I was reading on meguiars online that when new products were introduced to the D-line back in (05 or 06 i think) it was called solvent based dressing and now i cant find that anywhere and i wonder if that is the same product...and on to the dilution

I think all season is oil (solvent) based and therefore cannot be diluted...with anything insoluble in water there will be particles that dissolve but nothing like a water based product...hence the better durability of solvent based dressings in the rain....take this for example, gasoline is not soluble in water..yet if you mix them and then extract all of the gasoline when it has separated, you will still smell gasoline in the water..because even a couple of parts per million will have dissolved.

So much for the chemistry talk, if it is solvent based it wont/not designed to dissolve in water...therefore something that you can dissolve in water will be able to yield more ready to use product therefore in my opinion a better option. (water based dressing/hyperdressing)

 

You're actually spot on... ASD took the place of S-Dressing... I just went back and pulled some of my notes from the Meguiar's 3-day class that I attended back in 2004.

2004 is actually when the new D-Line replaced the old one. The old one, as many know, wasn't actually made by Meg's... the new one is.

Another tidbit of information, in the NFPA fire criteria, the fire rating is "2" for ASD thus indicating that it definitely has a fair share of solvent - or other flammable - in the mix.

After looking at the MSDS, it's listed as 45% to 65% Isoparaffinic Hydrocarbon... oil-based (solvent). Not sure how you can dilute it with that kind of ratio... *shrugs*

 

Right, i figured it was...i have been doing a lot of reading about products here lately and it is amazing what is relabeled..i bet i have at least one duplicate in my stash of the same product under a different label lol.......and back to the dilution, i bet you had good results because where your trigger spray head would be at the bottom of the bottle, where all of the denser material is (dressing) and the water was on top...

 

Brad

I would just like to add some high value to this conversation.

coke zero suxs ****, however, its the best thing to mix with Weller (SR)that actually takes like "coke" without all the sugar.

Ok, how is that for value?

 

Theres no chemical you can spray and hose off and have a perfectly clean wheel well. Time to pull out the old rags and put alittle muscle in it.

 

Oh true true but hyperdressing makes even a marginally clean surface look flawless.......i love that stuff....and as for coke zero

that stuff is the bomb i love it....do you know that if you drink a regular coke 3 times a day that will add up to over 200 pounds of sugar that you have taken in over the course of a year? But aspartame is not good for you...caused cancer in lab rats supposedly..but then again what hasnt? Sorry im premed

 

coke zero sucks. coke is alright. i tell you what, surge is by far the best tasting drink ever made by coke. stuff is more valuable than #16 and fd combined!!!

 

X2 Surge was the best! I want some bad now!

 

ya me 2. heres a link that has some recipes similar to it. this stuff sells for more money on ebay than megs banners!!!
http://www.savesurge.org/surge/index.shtml

 

Not detail oriented...but since were on topic of coke.....I drank a coke yesterday. It had so much freaking carbination that after i drank it i could just feel my teeth and my stomach churning and feel the acid rotting my teeth away.....

 

Like RockPick, I too don't get really fussy with what I use on my wheel wells, but I would like to offer a caution or two. First, some of the more aggressive cleaners can actually suck the oils right out of plastic parts - like your front fender inner liners. This can give them a grey to white look that then has to be hidden with some sort of dressing. By the way, this effect is generally permanent, so be carful here.

The other thing about what you use to clean with gets into possible over spray. If you use something really harsh, you run the risk of it drifting out of the target area and messing up something much more important - like your paint or the finish on your wheels.

Personally, I keep all of the tire dressings that I didn't end up liking and using them up in my front fender wells. For my rears, I use bug & tar remover, then cleaner wax. After all, the rear is simply painted metal.

 

Coke Zero rockz!

 

I agree w/ the simple green. But when its dry use some satin spray paint and it does wonders.I hated those block looking things on the plastic

 

I guess that I learned something about All Season. Now I need to go to a Meguiars clinic ...if they ever have one in the midwest Il,Mo,Ia,In,Ky. 45/70