Woolwax vs. FluidFilm

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Now that I've used both products I wanted to share my observations between the two. I wish I had posted some closeup pics of the 5gal pail of woolwax I borrowed from my brother. He had mail ordered that along with the premium spray gun from kellsport early in 2019 and treated his vehicles with it. Given he barely used any of it, he let me try it.

I used it on my Ram and my daughter's little Nissan Versa. It's a great product and smells amazingly nice, like a hand lotion. I've got beat up dry hands and being an all natural lanolin product, it makes your hands feel amazing- atleast for me.

Fast forward a few months and I bought myself a one gallon can of Fluidfilm and the cheaper spray gun kit to try on my wife's 2019 Nissan Pathfinder. The look, feel and application of FF is exactly like Woolwax- atleast based on what I found. The only difference was the smell between the two. Woolwax smells awesome. FF smells like manure or a farm. The schidt smell does go away after a few days.

The great thing about the 2 is, they don't drip at all. They don't stain. They are both easy clean up, but yet stay stuck on metal surfaces. There's no harm in getting it on rubber, plastic, wiring, etc given it's nature.

The pic with the blue Ram is Woolwax. That's my Bro's 2019 Classic. The pick on the horrific work bench is FluidFilm ignore the "woolwax" label on the 1quart jar. They came with WW labels on them empty. Forgive my messy workbench! I gotta get on that..

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The last pic makes me think back to the original GoJo hand cream. Meant to clean grease, etc off your hands. If you let it get warm it would actually separate out to a layer of oil on top and dont know what on the bottom.

Makes me wonder if WoolWax is basically just GoJo :)
 
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Makes me wonder if WoolWax is basically just GoJo :)

It does kind of feel like the consistency of GoJo for sure. Even with the fluidfilm at 70degF or so like in the lower pic, it's a bit of a mess loading the jars for the spray gun. You kind of have to just scoop it in.

I forgot to add, I made a grab and go kit of sorts with my FluidFilm kit. I keep the gun, with jar attached ready to go with the can of FF and accessories stored and snapped tight in a 5gal pail. Any time I need it, like if I have a wheel off one of my vehicles and I want to touch something up, I just grab the bucket pop the gun on my air line and have at it. This stuff supposedly never dries out or clogs the gun. If it does. Warm soapy water should clear it.
 

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How did you spray above the rear wheel wells? You can only reach so far with the supplied wands from underneath and with the taillights removed. I'm thinking ill have to make my own wand to reach the tops of the rear wheel wells. Also a tip for the gallon jugs is to put the gallon in a crock pot to heat up the oil. Just be careful you don't get the bottom too warm on the gallon jugs since they have plastic bottoms.
 

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How did you spray above the rear wheel wells? You can only reach so far with the supplied wands from underneath and with the taillights removed. I'm thinking ill have to make my own wand to reach the tops of the rear wheel wells. Also a tip for the gallon jugs is to put the gallon in a crock pot to heat up the oil. Just be careful you don't get the bottom too warm on the gallon jugs since they have plastic bottoms.

I have a 3' long maybe 3/16" diameter hose with a 360 degree spray tip on it. I remove the wheel well liner, finagle the hose up into the area above the wheel well, pull the trigger and slowly drag it out. Repeat the process 2 or 3 more times to make sure I get good coverage.

The first time I did it I removed the extra black plastic piece that is on the rear part of the wheel wells (behind the main wheel well liner) and use the 3' hose from that side too.
 

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Yeah that's ridiculous, maybe if it was your job. For the diy guy $300 for a spray gun you use once or twice a year I can't justify that. Hence why i bought the wool wax kit.
 

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I think it was 200 when I bought mine.

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