AntWrig said:
[Who uses Simple Green or Tarminator to wash thier WHOLE car? The real question is Why even use a product not intended for automotive paints? I for one would NEVER put DAWN on my car or one of my customers cars.
Call up Sal Zaino and tell him you know more that he does .. I'm sure he will appreciate it. And as far as the fear mongering goes .. there is such a thing as pointing out the *possible* issues you can encounter as opposed to "Never, I repeat NEVER use Dawn on your car" with no reasons given.
Zaino specifies Dawn for a specific reason and thats to clean the surface of waxes and oils prior to the first layer of Zaino .. The reason they don't say "Use a paint cleaner" is because not all of them are oil free.
And I'll repeat again once a year will hurt nothing .. and the quote from Meguiars site.. good point but also good marketing .. Lets all pay $15 a bottle when $0.20 worth of product will do once a year.
As for Tarminator on the whole car .. right.. but its ok to use Xylene on the hood ?? .. People will us Tarminator all over the hood and sides without a thought because it is a boutique product when Mineral Spirits will do a safer job at 1/10 of the price.
And we all use all kinds of products throughout our detailing and some were *never* intended for automotive use.
And there is reference to chemicals in Dawn ( Ethyl Alcohol and Protease ) ... All most paint cleansers are is chemicals.
Here is the MSDS for Dawn .. Have a look .. its pretty passive .. Now look up some of your paint cleansers ( if you can find them ) and see which looks more scary.