have used a few spray cleaners and the all leave a unwanted film . and ideas for blk cars?? thanks in advance.

 

If I was gonna be brave enough to own a black car I would definitely have a ceramic coating. Not sure if you do. That aside, the only other thing I’d mention that I’m a huge proponent of are those SiO2 sprays like Gyeon Wet Coat. Car Pro has an equivalent product. I’ve used it in the past as well with great success, but the name of it escapes me at the moment. I stick with the Gyeon one these days myself.

If you properly use sprays like these once a month, man o man, they do a lot of the work for ya, keep the finish slick, etc…I can’t say enough about those types of products. I use them once a month, or every 1.5 months, and just do my regular cleanings. Everything looks great all the time.

Black is the best colour on any sports cars as far as I’m concerned, but I’d be afraid to own one from a maintenance perspective…lol…Having gloss black wheels on my car is as far as I will go ;-o

Cheers

 

thanks much will try to find it on the web

 

https://carzilla.ca/products/gyeon-w...n17PJ-50l4UulX

https://carzilla.ca/products/carpro-...bTv4wcpNHkJWb6

Lots of videos out there for how to use them properly, but to be clear you need to have a pressure washer. You literally spray it on and very quickly hit the sprayed area with the force of a pressure washer.

Ideally you would detail your car to get your swirls out and then start proactively and regularly using this stuff from that point sorta thing…

 

I would recommend taking a look at this forum:

https://www.autopia.org/

It's where the professional detailers hang out and post what products they use/like.

 

I wash the car, blow dry with yard blower and then use Meguires waterless car wash and wax to spray on while I dry off the car off. I follow this up with Meguires Ultimate spray wax. After that I do Meguires quick detailer. Looks awesome after that. I have had many black cars. Takes some effort to keep looking shiny, but the effort is worth it. This is my minimal process. I have a more involved process I used for car shows.

 

So many products out there to consider. It’s dizzying ;-o

For me it’s all about maximum return for limited time spent. That’s why I like these Si02 sprays. Application time is so fast and the protection and beading is so great for that small amount of time spent. Excellent maintenance product for on top of ceramic coatings.

I’ve got full PPF protecting the car anyway, but ya still want the car to cleanup reasonably well despite that. This workflow is so easy and achieves that.

 

I'll throw in that after many years of washing, polishing, and waxing cars, the light bulb moment for me was realising that buffing creates static which attracts dust, hence the black car looking beautiful straight after a wash and then beautiful but dusty the next day. I switched from silicone products and buffing to liquid wax products (polish angel is my go to) which are wipe on wipe off, and found that not only is the process much easier but the cars stay clean longer.

 

I use some stuff I got at Walmart and never had a film, it is called Chemical Guys.

 

Any dark car will show dirt and flaws worse than light colored cars but black is the worst. Helps to have a little bit of metallic flake in it, but I once made the mistake of having a solid black car. Never again. I'm too obsessive-compulsive to own a black car. Maybe a show car that's only going to take the cover off once a month, but certainly not a daily driver.

I believe you are right. I bought one of those spot-free car wash filter systems hoping that I could just let the car air dry rather than rubbing on it with towels and chamois. Well, probably a waste of money. I was still getting spots and finally realized that probably 99% of the spots are from the dust that settles on the car as the droplets evaporate. Besides spots, it would often be possible to scrawl "Wash me" across the hood within an hour if left outside. But I live in a veritable dust bowl here in Fort Worth. Of course other than a few sprinkles, it really only rains a couple times a year (and all at once when it does) so its very dry. There's road construction for two miles out of every three. And the wind blows 15 to 20 mph almost constantly during daylight hours. I must be related to that unlucky guy Murphy because when I wanted to wash a car, often seemed that a dozen neighbors or their lawn services would start firing up their mowers, weed whackers and leaf blowers. I've started getting up very early in the morning and washing at first light, trying to finish, then blow-dry the car and get it back in the garage before the lawn services show up and/or the wind speed picks up.

But while I use Carpro ECH2O for bird ****, bug splatters and finger prints, I generally try to live with (its so difficult with my OCD) the layer of dust building up all week because I want to minimize the chance of swirl marks. I have not noticed any film, but the plus side is its a concentrate you mix yourself with distilled water and so if you notice any film residue, then you can try diluting it a little more.