 14 years?
This car was originally sold in Alaska, probably to a Military enlistee, and brought here to the Desert Southwest 4 years later. Maybe even "Fang" the Polar Bear (Remember Soupy Sales) took a few swipes at the car as she cruised down the roads?! LOL
I waited ten minutes, then applied a second coat going around the car.
First impressions were, great, it looks OK, but looks like it lacks gloss and shine. At that point in time, I figured I could perhaps amplify gloss coming behind at a future point with some water based dressing, like Opti-Bond Gel or Tire Shine, or Carpro PERL?
Then we had rain after, and snow in the mountains, but nothing on the car got wet under the carport.
Every 1/2 hour I gawked at this coating, not really impressing me until about a few hours later, a really nice high gloss and glow seemed to appear after some better curing of this product. Right now, it looks really great!
Upon touch just earlier, dry to to bone, no transfer onto hands-fingers. And the gloss seems durable, that such feeling is not dulling down the gloss, which is good!
Joke of this product is, it sells for $15.99 at my local O'Reillys, but they had it mis-placed with another TW product and they honored their mix-up and let me have the Kit for $10.49! Luv those folks at O'Reillys!
For those looking for a dye type coating like Solution Finish, this might be a viable, cheap alternative?
And by my estimation, the bottle in the Kit is probably enough to do 6-8 full size Pickups-SUVs. Or, if the product doesn't last a year like they claim, one has plenty on hand to re-coat every so many weeks or months.
Of course folks, this review would be DOA without some pics, so here's a couple.
Mark
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