That's the first I've heard about using Opti-Lens on trim. Might have to try that, just as a test on my own vehicle.
As I said, it didn't do anything do restore even slightly faded trim, IME. I'm sure on new trim it would be good, but that does beg the question of why there is a separate pro trim product--does Opti-Trim carry a warranty?
I was never told specifically to OCP the trim, but it was said that it would work on hard trim. After trying OCP on my own truck's trim, I started doing it on customer vehicles.
That's funny, I always thought it was standard OC practice to coat everything, including glass, even when Dr. G said not to do that (of course that was in the days before Opti-Glass and Opti-Lens and Opti-Trim).
In the near future, I'm hoping to add an air compressor so I can start "spraying" these coatings, at least on wheels, grills and other intricate areas.
I was really impressed a couple years ago when Rasky posted about doing that on honeycomb grilles, etc. If you need any tips on that, he's the guy or Anthony Orosco (sorry if you didn't need my help on that).
Like you, I wish I knew more about each of the formulations. When I'm using Trim Protect, I'm wondering if it was worth buying over just using OCP intead. I'm sure it is, but I still question it.
I have to believe that the Trim and Lens products DO have added levels of UV protection. Certainly Opti-Lens behaves differently than OC 2.0, and it seems to last longer on headlights. And although I do understand to some extent the desire of OPT to differentiate the pro/warranted products from the consumer products, I don't understand why you, a certified pro installer, haven't had the differences between these products explained.
I'm presuming if you call up Dr. G he will tell you, but shouldn't that be standard marketing/application info that they send out to you pro installers in a bulletin or something? Or have they become so paranoid that they don't put anything in writing any more?
I guess whatever they do it backfires...when OC 2.0 came out we were told it was basically OCP, but then over time that story changed, until Chris was providing marketing ammo for pro installers about the myriad ways OCP was better/different than 2.0, which then of course caused howls from people like me who felt that we were being cheated out of the better product. I don't know how much of that whole debacle was again trying to protect the pro installers, etc., but again, if you are installing Opti-Trim, you would think they would tell you why it's not only better than OCP, GC or Opti-Lens for that application, but why it's better than C4 or DLux, as well.
