7 Year Old Car never Waxed

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frankburns

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I would like to ask you guys just for my knowlege what you would do with a car with 7 year old paint maybe waxed 1 0r 2 times. Where would you start like polish(brands) then wax? Thanks for your time guys i can tell already this is a great forum.



Charlie E.
 
I'd start by taking a clay bar to it, to rid it of any contaminents that have bonded to the paint over the 7 years. Then pick up a quality polish, you can get Mothers and Meguiars and your local department store. I know Meguiars polish is very good, can't comment on Mother's polish, I have never used it. Then you can get Meguiars Gold Class wax at Wal Mart which has a nice deep shine, but horrible durability.
 
I had a similar situation I dealt with not long ago myself.



The person didn't want me to go all-out with the absolute best products, so I stuck with stuff I got from auto zone and a grocery store.



1) Dawn wash (blue kind with powerplus)



2) Clay (Mother's Claybar Kit - use wash soap mix instead of their QD for lube)



3) Meguiar's Clear Coat Body Scrub Cleaner



4) Meguiar's Deep Crystal System Step 2 Polish



5) Meguiar's Deep Crystal System Step 3 Carnauba Wax



As for durability, you can in fact get just fine durability and shine from Step 3 Carnauba. For the vehicle on which this was used, only Meguiar's Gold Class wash shampoo has been used, Meguiar's QD, and Meguiar's Quik Wax. Maintainance routine would look like this:



Daily: Meguiar's QD

Weekly: Meguiar's GC Wash

Meguiar's Quik Wax Spray Wax (after you've dried car off)

Meguiar's QD



with this system, I was able to get my wax to last ~3 months with no problem. At 3 months it was still beading fine and whatnot, I just felt another coat of the DCS Step 3 was in order. Your results may vary, but for me this was a vehicle parked outside 24/7, and used about 100MI/month (not that the mileage would make a huge difference if daily QDing was still observed.)
 
If you have a PC then you are going to find the job to be a whole lot easier. This is a car that hadn't been waxed ever. I think it was a 1990 year car too.



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That is just with the PC and Klasse AIO. It can be done a lot better with other products like a 3M product or Meguiar's product. It gives you an idea though. Most people think that when their car oxidizes and fades then the paint is ruined and it needs to be repainted. Detailers have proven people wrong on a million occasions. All it takes it the knowledge that most finishes' shines can be brought back and many of them can be restored completely. You just need the right tools and know how. Most of that Know-How is kicking around here at Autopia thanks to guys like the ones that have posted here. Lots of ways of fixing stuff like that. :xyxthumbs
 
I had this same situation, except it was a 15 year old car, more like washed 2-3 times rather than waxed that many (garaged, though), and a bit of a classic (a 1987 Buick Grand National with 23,000 miles on it). I wasn't the autopian at the time, so I didn't clay. I washed the car very thoroughly with GC wash. I then hand-applied Medallion Premium Paint Cleaner followed by #7 on one part of the hood, and Gold Class Clear Coat Prep and Swirl Remover on another part. The MPPC/#7 looked way way better. It was amazing how good the paint looked. So anyway, I did the MPPC/#7 route by hand on the whole car. I then followed up with Gold Class wax (which I didn't realize would strip the #7) and it really didn't hurt the appearance the way MPPP does after #7. It looked about the same after the GC as it did before it. The car looked amazing. It looked brand new except for some spots that had some serious chemical staining. There was a circle on the roof from a CB anntena that got water under the suction-cup and discolored the paint. I couldn't remove that either. Anyway, looking back, I would have changed the routine to include a claying and either dropping the #7 or following the #7 with a carnauba instead of GC.
 
Has anyone here ever used Nu-Finish on an old faded chalky car? I have used it as a first step in the rescue of really old, parked in the sun for ten years,

never waxed heaps that had otherwise intact paint.



It served me well as a first cheap easy step to get the paint back into the contempory world and as a base to start with real polish/wax..



It is incredible how much chalk, gunge and just age you can remove with just one application of the stuff.



It won't make a shine anything like a 'real' wax, but it sure is a good start.



I wonder though, how can it work so well? There must be a price- I wonder if it damages paint..



It's cheap, easy to find and works amazingly well on really faded, neglected paints.



Woe to anyone who gets it on plastic cladding or black flat trim..
 
use Turtle Wax Black Chrome on your black trim if you get NuFinish on it.



great stuff -- works beautifully for months on tires too.
 
Jngrbrdman said:
This is a car that hadn't been waxed ever. I think it was a 1990 year car too.



That is just with the PC and Klasse AIO. It can be done a lot better with other products like a 3M product or Meguiar's product. It gives you an idea though. Most people think that when their car oxidizes and fades then the paint is ruined and it needs to be repainted. Detailers have proven people wrong on a million occasions.
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Jngrbrdman, that is a great picture! I'm saying it first here, and I'm going to say it many, many times in future posts that it is more fun working on a "disaster" like this car than it is my current dream (and real) car, the Boxster, which I took delivery of brand-new!



-Charlie
 
BoxsterCharlie said:




Jngrbrdman, that is a great picture! I'm saying it first here, and I'm going to say it many, many times in future posts that it is more fun working on a "disaster" like this car than it is my current dream (and real) car, the Boxster, which I took delivery of brand-new!



-Charlie
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I agree 100% on that one. I would much rather have a car that I can see the difference in when I'm done. Kinda like mowing the lawn or shoveling the snow. Its a lot more satisfying when you can really see the difference when you are done. :) Long live the challange seekers!! :D
 
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