Why A Traditional Car Soap Is A Waste Of Money & Time - Let The Truth Set You Free!

SCOTT WITH DALLAS PAINT CORRECTION & AUTO DETAILING IN PLANO TEXAS TALKS ABOUT WHY PH NEUTRAL CAR SOAPS ARE A WASTE OF MONEY AND TIME.

[Henyckma]

9:05 You'll need:
Purple Power PH 10 Soap
Meguiar's G18309 Ultimate Fast Finish

[luckycharm]

Legend says....scott showers himself with Super Clean and Purple Power! 😁

[superchargedgtp]

Boy oh boy did you swat the hornet's nest on this one Scott!!!  Daily drivers get abused, full of oils and tar that regular soap just won't get off.  I don't understand why so many people are angry here.   Your solution is EFFICIENT and EFFECTIVE and the customer is HAPPY!  Folks, remember, he's hustling to pay bills and not looking to spend an entire day washing one car.

[GFox-cgqf]

Last year I did a full 2-step paint correction, clay, and acrylic-based sealer (Chemical Guys M-Seal) on my white Toyota Tundra. I washed it every week (pH neutral soap) and used an acrylic-based detail spray (Garry Dean's Force Field Boost) to dry or any time dust or bugs accumulated. I thought it looked great until one door was recently repainted. The rest of the paint looked very dingy next to the new paint. For a moment, I thought the shop used the wrong color. They had not used the wrong color white, so I realized that grime was the culprit and used every cleaner in my arsenal until finally I sprayed Megs Wheel Acid (4:1) and used a Magic Eraser to get off an amazing amount of accumulated filth, even though the truck had looked very shiny and repelled water with excellent beading. I then clayed & polished the entire truck again and applied a silica-based coating this time. (Black Fire Crystal Coat) My truck is 9 years old and is startlingly white again. Because grime had snuck in no matter my diligence, I no longer try to preserve the sealer on my maintenance customers' vehicles, using expensive systems. I use a caustic soap, (acid works great but you have to be careful not to have any glass etching) usually Purple Power, and then any good sealer that you can wipe on and buff off easily. (Ultima Paint Guard Plus is a terrific WOWA) Scott is revealing the simple truth of effective detergent release of grime from a surface. It is easier and cheaper to have better results if you will but heed his words.

[alexbryan]

I tried the purple power soap in the foam gun as a clay lube after the wash process. Works great and much cheaper than any other I've tried besides maybe onr wash & wax. But being able to do 90% of the work with one product is a winner in my works!!!

[FXBody]

I find myself watching these videos over and over again Scott. Thanks for all the valuable information you provide us 👍🏻

Ian

[tobyhigginbotham]

Why is fast finish hard to find now? It use to be everywhere now I can’t find it.

[edwarburton]

FYI. There are several "Purple Power" products. make sure you get Purple Power Heavy Duty Boat and Vehicle power wash concentrate.

[travisclarkin]

Makes perfect sense...I've been diluting some APC in my foam cannon and foam my car with it before a wash...not sure if that's the best idea or not but dear god my paint is spotless every time I do it...takes tree sap and other contaminants right off and seems to extend the amount of time in between needing to clay bar

[markinorf]

Amen. Im done with high dollar sealers with road grime on them. Purple Power, blow dry, and Meguiars Quik Wax.

[mcss]

I used meguiars fast finish yesterday for the first time. I love it! now I gotta try the purple power!
Scott you have always saved me and my pocket book lots of $$$. You just make sense!

[Sharkster]

My sealant is supposed to last around 3 years (quartz) it's been 1.5 years so far and water still beads very well, and I maintenance wash around every month, car is a daily driver. The wash water is dirty but not overly dirty, and my car looks amazing after I wash it with my ph neutral soap.I would prefer to only go over the entire vehicle once every few years than every other week. If you are trying to procure constant, recurring business I guess this way is ok, but I'll stick to my way.

[_Epictetus_]

I would love to see this guy and ammonyc go at it lol

[Hot-LE]

Scott, your very correct about this. I even tested this overtime and you end up with a cleaner car more of the time then you would trying to hold a sealant for long periods of time. I washed my girls car the other day with PH neutral soap and there was still tree sap (that has been there for a year) on the car that would not come off. Switched to a non PH neutral soap and the junk lifted off. The car appeared cleaner and was smoother to touch (i had been using neutral soap before that). I switched my method to soaking and washing the no PH neutral soaps and adding a sealant then spray wax after each wash. Cars look fantastic, dust sticks less to them, cars look wet and smooth. The logic is sound, just not popular.

[vgbr]

Scott, your videos are great and I respect your knowledge. I'm wondering, if I regularly wash the car with purple power and apply Meguiars Ultimate Fast Finish afterward, how much benefit am I getting from an annual or biannual application of paste or cleaner wax? In other words, do I really need to wax anymore?

[FangPaw]

Do ANY of you would-be chemists actually have a clue as to what you're talking about?

For a start, the unit is pH. Not PH nor ph. pH is a measure of the hydrogen (H) ion concentration in aqueous solution. The critical concepts are ION and AQEOUS (ie water-based). Water is ionic - it dissociates into H+ (acid ion) and OH- (alkali ion). Anything with an H in the formula is an acid (eg hydrochoric acid is HCl, sulphuric acid is H2SO4), anything with an OH is an alkali (eg sodium hydroxide aka caustic soda - NaOH). Mix an acid with an alkali and you get a salt . Non-aqueous solvents such as acetone or isobutanol are not ionised and hence do not have a pH. Yes, I know that alcochols (like methanol, ethanol, isobutanol, isopropanol, etc) have an OH group, but they are not ionised when pure.

Pure water is pH 7 by definition. In practice it's rather less because of dissolved atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2 + H20 = H2CO3 = carbonic acid). The double-distilled water in my lab is below pH 5. Which is irrelevant, as pure water has no buffering capacity and carbonic acid is a very weak acid.

Tap water can be anywhere from about pH 4 to about pH 10, because of dissolved gasses, minerals and/or organic matter. Again, largely irrelevant because tap water has little or no buffering capacity.

Strictly speaking, car wash products contain detergents, not soaps (a soap is a salt of a fatty acid - and leaves a scummy residue with hard water). Detergents work by incorporating oil/grease into micelles. There are literally hundreds of different detergents and they vary enormously in effectiveness - some are very mild (and hence kind to skin) whereas others are so harsh they can etch glass. Detergents are categorised as ionic (anionic, cationic, zwitterionic) and non-ionic. The effectiveness of an ionic detergent (by far the commonest type) can vary markedly according to pH. Manufacturers typically add buffering salts to detergent-based washing products so that the desired pH is maintained even at high dilutions.

It may be that the pH 7 car wash product simply contain less effective detergents. If someone with more than a decade of car detailing experience says they get superior results using a product that happens to work best at pH 10, there's absolutely no reason to disbelieve them.

[storres]

NonpH soap and Meguiars ultimate fast finish 7:16

[bassboomer]

Got a WHO’S RIGHT question here:
Brian from Apex Detailing says if you use Purple Power Vehicle and Boat Wash each wash, that it will dry out the clear coat by pulling all the natural oils out of the clear coat, which is contrary to the information in this video. So what is the truth? Is it safe to wash cars in this all the time or will it actually harm the clear coat over a period of time?

[porcelainplusaustralia]

Scott there is TOO MUCH TRUTH in this video... youtube might shut it down - PS i love you

[TheBaz]

They don't sell purple power vehicle and boat here in Canada.
I found a product called Prestone Vehicle and Boat cleaner. Do you know if they are similar