Anyone have Aquawax get foggy?

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Grimm

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Has anyone had a problem with Aquawax getting hazy/foggy? I'm having this intermittant problem with the hood getting foggy like a windshield does. I wipe it with my finger, and it's a smeared mess. I had it happen back in early July the first time I used it after I had polished/waxed a week before. I think it was removed just by washing. But then I used it again a couple weeks ago and had the same problem. It's really just the hood, no other areas that I can see. I washed it Friday night and couldn't remove the haze until I used my Danase Turbo Shine and it looked great. Then I drove it the first time on Sunday to church. When I was back home, it was all foggy/hazy again. I don't think I'm using too much because I'm not applying any differently than any other area. Could it be the heat and/or the AW not playing nice with the wax underneath? I really don't know what the wax is because it was a test wax from P21S. Under that is XMT Glaze.
 
Is the humidity high in you area? How much product are you using? This might be a problem. I had the same thing happen a little bit back, and found out I was using too much+high humidity. Try a little less product, and check out the results.
 
Yes, this week has been very hot in the high 80's with very high humidity. I think it's something to do with the heat because I had used it a couple times in May/June with no trouble and applied it pretty much the same from what I recall. Plus the fact it's only the hood.
 
Because of the isolated location on your vehicle (hood) tends to make me believe the the AW is being effected by the engine heat causing the wax/glaze to dissipate its beautifying oils into the AW top layer. These oils are being trapped in the AW layer causing it to haze and/or lift from the finish (the smearing you experienced). If this were a total wax/glaze/AW incompatibility it would effect all areas of the vehicle.

Maybe next time use either the wax or just the glaze before AW or do not apply the AW until a few days have passed after using both the glaze and wax combo have been exposed to a few engine/environmental heat cycles.
 
i use a square mf applicator (pre-dampened so it doesn't soak up all the AW), and spread it around with one spray which is enough to do one panel...
 
I have had that happen to me on the hood of my black g, z28 is definitely on point, two microfibs works great too. gotta love AW for the price/look etc.
 
i use a square mf applicator (pre-dampened so it doesn't soak up all the AW), and spread it around with one spray (which is enough to do one panel) then buff off with a mf towel...
 
Actually that reminds me, the first couple times I used it, I used two MF's, one to spread it around, then I went back with a dry one to buff it. I haven't done that the last couple times.
 
Grimm said:
Actually that reminds me, the first couple times I used it, I used two MF's, one to spread it around, then I went back with a dry one to buff it. I haven't done that the last couple times.
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I don't really do that either. I just take one MF and wipe on, walk away. I don't really see any hazing that would necesitate a second pass with a MF.
 
I just said that because I wonder if I'm putting it on too thick, and maybe the buff with a dry mf was removing excess the first couple times I used it.
 
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