Eric@CherryOnTop
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- Jun 23, 2012
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Well this product came out right before my wife was making a cross country trek in her Civic from New York to Florida. I wanted to pick up a bottle and see how it would handle the grime accumulated over right around 3,000 miles (NY-->Daytona-->Miami-->Key West-->Daytona).
We actually stopped off at Autogeek on the way to Daytona from Key West. Nick was nice enough to take a few minutes and show us all of the improvements they have made in the lobby and the show car garage. Very cool stuff, if you can get down there. Mike was away on a well deserved vacation.
Anyway, normally on a trip like this I would bring a bucket with a gamma seal lid with a bottle of ONR, some APC, a bunch of towels, some brushes and maybe a bottle of QD and/or spray wax. I was curious to see if the new Mothers product would replace most of this.
In Daytona, we stay at a condo complex in an "open air" garage. I like cleaning the car in there because it keeps me and the car out of the harsh sun. It doesn't lend to the best pictures though.
Here's the front of the car. I was particularly interested in how well the product did with the bug guts.
When you spray the product on, you can see it going to work immediately. It clearly lifts the dirt and grime off the paint in just a few seconds. This is on the hood:
After spraying, wiping and buffing, I was happy to see a great majority of the bug guts removed from the paint:
For waterless washes I prefer the 800gsm towels from Shine and Buff. Lots of dirt removed from the paint
I did the wheels the same way, just using some "demoted" all purpose microfibers.
Here are the afters:
And then as soon as I finished it started to poor so I thought I would take the freshly cleaned car out for a wet drive (for science).
Beading seems reasonable. Those brown spots, I'm told, are from parking under a tree. The Mothers Waterless Wash and Wax did not remove them.
Conclusion. The Mother's Waterless Wash and Wax makes a perfectly suitable replacement for a bucket and ONR rinseless wash. After wiping, it leaves a film behind which must be buffed. I only had the 800gsm towels on hand and they do not do well with buffing like this. I would need to have a much shorter pile microfiber in order to buff the wax residue off. The product works reasonably well on medium to heavy soiling and bug guts. I think the car clearly looks better than it did when I started and the product is no less safe for the paint than any other waterless wash product.
To make the product competitive with Ultima waterless wash I would like to see a concentrate come to market so the user can mix and refill the original bottle. 16 oz. of Ultima concentrate for $18 makes 32 additional bottles worth of product, this currently makes it much more cost effective than the Mother's product.
We actually stopped off at Autogeek on the way to Daytona from Key West. Nick was nice enough to take a few minutes and show us all of the improvements they have made in the lobby and the show car garage. Very cool stuff, if you can get down there. Mike was away on a well deserved vacation.
Anyway, normally on a trip like this I would bring a bucket with a gamma seal lid with a bottle of ONR, some APC, a bunch of towels, some brushes and maybe a bottle of QD and/or spray wax. I was curious to see if the new Mothers product would replace most of this.
In Daytona, we stay at a condo complex in an "open air" garage. I like cleaning the car in there because it keeps me and the car out of the harsh sun. It doesn't lend to the best pictures though.
Here's the front of the car. I was particularly interested in how well the product did with the bug guts.
When you spray the product on, you can see it going to work immediately. It clearly lifts the dirt and grime off the paint in just a few seconds. This is on the hood:
After spraying, wiping and buffing, I was happy to see a great majority of the bug guts removed from the paint:
For waterless washes I prefer the 800gsm towels from Shine and Buff. Lots of dirt removed from the paint
I did the wheels the same way, just using some "demoted" all purpose microfibers.
Here are the afters:
And then as soon as I finished it started to poor so I thought I would take the freshly cleaned car out for a wet drive (for science).
Beading seems reasonable. Those brown spots, I'm told, are from parking under a tree. The Mothers Waterless Wash and Wax did not remove them.
Conclusion. The Mother's Waterless Wash and Wax makes a perfectly suitable replacement for a bucket and ONR rinseless wash. After wiping, it leaves a film behind which must be buffed. I only had the 800gsm towels on hand and they do not do well with buffing like this. I would need to have a much shorter pile microfiber in order to buff the wax residue off. The product works reasonably well on medium to heavy soiling and bug guts. I think the car clearly looks better than it did when I started and the product is no less safe for the paint than any other waterless wash product.
To make the product competitive with Ultima waterless wash I would like to see a concentrate come to market so the user can mix and refill the original bottle. 16 oz. of Ultima concentrate for $18 makes 32 additional bottles worth of product, this currently makes it much more cost effective than the Mother's product.
