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The Turtle Wash'n'Wax I referred to in post #43 must be at least 20 years old as I think I inherited it from my ex-dad R.I.P. I will replace with the modern "Ice" version.

I also used a product called STP something or other from a Reject shop years ago. It was thick stuff and non runny like tomato sauce and fluoro green color. You
washed and dried the car then smeared it lovingly all over everything with your hand, including glass, plastic, rubber and metal and let it dry. Then you just squirted it off with a strong jet of water from a hose (no rubbing at all) and towelled off the droplets. It beaded well but I have seen better. Afterwards, the dry paint was so slippery the plastic bottle would not stay on the roof... it slipped off. I am not kidding and nothing else I've tried has ever been that slippery. Similarly a dry towel seemed to be repelled off the paint and felt like it was floating over it. ? electrostatic repulsion? It neither attracted or repelled dust. The effect would last a few weeks. It smelt slightly of hydrocarbons so I guess they were in the product as an emulsion, so while the stuff was still wet it would loosen/dissolve lipophilic dirt which would be washed away when you squirted it off. Hydrocarbons are somewhat rugged on rubber (which waxes rarely tell you) but they clearly stated to put it on everything. If anyone knows the formula I'd like to know... I asked STP and received no answers.