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Post by clarki on Oct 27, 2021 18:25:35 GMT
...your wheels.
Anyone done it? What did you use?
Mrs clarki's polo has polished wheels and with winter/salt coming thinking they need some protection.
Carbon Collective get good reviews, but very expensive.
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Post by charliefarlie on Oct 27, 2021 18:44:48 GMT
...your wheels. Anyone done it? What did you use? Mrs clarki's polo has polished wheels and with winter/salt coming thinking they need some protection. Carbon Collective get good reviews, but very expensive. In a previous life I was heavily into detailing. I used to travel the country to detailing meets often demonstrating machine polishing a pastime I still do to this day though much less so. I met at these meets quite a few of the top names in detailing. Very often we would discuss new products. Garages got into selling coatings that they pushed at punters in the biggest possible way. It was and still is one of the most profitable sectors of retailing cars. The crap they sold consisted of a sponge filled with a very ordinary wax, To apply the sponge was punctured and damped then the car would be wiped over the vehicle. The cost of this sponge filled with very ordinary wax was £5………. Yet the cost of having it done to your new purchase which of course you really wanted to protect was several hundred…. Roughly 3 to 4 years ago a new product under a new headline label emerged onto the market. Hurrah for the next generation of “ The Kings new clothes “ was here…….. Now you could spend a lot of money on some of this new wonder product and the retailers of the products and car salesmen across the land will love you for it or you could spend twenty quid on a tin of Collinite 476S and use that. My wee VW was done with one of these ceramic coatings which is guaranteed before I bought it….. It beaded water well for about two months then it vanished like the people who guaranteed it. I’m going to give it a light machine polish then wax it and my efforts will last several times any of these fancy Dan rubbish products that keep floating to the top like the turds they are 👍👍👍 |
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Post by clarki on Oct 27, 2021 18:53:56 GMT
The wheels on our neighbours golf are the same style (diamond cut/polished) as the polo and after 3 years are a complete mess. Living on the coast and the amount of salt they put on the roads round here just kills them, gotta try something. Collinite OK for wheels??
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Post by davrav on Oct 27, 2021 19:05:25 GMT
Been using Collinite 476S on the alloy wheels of all three of our cars. Never felt the need for anything else :TU:
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Post by charliefarlie on Oct 27, 2021 19:10:39 GMT
The wheels on our neighbours golf are the same style (diamond cut/polished) as the polo and after 3 years are a complete mess. Living on the coast and the amount of salt they put on the roads round here just kills them, gotta try something. Collinite OK for wheels?? Yes mate brilliant… In your circumstances I would apply a heavy coat of wax and leave it on….. Dont polish it off just leave it. If your doing a few miles wash it off with water as hot as your hands can stand with a bit of car shampoo and repeat. I do the above to the wheels on our cars as soon as the salt goes down. Your diamond cut wheels should have a heavy lacquer ? The ones on my VW do…. Protecting the finish should be easier due to how thick the lacquer is.  |
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Post by clarki on Oct 27, 2021 19:24:44 GMT
Thanks fellas - tin of Collinite 476S on it's way :TU:
Job for the weekend sorted.
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Post by bigkev on Oct 30, 2021 14:49:58 GMT
Yep….Colly 476S as The Wee Chuck sez. Reminds me of a friend when we had air cooled Beetles with yon big square chrome bumpers front and back. He utterly clabbered the chrome with Engineer’s Blue every winter. Bumpers were immaculate ten year later. A wipe off with turps and Prey Hesto……
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