Chemical Guys Hydro Suds Ceramic Car Wash Soap Review. 

I have been using this on my full 5 year ceramic coated GTI for a few months now. its honestly incredible at how well this beads after. It beads so well i can dry my car with a leaf blower in about 5 minutes. It just blasts right off. I tried this before ceramic coating and the water would stick to the car to much to blow off. I understand the website says what it says but on a fully ceramic coated car this stuff is unbelievable. This product makes my car so easy to clean. due to the existing ceramic coating just foaming the whole car and letting it sit for about a minute or two and rinsing it off gets 90% of the dirt off. than i do a second wash and use a wash mitt. this makes it very hard to scratch the car. the 5 year ceramic coating is the best thing i ever did. dirt just falls away effortlessly. I can understand why this did not work on just a waxed car. regardless of what the chemical guys website says a synthetic protectant just does not work well with plan wax. with a ceramic coating already in place this wash can bond with the coating because they are the same. Ill make a video next time i wash my car. I think chemical guys needs to update the product use description to ceramic cars only.

From what I understand as to what Chemical Guys claim is that Hydro Suds is to help enhance and "Recharge " a car's paint that's already been ceramic coated.

Friendly tip , using the same mit will end up giving you swirls , in the video you show that there’s was a lot of dry mud on the side of the car , whether you power wash it with just water it still doesn’t fully remove the contaminates that it need to remove …. My suggestions I’ve been detailing for a while now is 1.) I always inspect the vehicle 2.) the main area I would look at it is always the front bumper , hood and both fenders you’ll see a lot of those bugs and insects in the front , when those bugs are dried your running that mit everywhere else causing even much more of the swirls that you want to avoid 3.) what I like to do is run a full contamination wash ( no mit ) just let it soak up all the contaminates ( once again even a contaminate wash will not 100% remove it all but it will do it job 60-70% of it ) then rinse the car down 3.) one thing is see as well is your running the mit in circular motion which that’s another reason that causes heavy swirl mark ) I personally run a “one angle” hense the reason of always starting on top on the car ( a back and forth motion ) ( or straight line ) I love your video so don’t take it personal it’s my person opinion🙏🏽

THANK YOU! I'm glad I wasn't the only one to notice that not only does it not bead, but it left horrible streaking, not a slick surface, and a thick, pasty residue that occurs after a rain.

I wonder if it needs clean paint before application, would be interesting to see if it worked after stripping all previous waxes or coatings off.

you say that chemical guys took away the beading of the final rinse of water. that's exactly whats its supposed to do . ceramic coatings and waxes are supposed to sheet the water not bead it.this ceramic technology is a whole different concept than what we have had with carnauba waxes and other related 'wax type products'. i have a 2018 shadow black f 150 pickup truck that i prided as one of the best looking 'driven daily' trucks in town. that was with the carnauba wax days. reluctantly, i tried some of the over to counter ceramic products on my truck. didn't have the expensive treatment done but just used what you could buy from the manufactures and at the auto parts stores and walmart. wow! what a difference, if you want a jelly, candy looking gloss on you paint go with ceramic products. if you do it right, like i said, the water sheets on the paint instead of beading. fyi, microfiber has come so so far in recent years, i think that laying down the money for premium quality towels is a must. really makes a difference in my detailing of my cars and trucks, weather its from cleaning glass to quick detailing or removing wax from the paint, the final sheen and gloss or quality of finish tells the tale of all your effort!!! we just dont run down the basement the the rag box and get an old t shirt or moms old dish or bath towels to wax the car or truck.

Thanks for the reviews. I use meguiar's ceramic detailer and ceramic wax and was wondering if chemical guys would be better or worse. The Armor All soap seems to have done the best.

So I decided to give this a whirl on my 911 TTS. I too followed the instructions t the tee and watched the Chemical Guys videos to make sure I applied it correctly. The car has a coat of Rejex but I have never been satisfied with the beading, albeit it did have some beading. HydroSuds took any beading I had off the car entirely. In fact I think it probably does a better job than Chemical Guys Clean Slate! I will say that it did clean the car well though and it was pretty dirty. Anyway, I dried it all off then clay bared the paintwork. I then applied a coat of 303 Graphene Nano Spray. Man! is that stuff good. The beading is quite amazing and the paintwork feels silky smooth. The shine is like glass. I defo wont use HydroSuds again unless I need a Clean Slate 🤣🤣

Hope you know this Soap is PH neutral, this is for ceramic coats. Might want to read the bottle.

bruhhh you sounded so disappointed and defeated after seeing what happened lol. Have you reached out to Chemical Guys by chance? I was just about to buy this and then I saw this video. Glad I didn't get it.

I bought this product hopping that the water beading will be stronger since I sealed my cars paint with Jet Seal and wax it with Butter Wet Wax but after washing it with Hydro Suds the water beading went away and worst the water shedding was horrible. That didn’t happened when I wash my car with Mr. Pink.

Ceramic coating and wax don’t mix. I would venture to say that had it been non waxed paint it would have worked. Another reason for using it is if you plan to ceramic coat your paint then you have to find a soap without wax or just use a soap that has ceramic in it. I’m using this soap and then putting there ceramic spray coating over it and it has always looked and worked great 👍🏼

Beads up beautifully when I did my two cars

It only works on vehicle that have been ceramic coated and to rejuvenate the ceramic coating

I thought this was for cars with ceramic coating, or is your car coated?

beautiful weather in december for washing! love it...too cold here in wa...thanks for sharing!

The amount of times he had to copy and paste the same description from chemical guys because no one read the previous comments😂 Honest review and I'm glad I watched this before I went out and spent the money on a product that clearly is not working to how it's claimed to work.

Thank you for this. Exactly what I was looking for.

I've used this a few times and did have better luck when I thought I was recharging lol. I used for the first time in a few months (been awhile since I did a full wax) and found spots where it just removed all hydrophobic properties.

Can you only use it on vehicles that are ceramic coated already?

thanks for this, it's exactly the same as I experienced. I looked at the directions and it says it will go over wax etc. At $53 aus I won't be buying it again..

Shake the bottle before using it.

Try using chem-x Snake oil. Its a touchless Sio2 soap.

The problem is that this product is grossly misused. Simply put, if your car does NOT already have a ceramic coating or chemical guys equivalent, this will not enhance the surface. The soap is PH neutral and free of any wax so as to not strip what is already on your paint. Not sure why you lost some the very little amount of beading it did have. If you don't have a water softener, the PH and alkaline level in the water could have been the culprit. The other problem is also that they don't make it clear that it's meant strictly for ceramic coating. They assume that people will understand that "ceramic car wash" means car wash for ceramic coated paint.

I am going to let you use that product a couple more times to give it a try if you would like let me know when you want to do it. Very nice description

I been using this soap and to be honest I’m not impressed either I love there products I’m going to use the armor all soap for now on lol

The soap residue after washing with this product Was unbeleivable... The car looked like I drove thru A volcanic eruption, raining down ashe all over the car... So I washed the car again... And again.. And had to use another car soap to clean of Residue this soap makes. We were laughing and Just like this is pretty sad that the car looked better Before being washed.

Legit looks like it was washed with dish soap how flat that ended up being. Even for chemical guys I'm surprised how bad the result was.

That’s interesting. I will say sheeting leaves a lot less water spots when it sheets fast vs bead. But that was horribly slow sheeting if you could even call it that. I agree that it does look shiny in video after it was dried! I’d be curious what it would do washing it again.

Thx for the review that helped a lot my car ended up just like yours so I’m gonna have to try a different soap i would not recommend it

It’s not gonna happen right away😂 u gotta use it couple times let it sit in a couple washes ,

Looool it stripped your paint, Chemical guys is crap, and I'm someone who unfortunately owns a ton of their products, but phasing it out.

It is ment for exactly what the name says. Ceramic car wash soap

You gotta have chemical guys hydro slick on the vehicle first...hydro suds maintains the hydro slick finish....so no you won't get results like you wanted.

Water sheeting indicates the surface Has a very low tension extremely slick surface … Which is exactly the properties you are looking for… So the product actually worked you’re just evaluating it incorrectly. Also the added benefit is less water spots!

The comments trying to defend a bad product 😆

Chemical guys is full of shit , I prefer meguiars for the price

Try the turtle wax line that shit lasts forever

Lol you commented "haven't waxed it in a year" then you incorrectly washed your super dirty vehicle. You didnt have any wax or sealant left on the paint to begin with if you hadn't done a wax job in a year. The water beading on year vehicle at the beginning wasn't impressive to begin with because there wasn't any wax left. I just washed two cars today and it worked phenomenally

Terrible foam so watery

If you didn't have ceramic coating on it to begin with, what would you buy ceramic soap??