All-Season Dressing in Engine Compartment

[Murr1525]

I had mentioned in another thread about using All-Season Dressing on plastic in an engine compartment.

As gbackus pointed out, and I checked the MSDS, the flashpoint for All-Season Dressing is fairly low comapred to temperatures in the compartment, about 180 degress F.

My question is does the flashpoint refer to ASD still in the jug before application, during application, or is this for after it is applied/dried?

Its never blown up on me before, but I wouldnt want to take the risk, or recomend anyone else to if its not ok.

The Hyper-Dressing Flash Point is much higher, 420 deg F, and in theory safer for the engine comparment if the Flash Point still applies after application.

[SL1CK]

I think that as long as it remains in its same state, then the flashpoint should stay the same. If you dilute it, then there is less concentration of ASD, and less of it would probably mean less chance of it blowing up on you, and probably raises the temperature of the ASD, making it safer.

[Murr1525]

Well, ASD isnt dilutable.

Any thoughts from Mike, or other Meguiars folks?

Maybe I am ok and it is no big deal.

[farmboy]

I don't know, but your better off safe than sorry.

[Murr1525]

I know.. I want to make sure before applying it again to the engine compartment.

[OctaneGuy]

Why not just use Hyperdressing? I've used it on a dozens of engine details over the past several months. You can dilute it however you like for shininess and it's a simple spray on, wipe off procedure.

[Zet]

As I understand it ASD is solvent based, and as soon as the solvents starts to evaporate, the flashpoint should change. I would expect the flashpoint to become higher as this happens. But since we don't really know the flashpoint of the "dried" product, I wouldn't feel safe using it in the engine department. So, why not Hyper dressing?

[Murr1525]

Mostly cause I have a full jug of ASD sitting here...

Hyperdressing would certainly work fine.