Dream Car

[MM58]

Hi Guys,
just bought my dream car and want to keep it mint. i Love cleaning my cars . The car has very few marks so needs a light DA polish its only done 5k miles
Could do with some advice what to use for the following to clean and protect. I will clay bar first but any further advice would be much appreciated

Paint , don't want to ceramic coat . Prefer wax for the body . It also has PPF on the front bonnet, wings and side strikes.

Carbon fibre engine cover

Wheels , Clean and protect . Got to be careful its got Ceramic brakes.

Interior is a mix of Alcantra and leather

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[Belle427]

I don’t think my usual recommendations of products on the Halfords shelves will cut the mustard on this one!
Stunning car and colour.

[Dave3166]

Lovely car. Well done.
Be careful with the ceramic brakes, they are pourous, anything that gets on the discs will be absorbed, thus contaminating them and possibly ruining them in the process.
God knows how much to replace them.

Any cleaner you use for wheels, I would spray onto wheel brush only, don’t spray onto the wheels just in case.

[Chubbyross]

Dave3166 said:

Lovely car. Well done.
Be careful with the ceramic brakes, they are pourous, anything that gets on the discs will be absorbed, thus contaminating them and possibly ruining them in the process.
God knows how much to replace them.

Any cleaner you use for wheels, I would spray onto wheel brush only, don’t spray onto the wheels just in case.

This. I’d be thinking about removing the wheels (a winter project?), giving them a lengthy clean with Bilt Hamber wheel cleaner (stinky but gets rid of all iron fallout - shouldn’t be too bad as you have ceramics), clay bar and then light polish with a nano polisher. Then seal with Gtechniq C5 or something similar. Washing them is simple after that. Just use normal car shampoo and wheel woolies to bring them back to perfection.

I went through this process on my Centre lock 997.2 turbo wheels during the first lockdown. It was extremely satisfying and they still look amazing. Just be so, so careful removing the wheels though. Chipping a ceramic disk could end up painfully expensive. I know with Porsche you can buy a cylindrical guide that allows the wheel to come off perfectly straight without touching the disk.

This is one of my wheels following the process I’ve just described.