Do You Wax ? Or Do You ICE ?

[E-ZooZoo One]

Review - One Week Later:

Pollen Season is upon us here in WV with a vengeance – along with plenty of spring rains…

Almost every morning this week I have walked out of the house to find the VX looking a whole lot more Neon Lime Green than Astral Silver – sometimes with the pollen collected into thousands of dried raindrop circles, complete with countless other tree-related debris…

I have combated Mother Nature’s onslaught with the following:
--ONE garden hose spray-off
--ONE wet wipe-down
--TWO trips to a car wash (of the high-pressure wand variety)


I am happy to report that the cladding is still every bit as black and lustrous as it was a week ago… Water still beads-up and rolls right off – and there are only the faintest hints of streaking; and only where large volumes of water collect and run off of the body in a stream-like fashion. --- I suspect that a touch-up application (or use of the ICE Detailer spray) would take care of this – although I have not yet done so.

Even with the mild streaking, it still looks a whole lot better than it did after one week with the Back-to-Black (and that was with no pollen to contend with - no torrential downpours – and no multiple trips to the car wash).


So far, I’m still very pleased with this product.

[Leah]

This is all so encouraging. I bought the ICE but after reading instructions decided to wait until I can get the swirl remover and use that. My VX is so swirly it almost looks like carbon fiber. Grr. Thanks to everyone who has reported on the use of ICE and their results.

[Ebony1433]

Update...we've had a very rainy couple of weeks in the Midwest. 2 days after I first applied the Ice, we had a fairly torrential rainstorm...the next morning, I walked out to the VX, and saw that the cladding had beaded rainwater on it, the same as the metal.
I drove the 8 miles to work, and inspected the finish when I arrived. All the water had run off, and the cladding was just as dark and shiny as when I first applied it. However, there were slight streaks at the cladding fasteners.
Since then, it rained (constantly, not just a shower) about the next 7-8 days in a row, and I did a road trip to Chicago and back....just now the truck is looking like it needs a wash in the last few days, more from the pollen stuck to it...
So far, I'm very impressed. Ice is better than anything I've used so far, and I pretty much used a majority of products that been recommended on this board.

[E-ZooZoo One]

Review – Roughly 3 Weeks Later:

The old familiar ‘matte gray’ is starting to show through again - but in all fairness…

(A) Weekend-before-last, Kathy and I drove across the state of Virginia through one of the most intense downpours that either of us had ever seen in our lives… It was like driving through an automated carwash, for almost 3 hours straight, at 50mph (I had to slow way down in order to see where I was going – even with RainX + the windshield wipers on high). --- Afterward, I noticed that we had lost a bit of the shine.

(B) Some road construction along our route to work, combined with a number of intermittent showers, have conspired to deposit quite a bit of dirt and rock dust… which, in the past week, has apparently leached the last remaining polymers off of the cladding.


Still, the ICE lasted longer than Mother’s Back-to-Black – and it did so amid considerably worse weather conditions…

With it being so much easier to apply, I doubt I’ll mind ICE-ing it every 2 weeks-or-so…
Plus, with it taking so little of the stuff, I probably have another 10 or 15 applications left in the bottle!


On a scale of 1 to 5…
All-in-all, I suppose I’ll give the ICE 3.5 Stars
And for comparison, the Back-to-Black gets a 2

[TEN36VX]

After reading this thread I to tried the ICE...
It did not blacken up the cladding as much as I would like, even after two applications. But to be fair, she's been an outside car since I bought her in 2001 (and neglected a bit) so the cladding is pretty bleached. I to figured EZ-Z's method out for myself and it works better. The ICE is less staticly charged than other products I have tried.

After Two Weeks:
The ICE has held its color better than anything else I have tied. We had a good thunder storm the other day and I noticed some light streaking on the nose where water runs off the sharp corners of the hood. Other than that no problem and the water does bead off it excellently.