Mike Phillips
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- Dec 5, 2022
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Thank you and if you had been there in person the before and after difference would have had so much more impact than the pictures I was able to get to tell the story.
Dr. David Ghoudussi states something similar about his coatings and I'm sure many other companies or chemists will state something similar bout their coatings.
Here's the deal...
Everyone can decide what's best for them, their cars and their customer's cars.
Me?
I've detailed too many cars for too many years and I know what I've seen. Stating something on paper is a lot different than what I see when I polish a car that's been detailed and then put back on the road, in service as s daily driver over time in areas of rainy weather.
The outside of the car and this includes the car paint will get a FILM on it that I have termed Road Film. I chose these words long before I found out our friends in the U.K use the term Traffic Film. So of course, I branded this film with what I knew.
Each of us can decide how to remove road film. You can spray something caustic or acidic or use a strong detergent, etc. to chemically dissolve and thus remove road film/traffic film off the car's paint. While I believe this can work, it's simply not the method I would choose for my own cars nor any customer's cars.
I would choose and use a method of mechanically polishing the paint. This is why I'm NOT a big fan of multi-year coatings for daily drivers in geographical areas where it's common to rain. Of course use a multi-year coating for all the great benefits and features provided by the coating - but if your car is a daily driver, driven in the rain, AND this is key, AND if you want it to always looks the best - then DO SOMETHING to the paint on regular schedule, whatever that might be. But to apply any brand of coating and think the car is going to look the way it does immediately after the final buff, (after coating installation), 10 years down the road? I don't believe it. It's not what I've seen It's not my experience.
Again - each of us can choose our own path.
Me? I detail cars. I teach car detailing. I also write LOTS of educational car detailing articles like this one you're reading and sometimes in my articles I go DEEEEEEP, like I did in this article.
I love it when everyone chimes in and discusses their opinion or experience for the topic-at-hand. Like taking place in this article. And of course, everyone can feel free to write their own deep article on this topic or any topic. It's never too late to start.
As I type, here's my current count.
Writing how-to articles just comes naturally. Some cynical people might say, "well it's part of your job". True but I would write articles whether it was my job or not. I started writing car detailing articles BEFORE it was a job.
Ha ha.... good one John.
:cheers:
