{"title":"Bilt Hamber","description":"\u003cp\u003eBilt Hamber Laboratories are a British manufacturer based in Essex, and they are the most evidence-driven company in car care. Not the loudest, not the best marketed — the one that publishes safety data sheets naming actives at CAS level, commissions independent university salt-spray studies, and quotes durability as a wash count instead of a vague number of months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat is why we stock them. Alpha Details is run by a chemist, and Bilt Hamber is the brand that gives a chemist something to actually read.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhat makes Bilt Hamber different\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey tell you what's in the bottle.\u003c\/strong\u003e Korrosol and Auto-Wheel both declare \u003cstrong\u003esodium mercaptoacetate\u003c\/strong\u003e — sodium thioglycolate, CAS 367-51-1 — at 15–25% and 10–30% respectively. Atom-Mac declares an amine carboxylate at 20–35% that resolves to \u003cstrong\u003emorpholinium octanoate\u003c\/strong\u003e, textbook vapour-phase corrosion inhibitor chemistry. Touch-Less declares its \u003cstrong\u003ealkyl polyglucoside\u003c\/strong\u003e surfactants by CAS number, which means the \"sugar-based\" claim on the label is literally true rather than a marketing flourish. Most brands in this industry disclose nothing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey test, and they publish.\u003c\/strong\u003e Dynax S50 was put through a \u003cstrong\u003e2000-hour cyclic salt spray test at the University of Hertfordshire\u003c\/strong\u003e, based on ASTM B117-03, at matched film thickness against six competitors including Mike Sanders and Waxoyl. It came first. The full report is public. It was commissioned by Bilt Hamber — we'll say that plainly, because you should weigh it — but it is still more hard evidence than the rest of the anti-corrosion category has ever put on a table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThey get the pH right for the job, not for the marketing.\u003c\/strong\u003e Auto-Wheel is a reactive wheel cleaner at \u003cstrong\u003epH 5.5–7.0\u003c\/strong\u003e — neither acid nor caustic — and it still outperforms products that are both. That is a formulation flex, not a compromise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eWhere to start\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you want the best pre-wash chemistry available.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eTouch-Less\u003c\/strong\u003e is the one to buy, and it is Bilt Hamber's best seller for good reason: alkyl polyglucoside surfactants derived from glucose, corrosion inhibitors built in, no caustic, no phosphates, no solvents, and a mild \u003cstrong\u003epH 10.5\u003c\/strong\u003e. If your car is genuinely filthy or neglected, step up to \u003cstrong\u003eAuto-Foam\u003c\/strong\u003e at pH 13 instead — Bilt Hamber's own guidance is Surfex-HD for greasier films, Auto-Foam for drier ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you only buy one bottle.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSurfex-HD\u003c\/strong\u003e. It works from 1:200 for interiors right through to neat for engine bays — a genuine 200-fold dilution range, held together by an HEDP chelant that keeps it performing in hard water. A 5L makes 500 litres of light-duty solution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you're decontaminating paint.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eKorrosol\u003c\/strong\u003e first, then \u003cstrong\u003eAuto-Clay\u003c\/strong\u003e. Korrosol chelates the embedded iron chemically so your clay bar isn't dragging ferrous particles across your clear coat — and Auto-Clay is the only clay bar we know of that needs \u003cstrong\u003enothing but tap water\u003c\/strong\u003e as lubricant, because it contains no surfactants, detergents or soaps at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you're fighting rust.\u003c\/strong\u003e This is where Bilt Hamber are untouchable, and where almost nobody in Australia stocks them properly. \u003cstrong\u003eDeox-C\u003c\/strong\u003e is a crystalline 100% active bath — 1kg makes 20 litres — that strips corrosion without attacking sound steel. \u003cstrong\u003eDeox-Gel\u003c\/strong\u003e does the same job on anything too big to submerge. \u003cstrong\u003eAtom-Mac\u003c\/strong\u003e stops the flash rust afterwards, protecting steel it never physically touches. Then \u003cstrong\u003eDynax S50\u003c\/strong\u003e into the cavities, \u003cstrong\u003eDynax UB\u003c\/strong\u003e on the underbody, and \u003cstrong\u003eDynax UC\u003c\/strong\u003e anywhere the finish needs to stay visible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you want carnauba done properly.\u003c\/strong\u003e All three Bilt Hamber waxes are built on \u003cstrong\u003eT1 carnauba\u003c\/strong\u003e — the top Brazilian grade, \"Prime Yellow,\" maximum 0.2% ash and a minimum 83°C melting point. \u003cstrong\u003eFinis-Wax\u003c\/strong\u003e is the hard film with no plasticising oils and a longevity guarantee. \u003cstrong\u003eDouble Speed-Wax\u003c\/strong\u003e is the medium-hard, award-winning all-rounder that Bilt Hamber say survives around 60 washes with Auto-Foam. \u003cstrong\u003eHydra-Wax\u003c\/strong\u003e is the liquid, and the only wax in the range with a quantified claim: \u003cstrong\u003eover 50% T1 carnauba by weight in the dry film\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA note on how we've written these listings\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePaolo holds a degree in chemistry and will not publish a claim he cannot source. So on these pages you will find some things you don't usually see in product copy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe tell you that Korrosol and Auto-Wheel are \u003cstrong\u003eskin sensitisers\u003c\/strong\u003e, because they are. We tell you that Bilt Hamber call Touch-On a \"ceramic\" treatment but that \u003cstrong\u003ethere is no silicon anywhere in its safety data sheet\u003c\/strong\u003e, so we won't sell it to you as an SiO₂ coating. We tell you that Bilt Hamber have never disclosed what the active in Deox-C actually is — and that the confident answers you'll find on forums are guesses. We tell you that the famous 2000-hour salt spray result belongs to \u003cstrong\u003eDynax S50 only\u003c\/strong\u003e, not to the whole Dynax range, no matter how often it gets borrowed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNone of that makes these products worse. It makes the good claims — and there are a lot of them — worth believing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eQuestions about dilution, sequencing or which product actually suits your paint? Ask us. We use this range in the studio, not just on the shelf.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"url":"https:\/\/www.alphadetails.com.au\/collections\/bilt-hamber.oembed","provider":"Alpha Details","version":"1.0","type":"link"}