Thoughts on iron x

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I've been watching a lot of Mike Phillips videos and haven't seen him use ironx. It may just be the ones I have seen. If I want to do the best possible job should I use it? Are there any downsides?
 
To answer your questions....yes and no respectively.

A great product and eco friendly.
 
I've seen a wheel cleaning post by Mike that shows him using iron x. I recently ordered some & it seems to work well, but lord it is stinky.
 
I just got some TRIX, which contains Iron X. I'm trying to find out how cautious you have to be with this stuff around trim plastics. Does it stain plastic?
 
Speak of the Devil....


I took hi-res shots and a video showing Iron-X in action just about 3 hours ago...

Try to get it on YouTube tomorrow...

Great product and I highly recommend it to everyone and will be showing it in next weekends Detailing Boot Camp Class both on wheels and on body panels.



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I heard it loosens wheel weights when cleaning the wheels, is this true? If so, damn its some strong stuff!

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Klasse Act said:
I heard it loosens wheel weights when cleaning the wheels, is this true? If so, damn its some strong stuff!

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I haven't had it loosen any weights, but it does turn the weights bright green. In all the iron-x pictures I see, no one ever masks off weights, calipers, rotors or anything for that matter...I don't think that is the best practice. I personally mask off as much as possible or take the wheels off the car and mask the weights.
 
I've used it on two white cars. Worth it's weight in gold to me.
 
Audios S6 said:
I haven't had it loosen any weights, but it does turn the weights bright green. In all the iron-x pictures I see, no one ever masks off weights, calipers, rotors or anything for that matter...I don't think that is the best practice. I personally mask off as much as possible or take the wheels off the car and mask the weights.
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That's it: IronX reacts with the lead in the weights and turns them green. But if you agitate them, they will return to the original colour.

What is a bigger worry are the calipers: it can harm some low-quality paints.

swanicyouth said:
I just got some TRIX, which contains Iron X. I'm trying to find out how cautious you have to be with this stuff around trim plastics. Does it stain plastic?
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IronX doesn't harm trim but since TRIX has TarX in it you have to have some caution: you can't let it dwell too long (over 10 minutes - instructions say no more than 5 minutes, just to be on the safe side) because it can stain whatever substrate it is on.

And remember: don't do it under the sun - that is forbidden!
 
Mike.Phillips@Autogeek said:
Speak of the Devil....


I took hi-res shots and a video showing Iron-X in action just about 3 hours ago...

Try to get it on YouTube tomorrow...

Great product and I highly recommend it to everyone and will be showing it in next weekends Detailing Boot Camp Class both on wheels and on body panels.



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Mike,
we'll see in the YouTube but do you wear a mask when applying?
If so, which one?

Great product but horrible smell. Not sure if tiny whiffs do any damage or
just smell horrible.

Results: New Honda Accord on dealer lot for less than one day. Iron-X is like insurance, hope you don't need it but.... Honda had some iron deposits on rear bumper and a couple other
small spots so glad I used it!!
IMO makes claying step much easier.
 
The only downsides are effects if you do not follow the directions as well as the "things to avoid"; also on the bottle as well as in older threads.
 
I tried it on one wheel today to test it. I got one little tiny purple spot. The car is two years on...I expected a lot more.
 
Doesn't change color at all on my white paint. I believe it's about your environment and whether you car picks up iron particles. My question is if it doesn't change color, does it mean it's not working? Or it actually works regardless to remove containments. Last time I did a detail on my car I skipped the IronX and did a P21s TAW decon in it's place - didn't see any difference.
 
It's my understanding that if it doesn't change color there was nothing there for it to remove.
 
addysdaddy said:
Doesn't change color at all on my white paint. I believe it's about your environment and whether you car picks up iron particles. My question is if it doesn't change color, does it mean it's not working? Or it actually works regardless to remove containments. Last time I did a detail on my car I skipped the IronX and did a P21s TAW decon in it's place - didn't see any difference.
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Iron-X is designed to remove only embedded ferrous iron particles from whatever surface you spray it on. The color of the liquid changes as it is dissolving the iron into a water soluble form that can then be rinsed away. I am not sure if the color change is part of the chemical reaction or just something CarPro added so you know it is working. If it doesn't change color it means there was no iron for it to dissolve (which in some ways is a good thing because you don't want that crud on your paint in the first place).

I love, love, love Iron-X. I wish I would have learned about it sooner. It does smell sort of disgusting but I always follow up with clay/ONR lube which smells like sweet blueberries so it evens out the sick Iron-X smell. On some cars, depending on the severity of iron contamination, Iron-X probably cuts my claying time in half AND produces better results than just using clay.
 
To see it work to its fullest, watch it work on a german cars rims with that wicked brake dust they whip up
 
I made the mistake of leaving a closed bottle of Iron-X in my trunk for a week.

Yeah, don't do that. Smell still hasn't come out. And it was never even opened, just the residue on the outside of the bottle.

Works great, though!
 
DaveT435 said:
I tried it on one wheel today to test it. I got one little tiny purple spot. The car is two years on...I expected a lot more.
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addysdaddy said:
My question is if it doesn't change color, does it mean it's not working? Or it actually works regardless to remove containments.
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DaveT435 said:
It's my understanding that if it doesn't change color there was nothing there for it to remove.
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I answered all of the above questions in the below thread. I'll extract the portion that explains this and make it it's own thread.


How to wash your car KISS style!

KISS stands for Keep it Simple Simon


Mike Phillips said:
Everyone wants to see the red bleeding effect from the Iron particles being dissolved and in the process turning the water red. Actually, seeing no red water bleeding off the wheel is a good sign because it means your wheels are not contaminated.

If the wheels are contaminated and they have a clear layer of paint on them, this would mean iron particles had embedded onto and into the clear layer of paint causing corrosion to some degree.

No color, no corrosion = longer lasting finish on the wheel.


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So technically, you don't want to see the bleeding effect. That means corrosion. I know it looks cool but think about it, isn't it better to find out you don't have corrosion than it is to find out you have it?


Kind of like car insurance. You don't want o pay for it but even more you don't want to "need" to use it.


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