Understand product. What problem does hot wax solve?
1) Provides $3.00 or $4.00 express wash an online product to increase average sales.
2) Provides protection with better finish qualities than
drying agent because it contains little bit of wax or wax-like substance.
Get past the “bubblizer.”
Pet stores keep more fish per gallon of water in aquarium because tank is sales display and storage for inventory.
More fish to gallons is achieved by more oxygen. Place air line in tank connected to pumice stone which diffuses air into small streams containing hundreds of little bubbles that create more area, more rapidly, to transfer oxygen to water than does one stream of large bubbles.
Diffuser and colored lights create “lava” which has no additive effect in terms of protecting paint.
Does it work?
If you read MSDS, products contain similar ingredients that impart qualities. Online products that “protect” do so by manipulating electrical charges and increasing contact angle on surface.
Lava contain proprietary surfactant blend to create foam and some detergent grade alcohol as solvent.
“Protection” and longevity comes from, say, polydimethylsiloxane, silicon-based organic polymer, creates hydrophobic properties (beading water).
Some products contain bit of carnauba which imparts smoothness, wet-look and hydrophobic whereas some products will contain amine salts that mimic wax smoothness and shiny look.
So, if you bought hot wax and it doesn’t bead, mostly like you visited a wash where owner cut back on product until it just makes bubbles. LOL
Touch-less would pose an issue because you can’t get shiny and dry until you get a clean car. For example, touch-less usually leaves behind a film on paint like the eyebrow on a windshield.
If you apply hot wax on top of this, it won’t work as well or as for long as if the product was applied on clean paint.
The reason is dirt has a much lower contact angle than paint.
