Ultimate Wash & Wax Anywhere - Scent on car paint (Quick Review)

[JeremyD]

Re: Ultimate Wash & Wax Anywhere - Scent on car paint (Quick Review)

My bad. LOL. I thought it was not.

[Eldorado2k]

It is a waterless wash & wax. Lol

[JeremyD]

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Yes, heard its a great product. Just have not ordered any yet. I wish it was a waterless wash and wax.

[Eldorado2k]

Have you thought about investing in a gallon of D115?^ 1 gallon yields a minimum of 40 16 oz. bottles. Yes.

[JeremyD]

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In my opinion, synthetic lubricants are more efficient than plain water when washing a car. That being said, I do use a coin wash to get the big clumps and things off but I never use am automatic car wash. But back to the UWWA, I like using this product better than the hose and bucket in part because I don't have a foam cannon to spray soap and water to lubricate the surface before I wipe the surface with quality microfiber towels. I keep my 2013 tacoma spotless pretty much all the time. That includes no swirls essentially also. But I can say that UWWA is a great product and is much more efficient in terms of scratch free results based on the tests I have conducted, it is faster and leaves less of a mess in terms of water everywhere thus causing a mess when I do interior details following washing because of my lovely gravel driveway. Ultimetly, I have also found that UWWA leaves behind excellent shine and reflectivity especially after twelve hours of cure time. In terms of how much saturation, I spray until I can't see the individual dust and dirt spots, by this I know it has been saturated enough to efficiently lubricate and lift the dirt to give a scratch free result. However, depending on severity of dirt, this causes more and more product; so I can't say sometimes that I can get 4 uses. Great product, and lastly I can say that temperature does bit effect this product till the temp gets down to around 28 degrees Fahrenheit, at this point it will start to freeze if not quick enough.

[Garage Troll]

Re: Ultimate Wash & Wax Anywhere - Scent on car paint (Quick Review)

I too have used quite a few different waterless wash brands in the past and UWWA is my favorite. Don't get me wrong, I love and still use Ultima but UWWA edges it out overall. The protection left behind and look is second to none. Meguiars really did their homework with this product. In fact, this past weekend I used UWWA on my car after driving it over 200 miles over the course of 8 days in the rain and slush and it came out beautifully.

[davey g-force]

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I really need to try some of this.

As said above, QD's might become a thing of the past...

[Marc08EX]

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Thanks for providing action shots and how many towels you used Greg!! I think I may be overusing this product too much LOL! I'm literally almost saturating the panel with every area covered by the solution. I used around a quarter of the bottle when I did half of a '04 Toyota Sienna. *gulp*

[greg0303]

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I did another waterless session today and the results were just stunning again.

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I used 5 Meguiar's Supreme Shine microfiber towels plus one extra for glass.

[mb911]

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Finally this thing show up at local Autozone. I want pick one up and try it immediately. Just like what it said "WASH and WAX". The surface becomes very smooth after I wipe it dry. Feel like just waxed. I was lucky enough to have rain after I did the whole car and YES I see water beads.

Awesome. I continue to be amazed EVERY time I use it.

One post said the wax left was more like the Ultimate Wash & Wax Car Shampoo. However, I find the wax feeling left to be very much like Ultimate Quick Wax, a VERY high quality slickness, depth, and gloss. After the car wash shampoo type product, I don't get that at all. I would need at least a quick wax afterwards. This one step product does it all.

This is really making my Quick Detailers a thing of the past. After all, why not put down some wax protection at the same time you're removing dust?

Honestly, the "feel" of the paint after UWWA is about as good as any wax I've used (I do admit to having a very good base coat wax though).

Plus, if you buy enough quantity at a place like Auto Detailing Solutions, mine came out to $12.50 per bottle at the 6+ quantity. This makes it barely more expensive than Ultimate Quick Detailer, it has 2 more ounces, AND you don't need to follow up with Ultimate Quick Wax.

I think this product might be a bigger deal than inventions of claying and DA polisher. It's just a perfect product.

[wslwang]

Re: Ultimate Wash & Wax Anywhere - Scent on car paint (Quick Review)

Finally this thing show up at local Autozone. I want pick one up and try it immediately. Just like what it said "WASH and WAX". The surface becomes very smooth after I wipe it dry. Feel like just waxed. I was lucky enough to have rain after I did the whole car and YES I see water beads.

[wifpd4]

Re: Ultimate Wash & Wax Anywhere - Scent on car paint (Quick Review)

I just picked up a couple of bottles yesterday and look forward to using UWWA. Weather has been mild and no salt!!

The best thing was the bottles had $5 mail-in rebates. Yes!!! At Advance Auto Parts.

[Michael Stoops]

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Certainly the product, as any, has its limitations. We highly recommend that in the case of very heavy dirt or road salt the car be pressure washed at a coin op place first to remove all the heavy contaminants. But once that's done, use of this product is no different than a rinse free product, of which there are several on the market used with great success by a larger number of people. For routine cleaning - like commuting to and from work for a week or more, even with some rain, this is an extremely safe and effective way to clean a car without use of a bucket and hose.

I'll be really candid with everyone here - when I learned that we were developing this product the first thing I asked was whether or not it was also going to be released as a concentrated product so that it could be used as a rinseless wash, similar to ONR and others. I've used ONR in the past and really like it, but of course I'd love to use our own product in that segment. Anyway, my primary reason for asking was because, quite frankly, I thought that a spray on product was downright scary for this purpose. I wanted a concentrate, which we in fact are now producing in the form of D114 Rinseless Express Wash (which is similar but without the wax), which is great! But the more I played with UWWA, the more I demo'd it for people, the more I saw what it could really do, the more I liked it. And I have to say that now, I love the stuff. I drove my weekend toy to SEMA in Las Vegas back in November, and it got rained on almost the whole way back. And "the whole way back" means basically driving through the Mojave Desert. In the rain. Along a major trucking route. The car was filthy when I got home (by far and away the dirtiest this car has ever been - I normally take a bucket and hose to this car maybe twice a year) so I figured it was the perfect test for UWWA. The car looked like I had done a proper bucket wash on it, and there wasn't a mark on it. I did use half a dozen towels on the car, which is a small two seat convertible with a cloth top, so not a lot of paint to clean with those 6 towels. That was the final clincher for me.

[Blueline]

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Thanks greg303 for the information. The stuff has to be good because there are so many people who use it, and they seem to get good (and scratch free) results. I am not sure the product was developed for the junk they put on the road here.....salt AND sand. I might just give it a try but only after a thorough pressure wash. The last thing I want to get is one little grain of sand from a crevice stuck in a towel.

[greg0303]

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I would prefer the car be dirty than risk scratching it.

I absolutely understand your concerns. Rinseless and waterless approach have their limits (road salt would be a serious concern).

These are the key ingredients when using waterless method:

- surface has to be uniformly covered by product,
- product softens dirt layer and makes it easy for microfiber towel to pick up (it does it very quickly, there's no need to let it sit down),
- don't let the product dry on surface, if it happens respray that area again,
- exposing fresh microfiber towel side is needed frequently,
- good quality microfiber is needed (Meguiar's Supreme Shine is perfect for dirt trapping),
- seperate towel is needed for spreading and drying,
- seperate towel is needed for lower parts, which always become the dirtiest (I clean lower parts last),
- I would estimate 4 towels as minimum and it could go up even to 8-12 towels per vehicle if needed.

Generally waterless car wash method would be between quick detailers and water bucket(s). It can still safely remove normal road grime without any risk (if used as recommended). It took me a long time to get convienced as well but now I'm a believer.