Wax on Wax off

[toms123]

Right, i was washing my car last night - used some turtle wax car shampoo and was then gonna wax it. Then my dad comes down stairs -

hope you arent going to use MY wax blah blah blah, paid good money, blah blah, buy your own you littel git, blah blah.

He also told me that if i wax my car it takes a layer of paint off!!! Eh? Cant be right - thought that only happened when you used t-cut or something. Am i wrong? Surely the point of wax is that it leaves a shiny layer on the body work?

 

[Lucas]

Yeah, I thought wax puts a protective shiny layer on, polish take a layer off.

 

[David]

polish takes off paint?! never heard this before...so if u polish ur car a lot ur saying itll eventuallt leave it with bare metal? surely not.

 

[toms123]

Exactly! Think my dad was just trying to stop me from using his wax - burk! So once you have applied the wax and left it ten mins - when you take it off, it doesnt remove a layer of paint at all does it?

 

[mr sheep]

proper wax has no cleaning or abrasive agents in at all. polish is slightly abrasive and should be done less often.

 

[rockport]

think your dad is getting messed up with his waxes/polish - Wax adds a protective coat to your bodywork.

 

[toms123]

Which gives the better effect- polish or wax? Which is harder to do?

 

[Swervin_Mervin]

Should always polish and then wax. You should only need to polish once a year really, as it is a mild abrasive.

 

[Paul C]

how often would you say to wax? once a month?



Paul

 

[KDF]

I wash my car once a week, and carnuba wax whenever the weather is nice.. eg about once a year

 

[GR7]

Quote: Originally posted by toms123 on 07 May 2004

Exactly! Think my dad was just trying to stop me from using his wax - burk! So once you have applied the wax and left it ten mins - when you take it off, it doesnt remove a layer of paint at all does it?

If that was the case, my cars would all have been down to the bare metal! What a load of rubbish - plenty of wax keeps them shiny - just get a clean white duster with some wax on it and rub it into your paintwork and see how much paint comes off! Your dad didnt want you to use his stuff!

 

[Daz]

Wax doesnt make it shiny.. it seals whatever shine you have.

Polish makes it shiny.. Wax seals it in.

Thats why Meguiars is 3 stage - 1 stage to clean (is a little abbrasive), 2 stage to bring the colour out, 3 stage to seal it all in!

 

[mr sheep]

super resin wax that i use and the new meguiars nxt tech wax do make the car shiny and seal it in.

 

[Daz]

The, Super Resin Polish does both polish and contains wax.. a lot of them do!

 

[mr sheep]

its not the autoglym one , its resin wax, no mention of polish on the bottle at all!!

 

[Swervin_Mervin]

Separate ones are best though. Must say that I polished mine last w/e with Autoglym Super Resin Polish and it looked pretty good. Just need to wax it now.