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My new SoftGloss install

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soonermajic

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It has Rykos "Colorwave". How would you guys label that on the wash menu sign? What about the Wheel / Tire blast, labeling that...?
 
I called my Carnauba Lava Wax. I thought it would be a nice curtain at the time lol. People still like it.
 
When do you apply your Lava Wax?
What product do you use, & cost/car?

How would you label the Tire/Wheel blast,& its product?
 
Sorry, missed this. I apply it at the end, before the spot free. I used the stuff from Ryko that came with it for a few months, then switched to warsaw's Carnauba. Neither of them foam at all or provide a nice curtain. At least it has a good smell and you can see bubbles so you know it's getting applied. Not sure on cost per car. Tire/Wheel blast I call it just that. Wheel Blast. Actually it says Wheel scrub since that is what I had installed at the time, but I don't have scrubbers now. Sounds better though if you want to go that route.
 
good gosh almighty that is a $hit ton of Foam Wax...!!

does anyone on here use that particular option, at the end, & apply that much wax?
 
The video above is actually our Softgloss MAXX 3. In the following video at 2:17 in, it does show the Softgloss MAXX in our Customer Experience bay using our Final Shine in a ColorWave application and how it rinses. We have several other foaming wax products that should rinse equally well. Here is the link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQcKSn5YUWA
 
Final Shine is a yellow colored foaming ClearCoat protectant that we use in ColorWave and in foaming arches designed with a polymer to increase the life and shine of the product on the vehicle surface. It's designed to not leave any residual foam on the vehicle, even if present going into the dryer.
 
Darin,
My Colorwave LED light is blue. What would you suggest I use? I was sent Blue Foaming Wax, but I do not see it on your waxes & protectants... I was sent a startup chem/wax pkg.
Does Final Shine come in a White, or Blue color?
 
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Final Shine is yellow, but we are also using a blue LED light behind it for accent, and it looks good.

The blue foaming wax would have been one of our standard trifoam waxes, and it does have a carnuba base. That product should foam just as well.
 
Not sure what you are asking... How is what achieved? Yellow chemical with a blue backlight? It's simply shining through.
 
Sooner,

In my Ryko I would say the color wave is close to the video Ryko CS showed you. Yes it is a ton of foam wax and when the machine was originally set up the tech didn't program a rinse as the machine traveled back to the front of the car. So I would have a color wave pass, machine would travel back to the front then rinse with spot free. I later told them to add a rinse pass on my machine so make sure we get all that foam wax off! I started out using Ryko chems but switched the machine over to Scotch Plaid.
 
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