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Bobupndown said:
I look around the car park in work on a wet day and see nice cars totally neglected, obviously never been polished or waxed with flat wet paint work, and then my 8 year old Landrover which is probably waxed twice a month with beads of water running off it. 
Mate you need have kids or something 
Waxing a LR 25 times a year, ouch.
DoubleSix said:
I gave mine a ceramic treatment 16 months ago and it still beads up like that… I’ll certainly never use wax again.
Pros and cons to both options. I enjoy the waxing process, and the refractive index of ceramic coatings means you never quite get the same wet look as you do with a wax.
I'd decontaminated, clay barred and DA polished my wife's car when we got it back in June, gave it a couple of coats of Bilt Hamber Speed wax, but I've found it doesn't tend to last that long. I wanted to give the car some kind of ceramic coating, but since I have my project car in the garage I have to work outside on the others, so I decided to give Autoglym Spray Ceramic a try after stripping off the Speed wax.
It's easy to apply and I can top it up each time I wash it over the winter. The car doesn't get much use (we seem to go everywhere in my 'shed' Ka), so I hope it will fair well over this winter.
Still beading nicely after a month or so:
I think this one was a few days after I first coated it:
I'd done a similar prep on a 2012 Fiesta I bought for my son earlier this year, but I didn't strip the Speed wax off his, just gave it a wash and sprayed the ceramic spray on top of whatever was left of the Speed wax applied back in May. To be fair it's still beading up well, though it may not last as long as if I'd stripped it back properly:
It's easy to apply and I can top it up each time I wash it over the winter. The car doesn't get much use (we seem to go everywhere in my 'shed' Ka), so I hope it will fair well over this winter.
Still beading nicely after a month or so:
I think this one was a few days after I first coated it:
I'd done a similar prep on a 2012 Fiesta I bought for my son earlier this year, but I didn't strip the Speed wax off his, just gave it a wash and sprayed the ceramic spray on top of whatever was left of the Speed wax applied back in May. To be fair it's still beading up well, though it may not last as long as if I'd stripped it back properly:
bolidemichael said:
I've found that double speed wax lasts for around four months when detailed in late summer/early autumn.
I never seem to get that long out of it, though I think I was mixing my snow foam too strongly as well which was probably stripping it off. Either way this is so easy to apply and seems to last well so far.OldSkoolRS said:
bolidemichael said:
I've found that double speed wax lasts for around four months when detailed in late summer/early autumn.
I never seem to get that long out of it, though I think I was mixing my snow foam too strongly as well which was probably stripping it off. Either way this is so easy to apply and seems to last well so far.bolidemichael said:
Actually, that's a good point. I used BH Cleanser Fluid first.
I use panel wipe after I machine polish to clean off any oils left from the polishing, though I use non silicon types that supposedly don't have filler in either, so the Speed wax has a good clean base to be applied to. I think it was more that I was partly removing it with the strong solution of Bilt Hamber snow foam. These days I just use car shampoo in the snow foam lance (well I did before the hose pipe ban anyway...).
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