Aerolon Tech Shine and Show Polish

[quickster2]

I've been a long time home detailer of my vehicles and in or associated with the Automotive Paint business for many years. I've just started utilizing these two products and now have several vehicles and a boat under my belt. I can confidently say I'm impressed. I've applied Show Polish both by hand and by machine with great results. Tech Shine will take an already clean car (reasonably prepped) and improve the DOI and water beading result. Tech Shine also had the much appreciated benefit of seemingly renewing my 11 year old clear bra. Nothing else I've found worked as well on the clear bra. My suggestion is to give it a try. It works as advertised.

[Junkman2008]

So what is it? Is it a polish that contains abrasives or is it something that you wipe on your paint to attempt to enhance the shine?

[J TNT]

Good chatting with you and your wife on Sunday at Spring Brunch ! Looks like a great product, will give it a try.

[quickster2]

So what is it? Is it a polish that contains abrasives or is it something that you wipe on your paint to attempt to enhance the shine?

Junkman,

I would compare Show Polish to 3M's Imperial Hand Glaze Show Car Finish with the added benefit of long term paint protection. This 3M product contains no wax or silicone. Tech Shine is a wet applied paint sealant or "moisture activated polymeric clear coat film". I've utilized the recently developed wet spray waxes, spray on ceramic coatings, etc., and have found nothing that achieves the same result of these products. You can do a whole pick up truck with 2 OZ of Tech Shine. You can also give two coats at the same time by going around the vehicle twice after activating the product with another rinse. Their website has some good videos and documentation. I can give you some thanks for making me spend lots of money on detailing products and equipment in the past via me watching your videos. Ha! These are now my go to products.

FYI I applied the Show Polish by hand using 3M Finesse-It #28873 pad and by machine (PC 7424XP HD) with Chemical Guys Hex Logic Quantum white and black pads. The polish is less abrasive than Meguiar's 205 IMO.

[Junkman2008]

Okay, so it's mainly a glaze, which is used to hide imperfections, not actually repair or remove them. That's good for folks who don't want to do the work of actually fixing their paint or for guys who don't have time to actually fix their paint. I will always be a paint fixing kind of guy because glazes wash off and you have to keep applying them. If you actually fix your paint, it's permanent until you mess it up again. If you know how to care for you paint, you won't keep messing it up, which is what I see a lot of guys doing.

3M makes some excellent products and I use them to work on fresh paint after I paint something. But I was also able to use them on something that you wouldn't believe...

[quickster2]

FYI neither Tech Shine nor Show Polish will wash off immediately. I'm sure after a few months (5 per the manufacture) it will need to be redone. With the ease of Tech Shine I can see its use after every few washes to preserve the shine and water beading. Both have the added benefit of a polymeric coating unlike the 3M product mentioned above. I only compared it to the 3M product for DOI (depth or definition of image). I've easily removed light scratches with the Show Polish.

[Junkman2008]

Now wait a minute... the only thing that doesn't wash off is a coating but you called this a glaze, which will definitely wash off. So are you saying that this is a coating? If so, you can't correct anything with it because a coating is exactly that, a coating. It does not contain any abrasives. Now maybe it is a coating with glazing properties? I have never heard of that because every coating that I have seen simply lays on top of what you have so if you don't remove all of the scratches in the paint, you are going to have coated covered scratches showing through that you won't be able to correct because of the coating.

I think I need to go find some information about this stuff so that I can get a better understanding of what it is. I'll be back.

[Junkman2008]

Well, that didn't take long. Okay, considering what you are paying for that stuff, you are getting ripped off. Here's why.

The Tech Shine will DEFINITELY wash off. It is not a coating, it is a "quick wax" type product that does not protect your paint as well as a synthetic sealant will. There are MUCH cheaper products on the market that claim to do the exact same thing. I do not use this type of product because it is more hype than performance. Add to that, anything other than polish that claims to enhance the shine on your paint is already frowned upon by those of us who know because we know and understand that POLISHING is what creates that wet looking, in depth shine on your paint. The only way a product can enhance the shine on your paint is to start with paint that is lacking maintenance to begin with. Hell, Crisco grease and baby oil will make paint shine but of course, none of us would do that.

Let's look at this example. We all know and we all can all agree that the paint job on a Dodge Viper is going to be significantly better that the paint job on a Toyota Camry. However, look at what I made this Camry look like by simply polishing the imperfections out of the paint. Now this paint job is FULL of orange peel, just as MOST cars that have factory paint jobs on them. However, you don't really notice the orange peel until I get next to a window, as the glass is perfectly flat. This is when the orange peel can easily be seen in the paint. But the point of this video was to show people that all these "shining products" and wax don't hold a candle to what simple polishing does. There is not a DROP of wax on this paint. There is absolutely NOTHING on this paint. I simply polished this paint to perfection. If I can do this to a Toyota Camry, imagine what I could do to your Viper.



The product that I used on that Camry cost $7.99 for a 12 ounce bottle and you can do a LOT of cars with that much polish. I've had the bottle that I have now for over 3 years. It ain't even half empty. Hell, I would love to come do a fender on your Viper just to show you the difference and if there was no difference, I would BUY YOU A BOTTLE OF YOUR PRODUCT. Hell, people who don't know anything about Corvettes think that my car is new. You should see their faces when I show them the 149.000 miles that I have on the odometer.











There's not a drop of wax on my Vette. That was after I finished polishing it.


I had a guy take me up on a offer like I made you and he flew me down to Tampa Bay, FL to prove it on these:



He had money coming out the wazoo because he put me up for a week so that I could teach him how to do it and you know The Junkman don't come cheap! Lol! But hey, I've hooked my Viper brothers up on a few occasions too!

[Junkman2008]

By the way, I like their airplane claim. This plane detailer has an opinion on products like these too.

[quickster2]

No one's questioning your methods. Show Polish is a polish. Tech Shine is a polymeric coating. They both work as do the products you've advertised. My last 2 cents.

[Junkman2008]

If you're happy with it then that's all that matters in your favor. I'll agree to disagree.

[ViperSRT]

I don't know if I am the only one but I am confused with all the products out there now. I was using Zaino on my Vipers up until the Gen 5 for which I had Xpel Ultimate clearbra installed on about 50% and ceramic coated the entire car. I have used a reload product over the ceramic to keep the water beading properties but wonder if a sealant like Zaino or something else would help in that regard. For the others I continue to use Zaino. Any opinions about what could be done for either application?

[Junkman2008]

If you had the car coated, the FIRST and ONLY person you should ask that question to is the person who did the coating. The reason being is that there are MULTIPLE types of coatings that you could have had done and some are susceptible to failing when the wrong product is used on them. The person who did your coating should have given you specific care and maintenance instructions. They are seriously slacking if they didn't.

As far as all the products on the market, you are correct. How is a person who doesn't eat and breathe this stuff supposed to know what is good, fair, bad and terrible? Well, a little research goes a long way but the way I do it is the "proof in the pudding" method. When I make a video about a product, you see me use it in real time, while bringing you in VERY close to see my results as I go. That way, the only person you have to believe to is your lying eyes. This stuff isn't rocket science, however, a lot of manufactures and detailers want you to think that you have to be a satellite technician to figure this stuff out. There is nothing "rocket science" about this stuff. I talk about this a LOT of my videos.

What you should do is find a product that you like, get a complete understanding of how it works and the master THAT product. Don't be one of those guys who are constantly "chasing the shine". You will go broke buying this and that, always wondering if the "next great thing" is better than what you are using. When you truly know what you are doing, it doesn't matter what GOOD product you use, you will always have excellent results. The reason why is "TECHNIQUE TRUMPS PRODUCT, 24/7/365". What you use can be important but how you use it is ALWAYS more important than the name on the bottle. I can make paint shine using Jergens lotion. It won't be the best shine in the book but the fact that I can make lotion somewhat work is a testament to the fact that technique truly does trump product.

What these two videos. They should help you out. Keep in mind that there are not that many manufacturing facilities out there so a LOT of these products are coming out of the same facility and getting different labels. Do like I do. Pick up the phone, call and ask a company representative if they MANUFACTURE (KEY WORD), the products that they sell. If the first word out of their mouth isn't yes, then whatever comes out is probably some BS that they are trying to snow you with. If they say yes, ask them where that facility is located and if you were to drive by that address, will their name be on the building. I had a blast doing that because a lot of these guys don't want you to know that you are buying a rebranded product from them. Some of them mark a product up $20-$40 more than their competition but since they advertise it with a completely different flair, you would never know.