Glare Polish Longevity
 

I have had Glare polish on my Magnetic Red C5 for a year and it still looks great. I am thinking of buying some of the Glare polish sold by Honda to use on my F 150. Does anyone know if it is the same stuff? I had a detailer put it on my C5. Has anyone ever put it on with a DA polisher and foam pad before?

wwshank I have used the Honda Glare and it is good stuff!

I was misdirected to A tesla forum site.This guy did A test on waxes and sealant .He also had Some type of shine tester,no joke.Anyway after doing all these tests Glare Professional Polish won hands down.I haven't used it yet.But after the test I'm A believer

The Tesla thread you may have been thinking of is at

http://www.teslamotorsclub.com/showt...paint-finishes

I was also rather impressed with the trouble this guy went through to try and prove which was the best product for shine and durability on his car. Trying to wade through all the manufacture BS and subjective rhetoric is nearly impossible but he seems to have found a way to do this by using a gloss meter (such things do exist). It is a long thread and in the end it looks like Glare Professional was the top product.

Best price I could find and I'm not affiliated with this business in any way was as at http://www.parkeryamaha.com/hondapro...olish12oz.aspx

Wow this thread started in 2005. That's an old thread! :)

Car looks great. Can it be applied by hand or do you need to use a buffer?

Either way Mike. I've done both.

Thanks very much brother. I might have to try it out.

Mike, I've been using it for several years. A little pricey but it does a great job. Very easy to work with.

Old thread I know. I don't think long term protection is the best and it needs to be topped with a ceramic. Still the best for me at bringing depth to the paint. All I need is this Microfinish and nothing else. Sure saves me a lot of time not having to use multiple compounds.
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Glare! Old-school right there! Good old "glassplexin". :D A silicate-based polish. A little dusty for me when I used it. That was years ago, though. Maybe 2005? It did make the paint on my '94 Supra Turbo pretty shiny. What I didn't like about it is that it never lasted very long. It was definitely a better finishing polish than it was a sealant. But, it also didn't like when I topped it with another wax or a sealant. So, I couldn't extend protection. I was stuck with what it offered until it wore off, then I could apply a wax. :shrug: When newer products from big manufacturers became available, I gave my Glare to a friend who used it on his garage queen Harley and his fishing boat. LOL

The newer "all-in-one" products really make Glare useless for me, personally. 3D's "HD Speed" and Meguiar's D166 "Ultra Polishing Wax" are good examples. You can use them with cutting pads for correcting, or just soft polishing pads for light clean-up work. And they leave good protection behind. They both leave polymer sealant and wax on the finish. You can still top them with other products, too. And they are half the price of the Glare. Just my opinion, though.

I wouldn't apply a ceramic coating on top of the Micro-Finish as you suggested, though. The Glare leaves some type of protection behind, and you want your paint suuuuper clean and free of anything for the ceramic coating to bond properly. If the Micro-Finish is your only polish on hand, I would wipe the whole car down with a strong IPA solution and a pre-coating product to remove as much of the "glassplexin" as possible. Just a tip! You may want to try a spray sealant on top of the Glare first to see if it makes the paint pop more or extends the protection.

I did a IPA wipe down before I applied the coating. This stuff isn't dusty anymore and the less product ya use the better it works. Protection wise it's lousy and it definitely needs somthing to go over it after a prep wipe down. I've had this bottle since 14 and probably have a 1/3 of it left. I basically just use it to correct since I never let my paint get too neglected. I think it's just good at bringing depth out of the paint and nothing else. Their marketing on this product is a terrible approach, too much like an infomercial. I see why people would shy away from their marketing alone. For some reason it gives me the sine I'm looking for that other products I've tried don't. I just got a name brand finishing polish last week because I fell for the hype and it didn't come close to the Micro. Just my .02