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Had a chance to test some carnauba waxes on the hood of my truck this past Saturday. Spent about six hours or preparation and application for the whole process. I must say that the Menzerna line of products(po85rd and 1066ff) are terrific!
Here is the prep process:
SSR2.5 orange Propel pad
PO1066ff yellow Propel pad
PO85RD green Propel pad
Once completing this I sectioned off the hood with blue painters tape into four equal squares. I used my wife as the blind tester. Then proceeded to apply a different coat of carnauba wax to each one of the four squares.
WAXES APPLIED
Mother’s Carnauba
P21S
Pinnacle Souveran
Zymol Vintage Estate
I placed a thin layer on each square and wiped each one off. Then I proceeded to apply a spit shine method of application times three. I had my wife come in an look at the products taped off each time it was buffed off. The results in my humble test were surprising to say the least.
The winner hands down was P21S. It had the shine, depth, and clarity. The paint felt smoother than any of the others. The only draw back for me as the applicator was that P21S was the most difficult to remove of all the waxes. Each spit shine layer was progressively harder to remove.
The second in our unofficial test results was Mother’s carnauba. It was third in the first layer test but moved up in our categories each layer. Although it never passed P21S it did pass the other two convincingly.
Third place went to Souveran. In all of the tests it placed only as an, “all right.. just OK...nothing really special”. I have to say that I was really disappointed in third place for Souveran. I had come to believe that Souveran was my favorite go-to carnauba product.
Fourth place went to Zymol. I want to thank DC member JngrBrdman for supplying the Zymol.
From first application to the last application. My tester had nothing good to say about the wax. Was not impressed with it at all. Texture was the first thing mentioned. She thought the wax was thicker and very oily. I must admit that there is no oily finish on the paint after 12 hours of cure time.
All in all I had a very good time doing this. I took my time and tried to be fair in my application techniques. The results I know are very subjective but to be honest I know that my wife’s help on this was not biased at all. Here are the after pictures. My camera got dirty and failed to open the lens so I did not get before pictures.
Imagine the hood tape off looking at the hood . The items were placed starting with P21S in the upper left corner. Then going clockwise Mother’s in the upper right. Zymol lower right. Pinnacle Souveran lower left. I cannot honestly tell the difference at this time. Will up date this thread later when I see some changes.
Here is the prep process:
SSR2.5 orange Propel pad
PO1066ff yellow Propel pad
PO85RD green Propel pad
Once completing this I sectioned off the hood with blue painters tape into four equal squares. I used my wife as the blind tester. Then proceeded to apply a different coat of carnauba wax to each one of the four squares.
WAXES APPLIED
Mother’s Carnauba
P21S
Pinnacle Souveran
Zymol Vintage Estate
I placed a thin layer on each square and wiped each one off. Then I proceeded to apply a spit shine method of application times three. I had my wife come in an look at the products taped off each time it was buffed off. The results in my humble test were surprising to say the least.
The winner hands down was P21S. It had the shine, depth, and clarity. The paint felt smoother than any of the others. The only draw back for me as the applicator was that P21S was the most difficult to remove of all the waxes. Each spit shine layer was progressively harder to remove.
The second in our unofficial test results was Mother’s carnauba. It was third in the first layer test but moved up in our categories each layer. Although it never passed P21S it did pass the other two convincingly.
Third place went to Souveran. In all of the tests it placed only as an, “all right.. just OK...nothing really special”. I have to say that I was really disappointed in third place for Souveran. I had come to believe that Souveran was my favorite go-to carnauba product.
Fourth place went to Zymol. I want to thank DC member JngrBrdman for supplying the Zymol.
From first application to the last application. My tester had nothing good to say about the wax. Was not impressed with it at all. Texture was the first thing mentioned. She thought the wax was thicker and very oily. I must admit that there is no oily finish on the paint after 12 hours of cure time.
All in all I had a very good time doing this. I took my time and tried to be fair in my application techniques. The results I know are very subjective but to be honest I know that my wife’s help on this was not biased at all. Here are the after pictures. My camera got dirty and failed to open the lens so I did not get before pictures.
Imagine the hood tape off looking at the hood . The items were placed starting with P21S in the upper left corner. Then going clockwise Mother’s in the upper right. Zymol lower right. Pinnacle Souveran lower left. I cannot honestly tell the difference at this time. Will up date this thread later when I see some changes.
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