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Okay, today we had some warm weather (40 degrees! ) and I washed 5 vehicles. While I was washing, my mind went back to an idea that I had passed to Stang-krazy recently.
Being that our goal while doing our periodic washes is to impart the minimal amount of damage to our polished paint that we all work hard to get and keep, would D114 or D115 be a good idea in the wash bucket over the more traditional car soaps especially during a mid winter wash in the rust belt?
I'm thinking that these products (D114/D115) are designed specifically to accomplish a non traditional wash with no hose on a car with some degree of filth on the finish, and do this while not doing damage. So, the product's claim to fame is the ability to lubricate as well as encapsulate the foreign material that is residing on the finish and allow it to be safely removed from the surface while not applying damage to the paint.
Bear with me here. So my cars are horribly covered in salt, anti icing chemicals, traction aiding materials such as cinder and sand as well as your more typical road debris.
For this wash here in Pittsburgh at this time of year, a person will typically use a firm stream of water from the hose to soften and remove the heavier accumulation of sediment while leaving a fairly consistent film of mixed contaminants on the finish that are unwilling to be removed without physical manipulation.
For this next step after the firm spraying with the hose, the car is still far, far more contaminated than any spring/summer/fall normal "dirty car" washing.
So in my mind I'm thinking that it is quite possible that the D114/D115 product family may provide much greater protection for the finish during this step of the wash when your forced to put the wash mitt to the debris to allow removal by mechanical agitation.
These products may offer much greater ability to encapsulate contaminants and lubricate the finish than a typical wash product. The rinse would still be performed with the hose after the wash mitt breaks the bond between the various contaminants and the paint, so the dirt will not actually be so much removed by wash mitt, but rather have been dislodged and heldin suspension to be subsequently rinsed away by the hose.
Maybe Michael Stoops can give his opinion on this? What are your thoughts on my idea?
Being that our goal while doing our periodic washes is to impart the minimal amount of damage to our polished paint that we all work hard to get and keep, would D114 or D115 be a good idea in the wash bucket over the more traditional car soaps especially during a mid winter wash in the rust belt?
I'm thinking that these products (D114/D115) are designed specifically to accomplish a non traditional wash with no hose on a car with some degree of filth on the finish, and do this while not doing damage. So, the product's claim to fame is the ability to lubricate as well as encapsulate the foreign material that is residing on the finish and allow it to be safely removed from the surface while not applying damage to the paint.
Bear with me here. So my cars are horribly covered in salt, anti icing chemicals, traction aiding materials such as cinder and sand as well as your more typical road debris.
For this wash here in Pittsburgh at this time of year, a person will typically use a firm stream of water from the hose to soften and remove the heavier accumulation of sediment while leaving a fairly consistent film of mixed contaminants on the finish that are unwilling to be removed without physical manipulation.
For this next step after the firm spraying with the hose, the car is still far, far more contaminated than any spring/summer/fall normal "dirty car" washing.
So in my mind I'm thinking that it is quite possible that the D114/D115 product family may provide much greater protection for the finish during this step of the wash when your forced to put the wash mitt to the debris to allow removal by mechanical agitation.
These products may offer much greater ability to encapsulate contaminants and lubricate the finish than a typical wash product. The rinse would still be performed with the hose after the wash mitt breaks the bond between the various contaminants and the paint, so the dirt will not actually be so much removed by wash mitt, but rather have been dislodged and heldin suspension to be subsequently rinsed away by the hose.
Maybe Michael Stoops can give his opinion on this? What are your thoughts on my idea?
