Collinite, s100, and Megs polishes questions.

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6ces

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So after getting some water marks that drive me crazy everytime i look at them i decided i wanted to try a new lsp that would offer me the best protection. I see all the good reviews on the collinite waxes and decided to try one of them.



Im leaning towards 476 because i hear its more durable, but does it protect better than 845? What other products would you reccomend for the best protection?



Also, since 476 is not the supposed to be the prettier of the 2, would a topping of s100 for looks mess up the protection/durability?



Lastly, i have some megs polishes (sample sizes from ADS) that sit in my garage along with all my other products. My garage gets kinda hot in the socal weather, should i be worried about it affecting my polishes and other products?



Im 18 and still learning, so all the help is appreciated. Im sure you guys get tired of these newb threads.
 
It's a tossup between 476 and 845. I use both and to be honest about it, there is not that much difference but I would give the edge to 476 for lasting and 845 for ease of use.



As for your supplies, if your garage gets hot (95+) all of the time, consider taking your detailing supplies inside. I just cheated on most of mine and bought a mini fridge that I turned up the temp on. It keeps my waxes, glazes and polishes at 50 F.
 
yea i ended up ordering the 476.



Any replies in terms of the s100 issue?

Any other beauty waxes that wont hurt my wallet too bad that would be a lot better?
 
hey guys, i also wanted to know what QDs are good but wont dent my lsp?



Im thinking about ordering a gallon of fk425, i just wanna make sure it doesnt have too much cleaning ability.
 
6ces said:
hey guys, i also wanted to know what QDs are good but wont dent my lsp?



Im thinking about ordering a gallon of fk425, i just wanna make sure it doesnt have too much cleaning ability.
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FK425 is good stuff. The LSP on my cars is Collinite 845, and the FK425 does nothing to decrease the life of it. If anything it improves the life of the wax. My only complaint about FK425 is that is seems to leave smears on glass, so I follow up with glass cleaner. Other qick detailers seem to work well on glass.
 
I have several layers of 476 as the "base wax" on our Accord, topped with DWG/DPS/DWG. Looks nice to us. 476 does very well for us here in the Northeast, lasting through the winter with no problems. In the spring I am going to strip everything off and go with 1000P topped with DWG for the warm weather months.
 
845 I think is harder to layer because of the amount of solvents in it. But with so much solvent it also lays down very evenly and bonds really well, it would have to bond well to be able to claim to protect ceramic insulators which are pretty much just glass coated ceramic.



That being said I love the layerability of 476, after 3 layers you get great depth and even hides defects as well as NXT which is no small feat, plus it's still looking and beading like new after 1 month. I've got 7 coats of the stuff on my trucks hood which has only been seeing washing, not even qd'ing. I'm gonna report on the durability in 3 month's, around new years time.
 
I have used s100 over 476 before and had no issues with it inhibiting the durability of the collinite. To me it had the same look of two layers of 476. If you want the collinite to pop a little more top it with two layers of s100.



Now with that said, if you live in a area that has bad winters just use several layers of the collinite 476. It’s the workhorse of all waxes and it looks good too. In the winter a wax that will last is what you need, not a boutique wax that will be gone after one bad snow storm.



So use the s100 in the nice weather and put it down when the snow starts to fall.
 
qwertydude said:
845 I think is harder to layer because of the amount of solvents in it..
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That's what I had figured too. But somebody here (sorry, forget who it was), challenged me on that and I found that layering 845 a) works and b) markedly increases its durability. Who woulda thunk it?



...That being said I love the layerability of 476, after 3 layers you get great depth ... I've got 7 coats of the stuff on my trucks hood .. I'm gonna report on the durability in 3 month's, around new years time.
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I too layer up the 476S, but for some reason it didn't want to layer right the last time I did the DenaliXL :nixweiss It left pseudo-holograms that I interpreted as signs of solvent action :think: IF this happens (big "if", but hey, it did happen..) I'd recommend some kind of spit-shining to mitigate that solvent action.



But yeah, a few applications of 476S will easily last for months, even in nasty winter conditions.



6ces- Welcome to Autopia!



I've spitshined beauty waxes over 476S with a slight improvement in looks. Not really worth it IMO and I'm awfully picky about how my vehicles look. Whenever I think the 476S doesn't look good enough, it ends up being the pre-wax prep that's to blame..this wax seems to be very sensitive to how nice a finish it's applied to.



I use FK425 over 476S at almost every wash (sometimes use Griot's SpeedShine instead as I have gallons on hand). It doesn't compromise the 476S (even when the wax is on its last legs) and it leaves things slick and shiny (shinier). Great combo.



The FK425 doesn't have all that much cleaning ability IME; when I want cleaning I use FK146 instead, big difference.



My previous shop got *HOT* in the summer..so hot the overhead door's motor would quit working! Most of my products were completely unaffected by that heat, simply wasn't the problem that I had expected. I was in that shop for over a dozen years, long time to figure stuff like that out.
 
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