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    3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    Hi all,

    so I recently completed a full detail on my fathers car, compounded, then polished with essence, and finished with reload. Went to wash it yesterday for the first time and during the initial rinse the water beading was great. Washed with 3d pink, and the beading decreased significantly. I thought 3d pink left nothing behind and i havent seen it affect beading like this before. I ordered some carpro reset to wash the car with next to see if that brings it back. Any thoughts or similar experiences?

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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    Ive had some wash and wax products alter beading but never kill it. I can`t tell you about 3D because I`ve never tried it. Just give it a little bit or a wipe down with something like Eraser and see what happens. I can tell you I`ve had nothing but bad experiences with reload on any paint so it got demoted to wheels and side windows until I finally ran out.

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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    Haven`t tried reload. Haven`t had any issues with 3D Pink, though.

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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    Reload went on fairly well actually. And the beading wasnt killed, just diminished.

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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    How long between Essence application and Reload application?

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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    3D Pink shouldn`t leave anything behind. Did you dilute the shampoo accurately or did you guesstimate? I wonder if the concentration was too high and maybe it just needed more rinse time. I`ve never had that soap degrade beading either. How long between initial application and this wash?
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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    Quote Originally Posted by Vega@Autopia View Post
    3D Pink shouldn`t leave anything behind. Did you dilute the shampoo accurately or did you guesstimate? I wonder if the concentration was too high and maybe it just needed more rinse time. I`ve never had that soap degrade beading either. How long between initial application and this wash?
    A week went by before the first wash. And i guesstimated Shoot i might have used too much soap.
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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    Quote Originally Posted by rwright View Post
    How long between Essence application and Reload application?
    Overnight actually.

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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    I use a fairly potent dilution of the Pink Soap, and it hasn`t diminished my beading (either on its own or when mixed with Griot`s Car Wash).

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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    Quote Originally Posted by Accumulator View Post
    I use a fairly potent dilution of the Pink Soap, and it hasn`t diminished my beading (either on its own or when mixed with Griot`s Car Wash).
    Hmm. Not sure whats going on. Ill wash it with Reset and see if that changes anything.

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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    Quote Originally Posted by 04accord View Post
    Hmm. Not sure whats going on..
    Eh, maybe it just doesn`t play nice with everything out there. Sure works fine on my FK1000P, M16, OCW and Meg`s UQW but I guess that doesn`t mean it`ll be great on something else.

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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    My guess is with Vega`s to much soap causing it to need excesive rinsing to remove ll the soap residue. I have done this with my soap cannon a lot of times takes a good through power washer rinse to remove all the saop sometimes for me with Meg`s Hyper wash and 3D Pink also and Optima Wash.

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    Re: 3d pink soap affecting water beading?

    Also, keep in mind that soaps are categorized as "cleaners". They`re designed to clean your paint and the heavy soiling (oil and grease) that`s accumulates on it. Allow that product to sit on the surface for longer periods of time (especially in hot sunny environments) and it accelerates the cleaning power ten fold. Also, just because there is or isn`t wax in the soap doesn`t mean that the surfacants can`t temporarily mute the beading effect of the protectant that`s on the surface. Even if you rinse the surface very well. Once the surfacants evaporate off the surface it`s business as normal. I`ve used certain soaps that killed the beading during the rinse, but once the next rain hits it`s right back to beading.
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