New Forum: Car Care & Detailing

Because who wants to drive a dirty car?

Discuss all aspects of car care such as favorite products or special techniques.

Here's my tip of the day: When washing your car in colder weather, fill the soap bucket with warm water from your kitchen faucet. In addition, use a long pair of rubber gloves to keep your hands dry and warm.

Oznium has a product line-up of surprisingly great car care products: http://www.oznium.com/car-care

Thanks to robbie for suggesting this new section.

Nice Job Phil!

This will be good addition to the forum...

YESSSS!!! It got added dreams do come true thanks so much phil!!

haha robbie just wet himself.

Nice addition. I'm reviewing all the products I have experience with on here. I hope it gets other people to try Oznium Car care products.

Very true i will be ordering some of it on friday of next week. I didn't wet myself yet it has to set in first lol.

way to go robbie!
Very nice addition phil i think this part will take off quick seeing as how people was there cars and such more often (in some cases aka korn ) then they buy glow

again i like!

Drifting10 wrote:

way to go robbie! Very nice addition phil i think this part will take off quick seeing as how people was there cars and such more often (in some cases aka korn ) then they buy glow again i like!

LOL ya I love the new forum. I can' wait to start diggin in it. I plan on claybarring and doing a major detail this spring. And drifting lol at washing my car alot haha. I only wash it about once everyother day. And wax about once a week hahahah. Ya I like to keep her clean and purty.

Well i am the same way korn. Only i wax every two weeks no reason for me to do it 4 times a month. Anyways i am glad i could help get this section started it seems like alot of people like as do I.

Good idea on the new forum.

Now we need a sticky on the "proper" order in which to clean a car.

I need to wash and wax my car soon, but gotta wait 120 days before waxing my driver's side fender and entire front clip where I just got them repaired from an accident from a while back.

120 days? lol. Who told you that? Some clears cure quicker than others. But almost all automotive clears are fully cured within the week. Most are a couple days. 120s is rediculous haha

That is what they told be at the bod shop. Ill go along with it. He said I could clean it all I wanted, just no wax. I'm not gonna complain, because the work is guaranteed as long as I own the car.

robbie wrote:

Well i am the same way korn. Only i wax every two weeks no reason for me to do it 4 times a month. Anyways i am glad i could help get this section started it seems like alot of people like as do I.

Its a complete waste of wax to even wax every other week. If your car wax doesn't last atleast a month (or 3-4 like most waxes can do) then you are either washing your car wrong or you need to switch waxes.

corvettecrazy wrote:

robbie wrote: Well i am the same way korn. Only i wax every two weeks no reason for me to do it 4 times a month. Anyways i am glad i could help get this section started it seems like alot of people like as do I. Its a complete waste of wax to even wax every other week. If your car wax doesn't last atleast a month (or 3-4 like most waxes can do) then you are either washing your car wrong or you need to switch waxes.

Or I just like the look of fresh wax. I use meguires nxt gen wax. I want to pick up the gen 2 of it. IDK. I wax about once a week or once every two weeks as I love the look of fresh wax. Black cars show every little spec of dirt. And I get bored sometimes haha

That's kind of something I wondered to be honest..

So putting on wax ontop of wax doesn't add more layers or anything? Just wipes the next wax off the old layer of wax pretty much?

clutch1 wrote:

That's kind of something I wondered to be honest.. So putting on wax ontop of wax doesn't add more layers or anything? Just wipes the next wax off the old layer of wax pretty much?

Depends on what you use. I personally remove the wax with a special car was soap designed to remove wax from cars and apply a fresh layer. I get bored and like I said. I love the look of a fresh coat. This year when I clay bar, and polish my car do not plan on doing this though. WIth a nice claybar and polish my paint will be smooth as glass. And I will be putting wax and sealant on there. And then only waxing about once a month.

Soap to take off wax=Dish soap lol. Anyways good stuff. Anyone use glass cleaner and newspaper on the windows?

^^^ I have.

Good stuff man leaves no streaks what so ever.

ive heard the cant wax fresh paint thing before its kinda true cause they say the paint can still be soft etc but if ur in a hot sunny climate it will be dry quick itll bake the paint some shops bake paint on in a heating booth and u can color sand polish etc right afterwards. as long as u dont use a buffer or polisher ull be ok hand waxing aint going to burn paint like a polisher or buffer will