Re: How do you know a protectant has better UV protection than another?
303 became such a well known popular product because of the recommendations they have received from leading boat and RV manufactures. I would say in order for other companies to prove they are as good or better they would have to produce side by side comparisons or get recommendations from equally respectable companies.
Sometimes recommendations like this come from business relationships. For instance, Armor All was always recommended and used by a local car wash not because they thought it was the best but because they were given that particular product as a perk from their supplier.
Re: How do you know a protectant has better UV protection than another?
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303 became such a well known popular product because of the recommendations they have received from leading boat and RV manufactures. I would say in order for other companies to prove they are as good or better they would have to produce side by side comparisons or get recommendations from equally respectable companies.
Sometimes recommendations like this come from business relationships. For instance, Armor All was always recommended and used by a local car wash not because they thought it was the best but because they were given that particular product as a perk from their supplier.
AH that's what I am waiting on some free stuff, so I can give out some pearls....
Re: How do you know a protectant has better UV protection than another?
My vote went to look and smell. I use PRO's Premo and get the best of all worlds. Great UV protection, deep gloss that lasts for months, smells great, and drys compleatly so it don't become a dust trap.
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Re: How do you know a protectant has better UV protection than another?
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My vote went to look and smell. I use PRO's Premo and get the best of all worlds. Great UV protection, deep gloss that lasts for months, smells great, and drys compleatly so it don't become a dust trap.
Deep gloss that drys "compleatly." Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Re: How do you know a protectant has better UV protection than another?
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How do you know a protectant has better UV protection than another?
Since it would be almost impossible without qualitative/quantitave analysis to know who has "more than another"....... I chose a protectant by a manufacturer I can trust, and the look I am trying to achieve. Then over time I can judge on how I feel it works. But face it, how I feel it works is going to be judged strictly on how it looks to me.
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Re: How do you know a protectant has better UV protection than another?
This has always been a source of frustration for me.
If you make the wrong choice, the way you find out it doesn't work is when the vinyl goes bad. It's a little late then.
Re: How do you know a protectant has better UV protection than another?
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Re: How do you know a protectant has better UV protection than another?
I was just messing with your spelling.
I did not call you a moron. I said "oxymoron," look it up. Basically I noticed that the qualities you listed in the product you use contradicts itself.
Oxymoron = An oxymoron (plural oxymora (Greek plural) or, more often, oxymorons) (from Greek ὀξύμωρον, "sharply dull") is a figure of speech that combines normally contradictory terms. They appear in a range of contexts, from inadvertent errors such as extremely average, to deliberate puns like same difference, to literary oxymorons that have been carefully crafted to reveal a paradox. (From Wikipedia)
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Deep gloss that drys "compleatly." Sounds like an oxymoron to me.
Thank God for the deleate button and Wikapedia lol. As far as the oxymoron comment, and assuming it wasn't a personal dig, most water based dressing says in the description on the back "drys compleatly". All this means is that it don't leave interiors greasy like most solvant based dressings and cheap water based ones.
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I was just messing with your spelling.
I did not call you a moron. I said "oxymoron," look it up. Basically I noticed that the qualities you listed in the product you use contradicts itself.
Oxymoron = An oxymoron (plural oxymora (Greek plural) or, more often, oxymorons) (from Greek ????????, "sharply dull") is a figure of speech that combines normally contradictory terms. They appear in a range of contexts, from inadvertent errors such as extremely average, to deliberate puns like same difference, to literary oxymorons that have been carefully crafted to reveal a paradox. (From Wikipedia)
I hope no bad blood.
Damn you beat me to it. I'm sorry. Its been a rough day. No bad blood at all. gotta watch those big words....I'm from southern illinios haha.
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Re: How do you know a protectant has better UV protection than another?
One of the main influences on the coatings performance is the amount and type of UV absorbers used in the coatings. However, conventional organic UV absorbers are prone to degradation and do not provide the long-term protection an inorganic UV absorber, such as Nano Zinc Oxide provides (very expensive so rarely used in care car products. I haven't found anyone who will go on record to quantify 'long-term)
All UV stabilizers are sacrificial, meaning they are gradually expended to where they can no longer protect against ultra violet radiation damage. UV radiation is a paint film surface's greatest enemy (besides environmental damage i.e. acid rain, bird / bug excrement) causing more damage than any other airborne contaminant and affecting the interior and exterior of a vehicle, the light in this spectral range is responsible for photo degradation.
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