Ceramic wax

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Any body knows how long ceramic wax lasts?
How often to apply on a black car?

Also looking for a high shine tire dressing yhat doesn't sling
Thanks,Nick
 
Any body knows how long ceramic wax lasts?
How often to apply on a black car?

I know this isn't the answer you're looking for, but over the decades I get asked this question and my answer is always the same,

How long anything lasts on your car's paint depends upon how you TOUCH the paint

But with careful washing, you should get up to a year.


Also looking for a high shine tire dressing yhat doesn't sling
Thanks,Nick

I don't like any tire shine that's not water-soluble, so that's about everything on the market.

So I can't help you here.


Mike
 
Also looking for a high shine tire dressing yhat doesn't sling
The ultimate for that is a coating, which will give you a high shine but be completely dry to the touch, and last a long time. The downside is you have to do a lot of prep, your prep can fail and your coating will look terrible, and if you curb a tire, it will take a little more work to blend that back in than with a typical dressing. I'm not aware that Dr. Beasley's makes a product like that, so these are your options, I'm sure I'm missing a few:

Tuf Shine, the OG of tire coatings
Optimum Tire Protection and Coating (TPC)
McKee's 37 Ceramic Tire Coating
Armour Detail Supply Ghost

Mike--if you have any problem with this feel free to edit.
 
Mike--if you have any problem with this feel free to edit.

Completely good. :)

I might have to check out some of the tire coatings you listed. I've always used Tuff Shine with no problems but you are right about the prep work. Just like getting car painted, the most important part of applying a tire coating to a tire sidewall is to get it as clean as possible first.


Mike
 
Honestly I have never used any of the ones I listed. Many years ago I had bought the Turtle Wax Black Endura-Shine Tire Coat Kit, which was pretty good--except it was black, and I would invariably get some on the wheel without realizing it, and it was impossible to get off, so now I just use that on the backs when I rotate the tires, and went back to dressings on the front.

Then I bought a quart (smallest it came in) of Optimum Gelcoat Restorer, to try to save some failing clearcoat (which sort of worked). Since it came out at the same time as the OPT TPC, looked exactly the same, and had a very similar description, and I had a ton left over, I decided to try it on the back of a tire--and it worked just like a tire coating, turned blue while curing, left a great finish, easy to clean. So that's what I've been using (on the fronts).

Oddly enough, one year they updated both the TPC and the Gelcoat Restorer, and the improvements they listed for both were exactly the same, which reinforced my belief that if they aren't exactly the same, they are at least ALMOST the same.

That being said, IMO there likely isn't much difference between any of the ones I listed and Tuf Shine, they are all acrylic coatings. I do have a bottle of the ADS Ghost which I haven't used yet, I was swayed into buying it because it's supposed to be...what did they say, more of a hybrid, or something like that...but that's probably marketing mumbo-jumbo, and if it looks like Tuf Shine, applies like Tuf Shine...it's probably not much different than Tuf Shine.

Sorry for the long post.
 
Here's a full tutorial on how to use the Tuff Shine brand.



The PREP work is the most important step. Then applying multiple layers of the coating and speed drying in-between each layer.

I used the Tuff Shine on these 40" Toyo Tires and then only washed them using normal car wash soap anytime I washed the truck. The coating held up easily for a year and then I simply refreshed with a few fresh coats after first washing and wiping with a panel wipe. (a weak BF panel wipe).

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Hard to find a good picture of the results, but this does a pretty good job.

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Mike
 
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