Car Care

The structural variety and range of properties of WACKER silicone fluids, resins and waxes lend your car-care products exactly the right profile: they provide for easy application and buffability, sheen and color saturation, water repellency and weathering resistance.

Anti-Misting Agents

Special-purpose WACKER silicone fluids contained in antimisting agents create a highly effective invisible hydrophilic film on glass surfaces. This prevents moist air from condensing as droplets. Instead, a homogeneous, ultrathin water film forms, which does not scatter light. As a result, glass surfaces such as car windows, mirrors and glasses do not fog up, and optimum visibility is assured.

Benefits:

Improved polishing properties
Hydrophilic film

Applications:

Automotive glass
Low-maintenance glass

Rinse-Off Agents

Rinse-off agents come into their own in car-washes. After the last wash cycle, they are sprayed onto the wet car in the form of highly dilute solutions, where they exert both a water-repellent and protective effect. WACKER aminofunctional silicone fluids contained in rinse-off agents ensure that the water film breaks down spontaneously and shortens drying times. Moreover, they impart an attractive sheen and lasting protection to the cleaned paintwork – with no undesirable silicone buildup, even with frequent use.

Benefits:

Short drying times
Excellent water repellency
No silicone buildup
Attractive shine
Long-lasting protection

Applications:

Automotive care
Maintenance paint

Water-Repellent Agents for Glass

WACKER silicone-based water repellents create an effective and extremely smooth invisible film on various glass surfaces, such as car window panes and mirrors. Water drops do not adhere to vertical surfaces and run down inclined surfaces more readily or are blown away by the head-wind.

Benefits:

Short drying times
Excellent water repellency

Applications:

Automotive care
Maintenance glass

Plastic-Care Products

Aqueous silicone emulsions are suitable ingredients for formulating your vinyl conditioners – especially for cockpit care and lasting conditioning of exterior parts. In vinyl conditioners, WACKER silicones prevent embrittlement of plastic surfaces, restore colors and impart an attractive sheen while reducing further dirt pick-up.

Benefits:

Reduce early aging and embrittlement
Excellent color brilliance and color depth
Excellent water repellency

Applications:

Automotive care

Paint Preservatives

Paint conditioners offer effective long-term protection for cleaned paintwork – both new and old. WACKER silicone fluids, silicone fluid emulsions and silicone resins and waxes are tailored to today's needs: environmentally sound for purely water-borne paint conditioners or low-solvent water-borne paint conditioners.

Benefits:

Easily applied
Readily buffable
Highly resistant to adverse weather conditions, detergents and cleaning agents

Applications:

Automotive care
Maintenance paint

Car Polishes

WACKER silicone fluids, silicone fluid emulsions and silicone resins and waxes transform your paint polish into a high-quality conditioning product and give coatings – especially aged or weathered surfaces – a new sheen, rich colors and lasting protection. The usually liquid or pasty products contain various abrasives. They produce an attractive sheen by smoothing the rough, dull paintwork.

Benefits:

Easily applied
Readily buffable
Highly resistant to adverse weather conditions, detergents and cleaning agents

Applications:

Automotive care
Maintenance paint

Wash-and-Wax Agents

WACKER silicone fluid emulsions and silicone wax emulsions are used in wash-and-wax agents for manual car washing. They impart high sheen and conditioning properties to the wash-and-wax agents. Combinations of WACKER silicone fluid emulsions impart high sheen and conditioning properties to wash-and-wax agents.

Benefits:

Easy handling
Attractive shine
Effective condition
Surface protection
Long-lasting gloss

Applications:

Automotive care
Maintenance paint

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