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Which Soft99 Glaco should you buy?
Soft99 Glaco is a family of silicone-polymer rain repellents for automotive glass. They all do the same job — bond to the silicate in your windscreen so water beads and flies off at speed instead of sheeting across your line of sight. What separates them is how long they last and how long they take to apply. Pick the trade-off that suits you.
The flagship. Longest hold (~12 months), slowest application. Buy this if you want to coat the windscreen once a year and forget about it.
The middle ground (~6 months). Its S.A.R.F. self-levelling additive forgives an imperfect wipe — the streak-free choice for first-timers.
The sponge-ball original (~4 months). Fastest, cleanest application — nothing to buff, nothing on your hands. Also in Large and MAX.
Wash-and-coat hybrid. Lays down the hydrophobic layer during the wash rather than as a separate step afterwards.
Formulated for side mirrors and reversing-camera lenses — the small surfaces a windscreen product handles badly.
Not a Glaco — a different Soft99 chemistry (G-RAS shield) that coats body and glass in one pass: around 5 months of gloss and beading on paint, ~3 months of rain repellence on glass. Spray on a wet car, wipe, done. You'll find both in the Coatings & Sealants section below.
Prep is not optional. Every Glaco bonds to bare glass. Old wax, silicone residue or a water-spot film will block that bond and the coating will fail early — this is the single most common reason people say "Glaco didn't last." Strip the glass first with Glaco Glass Compound Roll On or Glass Stain Cleaner, then coat.
Want the long version? Read our full Glaco guide — every product compared → Still not sure? Ask a detailer for a free recommendation →
Beyond Glaco: Fusso Coat and the rest of the range
Glaco is the glass line. Fusso Coat is the paint line — a fluoropolymer (PTFE) sealant, and the reason the Japanese word for fluorine sits at the top of this page. Where Glaco bonds to silicate glass, Fusso lays a fluorine-rich film over your clearcoat, rated by Soft99 at up to 12 months per application and sold in separate formulations for light and dark paint. Alongside them sit KIWAMI hand waxes, the SMOOTH EGG quick-detail range, and PROSPEC — the professional 9H ceramic line Soft99 sells to trade.
Soft99 has been making car care in Osaka since 1954. It is, by volume, the car care brand most Japanese drivers actually have in the garage — and almost none of it was easy to buy in Australia until recently. Alpha Details is an authorised Australian stockist: every unit here is genuine Japanese-market Soft99, dispatched from our Melbourne studio, priced to match Soft99 Australia. If glass is what brought you here, the whole Glaco family is compared product by product on our Glaco Australia guide.
Authorised Australian Soft99 stockist · Australian retail pricing matched to Soft99 Australia
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