Yea I agree but the Modesta coating lasts 10 years and is scratch resistant.

 

That's even worse! Lol but it's great for people that don't enjoy buffing and all that. I just ordered CQuartz Dlus to use on customers cars. It's for the plastic mouldings and wheels.

 

I don't so much mind buffing but remember there is only a certain amount of times you should buff a cars paint until the clear coat is gone. Also why work so hard and put wax on and be susceptible to swirls when you can do it once and coat it.

 

Supplies for regular maintenance wash.

-X2 3.5 Gallon buckets with Grit Guards (one for soap, one for rinsing/cleaning mitt)
-Regular smaller wash bucket (for wheels)
-Mothers Wheel Brush
-Chemical Guys Microfiber Wheel Wedge mitt
-Meguiar's Microfiber Wash Mitt (cheap and white, white so you can see how dirty it is while using)
-Chemical Guys Maxi Suds 1 Gallon with the Chemical Guys Hand pump
-303 Products 30350 Aerospace Protectant
-Squeegee
-Tire sponge
-Gilmore Foamaster gun (not the air compressor type although that would be nice, just the hose type)
-Electric Leaf Blower
-Retractable extension cord
-Shop-Vac with Brush Attachment
-Waffel weave towel, cant find brand.


Process

Vacuum interior with shop vac with brush attachment.
Rinse down car and wheels.
Wash wheels, RA flaps, and rear diffuser with brush/mitt and small bucket.
Foam down car
Wash car from top down, I do maybe two panels per side of mitt, if its dirty one panel per side before I clean it off and rub it on the grit guard in the rinse bucket.
Rinse down
Squeegee
Towel dry panels, then door jams, trunk, hood.
Air Dry with blower, hit wheels and engine.
303 on sponge and apply to tires
Profit


Couple Pro Tips I’ve learned

-Buy a Dramm 12353 Heavy-Duty Brass Shut-Off Valve and you can swap between the gun and your regular nozzle without running back to shut off the hose bib, plus the open valve fills up the buckets fast.
-Buy a 1.5” round brush Shop-Vac attachment, Shop-Vac 9064400, I use it to clean vents, seats, dash, basically everything inside the car, the brush works awesome for getting all the crap in nooks and crannies. It makes everything look clean and new. I don’t have to use products or sprays. Every product I’ve tried ends up evaporating and leaving a film on the inside of the windscreen.
-Invest in a good Shop Vac, I have a 5 HP 10-Gallon unit, powerful and doesn't take up much room, and has an extra long hose.
-The 1 gallon size Chemical Guys soap last a LONG time if you measure your oz per gallon. The hand pump does one oz per pump, so you can dial in your amounts easy.
-Mothers Wheel brush is soft and works great, but wears out, only last about a year.
-Leaf blower will get all the water out of wheel wheels, engine bay, door handles, panel gaps - well worth the PITA of using it.
-303 Aerospace is awesome, works on all black plastic and rubber. I only put on the plastics and trim every few months. Don’t put too much on, but can use liberally on tires every wash.
-I’ve tried a few wheel cleaner sprays, unimpressed by them all.
- Put a towel in the low center of windshield, when you open the hood it’ll drain on towel.
-Wash mitts and towel with laundry, just don’t use fabric softener. Wash after every use.
-Rinse your buckets out and refill per car if doing two, also buy more than one mitt/towel to keep handy if doing more than one car per wash.
-Don't cheap out on your hose. I replaced my cheapo one with a 3/4 size nice thick hose, it has more pressure and rarely kinks, less time fighting with hose cuts time overall.
-If its cold out, fill the buckets with hot water from inside. It makes all the difference in the world.

I wash the car every other week, maybe every three. I can get it done in just over an hour. Oh and I get stuck washing the wife's GTI when I do mine. I've dialed it in to do a high quality job in the least amount of time (2.5 hours for both).