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Old 08-22-06, 08:04   #1 (permalink)
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My Impression of Trade Secrets

Well I was told you couldn’t tell the difference between Souveran and Trade Secrets and normally challenges like that I just ignore since it seems like they just cost me money and unwanted products. After checking out the website and finding this statement I decided to give it a try.

This remarkable carnauba wax may be layered for optimal effect and durability. Show vehicles are commonly layered with 15 to 20 coats, with each layer deepening the color. You'll never use another wax on black vehicles. Trade Secret carnauba wax will not streak or leave white residue. It will so transform your waxing process, you will look forward to applying it! Black and other dark colors will never again be a problem. Trade Secret's white carnauba literally deepens a vehicle's color with each layer.

First I did an IPA wipe down of one fender on my black 39 ford and applied Trade Secrets X2 to the fender. What my eye detected was increase in shine/gloss, Natty Blue depth but loss of that Souverian glow. Since I recently detailed my 39 and Good Guys car show is only a couple of weeks away I didn’t want to change LSP.

My 35 Ford needed a light polishing so I pulled out the XMT-1 and did a quick polishing to get rid of some small swirls that were induced by using QD at car shows. I put on three coats of Trade Secrets over the entire car allowing 24 hours between coats for cure time. I can say that after the first coat I was a little disappointed with the results I felt that is was lacked the depth and wetness of both Natty Blue and Souveran but had the shine of a lot of the sealants. The second coat seem to added the much need wetness and depth and it was very apparent where there was only one coat and where there were two coats of wax. With NB or Souveran I can see a difference in the second coat but nothing as dramatic as Trade Secrets. The third coat didn’t yield a dramatic difference but there was a slight difference. Since then I have added 4 more to bring the total to seven just the hood and I have not seen any increase what so ever. I going to continue to put coats on just half the hood for a total of about 12 on one side and leave the original three on the other side and see if I can see a difference between the two. Of coarse a thread like this is worthless without pictures..

















Now for the ones in the Sun







Trade Secrets will not be knocking my Souveran off the top shelf for black but I will be sitting on the second shelf next to Natty Blue.
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Old 08-22-06, 08:21   #2 (permalink)
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looks pretty darn good to me!! I love the wetness and also like the orange tones in the paint. When the car was painted was there yellow used by chance?

Looks Great!

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Old 08-22-06, 08:22   #3 (permalink)
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No offense Dennis but you could SPIT on that car and make it shine!

Looks great!
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Old 08-22-06, 08:41   #4 (permalink)
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Looks good to me, but obviously without seeing it with Souveran or NB I can't see the differences you see-but regardless, the car looks great!
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Looks great Dennis but I still prefer Souveran overall for a carnauba. In my experience Souveran gets wetter on the second layer as well but I believe since the first layer adds most of the wetness, you also benefit from increased optical clarity of fewer layers.
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[Insert usual compliments regarding DennisH's hot rods here ]

So what was the final verdict- is TS your new favorite? I never got quite the same look with it that I get with Souveran so I went back to the latter.
 
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Those are some great hotrods.
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So what was the final verdict- is TS your new favorite? I never got quite the same look with it that I get with Souveran so I went back to the latter.
Well Accumulator this is just the way my eye sees it!! On black I still think that PRO85RD/RMG/PS rules and haven’t found anything I like better either in the wax or sealants. On my Mini Cooper which is a darker red RMG/PS combo is the best combo I have found for looks, but I have been using up the last of my Zaino for it durability and will probably continue to use sealants. The 35 Ford pictured is a lighter red with lots of orange with a single stage paint and RMG/PS doesn’t seem to do much for it, seems that RMG and Natty Blue is a great combo and Trade Secrets isn’t bad either. PS is still my on the top shelf!!
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Looks great Dennis but I still prefer Souveran overall for a carnauba. In my experience Souveran gets wetter on the second layer as well but I believe since the first layer adds most of the wetness, you also benefit from increased optical clarity of fewer layers.
Over all I agree I like use Souveran but as the colors get lighter I think that PS looses some of the "Souveran Glow" that it's so famous for! Also, I think as colors become lighter it gets easier to sealants and other wax to duplicate the PS look. Just my thoughts!
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Thanks Dennis for your review! Those are some real nice rods you have there.
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well with single stage paint products with more oils should look better. PS probably has more oil/carnauba content than most other synthetic/carnauba blends.
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DennisH- Yeah, seems like some paints just respond to certain combos and you have to find the look that *you* prefer.
 
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