What wax do you use?

[nanook]

For the last 3 years all I have used is Meguiars multi step on my 1934 ford street rod, its unbelivable. Use #7 polish, then #26 wax, if you buy the kit you get everything from vinyl and rubber polish to quick buff if your in a car show... . Highly recommended!!!!! Actually tonight I'm polishing and waxing the street rod for a car show this weekend... ...

 

[tractorface]

waterless car wash

I prefer Snake oil. I bought a bottle from the carpet bagger in "Outlaw Josey Wales" also good for a hundred other ailments

Cmon guys I went to the website and you can't apply the stuff over the normal dirt and grit we all accumulate. You need to wash your car first unless it just got dusty sitting in the garage. One of those websites sold stuff for everything including an oil treatment. Probably pouring the same stuff in your tank as on your hood.

I'll stick with soap and water a couple a times a month (the car not me)

Anybody know where I can buy one of the turbolater things to increase flow

 

[curatchko]

I've never used the waterless carwash stuff myself, but I have to admitt, I have a friend who swears by it, and the stuff seems to work... . dirt or no dirt. Yeah, if there's mud, sure you need to get the mud off, but for the most part I've never seen a shine like his does. But, I must not have been totally convinced because I've never used it...



oh well, just my . 02.



I like Maguires Carnuba wax... and their fine polish as a first step. And then for Maintanence, I use this stuff called called WET, which is teflon based and it keeps it shining real nice.



As for paint breathing... thats' old school laquer. Laquer, and synthetic paints never cure, they just dry. They always breath.



Today cars are painted with Urethane and they chemicaly cure into another substance, hard. It don't breath which is why metal lasts longer behind it.

 

[Doubleclutch]

I get this stuff out at work from a friend who works down in the chem-rad lab. He said I should wear gloves when I applied it- a kind of thick heavy paste. One small heavy jar of the stuff spread out really nice to fully cover the truck. No buffing required- just spread it out and let it dry. Now my black truck has this bluish aura about it. Dust settles about a 1/4 inch above the finish and blows off as I drive the truck! Bird sh1t dries before it hits the paint, and it also blows off. Dessicated bug "parts" can be seen to blow over the windsheld, like paper, never leaving a mark. Of course, there is a down side, I can't drive the truck at night- I must be getting old because this blue aura interferes with night vision... and people high-beam me (from behind). My buddy said this polish was named after a planet... Marsonium, Plutonia??? I can't remember, but he did say it only needs to be applied once every 25,000 years! I'll be driving it to May Madness this year. They'll probably make me park it out at the end... again.

Greg

 

[tractorface]

" he did say it only needs to be applied once every 25,000 years"



Now that is some snake oil I would buy! Where can I get that stuff? Sounds like it might be radioactive

 

[JR2]

I wax my truck every time I go to the car wash. The little spinny thing goes around and around wasing my truck. Then towards the end of the wash the little spinny thing squirts some pink stuff on the truck, then washes it off. I think that pink stuff is the wax.





In reality I wax my car once a year, and last year I used Gariots Garage "Best of Show" wax. First I used the clay, then I used the polish and then I used the wax. It took me three days to do the truck and canopy. The truck looked great for about two weeks and then it looked like it always does. I think this year I am going to take advantage of the local car washes "WD40 Shower". For $5. 00 they will spray your entire vechicle with WD40 and let it sit for a few minutes. Then you go through the car wash and it susposedly removes every trace of wax. Then I am going to get some "raindance" and do quick job and call it good. I have no desire to spend 3 days waxing the truck again.







By the way, I used the waterless car wash stuff once in about 1993 and it worked okay, just thought it was awful expensive.

 

[Hammer]

Waxes,Waxes-Oh what to use.......

My preferred shine of choice is a product made by Hollander Corp called UV-2. It comes in 3 different stages for different kinds of finishes. I use the . 8 micron for my first shine and then use the . 4 micron afterwards. I have won numerous plaques and show trophies with my truck and I say its all in the wax. Back to back wins in my class at Chryslers at Carlisle say enough. If you would ever see my awards shot from there all you can see is the people around and the stage,the shine sucked them all in... ... Andy



P. S. -A quote form one of my club members says it all about my ride..... " Adding welding goggles to the "Take to the track list" so I can look at Hammer's truck. " as Shovelhead said... .

 

[Shovelhead]

Oo. :-laf

 

[boathead]

This is the stuff the detail shops and dealers use. I buy it by the gallon and it lasts me a year or more. I wash the boat and truck with this stuff, it's the best product I've ever used by far. No need to wax any longer with this stuff, and I'm very picky about my boat, it costs too much to use substandard stuff.



http://www.malcopro.com/cgi-win/mselect.exe/1071

 

[brobeson]

Dri wash n Guard

hey tracktorface, Did You Know?



DWG is used on the worlds most expensive cars (like the $40 million Rolls Royce, Silver Ghost and the $10 million Bugatti Royal), is used by the worlds largest professional detailing association, has cleaned and shined over 70 million cars, is winning awards world wide and is "Simply the Best" Waterless car wash and protective glaze available!



Guinness Book of world records "Road to Rolls Royce" the longest single line of Rolls Royce's and DRI WASH 'n GUARD® was there!



Fletcher Jones, the largest Lexas/Mercedes dealer in the US, in the hot dry dusty desert of Las Vegas, uses DWG on their cars to help protect them from the elements.





Dennis Gage of

"My Classic Car"



"A quick and easy waterless way to detail your car or truck comes to you in an amazingly simple to use product called DRI-WASH 'n GUARD® Waterless Car Wash from DWG International. The key ingredient is PolyGuard-3 that seals the finish, providing a level of protection against damage from weather and other abrasive agents. Simply spray it on, wipe it off and buff! All without a drop of water. Conserving the earth's water and providing UV screening, Dri-Wash 'n Guard Waterless Car Wash will clean an average size car with just 2 oz".



Gary Wales Uses Nothing But the Best On His $2. 5 Million Franay! "I restore very expensive cars. In fact, I have spent more than half a million dollars restoring my 1947 Bentley Mark IV Franay which has won 29 major awards world-wide" I couldn't use or recommend DRI WASH 'n GUARD® all over the world if it was not the best product in the world. " "There is nothing any better!" Gary Wales





Not bad for snake oil, yea!



Oh yea, do you really think they wax the bottom of the Space Shuttle to protect it on re-entry, or do you think, just maybe they use polymers?

 

[slo-ryde]

I've been using PermaPlate on my cars for many years now. It's around $300 to have the dealer apply it and the new warranty is good for 7 years. With all the paint problems on newer vehicles I look at it as cheap insurance.



Every 3 or 4 months I use the renewer that comes in a kit (you get it with the PermaPlate) and the paint looks great. I've been bombed by some pretty big birds and the permaplate seems to be doing a great job of keeping the poop from attacking the paint. It also does a good job of preventing stains caused by leaves or debris sitting on the paint surface while wet. The newest formulation causes water to sheet instead of form droplets the way conventional wax does. If you decide not to dry the truck after washing it the sheeting action allows the water to dry without leaving spots.



I used Meguiars before that and really liked it. It just doesn't seem to hold up over time the way the permaplate does.

 

[WadePatton]

I've seen double posts before but that's the first PENTA POST I've seen.

 

[slo-ryde]

Originally posted by WadePatton

I've seen double posts before but that's the first PENTA POST I've seen.

That was weird! I deleted the three extra posts, not sure what happened.

 

[illflem]

You clicked the Submit Reply key more than once. The software is supposed to stop that from happening but doesn't always work...



Be careful when ordering over the net, if you click submit order more than once on some sites you will recieve and get billed for the order the same number times you clicked.

 

[Mike Ellis]

Meguiars

I use Meguiars Gold Class on the wife's Odyssey, it is a good wax but WOW it smells good. Have to fight the urge to wallow in it, just like the effect Hoppe's #9 has on me.



I haven't bothered to use wax on my Ram since it developed acne last year, the paint has bazillions of little pimples in it and a re-paint is looming somewhere down the road. Clearasil might be better for it than wax at this stage



I had a Corvette back in my impressionable youth, it was midnight blue and I kept it waxed and detailed to a fearsome sheen with a set of carnauba products called "The Treatment". In that time (late 70s) "The Greatest Thing Going" was a product called Liquid Glass. Used to go to Vette shows and there would be a guy there demoing the product, they would put it on a test panel, let it dry, then pour a bowlful of eggs mixed with nuts and bolts onto it and swirl it around. Rinse it off... and amazingly enough no damage. I tried the Liquid Glass on my car and it did indeed put on an awesome shine. Had about 15 coats on it at one time and it looked purty good indeed. So slick and smooth the air molecules never touched it although it didn't have that "blue aura" Honestly though, it didn't seem much shinier than the carnauba wax and didn't last anywhere near as long as the NuFinish did in later years.



Used to see a lot of good lookin' muscle cars at the Sonic during our cruising days decades ago, and Turtle Wax and Simonize seemed to do a pretty good job on 'em. Probably doesn't matter what wax you use as long as you apply it right and use it regularly. If there was a significant difference in wax performance, I think the mfgs would put up some comparative optical measurement data.