Ult Quik Wax vs the Pollen Tree

Don M

Don M

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I washed the car yesterday. By evening I had a fair coat of pollen on the entire car. This morning, my black car had a yellow tinge to it. Now I have Megs QD (the regular stuff), Megs Gold Class QD, and Megs Ult Quik Wax that I could use to remove the pollen.

Since I just washed the car yesterday, I didn`t see my wife "letting" me wash it again today
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(I have too much yard work to do). So one of the sprays was going to have to work. I like the regular QD for claying, but I didn`t feel it had enough lubricity to protect against the pollen being wiped off and I like the Gold Class as a drying agent, but I wanted to put some protection on too (and I didn`t know how much longer she was going to sleep and how much time I had).

So, Ult Quik Wax it was. I misted a light spray over half the roof and gently wiped the QW/pollen mix off the roof. Then I flipped the towel and buffed off the QW residue.

I had good lighting from the sun, even though I was under a tree, and inspected the roof panel for new damage (scratches, swirls, etc). But the finish was unharmed, no new anything, just a slippery, clean surface. Since using the Ult QW on heavy pollen like on the roof didn`t cause any damage, I decided to do the rest of the car. 15-20 minutes later (taking quick breaks for sips of coffee), I was done. The car was gleaming again, with no yellow tinge.

As I sat down to admire my work and finish my cup of coffee, I heard the wife get up .... Dang, I still have the windows to do ....

So here`s what it looks like now in the early morning light ....


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Too all reading this: Welcome to late spring in Ohio. Ask me how I know. :)

you can go from this:




to this in just hours: In fact you can see the pollen falling and accumulating as you dry. Sucks because you have to work fast or else you'll be detail spraying over it and run the risk of marring the paint. Ugh....





 
I would suggest using a California car duster first. Ideally, you would blow what you could off first, use the car duster, then use a quick detailer. This is the process we used on restored classic cars when I worked at a restoration shop.
 
Northern Pennsylvania this time of year same issue. Been using California car duster as well. I'll start blowing off first like stealthxj said.

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Same issue in NYC. California Duster in the trunk fixes things as Stealth said above
 
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