Mike Phillips
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Review: Pinnacle Black Label Waterless Wash and Protect
Pinnacle Black Label Waterless Wash and Protect
What is it?
Spray on waterless wash
What does it do?
Enables you to wash your car without a water hose, bucket, wash mitt and drying chamois
When do you use it?
Anytime you don't have access to running water.
Why should I use it?
Do get your car clean fast and easy anytime and anywhere with scratch-free results.
From the manufacturer
DIRECTIONS
-Apply on a cool surface, out of direct sunlight.
-Liberally spray Pinnacle Black Label Waterless Wash & Protect directly onto the surface to be cleaned.
-Using plenty of microfiber towels, wipe excess product away.
-Change microfiber towels often to avoid cross contamination.
My comments
I use waterless washed when I detail muscle cars, streetrods classics and antiques. The reason why? As a professional courtesy to the owners of these types of cars I don't introduce water to places I can't reach with a drying towel so as not to cause rust. I also use waterless washes on modern cars whenever I don't have access to a water hose and bucket for a traditional wash job. The key is lots of towels and also spraying down a heavy or wet application of product, this means spray down a lot of product.
Mike's Pro Tips
Tip 1
Use lots of microfiber towels when using a waterless wash. The more towels the better. A good rule of thumb is one towel per panel and even two towels for larger panels. A 2-door passenger car has 9 panels.
9 panels = 9 towels, one for each panel.
Spread the product over a panel with one side of the towel and remove the product using the other side of the towel. If you want to be super careful, then spread the product with one towel and wipe the residue off with a separate clean, towel, this would mean using 18 towels. You get the idea. How many towels you use depends on how careful you want to be. Here's one of my quotes for the car detailing world,
It takes hours to buff out a car, it takes seconds to put in scratches -Mike Phillips
When it comes to maintaining your car's finish, how good the paint looks and for how long it looks good all comes down to how you touch it. And when we touch our cars, it's usually with some type of wash mitt, microfiber towel or drying towel.
Tip 2
Anytime you're using a DRY microfiber towel to apply, spread or remove a product off of car paint, it's easier for your hand to grip or hold the towel if the side you're hand will be touching has a little moisture on it. Test what I say and you'll see I'm right. So when using a waterless wash, after spraying the product onto a panel, also mist a little onto the side that you're hand will grab and it will be easier to hold and use the towel. Here's another one of my quotes for the detailing world,
Sometimes the little things are the big things -Mike Phillips
Here's the new product and I have 18 Cobra 530 Microfiber Towels to tackle my Lexus RX 350
One dirty daily driver
It's been months since I've given the Golden Eagle a proper wash. Golden Eagle is the nickname I've given the Lexus RX350. It's a joke name for my mundane daily driver but tell you what... she's reliable as rain.
Lot's of road film or traffic film as they say across the pond. Because it can be hard to see the layer of road film on metallic gold paint, I've take the extra time and step to fully photo-document the true and accurate dirt level for any doubting Thomas's.
That layer you see is both dirt and road film. If you don't know what road film is, see my article here.
Paint on hood looks clean to the untrained eye....
But up close there's some kind of bonded bug turds or something on it.
You can easily see the layer of dirt and road film on the chrome bits, but is you extrapolate it out, (that is "think" about it), this same layer of dirt and road film on the chrome parts is over the rest of the exterior or the car, it's just harder to see on the paint due to the light color.
The only clean parts on this car are where the wipers travel over the glass.
Time to test...
I think you'll agree, I did a good job of photo-documenting the RX350 is dirty.
Spray, spray spray...
Wipe, wipe wipe....
Spray, spray spray...
Wipe, wipe wipe....
Spray, spray spray...
Wipe, wipe wipe....
To the back of the car, usually the grimiest...
Spray, spray spray...
Side glass...
Wipe, wipe wipe.... and so on and so on until I've cleaned the entire exterior.
Here's the results using only the PBL Waterless Wash and Protect.
I counted 12 dirty, used microfiber towels.
Shiny and clean again in about 20 minutes - "yes" I timed myself.
Review
The cleaning ability was more than enough to tackle the oily dirt film on the car and glass. Dirt will dissolve with water but oily road film requires some form of cleaner that can emulsify the oily component. The working time was more than adequate meaning the product stayed wet on the surface instead of evaporation off and drying out. Wipe off was easy and here's the think I like and the thing you'll like to when using this product as a maintenance wash - it left the paint feeling slick and slippery. My guess is that's the "protection component" in the formula that creates a hydrophobic surface or water-fearing surface.
The product worked great and as advertised. The pictures are accurate and show via before and after what I was able to do with a car that has not been washed in months. If it will clean this dirty SUV then it will likely clean your dirty car too.
On Autogeek.net
Pinnacle Black Label Waterless Wash and Protect
Cobra Supreme 530 Microfiber Towel - 12 Pack
Pinnacle Black Label Waterless Wash and Protect
What is it?
Spray on waterless wash
What does it do?
Enables you to wash your car without a water hose, bucket, wash mitt and drying chamois
When do you use it?
Anytime you don't have access to running water.
Why should I use it?
Do get your car clean fast and easy anytime and anywhere with scratch-free results.
From the manufacturer
DIRECTIONS
-Apply on a cool surface, out of direct sunlight.
-Liberally spray Pinnacle Black Label Waterless Wash & Protect directly onto the surface to be cleaned.
-Using plenty of microfiber towels, wipe excess product away.
-Change microfiber towels often to avoid cross contamination.
My comments
I use waterless washed when I detail muscle cars, streetrods classics and antiques. The reason why? As a professional courtesy to the owners of these types of cars I don't introduce water to places I can't reach with a drying towel so as not to cause rust. I also use waterless washes on modern cars whenever I don't have access to a water hose and bucket for a traditional wash job. The key is lots of towels and also spraying down a heavy or wet application of product, this means spray down a lot of product.
Mike's Pro Tips
Tip 1
Use lots of microfiber towels when using a waterless wash. The more towels the better. A good rule of thumb is one towel per panel and even two towels for larger panels. A 2-door passenger car has 9 panels.
- Roof.
- Hood.
- Trunk lid.
- Driver's side front fender.
- Driver's side door.
- Driver's side rear fender.
- Passenger side front fender
- Passenger side door.
- Passenger side rear fender.
9 panels = 9 towels, one for each panel.
Spread the product over a panel with one side of the towel and remove the product using the other side of the towel. If you want to be super careful, then spread the product with one towel and wipe the residue off with a separate clean, towel, this would mean using 18 towels. You get the idea. How many towels you use depends on how careful you want to be. Here's one of my quotes for the car detailing world,
It takes hours to buff out a car, it takes seconds to put in scratches -Mike Phillips
When it comes to maintaining your car's finish, how good the paint looks and for how long it looks good all comes down to how you touch it. And when we touch our cars, it's usually with some type of wash mitt, microfiber towel or drying towel.
Tip 2
Anytime you're using a DRY microfiber towel to apply, spread or remove a product off of car paint, it's easier for your hand to grip or hold the towel if the side you're hand will be touching has a little moisture on it. Test what I say and you'll see I'm right. So when using a waterless wash, after spraying the product onto a panel, also mist a little onto the side that you're hand will grab and it will be easier to hold and use the towel. Here's another one of my quotes for the detailing world,
Sometimes the little things are the big things -Mike Phillips
Here's the new product and I have 18 Cobra 530 Microfiber Towels to tackle my Lexus RX 350
One dirty daily driver
It's been months since I've given the Golden Eagle a proper wash. Golden Eagle is the nickname I've given the Lexus RX350. It's a joke name for my mundane daily driver but tell you what... she's reliable as rain.
Lot's of road film or traffic film as they say across the pond. Because it can be hard to see the layer of road film on metallic gold paint, I've take the extra time and step to fully photo-document the true and accurate dirt level for any doubting Thomas's.
That layer you see is both dirt and road film. If you don't know what road film is, see my article here.
Paint on hood looks clean to the untrained eye....
But up close there's some kind of bonded bug turds or something on it.
You can easily see the layer of dirt and road film on the chrome bits, but is you extrapolate it out, (that is "think" about it), this same layer of dirt and road film on the chrome parts is over the rest of the exterior or the car, it's just harder to see on the paint due to the light color.
The only clean parts on this car are where the wipers travel over the glass.
Time to test...
I think you'll agree, I did a good job of photo-documenting the RX350 is dirty.
Spray, spray spray...
Wipe, wipe wipe....
Spray, spray spray...
Wipe, wipe wipe....
Spray, spray spray...
Wipe, wipe wipe....
To the back of the car, usually the grimiest...
Spray, spray spray...
Side glass...
Wipe, wipe wipe.... and so on and so on until I've cleaned the entire exterior.
Here's the results using only the PBL Waterless Wash and Protect.
I counted 12 dirty, used microfiber towels.
Shiny and clean again in about 20 minutes - "yes" I timed myself.
Review
The cleaning ability was more than enough to tackle the oily dirt film on the car and glass. Dirt will dissolve with water but oily road film requires some form of cleaner that can emulsify the oily component. The working time was more than adequate meaning the product stayed wet on the surface instead of evaporation off and drying out. Wipe off was easy and here's the think I like and the thing you'll like to when using this product as a maintenance wash - it left the paint feeling slick and slippery. My guess is that's the "protection component" in the formula that creates a hydrophobic surface or water-fearing surface.
The product worked great and as advertised. The pictures are accurate and show via before and after what I was able to do with a car that has not been washed in months. If it will clean this dirty SUV then it will likely clean your dirty car too.
On Autogeek.net
Pinnacle Black Label Waterless Wash and Protect
Cobra Supreme 530 Microfiber Towel - 12 Pack
