Washing & Waxing Your Car\'s

[Jono FD3]

Megs clay bar and bodyshop 3 stage once or twice a year with mirror glaze, just regular wash with nxt shampoo and wax every so often.

Is that the mirror glaze mould release wax mate??? that is insain stuff!! did mine with it once & 3 months later the water was still beeding up & rolling off

I tend to use a mix of Meguiers & Auto glym on mine!!

Jono

[deanflowers]

I use poorboys, trouble is it smells so nice. A bit like bubblegum, or marzipan. Ive resisted the temptation to eat it so far thankgod.

[probedb]

I use Meguiars 3 stage....carnauba wax smells soooo nice!

[Jame5]

I use a combination of megs and autoglym. I have a suggestion that someone should make a car wax that has a smell that will repel cats. Luckily the RX7 sleeps in the garage but my missus car and that daily runner is forever covered in cat prints, even the moment you\'ve finished washing the car.

[Timmy]

Top tip, if you don\'t like someone hide some catnipp on there car.
 
You could try using that stuff you get in the garden center for repelling cats. Not sure where you could put it.

[Jono FD3]

One of the lads had a combat against cats.... rather sick though!!

Tabasco sauce in a water pistol, cat gets on to car, squirt cat fur with water pistol. Can naturaly wants to clean fur, cat licks & winces, then legs it (then possibly cat licks its bits) yea its got to be upsetting!!

Jono

[Kron]

I tend to switch between Zymöl,Duragloss and Einszett products on mine.

MER is really good stuff as well.

Mer is the car polish equivalent of Fairy Liquid, Awful stuff.

[edgasket]

I use poorboys, trouble is it smells so nice. A bit like bubblegum, or marzipan. Ive resisted the temptation to eat it so far thankgod.

LOL I\'m exactly the same! bubblegum... mmmm it seems so good. I use Zymol too.

[CraigWWW]

Last year I turned up at my mates house to find him trying to \'buff\' scratches out his MGZR front bumper with a brillo pad...

Mind you this is the same guy who after stopping to fix a puncture at the side of the road on his Ford Ka, spent 45mins trying to prise the hub cap off.. not realising he had alloy wheels..... the AA guy nearly sh1t himself laughing!:Hammer

Needles to say I dont allow him within 40ft of the Rex!

[johnf]

Being the lazy type I was considering having a paint shop mop my car.

This a safe bet or could there be any problems.

John

[elford_tim]

John, depends how good the paint is - the results should be a lot better than what can be achieved at home by normal means, but then again if your clearcoat\'s already very thin you\'ll just shortened the time until the respray.

A good bodyshop should be able to advise, trouble is, they\'re a bit rare.

[Grizzly]

Being the lazy type I was considering having a paint shop mop my car.

This a safe bet or could there be any problems.

John

There are pro\'s and cons to this, talking from the point of view of someone who works in a Body shop, you would be best off going to a really good Valeter and asking them to do it for you. The main reasons i say this is firstly a Body shop would most likely be allot more expencive (its done per hour rather than per job) then in the paint shop world you will find very little Silicone wax (The best wax\'s have lots of silicone in) so there for it may not last as long, then you have the enthusiasm side of it, i\'m a typical Painter and i think the worsted part of the job by far is the final denib and polish (its Manotinous and messy) where a valeter will see it as a warm job (not outside washing cars )

[Grizzly]

A good bodyshop should be able to advise, trouble is, they\'re a bit rare.

Not so much rare but expencive and very picky with the work they do.

[elford_tim]

Down here in the SE, they also seem to be a bit rare - hence me going Oop North to a mate\'s bodyshop in Bolton when I need that kind of work done.

[Grizzly]

John, depends how good the paint is - the results should be a lot better than what can be achieved at home by normal means, but then again if your clearcoat\'s already very thin you\'ll just shortened the time until the respray.

I don\'t agree, i see cars at shows that have been done by people on there drives and are better than i see new cars going out let alone them leaving a bodyshop which is inherently dusty and don\'t be surprised if they get an apprentice to buff it as this is the sort of work the Apprentice painters do.

The best bit is it will have to be Valeted anyway once its mopped as the G3 gets every where and is a True Pain in the rear to clean out of door shuts etc.

My advice is to take it to some one that knows allot about keeping cars Shiny rather than making cars Shiny (there is a Difference)