I tested three products on old dark green vinyl floor. All three products claim cleaning ability.
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Meguiars Natural Shine
2. TurtleWax 2001 Super Protectant
3. Lexol Vinylex
I sprayed those products on vinyl floor and then wiped with circular motion with Bounty kitchen towel. The amount of stain on the areas on the old vinyl floor was approximately equal.
Meguiars Natural Shine and TurtleWax 2001 Super Protectant left very light gray stain on white kitchen towel.
Lexol Vinylex instantly made the white kitchen towel dark green. The difference was dramatic.
Then I sprayed Lexol Vinylex on the areas previously wiped with Meguiars Natural Shine and TurtleWax 2001 Super Protectant. Then I wiped those areas. Again, the white kitchen towel became soon dark green.
Then I sprayed Meguiars Extra on new area on the vinyl floor. It is not a
vinyl protectant, but I just wanted to compare cleaning ability. Yeah, Mequiars Extra made the white kitchen towel dark green.
Then I wiped another new area on the vinyl floor with Armor All Cleaning Wipe. ArmorAll claims that it cleans vinyl without drying out or cracking vinyl.
The ArmorAll Cleaning Wipe became only light grayish green.
So Lexol Vinylex has more cleaing power than Armor All Cleaning Wipe!
Frequent use of a product with such high cleaning power may cause crack on vinyl, rubber or plastic?
I also sent email to three manufacturers. The question was whether the protectant strips away the wax on paint nearby plastic or rubber trim.
Meguiars and TurtleWax answered that their protectants have cleaning ability but do not strip wax away.
However, Lexol told me to apply Vinylex carefully, though it will not do harm on paint. - they did not answer directly whether the protectant strip wax away or not -.
I thought of doing wax stripping test myself, but I gave up, because I would not be able to tell whether the water beading is due to wax or due to vinyl protectant, after rubbing protectant on waxed paint surface.
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It would be interesting to do the same test on old dark green vinyl floor with
303 Aerospace Protectant. Howerver, I do not have it.
I searched 'where to buy' on 303 web site, and found there is one hardware store that has 303 in Rhode Island. I drove there, but 303 was not there. The workers in that hardware store did not know what 303 was.
By the way, 303 seems to make unscientific absurd claim. They claim that silicone product must not be used on tires. But Michelin probably makes tire dressing with silicone. I did not see MSDS of the Michelin tire dressing, but a product wich has [apply second coat to improve shie] kind of instruction contains silicone, according to 303.
http://www.petroferm.com/michelin/tc.htm
Acoording to 303, if tire manufacturers find silicone tire dressing, they void warranty.
". . . . contain petrochemicals and/or silicone oils which dissolve away the protective waxes . . . . In the event of warranty sidewall failure, one of the first things tire manufacturers look for is evidence of the use of these types of products. When found, this is often cause for not warranting the sidewall failure. " - 303
I asked about this to Lexol because Vinylex contains silicone oils. Lexol answered that they did not know any tire manufacturer that would void warranty because of use of Vinylex.
"it calls into question the credibility of that resource and any and all claims they make." - Meguiars (about silicone in paint care products)
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On Meguiars Natural Shine, it reads that it is for vinyl and rubber, while, on many other protectants it reads it is for vinyl, rubber and plastic.
I asked about this to Meguiars. The answer was that Meguiars Natural Shine protects plastic too as many other protectants.
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