BudgetPlan1
Active member
Water spots, mostly, likely overall cleanliness as well. I happened to stop and look closely at the hood of our little blue Civic last night and had to get very close to see some faint outlines of water spots.
It`s still very much winter in NE Ohio and that car hasn`t been washed since the day we returned from BJ. In that time we`ve had 1 solid week of snow/slush every rush hour, a week of on and off snow and sleet and a week of rain...and it still looked remarkably good; there was certainly plain evidence of winter in the sides of the car.
Granted, even in winter with respect to horizontal surfaces that aren`t close to the road grime, the heavy rain we had last week helps clean it off but considering all that`s thrown at it since last wash/Overcoat it`s really quite nice.
I *think* it`s due to both the beading and sheeting of Overcoat. With beading after a rain in summer, sitting stationary in a sunny parking lot, the tiny beads just seem to shrink up and evaporate with little trace.
On my car, doing 70 miles a day on the 4 busiest, heavily salted and chemically treated roads in town, it`s not magical or anything...my black car looks horrible after weather periods like that. I did take the opportunity during one of the heavy rain days to leave my car outside all night to be heavily rained on. While certainly not clean the next morning by any means, it did look much better. I like rain in the winter!
On another, un-related note, seeing coated cars/trucks in the midst of a salt and chemically laden winter is kinda interesting. Most cars have white spots and chunks all over them but coated vehicles horizontal surfaces get thin, pinstripes of salt residue. My black hood kinda looks like a zebra. Little bit of hydrophobic or slushophobic behavior in action.
