I've bought the coating, but have been hesitant about applying it to the body. Maybe today Anyway, I also bought their rim protectant. After applying it to the 308 rims, I was so impressed, I've applied it to all my car rims at least once a year. I buy those cheapo Home Depot sponge paint brushes for application. I use to struggle with brushes & compound to clean behind the spokes of alloy wheels. Not anymore. Now just soap & rinse. It's amazing. I'll be trying it on the wife's MB 320 plastic come spring & my Mazda 3i DD rear bumpers.
You should try some of the wheel cleaners that are designed to react with iron particles from the brakes also. It will save you a TON of time and labor on all of your wheels. There are quite a few companies that make their own versions now. I have tried and recommend these 3 brands though: Shine Supply - Cool Guy Wheel Cleaner (smells good) Sonax - Full Effect Wheel Cleaner (smells bad) Griots Garage - Heavy Duty Wheel Cleaner (smells good)
with the 22PLE, I have retired my use of Griots, Meguiars & Sonax. No need. Just soap & water now. The only time I use the cleaners is at the end of the season when I'm ready to apply another coat of 22PLE. It really is amazing stuff. Though I'm sure there are many similar products at this point.
once coated, soap and water should be all that is needed. I have used some coatings on wheel only to have little effect on easy cleaning. Modesta BC 06 is by far the best coating we have used. A coating we used to use left a few clients disappointed on the wheels, so we switched them to Modesta and they were MUCH happier. I have used the 22PLE, its decent, but needs yearly reapplication, and doesn't like cleaners.
While I never tired Modesta, I have used The GTECH Rim coating, the Gyeon Rim coating and Opticoat 2.0 and GlossCoat on my rims. Proper prep is the key to getting the best bond no matter what the coating. All of the above rim products lost their intense beading after a short while, like 5-6 months. In that time I only needed to wash with soap and water. After the beading left, the protection still lived on. They were still easy cleaning and nothing stuck to them needing only soap to wash them perfectly clean. I have found similar experience with all coating. The beading falls off but the protection lives on. I keep up the beading I love with toppers. Right now I am using several: Can Coat by Gyeon-bot on wheels and paint Polish Angel white Alabaster Paint Polish Angel Cosmic Spritz Paint Permanon Platinum. Paint and wheels Polish Angel Supersport wheels only. I really think they are all similar at this point. I try everything I can looking for something that meets the marketing hype. I'm still looking, Eric, I am curious-how long will the Modesta coating on wheels bead if cared for with regular washing with a PH neutral soap? I know the Modesta Line is TOP of the coating Food Chain price wise anyway, what about durability compared to any of the afore mentioned Rim Products?
Durability is the best as well with Modesta. Price is not the indicator of something being better than the other. There are many factors that go into price...material cost, marketing, performance, etc. When something outperforms the rest of the field, it cannot/should not be sold for less. (its expensive to make compared to the rest, I talked with a couple chemists about Modesta and their coating, they agreed modesta was better, but more expensive to make) I had a set of wheels on a daily drive m3 coated with Cquartz Finest. The owner complained that dirt seemed to stick to wheel more than he thought it was supposed to. I cleaned the wheel, reapplied another layer of Cquartz (making 3 layers) and two months later, the owner stopped by for a maintenance detail and pointed out the wheels weren't all that easy to clean. I ended up removing them, polishing them, and applying two layers of Modesta bc06 on them. That was about 5 months ago not. He literally stopped by yesterday to pick up a carbon fiber wing he had us polish and coat and while we were coating another set of wheels off the car, he mentioned how much easier the wheels are to clean and they look better longer, and are more glossy. I didn't ask him about it or anything, he volunteered the information. As for as beading...I don't want beading, I want sheeting. Beading just tells you there is surface tension and something is between the water and the surface. In effect, it creates 1000's of little water spots should the water dry up on the car. I would rather the water want to run off the panel instead eliminating the chance for water spots, or at least leaving less. Beading sure does look cool for pictures though...
