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This may be slightly off topic perhaps but thought this was the best place to put it
It seems that many of us autopians are quite closed minded about long life sealers that are not polymer based, new polishes that don't remove as much clear or any and other products that make big claims
Sure there's been people spamming these forums or just asking genuine questions about five star shine PPS, Colour Shield, Polaris Aeropoxy Clearcoat, Fireglaze, Glare, Matrix, Venture Shield, Permagard, Ming etc etc and some of these may be nothing at all but unless I've tried them, I'll stay open minded
It seems that alot of members are against all of them and not many have tested them.
Yes there are some trashy products in the worldwide car care/detailing market but I've kept an open mind and bought a few bottles of some of these products and had great success and not just with the paint either
I'm not better or even as good as many of you but am willing to try anything once and thanks to finally biting the bullet with two brands lately, have lifted my car's appearance higher than what's possible by polishing
A fellow professional in a western part of Australia didn't want to touch permagard when I told him I had talked to the SA distributor about it. He was staying away from it
I payed big money for this little bottle of it which is a cleaner and 12 month sealant and maintenance product to remove swirls off the reactive sealant coating which is supposedly permanent
So I gave it a go by machine after Fireglaze Plus single strength on my unpainted fibreglass top spoiler which is part of the tickford twin winged spoiler that was available with the Falcon off the day. and it lifted the colour right up and the reflections are now higher than ever before and about 10% away from being like a mirror.
It's always been blurry and cloudy but had no reflection at all when I bought the car.
It looks like it's been painted gloss black and clearcoated.
By hand and machine, it polished my urethane exterior door moldings so beautifully that they are even better than when I applied my Trim Dream by machine and sealed with Fireglaze double strength
There is an unpainted horizontal trim piece on my hood which has always been brown and faded and I hated to keep applying dressings to it.
Just by hand with a german applicator (soft side), it's now black, super slick and sealed up for over a year. it won't fade again.
It is also one hell of a hand cleaner/polish. removed the white stain and filled in most of the two bird etching marks that had been there since the owner had it.
The colour it gives to the paint by hand is insane.
Along with that, it polishes tinted windows and unpainted side mirror backings (both soft and textured) plus textured trims that my trim dream and fireglaze wouldn't work on
yes it was eighty five dollars for a 236ml bottle and I'll be getting a bigger bottle shortly that's better priced but it's got my tick of approval
Next - Glare Pro Polish
Man I put off buying this for five years but bought a bottle last week off the aussie distributor who uses it professionally and knows how to use it properly
Now I do not know how good this is as a sealant yet but it's the ultimate hand polish and glaze because in two minutes with another german applicator, the grey, faded textured side mirror backings of the three MG-Rover RV8's that we have in storage here were turned into high gloss black and had the look of perfectly polished single stage black.
I had tried everything I had to get those up but to no avail.
The amazing thing about this product is that on every car's paint I've applied it too by machine and then by hand, it actually filled in alot of the swirls and has hidden some of the orange peel to the point that it's almost completely level
My dad's MG-F race car had only slight peel but now is 95% level.
It should outlast fireglaze as a sealant and so far those swirls haven't washed back out
There is no product I've tried in 10 years that makes the paint so slick. It's slicker than butter.
Basically all I am saying is - keep your mind open to new technologies and give some of these products a go. If you never try them, you may just get left behind or miss out on apermanent or long lasting solution to a car surface problem
It seems that many of us autopians are quite closed minded about long life sealers that are not polymer based, new polishes that don't remove as much clear or any and other products that make big claims
Sure there's been people spamming these forums or just asking genuine questions about five star shine PPS, Colour Shield, Polaris Aeropoxy Clearcoat, Fireglaze, Glare, Matrix, Venture Shield, Permagard, Ming etc etc and some of these may be nothing at all but unless I've tried them, I'll stay open minded
It seems that alot of members are against all of them and not many have tested them.
Yes there are some trashy products in the worldwide car care/detailing market but I've kept an open mind and bought a few bottles of some of these products and had great success and not just with the paint either
I'm not better or even as good as many of you but am willing to try anything once and thanks to finally biting the bullet with two brands lately, have lifted my car's appearance higher than what's possible by polishing
A fellow professional in a western part of Australia didn't want to touch permagard when I told him I had talked to the SA distributor about it. He was staying away from it
I payed big money for this little bottle of it which is a cleaner and 12 month sealant and maintenance product to remove swirls off the reactive sealant coating which is supposedly permanent
So I gave it a go by machine after Fireglaze Plus single strength on my unpainted fibreglass top spoiler which is part of the tickford twin winged spoiler that was available with the Falcon off the day. and it lifted the colour right up and the reflections are now higher than ever before and about 10% away from being like a mirror.
It's always been blurry and cloudy but had no reflection at all when I bought the car.
It looks like it's been painted gloss black and clearcoated.
By hand and machine, it polished my urethane exterior door moldings so beautifully that they are even better than when I applied my Trim Dream by machine and sealed with Fireglaze double strength
There is an unpainted horizontal trim piece on my hood which has always been brown and faded and I hated to keep applying dressings to it.
Just by hand with a german applicator (soft side), it's now black, super slick and sealed up for over a year. it won't fade again.
It is also one hell of a hand cleaner/polish. removed the white stain and filled in most of the two bird etching marks that had been there since the owner had it.
The colour it gives to the paint by hand is insane.
Along with that, it polishes tinted windows and unpainted side mirror backings (both soft and textured) plus textured trims that my trim dream and fireglaze wouldn't work on
yes it was eighty five dollars for a 236ml bottle and I'll be getting a bigger bottle shortly that's better priced but it's got my tick of approval
Next - Glare Pro Polish
Man I put off buying this for five years but bought a bottle last week off the aussie distributor who uses it professionally and knows how to use it properly
Now I do not know how good this is as a sealant yet but it's the ultimate hand polish and glaze because in two minutes with another german applicator, the grey, faded textured side mirror backings of the three MG-Rover RV8's that we have in storage here were turned into high gloss black and had the look of perfectly polished single stage black.
I had tried everything I had to get those up but to no avail.
The amazing thing about this product is that on every car's paint I've applied it too by machine and then by hand, it actually filled in alot of the swirls and has hidden some of the orange peel to the point that it's almost completely level
My dad's MG-F race car had only slight peel but now is 95% level.
It should outlast fireglaze as a sealant and so far those swirls haven't washed back out
There is no product I've tried in 10 years that makes the paint so slick. It's slicker than butter.
Basically all I am saying is - keep your mind open to new technologies and give some of these products a go. If you never try them, you may just get left behind or miss out on apermanent or long lasting solution to a car surface problem
