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part of our job as detailers is to educate the customers, a little fear helps...hehe

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Quite some time back, I posted the following misinformation about waxing cars.

Some excerpts from:
The Des Moines Register
The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon
(Their quote, not mine. I call it the Des Moines Inquirer.)
"Automatic car washes have grown tremendously because educated people know that it takes 100 gallons of water to wash it in the driveway and 16 gallons at the car wash," says Hill of the Heartland Car Wash Association, the Des Moines-based trade association for car wash owners in eight Midwest states.

For $5 you can get a regular wash and rinse to get rid of the grime. But add $2 and a light coat of wax will be applied for protection. For $3 more, you can get even better wax called carnauba that lasts longer and protects your paint job, says manager Stephanie Miers.

Silicone waxes last longer than a cheaper, petroleum-based wax.

But hold on.

"As far as I'm concerned, you might as well pour a gallon of milk over your car. The new paint and clear coats on cars now don't even need to be waxed," said Kent xxxxxxx, owner of xxxxxxx Auto Body West in Des Moines.

He suggests buying a mild rubbing compound made for cars at any auto parts or discount store and using that in place of wax, simply for cleaning off difficult dirt and spots.
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So all you dummies that are wasting that 100 gallons of water better stop.
This whole washing and waxing thing can be done soooo much easier and for only a few bucks. And using silicone waxes is obviously the way to go.
That is if you absolutely feel you have to wax your car since some rubbing compound is all you really need.
The body shop that suggests the rubbing compound actually is considered a good one. (Or at least is by some people.) They do a lot of Mercedes, Audi, and BMW work. Scary!
Then we Iowans wonder why the rest of the country thinks we are a bunch of Country Bumpkins. It's because we are.
 
CharlesW said:
Quite some time back, I posted the following misinformation about waxing cars.

Some excerpts from:
The Des Moines Register
The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon
(Their quote, not mine. I call it the Des Moines Inquirer.)


So all you dummies that are wasting that 100 gallons of water better stop.
This whole washing and waxing thing can be done soooo much easier and for only a few bucks. And using silicone waxes is obviously the way to go.
That is if you absolutely feel you have to wax your car since some rubbing compound is all you really need.
The body shop that suggests the rubbing compound actually is considered a good one. (Or at least is by some people.) They do a lot of Mercedes, Audi, and BMW work. Scary!
Then we Iowans wonder why the rest of the country thinks we are a bunch of Country Bumpkins. It's because we are.
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Wow it takes a 100 gallons of water to wash a car...good grief...thank god I have well water or I would be broke...

Even people out here say the same thing whenever they see me detailing a car, "what did use?" I explain the steps and polishes, which they follow up with "have you ever used rubbing compound you know the rust color stuff in the red can?"

Alot of people I talk to believe there are three steps, wash rub a car out (rubbing compound) and then dump a heaping bottle of wax on it which they then let bake in the sun, because it says wait till haze, but with the amount they put on they have to let it bake....which means in about 20 minutes its become a permanent fixture to the paint...
 
CharlesW said:
Quite some time back, I posted the following misinformation about waxing cars.

Some excerpts from:
The Des Moines Register
The Newspaper Iowa Depends Upon
(Their quote, not mine. I call it the Des Moines Inquirer.)


So all you dummies that are wasting that 100 gallons of water better stop.
This whole washing and waxing thing can be done soooo much easier and for only a few bucks. And using silicone waxes is obviously the way to go.
That is if you absolutely feel you have to wax your car since some rubbing compound is all you really need.
The body shop that suggests the rubbing compound actually is considered a good one. (Or at least is by some people.) They do a lot of Mercedes, Audi, and BMW work. Scary!
Then we Iowans wonder why the rest of the country thinks we are a bunch of Country Bumpkins. It's because we are.
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:lol2: :rofl:D :huh: :huh::crazy: :yourrock
 
Dont you just LOVE our states most popular paper the Des Moines RAG!!!!!!!! Heck even the sunday cartoon section SXs. What was the farm section back a couple years ago is now the BUSINESS AND AG, if I remeber farming /ag is still #1 business in IOWA. sundays B and A section 8 pages, only 4 of that were farm related and 3 of those classifids pages, with Shottenkirk add on the entire back page. Fxxxxxxx RAG! Randal
 
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