When do you use Meg's ColorX?

ColorX BEFORE being stripped (top has been treated with ColorX):

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ColorX AFTER being stripped:

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If you can't see more swirls between those 2 pictures then I don't know what to tell you.

Those are in this thread on the last page, written by Mike P.: http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum...sked-questions/20573-1-step-vs-3-steps-7.html
 
I see the additional swirls. I didn't scroll all the way through the thread, so thanks for bringing the before and after pics to my attention. However, I do note that the position of the light source is different in the two photographs. Note how the light appears below the dividing line in the first photo but above it in the second photo. This re-positioning may account for the two different views, at least to some extent. An accurate photographic comparision would require the camera and light source to be positioned identically in each photo.

It would be interesting to do a similar test on different waxes to see how much "filling" occurs. But as I said, I'm all for waxes that hide defects and swirls. My car swirls too too easily, despite my best efforts to wash her carefully, and I'm not going to polish her to a swirl-free surface every three months. I only have so much clearcoat to work with. So if my wax will help hide some of the swirls, I'm all for it! :xyxthumbs:
 
Yeah, I thought about the lighting position as well, but it's close enough that the top of the light source in the top picture would show more swirls if they weren't being filled and hidden.

There's a place for fillers and glazes in the detailing world, I just choose not to use them, at least not knowingly. If I'm using a product that I find has fillers, it will leave my shelves and enter the trash can. That's just me though. ;)
 
Let me ask you guys something. (this is not directed at anyone in specific)

If a customer asked you to simply wash, clay and then wax their car using an AIO cleaner wax, what would you do and what would you use?

You are going to have to use a cleaner wax since you are not being paid to do correction work, the customer simply wants their car waxed.

Meguiars ColorX is an AIO cleaner wax that cleans,polishes, and protects the paint. It can remove swirls and scratches as well as moderate to heavy oxidation on both clearcoat and SS paint.

Any wax is going to fill to some degree, ColorX removes more defects than it fills in though.

I am sure other boutique AIO cleaner waxes fill but yet still remove defects. ( Klasse, XMT360, etc)

I just do not think it is fair to pick on ColorX because it is an OTC product and I do not think its fair to say it is primarily a filler product.
 
If that's all a customer wants, I'll use D151 - Paint Reconditioning Cream. It's cheap, effective and uses SMAT. Polishes and protects in one-step and doesn't actually fill like ColorX does IME. Just answering your question.

ColorX is easily available, and I said that there is a place for both filler waxes and glazes, but my point was to prove that it is, in fact, a filler wax. I'm a firm believer that you could use hand lotion and get SOME correction out of it if you use the right pad/detailer with it, but hand lotion is still hand lotion no matter how you look at it.

PRC is a bit harder to come by, yeah, but it works better than ColorX does and doesn't do any major filling that I can see. As a matter of fact, the fact that it uses SMAT makes it even more capable of correcting paint than ColorX does. Shoot, Optimum Poli-seal is a FANTASTIC all-in-one, but you don't hear much about it. Anyway, was a good "discussion", but I don't want it to go downhill. I'll bow out now. Bedtime. G'nite all.
 
O.C.Detailing said:
...That's why and what. ;)
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Sorry I forgot to reply and thank you. Every post I have read of yours has helped teach me something . :)

I have a 88 Honda Civic that has seen over 260K miles and 22 years on the road. Paint looks great except for the hood where, in addition to scratches and swirls, tiny bits of paint are starting to flake off.

I have been detailing the center of the hood with M7 (to slow down the drying) followed by M21 to seal and M26 for the carnuba.

This makes the paint and scratches "pop" and I want something to make the flaws less noticeable without removing paint. Just on the center of the hood.

I understand that this is not "when" to use ColorX...Even if applied it gently as a glaze. I now know what not to use. And I thank you for saving me a couple of bucks. :)

Jeff

PS

If I took my car to you and you used ColorX, I would be disappointed. So, I think we are on the same page.

I saw an antique Model T that could only handle M7 glaze before a car show as the original paint was literally falling off. That's how I got the idea to use M7. Then I thought maybe a gently applied coat of C----X would act sort of like M7 except last longer and add more protection.

Don't make me beg....You obviously have a lot of experience and I know if you tell me what to do, you'll have to kill me... but I will take the bullet for the rest of us newbs. )
 
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