Panel wipes that strip polishing oils, so wax, sealant or a coating bonds to bare clear coat instead of residue. Formulated and tested in our own studio in Poland, and used on every car we correct on camera.
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The same principle in each — get the surface chemically bare — sized and formulated for how you work.
The inspection and pre-wax wipe in the size most people need. Mist it on, wipe it off, and what you are looking at is the true state of your correction rather than a film of polishing oil.
The same formula as a refill, for anyone wiping cars down every day. Decant into a trigger bottle and stop counting how much of it a bonnet takes.
The dedicated prep for surfaces about to take a vinyl wrap or a coating, where any residue left behind turns into a failure later. Use it as the very last step before the film or the crystal bottle.
The least glamorous stage in detailing, and the one that most often explains why protection failed early.
A panel wipe is a solvent-based spray that removes everything sitting on top of the clear coat: polishing oils, old wax, silicones and the fingerprints you did not notice. It cleans nothing you would recognise as dirt, which is exactly why people skip it. What it leaves behind is a chemically bare surface, and that matters twice over, because protection can bond to it and you can finally see the paint as it really is. Every product on this shelf is a variation on that one idea.
For a coating, yes, without exception. For a wax or sealant it is the difference between weeks and months. Compounds are full of lubricating oils, and those oils are still on the panel long after the residue has been buffed away, so whatever you apply next bonds to the oil rather than the lacquer and leaves when the oil does. Skipping this step is the most common reason a new coating stops beading after a fortnight.
You wipe the panel and look again. Many compounds fill fine scratches while you work, so paint straight off the machine flatters you and some of that gloss is oil. A wipe with FINAL INSPECT V.2 removes the film and shows the correction as it will look in three weeks' time. If defects come back into view the panel needs another pass; if it still looks clean under a torch, you are done.
A wipe that reveals defects has not caused them; it has removed the oils that were hiding them. That is the product doing its job, and it is far better to learn it now than after a coating has cured over the top.
Short answers about degreasing paint before you protect it.
Diluted isopropyl alcohol is the old workshop answer and it does strip oils, but it flashes off very fast, streaks easily and can be harsh on fresh or repaired paint. A dedicated panel wipe such as FINAL INSPECT V.2 is formulated to evaporate at a workable rate and wipe away cleanly, which matters when you are covering a whole car rather than a test patch. There is also no dilution to get wrong.
Yes, and that is part of the point. Anything sitting on the clear coat comes off, which is what you want before applying new protection, and worth remembering if you only meant to clean a panel. If the car is already waxed and you simply want to lift dust, use a quick detailer from Paint Maintenance instead.
It is not compulsory, but it is the cheapest way to make wax last longer. Wax applied over polishing oil sits on a layer that is already on its way off the car, so the protection leaves along with it. One wipe-down after correction typically buys weeks of extra durability for a few minutes of work.
Use WRAP PREP SURFACE CLEANER for anything to do with wrap work, since it is made for the prep stage where residue means adhesion failure. On finished film be more careful: work small sections, keep the product moving and do not let it dwell. Test an out-of-sight area first if you are unsure what the film will tolerate.
FINAL INSPECT V.2 for normal detailing, meaning inspecting your correction and prepping paint for wax, sealant or a coating. WRAP PREP SURFACE CLEANER when a vinyl wrap is going on, or when you want a dedicated cleaner for the surface underneath a film. If you are buying one bottle for general use it is FINAL INSPECT V.2, and the 5L is the same formula if you get through it quickly.
What comes before the degreaser, and what should go on straight afterwards.
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