I've been obsessed with ONR for quite a while now. It's capable of doing things it just shouldn't be able to do.
For instance, how in the heck is it able to prevent marring when used as a waterless car wash? I mean, you're doing *exactly* what you're *NOT* supposed to do; smashing a wash media against your dirty paint, then rubbing all those abrasive particles around on it. Before I tried ONR, I thought it must be REALLY slippery stuff in order to provide enough lubrication to keep marring from happening. Imagine my surprise when I got my first bottle of ONR, mixed it up, and saw that it really felt no different than water. Shot my lubrication theory down.
So I go to the web site, and it says something about "polymer encapsulation", which I immediately dismissed as snake oil mumbo jumbo. Big mistake that was. Recently, I've been learning a lot about carpet cleaning. One of the big "new things" in carpet cleaning is encapsulation-type chemicals. It works by encapsulating dirt. The chemicals are allowed to dry, and the chemical (as well as the dirt it is encapsulating) is then sucked up by a vacuum cleaner. There are some very interesting sites that show this process, and it does indeed work. So when ONR claims to do "polymer encapsulation", I'm not gonna doubt Dr. G at all; it's a viable statement to make.
My theory is since the particles are "encapsulated", as long as you don't apply too much pressure, the dirt is never really allowed to come into direct contact with the paint, thereby preventing abrasion, and hence marring. Since I've had some marring occur with ONR use, I've really been trying to figure out how the stuff works, and how it should be used.
What I've seen so far:
- Don't use too much pressure. Too much pressure allows the dirt to directly contact the paint and cause marring.
- Make sure all the dirt gets "encapsulated" before you take it for a ride across your paint. This means using a completely saturated, dripping wet wash media. I also like to pre-spray the panel I'm working on with ONR at QD strength.
- It's more important to make sure your wash media is *completely* saturated with ONR than it is to use a clean wash media. Yeah, I know that seems weird, which is why I'm stating it. You just *can't * use too much solution on the wash media before it hits your paint. As long as the dirt is encapsulated, it's not going to mar.
As long as I keep those things in mind, I haven't had any problems with ONR washings marring my paint.
A couple months ago, I had some dirt on the outside of my glove compartment. I thought for sure that no mattter what I did, I was going to end up scratching the plastic when cleaning off the dirt. ONR to the resuce; it came completely clean without scratching the plastic one bit.
ONR is some serious juju. IMO, one of the very best and most versatile detailing products.
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