Any retail sources of Aquapel?

[StumpyDetailing]

I get all that from Clean Glass?


In all Honesty, every month or so a squirt of Plexus and I have never had wipers on high ever, we had 4.6 Inches of rain in the past 2 days and my wipers were on Intermittent the entire time.

I think it has a lot to do with the angle/slope of the windshield. My Pathfinder used to need something but even that car I can honestly say the money spent on Aquapel was a waste. For $3 I could get 2 years out of a bottle of Rain X, and get the same features, yep even the streaks and skipping wipers.

I dont mean to thread Cr@p, I just cant figure out what this product does to justify the price over similar if not Identical products. Maybe im crazy, It has been suggested.......

Maybe if it was applied professionally it wouldn't skip or streak?

Most people are turned off of these type of products by a bad experience...

[kpounds]

Aquapel didn't work for me either. But it could've been "user error" (me) when applying it. I tried twice 6 months apart and no beading or anything. Applied it to a newly installed windshield, cleaned it thoroughly, applied the AQ and no luck. I'm currently looking for a good replacement product for Rain-x/ AQ.

[FalconGuy]

Tried the Pro Route. Watching him do his work convinced me I will never pay anyone to detail or work on my car again. Unless I am incapacitated and cannot speak.....

Wearing a Huge Nascar Belt Buckle, applied it just like I did, after all the instructions are pretty clear, less words than this post in fact. Still it is a product I just dont get.

Maybe I should see a $40 bottle of pro wheel cleaner? It doesn't do the job any better but thats because its for use by Pros?

No offense but I have a lot of expertise, im an aviation technician, the directions are pretty straight forward, it wasn't me, the product was all hype IMO.

Your mileage may vary, cars and slope of the window may vary but for me it was a bad use of my detailing funds.

I am curious though, how would a pro eliminate wiper smear or skip, even their own literature admits this will happen?

[StumpyDetailing]

Tried the Pro Route. Watching him do his work convinced me I will never pay anyone to detail or work on my car again. Unless I am incapacitated and cannot speak.....

Wearing a Huge Nascar Belt Buckle, applied it just like I did, after all the instructions are pretty clear, less words than this post in fact. Still it is a product I just dont get.

Maybe I should see a $40 bottle of pro wheel cleaner? It doesn't do the job any better but thats because its for use by Pros?

No offense but I have a lot of expertise, im an aviation technician, the directions are pretty straight forward, it wasn't me, the product was all hype IMO.

Your mileage may vary, cars and slope of the window may vary but for me it was a bad use of my detailing funds.

I am curious though, how would a pro eliminate wiper smear or skip, even their own literature admits this will happen?

I've never seen wiper smear/skip.... Well, I did all the time, but then I applied Aquapel and it all went away for good... I wonder if there are different versions of Aquapel? I just don't understand why yours wouldn't have worked... I've had it on a '92 VW Jetta, '99 GMC Savanna, '91 GMC Vandura (My truck), '00 Merc C230, '03 Nissan Murano, '03 Toyota Echo, and a '86 Pontiac Fiero.. Any time I get above 60km/h, I don't need to use the wipers at all, and if I do, the vision is 900x better than without wipers...

Hell, in rainstorms I see people slowing down with their wipers on high all around me, and I can see clearly as daylight...

Oh well, we'll leave it for the people that want it

[Ron Ketcham]

Not meant to "bead", it is designed to "shed" the water from the surface as any good "sealant" type product should.
Beading is no longer an indicator of performance.
Grumpy