What wax

[glyn waxmaster]

jhoneyball said:

I've just spent 5 days at Crewe doing the Chauffeur course. Their view on expensive car waxes was comically funny. Autoglym seems to be the factory recommendation.

thats why most chauffeur driven cars, hurses, wedding cars are full of swirl marks

[johnnywishbone]

what you need is the royale treatment ! theere is no SUBSTITUTE !!

JWB

[elitedetailer]

johnnywishbone said:

what you need is the royale treatment ! theere is no SUBSTITUTE !! JWB

haha I love this quote. I am going to use this as my sig.

[johnnywishbone]

well done elite !!!

JWB

[up-the-dubs]

Balmoral Green said:

up-the-dubs said: What is clay and whats it for? It's like a big lump of plasticine, but made of clay. You handle it a bit in your warm hands, then you fold it over on itself several times and you end up with a patty of the stuff. You wet the panels of the car with a mist gun, then you wipe the paintwork with the clay bar, it sort of scrapes/scours the surface, but without doing any damage, it lifts off all sorts of crap which stays in the clay. You need to keep folding the clay as you go, so that the crap gets held in the middle of the lump. You end up with a surface as smooth as glass, you can feel it slippery smooth as you run your fingers over the paint. Then you polish and/or wax the car.

Again a bit of a dumb question but here goes...
I bought the Meguiars Quik clay with spray set and was going to do Dads car ('03 E240) as it's 3 years old and has never been waxed or polished once. Not having a garage, how important is it not to do the car in the sun? I don't mind doing a panel or two at a time, but waiting for a cloudy day that doesn't rain is like playing the lottery! Just curious if it makes that big a difference?

edit: It's just rained again.

>> Edited by up-the-dubs on Sunday 2nd April 17:32

[glyn waxmaster]

doing the klay in the sun will not make any difference but make sure when you have done 1 panel that you wipe it over with a chamois as to get rid of any water marks, the wax is another thing, Zymol is fine working in direct sunlight as you are only doing 1 panel at a time but be very careful with others as they have chalk added as a drying agent so can become very difficult to remove.

good luck

[up-the-dubs]

glyn waxmaster said:

doing the klay in the sun will not make any difference but make sure when you have done 1 panel that you wipe it over with a chamois as to get rid of any water marks, the wax is another thing, Zymol is fine working in direct sunlight as you are only doing 1 panel at a time but be very careful with others as they have chalk added as a drying agent so can become very difficult to remove. good luck

Cheers ,

It'll have to wait a few days now anyway but thats good to know. I tried a patch yesterday evening between the showers, while there was no great difference in the apperance, it was incredibly smooth. I think I know what you mean about the chalk from previous waxing of my car, do you know if it does any harm other than difficulty of removal? I'd love to use Zymol but once it looks good, Dads happy, and neither does he pay for it , so I'll wait till I have something proper to clean before going pro on the polish .

Thanks