Protection Product Series: E2: Collinite 845 Liquid Wax 

There's absolutely nothing on this earth better than this product. 22 years in the Midwest salt/snow belt +jungle heat and humidity not a single piece of rust on my SUV. It's freaky how snow and water don't bead off it actually bounces it off. Shines better than Griots, chemical guys Sonax Wolfgang the countless other "new sealant technology's" it was originally made to protect metals for power companies out east I believe from the harsh winter's or something.

Even with all the coating craziness i still use only collonite, it just seems to work and it’s easy.

This was a great "throwback" to remind us of simpler times. I also didn't know Collinite was technically a hybrid product.

Love the combo. I top off the second coat of collinite with beadmaker after first wash dry then every wash I'll use it as a drying aid. Durability is excellent.

Used Powerlock and Collinite 845 after my first correction based on your advice, couldn't be happier

I love collinite 845!! Very easy to apply, easy to buff and it lasts for around 6 months!! Pretty good hydrophobic qualities. Its also very cheap. I recommend 845 to pretty much everyone, especially beginners. PRO TIP: Put the bottle in a bowl of hot water and let it sit for 5mins, shake it and it is now a liquid. Now put a spray head into the bottle and you can now spray it onto a applicator pad for even easier use.

I used collinite 915 and and 476s. I apply a week apart e.g. 476s first and the 915 a week later. It gives unbelievable gloss and incredible slickness, amazing hydrophobic beading. Here's the best method to deliver outstanding results. 1. Rinse your car in shade area. 2. Form and let it sit for 5 min and rinse off foaming canon and if needed apply bug and tar remover than de-Ironizer and if needed use clay bar to prep the surface for polishing. 3. Wash with 2 buckets (I use 2 buckets for rinse and 3rd for wash) with grit guards and use a pH neutral shampoo with high lubricity to help prevent wash-induced swirls and washing mitts). 4. Use a good quality plush microfibre drying towel and apply with a wax and detailing spray surface and dry off. 5. Apply Collinite wax (any of numbers), do in sections and buff off with microfiber towels. 6. Maintain in between with regular wash and dry off with microfiber towels and spray sealant and apply with a sealant. This will gives you a year deep gloss and shines last for 2 years. I used this method for all my cars and black cars too. Everyone knows black car is horrible to maintain, this method is my own true and best results. I park my car 24/7 outside at home and park at construction sites at work and high traffic areas for shopping. Everyone says did I buy a new car and some even loved my new showroom car.

I've actually applied Powerlock and 845 over Gloss coat with success! Love this stuff

Its an amazing product...really well priced and just very good quality. Have used it extensively on a few of my cars

Great combo. My 911 C4S has never looked so good. Notable is that my 911 C4S is silver/metallic. No other product I’ve used has come close in providing the same intense slickness and gloss the subject combo provides. Thank you for the recommendation Matt! Keep up the good work!!!

You made me fall in love with 845! I bought a coating and I still haven't tried it out yet due to the pop the Collinite gives. Thanks for the info about the post-cure hazing. It'll make me more calm next time I see it haha

I know this is one old product, and not the easiest to apply and remove, but I love it for waxing wood chairs, tables and windows. For these household items, the durability is beyond adequate, and subjectively, a wax feels more natural for these tasks than a ceramic or graphene product.

Thanks for the tips. I’ve recently started using 845 on my cars. In between I’ve also been using Maguires Ultimate Fast Finish. Sure enough the paint feels very contaminated after I wash. The two products combined must be causing this. I would have never guessed. Thanks.

Matt, listened to your advice a couple of years ago on 845 over MZ Powerlock and haven’t looked back. Easy to use and blinding results for the cost. Equal gloss and warmth to carnuba many times the price.

Ever since you and Pan introduced me to Jescar and Colinite, I haven’t found a better product. I detailed a 2003 Jeep with 150,000 miles. One-half the hood was Jescar. The other half was Turtle Wax Graphene paste. Both had equal shine and beading. My customer preferred the Jescar; the smoothness really sold him. By the way, Pan dialed me onto your site. There’s other detailer a, but I listen to you two the most. Thanks for the good work.

Yeah Matt you’re right I’ve never had any oil issues but I have a silver car and I my dad’s cars are all white lol

I just had paint correction done, and this was what they used to finish it. Never heard of it so i decided to look it up, if Matt uses it it must be awesome.

I started using it 2007, and i have close to 30coats of it on my wife's 2007 stone white jeep compass...the thing glistens going down the road...lol The more coats you have on the faster you apply and remove the next coat, it takes me about 7min to do the whole vehicle.

wow,I remember using that exact same bottle of Collinite way back in the early 1980s!

Here I am in 2024 bringing back ancient technology. I was even surfing the ol forums for information

Nice video! I’ve used 845 a few times and loved the shine and durability. Thanks for bringing up the oils coming to the surface....my car is black and the first time it happened I freaked out...I assumed I put too much product on. It’s nice to hear it’s the product and not my process!

I love that stuff collinite 845. Great Video and information.

Old school! I still have some Collinite 476S in the garage which must be from 2006. I think that was around the time that I first got some Optimum Car Wax too. They worked then and work now👍

YES! THE STUFF :) Incredible product. A sleeper.

Wow blast from the past, still got my tin of 496 in my wax collection I haven’t used in decades - I’d bet it’d still best most ceramic infused super sealants today for durability

Great vidoe like always, I've been noticing no AMMO sticker on the cabinet lol

God I miss that blue

I remember using this stuff back in the early 90s my dad brought it home and said hey try the stuff a lot of hot roders use it, back then I gooped stuff on and wondered why it was so hard to get off. 20 something years later I’m back to using again, there’s just something about this wax that is just killer vs coatings Matt.

I have a small cordless polisher can I use it instead of an applicator pad on a speed of two?

This also makes my Speed Queens shine and bead water. Excellent.

Can a ‘Wash and Wax shampoo’ help in longer retention of Collinite 845’s coating by, say, adding a layer of the so-called wax over Collinite 845’s coat, or will such shampoos harm the wax coating rather than aiding?

I've always wondered, do the little water beads act like little magnifying glasses focusing the sun's rays onto the paint? Might not be good for the paint to leave standing water on a car in sunlight. I guess everyone here knows that.

Solid vid! Might i suggest referencing each vid? Like a way to sequence it after what paint correction step? For example Power Lock vid would be EP 7, then this would be EP8. I dunno if that makes sense lol.

I have used collinite on my black Corvette with the powerlock base, I've noticed the hazing, I've washed the clean car twice, if the car sits in the sun it hazes over again, how many car washes is needed to get the hazing off, getting a bit annoyed at this stuff, but if you use it I'm sure it's the best combo, just can't get the hazing to go away, thinking about stripping it off and starting over but damn that's a lot of work, I'm retired and do a bit of detailing on the side but not using this combination because of the hazing issue.

Hey, love the videos and I appreciate all the info...could you comment on 845 vs 915? I have a black truck and a lot of the reviews say that 915 is the cat's ass for dark vehicles. Thoughts?

Amazing video great information I’ve been using it on my white car and it’s amazing especially pearl thin goes a long way

Insulator wax is very common in the big yacht and sportfish world. I knew a guy that was a mate on a 70ft boat and they swore by this product.

Putting it on my rsx tomorrow, spent a few hours today with a white pad and menzerna 3 in 1 on it.

Can I use TEC582 Ceramic Detailing Spray over the Collonite? I was going to use the Powerlock sealant, then Collonite, then the TEC582 between waxes. I've had some tell me you can use the TEC582 in place of wax. I'm so confused, lol.

Hey matt, when using the menzerna / jescar powerlock and collinite 845 as combo, what drying aid would you suggest you use ?? Can you use sonax speed protect ????

Matt, what would you recommend to prep the paint after decontamination and before applying the jescar or even the collinite by itself? Knowing that I cannot polish the paint, is carpro eraser good enough? Or something like auto finesse tough prep would make a difference?

I just bought a Griots Buffer, should I not use it when applying both of these products and just do it by hand?

What are your thoughts of meguairs Hybrid ceramic wax as just a spray on for the collinite 845. Topper?

Shouldn't a sealant go over a wax? I.e. sealing/protecting the wax shine?

Another Great Video Matt, always a pleasure to listen👍

Is it really so good its worth the marks that appear ? Isnt something as good that doesnt do that (HD POXY) ?

I bought this because of you...goes on nice and i love it.

Question: After you applied Powerlock you said you waited 3 hrs before applying Collinite. In those 3 hrs wouldn't your car gather dust and/or pollen? Before you apply the Collinite do you wipe down the surface of the car 1st? Then you said you waited 12 hrs to apply another coat of Collinite. Again, do you wipe down the car 1st. Thanks.

Great video. I like to use klaas acrylic based sealant instead of jescar under the collinite

After letting the collinite seat for 12 hours. Do you wipe it off first before applying the second coat? Or not?

Great video... Quick question... Does that mean you perfer this over ammo reflex skin and creme? Or are they equal? Or?

Rookie question: Would this product not be good for doing customer cars if it is going to haze over a couple days later? They might think something is wrong.

Makes me want to try it! Keep up the great videos!

Have you tried Collinite 915? I use it for my winter details as an LSP..

Thanks Matt I will give it try.

use this combo with gyeon wet coat as top, works well

Nice, very informative video. Apparently this stuff has been around a long time judging by some of the comments, but I've personally never seen it before. Might have to get a bottle of it myself. Hey Matt my wife's car is metallic white, which as you know doesn't show much in the way of imperfections, and in full sunlight I can just barely make out some very light swirl marks. What would you recommend for a 1-step or maybe 2-step correction/polish process, considering that I have a PC 7424 machine and a variety of those Hex-Logic pads? Maybe a microfiber pad with a Meguiar's product? 101, 201, etc? And then a polishing step after that?

I’ve been using Collinite on my airplane for years, it’s good stuff!

Advice, should I avoid applying Powerlock+ OR Collinite on black plastic trim or will either cause a whitish haze?

Hi Matt, do you have any experience throwing Adam's Brilliant Glaze on top of Collinite 845? I tried it last weekend and thought the result was just amazing. I had 2 coats of Collinite on (applied 4 weeks apart) and the BG went on 7 days later. I got a silver 2017 SUV btw.

Do you think you will also be adding Jescar to your protection and polishing line?

What my dad uses on his boat they make great stuff

Can I and should I put Sonax BSD on top of Collinite 845?

Does it seem to stay on long being you put sealant then top it with a wax?

Hey, matt if you could only have one type of protection which one would it be? Jescar power lock plus or Collinite 845?

I bought 845 on your recommendation awhile back, and I use it on all my cars. The performance for the price is unmatched.

Great review , i was wondering if you have used collimate 915? If so how does it compare? Thanks

Does this say it's give any temperature rating resistance

I live in Orlando and am looking for a good sealant and wax to protect from the sun since my car sits outside all day. I'm thinking of doing the power lock plus and collinite combo but some of the reviews on amazon of collinite from people that live down here say they have had problems with it in the heat and sunny weather(dirt getting stuck/residue/haze). Have you ever had any issues?

I would like to try collinite 845, as i belive it to be one of the best protection/sealant on the market. My paint work feels like P80 grit. Should I use iron x, tar x before claying, or just clay,cutolish,sealant?. Help....

Is this petroleum based and protection film safe? My Xpel film installer said to avoid anything petroleum based hence the question? Thanks

Matt, have you ever used wheel wax and what's your opinion on its performance regards protection ?

Are you using the Jescar on your windshield ? If not what do you use on windows inside and out ? Thank you , Brenda

@Obsessed Garage Any idea if Chemical Guys Jet Seal or M-Seal works well as a Base & then Collinite 845 put on top ?

Are you familiar with a product called Perma Plate? I had it applied at the dealership before purchasing my car and was curious what may be safe to use

Waiting for the store to get more products so I can buy at once, and also thank you for the signed hat!!!!

Can i substitute Jescar powerlock+ with the Meguiars ultimate fast finish? will it have a negative reaction or will it bond nicely with the collinite? hope to hear your feedback, love your videos and the detail you explain the products in them!

Awesome info. Thanks!

Hey guys, can you put powerlock over a cquartz coating? My ceramic coating seems dull to me even after reload. Is there anything that works better?

Hey Matt, Have you played around with Soft99 Fusso Coat yet?

For this wax what car soap do you recommend

Hey nice video, im wondering what car soap is good to wash this, what do i need to look out for? i dont wanna buy a soap who strips the wax :)Her Here in Denmark we dont have any detail shops worth using except online, such a shame

hi bro.. im a fan all the way from the philippines.. just want to ask if collinite 845 + p&S bead maker is good combo? ty!

Thanks for the advice.

80 degrees on a Feb afternoon. LOL

Does everyone who uses this combo honestly wait at least 3 hours? Trying to get some feedback please.

Now do a review on the new Collinite No. 520 Mister Collins Post Haste Detailer Quick Detailer

Mat can you also use this on a PPF protected car?

Note to anyone buying this. It does not work well with Ammo skin, not sure why I thought it would. Listen to matt use it with power lock.

How come you dont use the jescar powerlock on glass? And can you use it on glass (tinted)?

Matt...so the correct application would be 845 over wax and not wax over 845? Correct? Thanks

Would love to see a review of optimum opti-seal, reviews say its on par with 845

You ever try putting 845 on top of a coating?

Can you apply 845 with a DA polisher?

Love some 845, have you tried Soft99 Fusso wax? That stuffs brilliant 👍

Would it work on white paint?

Can I top it off with turtle wax ice seal and shine?

hi do you have review of premium wax of scholl concepts...

I prefer more visuals, with results

3njoy you're videos matt.