I think most of the people who have tried Quikshine and Vanilla Moose have been pleased with the results. The verdict on Moose Wax has been decidedly mixed, with a few people having problems using it over Vanilla Moose and it seeming to strip out any filling properties you get with VM.
Everett Glass of Clearkote has addressed that problem quite well I think. I met with him about a month ago when he was at Texas Motor Speedway for a car show and he seemed very interested in the results I was getting using S100 on top of Vanilla Moose. He said when he got back, he'd mix up some carnuba he had to see if he could come up with a liquid carnuba that would rival and possibly surpass the shine, depth and reflection of S100.
He sent me two versions of the wax to try (and a few others on this board also). One contained carnuba and the other did not. Both are a petroleum based wax (like Vanilla Moose and Moose Wax), but without abrasives or cleaners. I used the non carnuba one on a black S500 in the direct sun (I was asked specifically to test them both in the sun). It went on and off with ease on black paint on a nearly 90 degree day and noticably added gloss, shine and depth. The only problem I had was some dusting, most likely because my first instinct was to use a bit too much product to compensate for what I thought would be very fast drying on paint that would steam when water was on it. When I used less product, it still spread with ease and wiped off just as easily and dusted a bit less. Still, VM doesn't dust at all in the heat.
This is an after pic (no sense in a before pic, especially in the sun and the car looked pretty good anyway).
Everett Glass of Clearkote has addressed that problem quite well I think. I met with him about a month ago when he was at Texas Motor Speedway for a car show and he seemed very interested in the results I was getting using S100 on top of Vanilla Moose. He said when he got back, he'd mix up some carnuba he had to see if he could come up with a liquid carnuba that would rival and possibly surpass the shine, depth and reflection of S100.
He sent me two versions of the wax to try (and a few others on this board also). One contained carnuba and the other did not. Both are a petroleum based wax (like Vanilla Moose and Moose Wax), but without abrasives or cleaners. I used the non carnuba one on a black S500 in the direct sun (I was asked specifically to test them both in the sun). It went on and off with ease on black paint on a nearly 90 degree day and noticably added gloss, shine and depth. The only problem I had was some dusting, most likely because my first instinct was to use a bit too much product to compensate for what I thought would be very fast drying on paint that would steam when water was on it. When I used less product, it still spread with ease and wiped off just as easily and dusted a bit less. Still, VM doesn't dust at all in the heat.
This is an after pic (no sense in a before pic, especially in the sun and the car looked pretty good anyway).
), so it will be a good test of the durability of the combination. On the light metallic green, it left an absolutely shimmering finish:
). :xyxthumbs
