New nano skin sponge, not working or..

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So I got a new nano skin sponge a few months ago as my old one was starting to show some wear. First thing I noticed was that the sponge was a different color blue, and the ridges were lower. I thought nothing of it other then maybe its a new version and marrs less. Well this past weekend while working on a car I broke it out, used on a window first then hit the paint. Its actually pretty soft to the touch as you can see. I noticed it really wasnt doing much, So I grabbed my older one, and found something on the paint and went after it with both.

The new some simply wasnt doing anything at all that I could notice. The car was not that bad in terms of contaminants on the paint.

Something has to be wrong tell me what you guys think.

Left is old one, right is new.



 
Mine look like your old one. You may have gotten a bad one. Give Nick a shout and I am sure he will help you out!
 
My Nanoskin wash mitt looks like the left one and my sponge looks like the right one. The sponge seems to work the same.
 
Goin Rogue said:
My Nanoskin wash mitt looks like the left one and my sponge looks like the right one. The sponge seems to work the same.
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I had a little orange dot on the white car I was working on, the newer once went back and forth about 15 times with light pressure working my way up to even heavy pressure. It did not come off. Two passes with light pressure using the old sponge took it right off.
 
Mine looks like the one on the right and I just got it a few days ago. Tried it out and it seemed like it took a lot of pressure to remove the contamination.
 
Also purchased these to try recently, they look like the one on the right. Performed break in procedure to the letter, never got the slight tackiness its supposed to. Found them to be far from satisfactory and assumed the hype was just that. Interesting to see if perhaps there is an issue with a recent production run of these.
 
I bought two about a year back. Both fine and medium grade.

Neither of them do a darn thing, total junk IMO, it was money down the drain. I could rub till the cows come home, whereas a clay bar, even the mildest I've used which is the Pinnacle Blue Poly Clay is lightyears more effective.

I'm surely not condemning all of these newfangled Clay Bar Replacements, as these have been all I have tried. But I am leery of ever plucking down cash again, as I worry about similar results.

Thus for the foreseeable future I will continue to use Clays instead.
 
When I first got one I had poor results too, I was using car wash soap as a lube. I then mixed up some ONR as lube and it worked like it was supposed to.
 
Mine are 8 months old, look like the one on the left. They work very well. I am pleased with them.
 
Looks like a bad batch. The new one just appears to be flat.
 
TXB4Z said:
When I first got one I had poor results too, I was using car wash soap as a lube. I then mixed up some ONR as lube and it worked like it was supposed to.
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I used the product that was supposed to be used with it, Glide, and tried two others. Made no difference
 
Thank you for sharing that information with us. I was about to order some new sponges for this upcoming season. Hopefully the towels do not suffer this issue.
 
I have been using clay and finally tried the nanoskin towel blue this week and it worked just as good as clay.I used Chemical Guys citrus wash and gloss to wash then for lube of the towel. It was very simple and I did not break it in that long on the glass and it still was fine. One thing was that you can feel results but nothing to see on the towel like when I use clay. I really enjoy seeing the contaminants when I use clay on a abused paint.
 
Wow, I though they were not as good as I saw in the reviews, but I just found out mines are also almost flat.

I made a comparison between mines (left) and how is supposed to be (right):

Medium grade
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Fine grade
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I used the medium grade one time on a small part of the hood and the fine grade on two doors, I was disappointed by the performance of both, but maybe I got unlucky getting these two bad samples.
 
I almost purchased a couple today for my Spring clean up. Thanks for posting. You saved me some aggravation.


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Used the Nanoskin fine mitt and bought the medium red sponge from AG, neither worked as advertised or as good as clay. Lesson learnt.
 
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