[notout86]

It is 6 months since applying Turtle Wax Ice liquid wax T-468R.

That has been through our Winter and the car mostly under a carport roof with direct sun 5 hours per day mostly on the hood. The car was washed maybe six times during that period using a neutral detergent with final thorough washing off of the detergent.

I am very pleased. Beading after 3 weeks was reduced but seemed to improve over the next week so now it looks the same as it was a month after application, the area that gets sun is no different to the rest, after the wash when I run a dry towel over the blobs and beads of water seems to leap off the paint into the towel leaving ZERO water film behind i.e. no need to do anything more like buffing. All I do is flop the dry towel on the roof for instance, then pull it over and down the glass and that's it.
Turtle Wax claim on my pack (the one that had lumps.... see my previous posts) that it "repels dirt" and indeed it does. It is possible to lightly brush off dry dirty spots and there is nothing left. The replacement pack does not claim dirt repel so I just hope that does. Splattered bugs come off fairly easily but I have seen better.
While the glass looked brilliantly polished originally it does seem to actually gather dust out of the air but I don't notice that on the paint.

All in all, cleaning is much easier and faster than untreated clearcoat. All I do is lightly "paint" all over the dirty car with a soft broom with strong car detergent, squirt off hard until there is no frothing, flow water on smoothly and "sheet off". This leaves some beading and blobs of water. Then I do the dry towel thing above and mop up a few bits in grooves and I am done. Only the glass needs a bit of a rub.