What is your definition of lsp durability?

[Bunky]

I was going to do a poll but decided to use this way first to get some of the choices:

Some choices may be:
1. I do not care about durability since I want to keep that just waxed shine.
2. drop in gloss
3. drop in slickness
4. have a lifetime supply of products so might as well use them

I see comments about months of durability especially when using a booster like AW (cheating in my opinion). I wanted to work this into the poll too but maybe too complicated.

Other variables: garaged at night (helps), washed regularly (degrades).

 

[CharlesW]

I was going to do a poll but decided to use this way first to get some of the choices:

Some choices may be:
1. I do not care about durability since I want to keep that just waxed shine.
2. drop in gloss
3. drop in slickness
4. have a lifetime supply of products so might as well use them

I see comments about months of durability especially when using a booster like AW (cheating in my opinion). I wanted to work this into the poll too but maybe too complicated.

Other variables: garaged at night (helps), washed regularly (degrades).

It's a little difficult for me to add to your list.

1. 4 to 6 weeks with little to no drop off in appearance is all I usually need.

2./3. Same 4 to 6 weeks wanted with little to no loss.

4. Seems to be a pretty good description of my inventory.

Cheating: Yes, I use AW a lot. Probably weekly

Garaged: Almost always at night and a big share of the day.

Washed: A whole bunch. At least weekly in the summer. Daily if the vehicle gets dirty. As many as three times in one day under special circumstances. AW is usually a part of the process.

As far as choosing an LSP, there must be 40 or 50 products I have used that met the 4 to 6 week criteria. My choices now are usually based a lot on ease of use. I do like easy.

We are very fortunate to have the large number of quality products available to us. My choices have to be made as to what I want to use since most of them would do an excellent job.

 

[tguil]

Most of us hanging out on this forum wax so often durability is not even questioned. Using NXT, I find that I am able to maintain a very good finish for six to eight weeks. Both of our trucks are white and both are inside every night and most of the day. "Ain't" retirement grand?

Tom

p.s. Charles, we've been having some pretty messy midwest weather, haven't we? Now that is tough on durability.

 

[CharlesW]

Most of us hanging out on this forum wax so often durability is not even questioned. Using NXT, I find that I am able to maintain a very good finish for six to eight weeks. Both of our trucks are white and both are inside every night and most of the day. "Ain't" retirement grand?

Tom

Yep! :bigups

p.s. Charles, we've been having some pretty messy midwest weather, haven't we? Now that is tough on durability.

From 50+ degrees to zero, snow, freezing rain, ice, salt, running salt water in the streets. Is that hard on things?
I washed the van last Friday, got it a little dirty that afternoon and got it very dirty Saturday.
Washed it again tonight and probably will get it dirty again tomorrow. And I don't have any gravel to drive on.

 

[Bunky]

Anyone else? I must assume durability is not really an issue then with most at DC?

At some other sites, all you hear is durability....

 

[tguil]

Al,

I think that durability is important to all of us. We just haven't thought about defining it. If a product "works" for us, we wax away and are happy. I can think of one lsp that is very popular especially with Harley riders. It's carnuba based and doesn't last very long at all. I don't use it even though it gives quite a bit of "pop" to a finish. NXT is just as easy to apply, lasts longer and looks great so I use it -- not a "designer lsp" but good enough for me.

Tom

 

[JaredPointer]

I'll admit that since I have been wrapping up school, raising a baby boy, and saving the accounting and finance world one transaction at a time here at work I have had less time than the average DC'er to keep my vehicles clean. With that said, I generally go by this guideline now - if the finish is "holding" a lot of dirt during the wash and it's not coming off with gentle swipes of the mitt, I figure the LSP needs touching up. It may not be scientific, and it might not be the correct way to go about determining if it's still there or not. But it is working for me. It's is sort of an adoption of when I used to have the time to S&W and QD a lot - if the finish was "grabby" it was time for a refresher of the LSP.