Originally Posted by Thulsadoom
Not happening. Pledge, or any other spray on wax, contains oils, which look really nice and shiny at first, but will attract dust and dirt. Or rather, dust and dirt will stick to the oils in the wax. The dirt and dust is abrasive, when you wipe the dust and dirt off, you are scratching the clear coat. It might take awhile, but eventually it will dull the finish on your bike. If you really want to protect the clear coat finish on your bike, sponge it off with warm water and some dish soap first(easy with the hose or any high pressure water source), use something like Super Glaze, from the Wax shop. It's not cheap, but it contains no abrasives, dries very quickly, and leaves no oily residue, so there's very little for dirt to stick to. When you use oily, spray-on waxes, it's like adding a temporary coat of clear coat. It'll look good for a little bit, but over time all the abrasives (dirt) that you wipe off will begin to dull the finish just like you used a piece of sandpaper on it. Take it from someone who has detailed a lot of Harleys.
I'm still waiting since 1994 to have spraying furniture wax on a bicycle, and since 1968 for motorcycles, to get dulling of the finish and problems getting wax build up in corners, or yellowing. I have 15 bikes they get cleaned and waxed a lot. My guess is that it depends on how dirty the bike is when you wax it ? My bikes are cleaned before waxing.
I also remember seeing TV ads about " No waxy build up" for some furniture polish years ago. Maybe they changed the wax in a way that helps? Some bike shops do thousands of bikes this way.