Car Wax Comparison Test

[Lowell W]

More info here and other threads: http://www.clubcobra.com/forums/show...t=clean%2Fwash

After Ron Widener (Ron 61) recommended Wet Paint on the thread above, I ordered some and gave it a try. Now I think conventional washing and waxing is a waste of time. I'm still not sure I'd just spray it all over a filthy car and rub it around, although the directions say it won't scratch the paint when used as directed. If there's mud on the car, I wash it off and I always go over the car with a duster prior to cleaning with the Wet Paint. I've always thought it would be great to have some kind of a "Rainex for the whole car" type of product and Wet Paint seems to be it. I will say I think this stuff is the absolute easiest windsheld cleaner I've ever tried and a great car polish as well. Rain doesn't bead up and slide off the Wet Wax quite as fast as off the Rainex but Wet Wax cleans and "Rainexes" the windshield in one step. Once you have an application or two of Wet Paint on the car, the bugs just kind of dissolve off with a squirt and a wipe. Amazing! I did try Wet Paint with a clay bar on the tough spots on my truck but Wet Paint does something to the clay so you can't knead it back together; it just kind of falls apart. Hard to beat Griot's Speed Shine and clay for the really tough bugs and tar and stuff (like the crap that gets on the body behind the pipes, where you can't see it unless you're under the car) but once you have the Wet Paint on, nothing seems to stick to it as it does to a waxed surface.

Other CC members advocated Dri Wash and Zaino's. I have no experience with those products but I suspect they're similar to Wet Paint and would appreciate any feedback.

I take "Consumer Reports" with a grain of salt, also. Not sure about "pocket padding"; my take is that they're basically honest, at least to their principles, but they definitely have a political agenda which, I think, gets in the way of their objectivity.

Lowell