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Ah, the Goldilocks temp.

There's an argument that hot water shifts dirt better/easier than cold water (hence why washing machines, dishwashers, etc. use hot water), however I only have a cold water tap outside thus my pressure washer stage is all cold water. I do prefer warm water in the buckets though... but that's because it's preferable to sticking my hands in freezing cold water more than anything.

They really suit the car, Chris, looks good.

Lots of colours? Could Smudgeon get purple? Yeah, but probably not the right shade...

Great job.

Clean with any (suitably diluted) all purpose cleaner, dress with Einszett Gummi Pflege. Done and done.

Nope, you're not the only one. I've not tried the last one yet, but of the others only one has come close to being usable (in my opinion) and that was #008. Even that wasn't particularly easy to work with though - having said that, I do tend to compare waxes to the likes of Poorboys Natty's and Dodo Juice in terms of ease of use - and I still wouldn't choose it, given the option, much less buy it. The rest have just been utterly terrible at best.

That. Also, if you happen to write off one car, there's still as great a risk (or more according to insurance companies, because once you've claimed that's all you ever do for you the next 5 years... or something) of having to pay out for the other car. Twice the assets, twice the risk of them having to pay out, twice the premium, simple.

In my own recent test, Rim Wax didn't even last a month and has been out performed by Poorboys Wheel Sealant so I'd recommend the latter over the former. But then FK1000P is better still. If, however, you want durability then G-Techniq C5 is my suggestion.

Or, as someone might have mentioned already once or elevetysix times, you could do the pedal dance and find out what the problem is... er... today.

They look better than I thought they would actually.

Cheers for the comments guys. You can't beat a good bit of beading porn!

I'll keep you informed of how I get on then, as I'm also using PIAA wipers. I've currently got just G5 on the windscreen to see how it plays with the wipers & durability, but it's only been on for a week - first impressions are that the rain runs off at slightly lower speeds than the PIAA Screen Protect (that it's replaced). but there's not much difference. I did get a bit of judder from the wipers for the first 10 minutes or so of having them on in light rain, but it soon settled down - G-Techniq advise it can happen at first but I forget how long they suggest to give it. On the rear screen I've got a 50/50 thing going with G5 on one side, PIAA on the other with corresponding side windows too for good measure - G5 seems to sheet the water from the hose a little quicker than than PIAA - only driven once in light-ish rain since applying it and to be honest there's not really much between them so far. The only other noticeable difference was that G5 is a touch more involved to apply, PIAA is almost a simple wipe on/wipe off but G5 needs a bit more elbow grease both to spread and buff (not a huge effort though!) - and it will dry on the microfibre if you don't spread it quickly enough too. I know what you mean about the Sonax, it is a lot of work for a QD... but it's not a typical QD. I've not decided if it's worth the extra effort it takes though yet.

Quick update after another wash today, in case anyone's at all interested; The Rim Wax has completely failed now, it's offering absolutely no protection at all now after just a month. The Poorboys Wheel Sealant on the wheel is doing okay - the wheel it's protecting is, I would say, 90% clean with nothing more than a quick snow foam and rinse. On the paint work, it's still sheeting well but not doing so well on the beading. I had applied the Candy Gloss sample from a Waxybox to half of the spoiler which did bead nicely for about a week before fading away to nothing. Also, two weeks ago, I tried Sonax Brilliant Shine Detailer on the various panels; it's a bit finickity to work with and the finish doesn't feel particularly slick... but the shine is good and it more than makes up for all of this with both the water behaviour and durability for a QD (it's still going strong). It could quite easily be used as an LSP in in own right, although it went over the wax (and wheel sealant on half of the spoiler) on mine, and the beading is just pure porn - more details here if you're interested. Edited to add; I forgot to mention, the C2 is still going strong. The Dr Beasley's Trim Sealant is starting to fail though, so this will be removed altogether now and replaced with Nanolex Trim Rejuvinator in a back to back test. I've also got a G-Techniq G5 vs PIAA Screen Protect thing going on too, but I suspect no one else is anywhere near as interested in any of this as I am so I'll leave it there.

I do love a good beading pic.

For the benefit of anyone else who got the gungy green dotted, oily, pleasant smelling mess; a couple of hours in the fridge (currently two and a half hours at exactly 8oC) has set it nicely. It still feels very oily at the moment so I'm going to leave it in there over night and see if that changes before I choose whether to use it or not. If it does, it'll get used on someone else's car though.

I'm quite impressed with that's included too (again). Which wax sample did you get? Apparently there's four that have been sent out this month, denoted by a coloured dot on the bottom of the pot. I got green, which doesn't appear to have set very well and some of the oils have separated en route - I'll drop Richard a message shortly to let him know - it's currently in the fridge but hopefully it's still usable.

Looks good.

Maybe you just didn't notice.

It would be worth posting/reading up here for some proper advice, too.

Soft should be fine, especially if you're using fallout and tar remover first.

Hope it's nothing serious mate.