shelf life on polish?

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Fly5465

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Ok, today I tried using some really OLD stuff I had in the garage on my white Tacoma 4x4. 1st let me say the hood of my truck has some spots on it where it looks like some type of chemical got splashed on it and you can see the difference in paint, but cant feel it.



So... I tried some really old (like 10 years) Meguiars "final cut #2" on a orange pad on my Cyclo. It seemed to work somewhat, but not at all what I expected. Does this stuff have a shelf life? I wonder if its just to old. It only had about 1/4 left in the bottle and I shook it well. The polished looked normal?



Then I went over it again with some equally old Meguiars #9 with green pad on my Cyclo. The stuff in this bottle was super thin, almost like colored water when I put it on the pad?? Maybe to old? (it was shaken well too.)



Well, I stopped for the day after. I think I'm going to get some new pads (they were about 8 years old but never used) and also some new polish. Still thinking about trying the M205, M105 approch. Do you think I will have better results with these products?



Also, is white a difficult color to polish? It was had to tell how much polish I had on the paint and how long to work it? Its also hard for me to tell the condition of the white paint.



Looking at you guys pictures, you are pretty good at this polishing!! Its a lot harder than it looks. But I'm having fun learning.



Fly5465 - Arizona
 
White isn't a hard color to polish, per se. The results don't flash themselves as much as say, a cleared metallic or gloss black. White paints seem a little harder to me, as a single stage, than others, but I've gotten some good shines out of them with less industrial stuff.



Not sure on the shelf life of the products. I'd pay attention to the consistancy of the product as you pour it out.
 
Usually shelf life isn't too much of an issue with polishes. It does help to shake them up periodically, although I have mine in an area where the temperature is pretty consistent, and it's cool, perhaps unlike your garage. I do have a bottle of Meg's #5 New Car Glaze that has permanently separated out into a clear liquid and green chewing gum. It can be really hard to get stuff shaken back together if it has been separated for a long time.
 
All my products are stored in my basement year round. About once a month I will up-end all my products just to put what might have settled to the top of the container and reverse it the following month. I haven't lost anything yet and don't have to shake it up for 30 minutes prior to use as everything stays pretty well blended.
 
Fly5465- I use many products that are quite a few years old, hardly ever have any issues. I stockpile discontinued products I like, and I don't worry much about shelf-life.



Still, you just never know and if something's not working then you need something else no matter what's going on. When products get down below half-full there's a lot of airspace in the bottle and that can cause trouble.



The #9 is so gentle via Cyclo that I wouldn't expect much out of it anyhow.



Is the #2 called "Final Cut" or "Fine Cut"? Whichever, you'll like M105 a lot better.



Yeah, I'd step up to the M105/M205 combo. They've pretty much rendered stuff like #2 and #9 obsolete. Yeah, you'll get better results with them, I'm quite certain about that.



setec astronomy said:
I do have a bottle of Meg's #5 New Car Glaze that has permanently separated out into a clear liquid and green chewing gum...
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Aw geeze....that's too bad. How old is that stuff? It's not from way back in the days of the cylindrical clear bottles is it? Now I'm thinking I need to go shake up my time machine products, like I have time for that :o
 
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