I fully understand your concerns, FP, especially with the high level you keep your car at!!

A little insider background info here: I've been a big fan of a couple of the rinseless wash products on the market for quite some time. These aren't spray on products but rather a wash product that you mix just a half an ounce per gallon of water and then wash the car without using a hose, without rinsing. Great in northern climates where you can't run a hose outside in the middle of winter, or here in SoCal where a car doesn't really get all that dirty for months on end, but could use something more effective than a simple quick detail spray. This is the type of product I was hoping our R&D and marketing guys were going to come up with, and I pushed for it pretty hard. They kept telling me about this new Ultimate Wash & Wax Anywhere product, and I wasn't too keen on it.

Well, we did come out with a rinseless wash product, our D114 Rinseless Express Wash, which I love. But the more I played with this Ultimate Wash & Wax Anywhere (UWWA) the more I liked it. And when I drove back from SEMA in the rain with the Crossfire, it was the perfect time to try it out. You can imagine how dirty my car was after 200+ miles crossing the Mojave Desert in the rain, what with all the trucks along that route, etc. The polymers, emulsifiers and other stuff in this product do an outstanding job of lubricating the surface and encapsulating (within reason, of course) the dirt so prevent scratching of the surface.

Now, if you've been driving on heavily salted roads for a couple of weeks and the car is coated with a thick crust of crud, it's not a bad idea to run through a coin op wash and pressure wash that junk off first, so of course there's a limit to what you can clean with it. But you'd do similar even if you were going to bucket wash that car, wouldn't you? But let's say you're heading to the Dragon for a weekend of fun with other Crossfire owners. You've driven a couple hundred miles, maybe 500 or more, to get there. Odds are you're not going to reach for a typical "mist and wipe" quick detail spray to clean the car at that point. But you can reach for UWWA to clean the car in that scenario. And to even my amazement, it does a remarkable job in these cases. It's important to keep in mind, however, that this is not just a "mist and wipe" type product - you need to spray more juice on the paint with this than you do with a simple quick detailer in order to remove the larger amount of dirt present. So we expect that you'll get 3 to 5 full "washes" out of a bottle. For apartment dwellers that don't have access to a hose, this is cheaper than going to a full car wash every week.

If you've got a seriously good two bucket wash routine going on at home, as I suspect you do, FP, then this product is most certainly NOT designed to replace that. Keep doing what you're doing with regard to regular washes, but you may find this to be a great bridge for those situations between a quick detailer and a full wash. At $15 a bottle it's a bit pricey to use as a quick detailer all the time, but you can use it that way too, if you like. I've taken to using this way all the time now, but I do get a little discount on stuff so.................