The Best Paste Wax is...

custmsprty said:
Salt is corrosive indeed, though not a fair comparison to uv rays. They are two different types of exposures. Betcha see more rusted out cars in your area than here but a heck of a lot more failed clear coat and used up paint down here. I have a buddy, he religiously used Zaino Z-2 for ten years on his red Ford F-150 and his truck sat outside at work the whole time, the clear is TOAST on the hood, roof and upper panels.
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I believe you're on to something here.

I had done a relative's car during the late summer one year, and I finished with Zymol Carbon. I'll be darned if that thing wasn't still beading the following spring. When I use a carnauba in the spring, that thing is usually toast by July. Granted, I believe we had a pretty mild winter that year, but I wasn't expecting to still see any sort of beading associated with wax.
 
Loach said:
Is that the older blue tint Ice Paste? They definitely changed something on the latest version, it's now an off white beige color. I never tried out that old blue version, the one I found sitting in my uncle's garage was moldy so I threw it out. Then I saw the latest version at the store for $13 and I hadn't used a Turtle Wax product for a while, but it's not a bad wax at all, it's great at its price point without a doubt. It dries fast on the panel, so it's not a paste wax that you can do the entire car with and then buff it off, you apply and remove panel by panel. Just not as buttery smooth like Meg's UPW or NXT 2.0 to apply and remove. And the more cars I do, the more I value that total ease of use approach.
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I'm with you on the easier to use products. All of the Meguiar's waxes are super easy to use, as are the duragloss sealants I like to use. I could never find a happy medium with application and removal of most TW waxes/sealants.
 
I always liked Harly Wax.
I no longer have any. :(
I do remember it was expensive, in-my-book!


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Bob
 
dlc95 said:
It might, being that it's a full synthetic.

Dang, 80°.... That sounds really nice!!
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Just a note, I've used a lot of those types of waxes, Fuzion, Black Ice. Oh and Do Do Supernatural Hybrid (dead in less than 30 days in July!) and that Do Do was on a dark vehicle and a white vehicle, not too mention it smells like gasoline. And at least a couple other dozen nuba combo style waxes. So far for me BFWD has held up the best down here in the summer as a stand alone product. On my wife's white car it lasted almost 7-8 weeks longer than on my dark bronze Xterra if beading was the indication. Got almost 3 full summer months of protection out of it. Menz Powerlock beading gone in less than 6 weeks and at least for me it lasted half as long as the BFWD.

Yeah and 80 sounds great to Bob's 28!

Tampa Bay 10:54 PM 70 degrees, oh yeah! I'll take a 2-14 NFL team for that kind of weather :cheers:

Go Buckeyes!!!

I'm just happy Oregon exposed FSU and Jamis for what they really are, poor sports. Looks like our Tampa Bay Bucs will be drafting Mariota.
 
Alot of the wax/sealant choices here are manufactured by another different label and sold cheaper(by the original manufacturer) but the placebo effect is great. Identicle sealants in different bottles giving different looks and durability is a laugh.
 
Zubair said:
Alot of the wax/sealant choices here are manufactured by another different label and sold cheaper(by the original manufacturer) but the placebo effect is great. Identicle sealants in different bottles giving different looks and durability is a laugh.
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I agree.
 
custmsprty said:
Salt is corrosive indeed, though not a fair comparison to uv rays. They are two different types of exposures. Betcha see more rusted out cars in your area than here but a heck of a lot more failed clear coat and used up paint down here. I have a buddy, he religiously used Zaino Z-2 for ten years on his red Ford F-150 and his truck sat outside at work the whole time, the clear is TOAST on the hood, roof and upper panels.
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I was talking about hard on LSPs - not on the paint or substrate. My experience tells me salt is worse on LSPs than sun.
 
swanicyouth said:
I was talking about hard on LSPs - not on the paint or substrate. My experience tells me salt is worse on LSPs than sun.
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I would guess that a hybrid type of LSP would outlast a natural nuba but I would like to hear someone who can speak to this in a more scientific way
 
I'm more into sealants these days, Wolfgang Paint Sealant and DP Opti-Coat Paint Sealant.
As for wax, when I do use it I still use the same paste wax I've used for years.
Meguiar's GoldClass Wax.

Works for me, last a while and does what it's suppose to do, protect the paint.
I love using it on dark colors the day after I seal but not always.

Hard to beat it for what it cost , $10.00
I know there's better but not enough difference for an extra $40.00-$60.00 more.
IMHO anyways.
 
915 has gone up against waxes costing more than ten times its price and come out ontop. I have gotten more compliments when 915 was applied than any other lsp. 915 is the only show car wax with durability and is and always will be my ultimate paste wax. I can go on forever about 915 and it still wont be enough praise. Looks,durability,beading-915 again and again.
 
addysdaddy said:
I would guess that a hybrid type of LSP would outlast a natural nuba but I would like to hear someone who can speak to this in a more scientific way
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•To the degradation of LSPs due to road salts I'd say:
-It's something akin to the Electrolysis process. Where:
-Water acts as a catalyst. Then having:
-The introduction of different road-salts' dissolved free floating ions into water---melted snow/ice in this case---along with all of the other contaminates found in melted Winter-precipitates.


•The LSPs' formulators can address the need to combat those free floating ions by blending in the proper chemicals.

-Throwing in a few chemicals that are constituents of Sealants can only but help to bolster a carnauba-based Wax---now perceived to be a "Hybrid Wax/(Sealant)".


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Go Buckeyes!!

Bob
 
Zubair said:
915 has gone up against waxes costing more than ten times its price and come out ontop. I have gotten more compliments when 915 was applied than any other lsp. 915 is the only show car wax with durability and is and always will be my ultimate paste wax. I can go on forever about 915 and it still wont be enough praise. Looks,durability,beading-915 again and again.
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That's it, I'm picking up some 915, Thank-you.:dblthumb2:
 
915 is pretty great.

Funny thing is people in Europe seem to hate it.
 
swanicyouth said:
915 is pretty great.

Funny thing is people in Europe seem to hate it.
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I have chatted to many and alot of them either read stories on the net by others who never used or owned it and stated it looked like 845 and 476. I'm sure glad I have a tendency not to be a sheep and went out and bought a can. Single best detailing product I ever bought and this coming from a Meguiars,Menzerna,Blackfire,WolfGang user. I am a big time 845 and Power Lock user and I have to give credit where its due, 915 Marque D'Elegance is a detailing treasure. Well done Collinite I applaud you.
 
Zubair said:
I have chatted to many and alot of them either read stories on the net by others who never used or owned it and stated it looked like 845 and 476. I'm sure glad I have a tendency not to be a sheep and went out and bought a can. Single best detailing product I ever bought and this coming from a Meguiars,Menzerna,Blackfire,WolfGang user. I am a big time 845 and Power Lock user and I have to give credit where its due, 915 Marque D'Elegance is a detailing treasure. Well done Collinite I applaud you.
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I, too, pride myself on not being one of those "sheep",
to which you have so eloquently alluded.

Instead:
I'm one of those people that asks for facts---dozens of facts, actually :D---instead of putting stock into just reading about someone and their anecdotal experiences of having good, soul-satisfying emotions.


Now:
Before you get your knickers in a knot...
I need to inform you that:

I'm off to start a new detailing-society...
out in the Wilderness, no less. :laughing:



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Go Buckeyes!!

Bob
 
I just ordered some p21s to revisit after all these years, how does every one rate this wax?
 
Silly buckeye fans! Lol.

Anyway, I'd have to agree with Zubair on 915. I've used many waxes in the past, and nothing seems to compare to a shine like 915. There is just something unique about it, you have to see for yourself.
 
lkotsios said:
I just ordered some p21s to revisit after all these years, how does every one rate this wax?
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Were it me and because I already own all Collinites and high end sealants I would choose DP Max Wax over P21S.
 
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