Permanon Platinum vs. Nu Finish Car Polish Part 2

Cost

I bought the DIY pack and the number of application:

• 2.5 times Permanon Platinum, with 20ml one time.
• 5 times Permanon Diamond, with 20ml one time. This is the maintenance wash and you need to wash like 2 weeks once.

To refill the Permanon Diamond 2in1, you need another RM78 for 100ml. For 52 weeks, you need 21 (exclude the 5 times come from the DIY pack) x 20ml = RM327.6.

Thus total cost: RM138 + RM327.6 = RM465.6 (assuming the 50ml of Platinum can last 1 year).



As a comparision, you can get Nu Finish products from Ace Hardware and the cost:

RM18.90, enough for 32 washes.

RM42.90, waxed 2 times and still have 3/4. I think it can really last for a year. But Nu Finish will damage your application pad, let's assume you wax 2 months once, the total cost will be 6 x RM6 = RM36.

Total cost for Nu Finish products: RM97.8 for 1 year. Compare to Platinum RM465.6.

Winner: Nu Finish.

Continue to Part 3

Permanon Platinum vs. Nu Finish Car Polish

What is Permanon Platinum? Click here to find out.


What is Nu Finish Car Polish? Click here to find out.


Both claim to have superior protection against harmful material and more durable than normal wax. Let's do a comparison between the two.

At first, I prepare the car paint surface:

1. Wash with Nu Finish Car Wash shampoo.
2. Clay with 3M clay bar with Permanon Hecta PL as lubricant.

Then apply Nu Finish (NU) on the left and Pernamon Platinum (PP) on the right of the car bonnet.


Application Effort & Time Spent
Permanon Platinum is by far the easiest coat/wax to apply, just spray wait a while and wipe dry with micro fiber cloth. You can apply to paint, plastic and vinyl without issue.

Nu Finish although it claims no rubbing and no buffing formula, you need to clean the dry up white residue, which require quite a bit of effort and it is tiring. On top of that, you need to avoid plastic and vinyl as it will turn white and hard to remove.
It will also damage your application pad (in this case, my Meguiar's pad). I also suspect it will create swirl mark since you need to use force to remove the white residue).


Winner: Permanon Platinum






Visual Effect
Due to the product nature Permanon Platinum will have a better visual effect in term of gloss and smoothness. Once the water dry up, it leave no trace.

Nu Finish on the other hand, the dry up white residue will impact the smoothness when touch, basically you can feel the particular on the paint surface. The gloss is not as good as Permanon Platinum especially under near inspection, Nu Finish "seems" to have some kind of uneven oil stain, but from far its gloss has no different from Permanon Platinum.

Look okay?

Winner: Draw.

Continue to Part 2

Permanon Platinum vs. Nu Finish Car Polish Part 3

Water Breading & Sheeting
To be continue!

Honda Jazz Hybrid 2012 Fuel Consumption

To record the fuel consumption of my Jazz Hybrid 2012. The average speed is included as well, as I believe it is a key factor in fuel consumption, lower average speed means more city traffic jam drive (higher fuel consumption); higher average speed mean more highway cruising (lower fuel consumption).

27-Jan-2013: Petronas RM54 (28.42 L) travel 455.9 KM with average speed of 31 KM/H: 6.234 L/100KM or 16.04 KM/L.

12-Feb-2013: BHP RM59.01 (31.06L) travel 557.1 KM with average speed of 29 KM/H (there was a long idling waiting time waiting for wife and also being serviced in Honda SC): 5.575 L/100KM or 17.95 KM/L.

18-Feb-2013: BHP RM46.50 (24.47L) travel 502.1 KM with average speed of 48 KM/H (include 380 KM highway travel): 4.87 L/100KM or 20.52 KM/L.

22-Feb-2013: Caltex RM52.39 (27.572L) travel 517.1 KM with average speed of 51 KM/H (include 380 KM highway travel): 5.33 L/100KM or 18.75 KM/L. Look like BHP gives better FC for a similar route (compare with 18-Feb-2013).

03-Mar-2013: Caltex RM57.83 (30.436L) travel 522.2 KM with average speed of 30 KM/H: 5.83 L/100KM or 17.16 KM/L. As comparison with BHP (the same route of 12-Feb-2013), Caltex looks like consume more petrol.

19-Mar-2013: Mobil RM53.62 (28.222L) travel 504.4 KM with average speed of 29 KM/H: 5.60 L/100KM or 17.87 KM/L.

12-Apr-2013: BHP RM24.51 (12.9L) travel 286.7 KM with average speed of 76 KM/H (100% highway travel from Seremban to Johor with speed between 100~110 KM/H): 4.5 L/100KM or 22.22 KM/L. Impressive, isn't it?

I managed to get an ECU and IMA firmware upgrade on one of the day (i forgot the exact date); after that my FC improved.


16-Sept-2013: Caltex 21.145L travel 451.7 KM (90% highway travel from Seremban to Parit Buntar, Perak) with speed between 100~110 KM/H): 4.68 L/100KM or 21.36 KM/L. (It is about 6.4% different from the Trip meter).

22-Sept-2013: Caltex 31.16L travel 603.8 KM (400 KM highway with moderate jam) with speed between 100~110 KM/H): 5.16 L/100KM or 19.38 KM/L.

Samsung Plasma TV: PS51F5500

Bought the Samsung Plasma TV PS551F5500 a month ago (early August 2013).

Cost ($) is the main reason for me to select plasma, the 46" Series 6 LED cost RM1K+ more. Series 4 plasma: PS51F4900 (3D) or PS51F4500 (without 3D) is a good buy too, if you don't mind the lower resolution 1024 x 768, compare to the Series 5 1920 x 1080. The SMART feature is hardly use, never buy TV for the sake of SMART feature.

To keep the long story short, the "owner review":

• Pros
1. Picture quality and the high resolution.
2. Good 3D, don't have "motion sickness" after watching.
3. Many input ports: HDMI, USB, Video In and etc.
4. Play many movie format (except RMVB) via USB.
5. Build-in analogue TV boaster (I need this).
6. 2 years manufacturer warranty.

• Cons
1. Heat. Although I anticipate it, but does not expect that hot. You can feel the heat 1 feet away. Solution is to buy a USB powered fan to cool it down. :-)
2. Reflection. Reflection on the dark zone is quite bad. But personally I'm fine with it, normally there won't be many dark zone in a movie or TV program.
3. Sound delay on USB movie playing, especially on big size MKV file.
4. 3D classes is not "glasses wearer" friendly. It will be great if Samsung can produce clip on 3D glass.

Overall I'm satisfy with this TV, it is value for money. The next is to buy a good home theater system and watch nice 1080p movie.