Collinite 845 for Winter is Here!

[Muscle Car Lover]

I got the Collinite 845 Insulator Wax in, I am using it for winter protection soon. looks like serious stuff!

I read it's best to warm it before use so it's more applicable, seems right.

Can't say how much help and advice by the man CamaroDreams07 has helped me out, really a great resource here at the forum.

[CamaroDreams07]

I like to put it in a bowl of hot water and let it get warm.

Appreciate the kind words.

[Muscle Car Lover]

Originally Posted by CamaroDreams07

I like to put it in a bowl of hot water and let it get warm.

Appreciate the kind words.

Appreciate the help.

I drove my last 2 Infiniti's through the car wash, pretty much always. I look a pictures now and I am like, OMFG!!! What were you thinking?!

Just a newbie at this exterior stuff, I am more a mechanical guy.

[bleavens1962]

Remember....Thin, means Thinnnnnnn
I used it and could have put it on a little thinner

[zandron263]

The bowl of hot water works great to make it easier to apply.

[Muscle Car Lover]

You all rock, thanks!

[jshaf]

I have it and the collinite 476s, both are really good for winter, 476 is a little harder to get off but not terribly. will throw a coat on sometime in the next month and do all the usual things. Ugh, wish I would win the lottery so I could move south and drive my baby all year long!!

The 845 I leave in the sun for a few minutes, doesn't take long, can also take a microfiber and warm it up in the cloths drier for a few minutes and rap it around the bottle, two or three minutes later your ready to rock, it will go to liquid pretty fast

[Speedbuggy]

a great tip for using 845 is to transfer some to a finger mist spray bottle when its warmed up. makes thin application a breeeze.

[Muscle Car Lover]

Originally Posted by Speedbuggy

a great tip for using 845 is to transfer some to a finger mist spray bottle when its warmed up. makes thin application a breeeze.

Nifty! Will it really spray out?

[nUcLeArEnVoY]

Originally Posted by jshaf

I have it and the collinite 476s, both are really good for winter, 476 is a little harder to get off but not terribly. will throw a coat on sometime in the next month and do all the usual things. Ugh, wish I would win the lottery so I could move south and drive my baby all year long!!

The 845 I leave in the sun for a few minutes, doesn't take long, can also take a microfiber and warm it up in the cloths drier for a few minutes and rap it around the bottle, two or three minutes later your ready to rock, it will go to liquid pretty fast

The south isn't all it's chocked up to be. Our summers are like your winters. The rain is unrelenting, and if you care about having a freshly detailed car always look nice, see what a 5 minute torrential downpour followed by intense direct sunlight will do to your paint.

[CamaroDreams07]

Originally Posted by nUcLeArEnVoY

The south isn't all it's chocked up to be. Our summers are like your winters. The rain is unrelenting, and if you care about having a freshly detailed car always look nice, see what a 5 minute torrential downpour followed by intense direct sunlight will do to your paint.

Maybe in Florida. But I'll take Texas weather over Michigan any day for car care.

[Speedbuggy]

Originally Posted by Muscle Car Lover

Nifty! Will it really spray out?

it will.

here is what i use.
http://www.usplastic.com/catalog/item.aspx?itemid=76186

[xc_SS/RS]

Get a dispenser bottle that has a self cleaning tip. I use that to apply 845 and I put four penny sized drops on a black pad when using a griots garage da buffer. Works perfectly and I have so much left after applying it three times. As others have said apply it super thin. A little goes a loooooong way.

This is what I use:
http://www.autogeek.net/meguiars-sel...dispenser.html

How-to:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/...ndary-wax.html

[jshaf]

Originally Posted by nUcLeArEnVoY

The south isn't all it's chocked up to be. Our summers are like your winters. The rain is unrelenting, and if you care about having a freshly detailed car always look nice, see what a 5 minute torrential downpour followed by intense direct sunlight will do to your paint.

go without driving yours for a 3.5 months and you will wish you could drive it year round, it ain't easy but it is a sacrifice I make to keep it looking nice. salt and gravel chips from winter road "Care" in these parts will kill the paint of a nice car!