Bought a new product - the worst I've ever bought

[VintageRestore]

So I was excited to try the YUM panel wipe yesterday. It's supposed to be strong at what it does.

I received it and it has such a super strong candy smell it is overwhelming and literally unusable to me. I got some on my hands, and I washed them 5 times and STILL had to smell it for hours more.

If I get KC PPS or Griots Panel Prep on my hands (both of which I like), it feels lightweight and like it evaporates well. This felt gooey and very thick on my hand. I'm thinking of throwing it away and taking the $30 (shipping included) loss as the smell is so overbearing.

I'm not a fan of the YT personality who is the importer (whom I ordered it from) as I feel he's kinda a shill and frankly this only solidifies my feeling as he is the distributor for this in the U.S.A.

I literally have done through DOZENS of products (maybe more?) over the years and not one of them - even the ones with artificial smells - smell as overwhelming as this.

To be fair and transparent I DID email them (where I ordered it) about this sharing my feedback and did not received a response. It's possible they haven't checked their emails, but I wanted to be clear I didn't just come here to bash it. I did share my thoughts with them as product feedback.

I only post this as I wasted about $30 on the product and shipping, and if you are adverse to overwhelming artificial smells, this is not the product for you. I'll probably just throw mine out.

 

[Mike Phillips]

I had to Google it to find out what it is, I guess I'm out of touch.

The thing about panel wipes is they do not tend to be good lubricants and as such, you must be careful if you're ever chemically stripping oils off SOFT car paint or you'll mar, (mar is the kind fluffy word for scratch), the paint you just invested hours into perfection via machine polishing.

When I worked at Meguiar's, I discovered the chemists used Kleen-Strip Mineral Spirts anytime they wanted to chemically strip paint during any type of product testing.

I found I much prefer this also as it feels nicer wiping over the paint and evaporates off very quickly. It's also cheap and readily available at any hardware store.

Just get a chemical resistant spray head and if you really want the spray head to last a long time, clean the sprayer out with water after use.


Mike

 

[JR107]

Prep-All from Klean-Strip is fantastic as well. The price has increased over the years so try to buy a gallon locally if you can.

A truly life changing product if you want to give it a try is called Liquinox by the company Alconox. Arguably the de facto standard for perfectly clean in any ISO certified laboratory across the world. Mixed at the 1:100 ratio will rinse completley clean with water (or DI water). Absolutely no smell, creates tons of lubricity, foams nicely, and the cost at 1 parts product to 100 parts water is crazy cheap. When they say "residue free" it means analytically under a mass spectrometer - zero trace, not just visibly.

At 1:150 or 1:200 it is so gentle that you can rinse it with a damp microfiber.

 

[VintageRestore]

Prep-All from Klean-Strip is fantastic as well. The price has increased over the years so try to buy a gallon locally if you can.

A truly life changing product if you want to give it a try is called Liquinox by the company Alconox. Arguably the de facto standard for perfectly clean in any ISO certified laboratory across the world. Mixed at the 1:100 ratio will rinse completley clean with water (or DI water). Absolutely no smell, creates tons of lubricity, foams nicely, and the cost at 1 parts product to 100 parts water is crazy cheap. When they say "residue free" it means analytically under a mass spectrometer - zero trace, not just visibly.

At 1:150 or 1:200 it is so gentle that you can rinse it with a damp microfiber.

Thank you for this recommendation. I just ordered a bottle to try.