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The bugs are starting. Had to clean the windshield of my dad’s new Jeep. He’s going to avoid any more highway driving until the bugs subside.
Treat it like it`s the only one in the world.
When I know that it’s basically Lovebug season down here, which is more or less May and November, and I’m going long distance, which usually means Orlando and north, I’m a big believer in 3M blue masking tape or track wrap on the front of the car.
Regarding touchless , I have a great Chevron station that has a good touchless here. I only use it on express/rinse setting, then I take the car home and wipe it down with either carPro Ech20 or carPro elixir.
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In my area in Northeast the roads are pretreated before big storms with liquid calcium and that is bad news for the entire vehicle. So you less is better than that
Here a good fail story the city I live in one winter used crushed glass for traction and every snow store spread the junk everywhere come spring there was a lot of finger pointing and they had to pick it all back up and clean every street and sidewalk.
Ill eventually get the FK but I’m pretty religious about immediate bug removal. People have given me strange looks in parking lots when they see me with my little bottle of waterless wash and a MF picking away at the bugs.
Treat it like it`s the only one in the world.
My FK1000P lasts a lot longer than 6 months, but my vehicles are pretty pampered these days, so YMMV definitely applies.
BUT...I`ve still never had *anything* etch through it, and I`ve left bugs/bird-bombs on the stuff for months.
For maintenance, I generally use some kind of Drying Aid, either FK425 or QD-strength IUDJ. BUT, no, doing that does not appreciably improve the FK`s durability (I just do it for a little anti-marring insurance in case there`s residual dirt there when I dry). Multiple layers of FK1000P (I`d stop at about four as pseudo-holograms can occur...which Ketch labels "Use-error", and he`s generally right ) oughta hold up just fine. When the beading changes I add another coat (with zero real prep, just a wash/dry).
I *should* note that, speaking of YMMV!, some here have had 476S last longer, although that wasn`t my experience.
I have friends that like clean cars and use touchless washes. Their paint looks ok, maybe like it could use a nice polish. The big difference I see is their trim looks terrible. Greyed plastic and dried out rubber.
Also I used to use a touchless in the winter to get the salt off the bottom of my truck. Like once a week. My truck underside looked worse than those that did nothing. A little research indicated that a large majority of car washes use recycled water for everything but the rinse. They have no equipment on site to remove that salt.
I`m lucky that we have warm days here and there in the winter, as long as it`s above freezing, I use ice fishing gloves and don`t mind doing a quick wash.
And even if none of the above was true, all the automated wash machines have lines at them whenever I want to use them. So it takes as long or longer to drive to one and wait than it does to just do a 30 minute wash at home.
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