Littlejoe81
Active Member
Calling all old school wax-er's,
Today I decided to wax my red car, I usually try to do my vehicles once a year with a liquid wax letting it haze and then buffing it off by hand. This is after removing oxidation or contaminates using a porter cable buffer or using turtlewax colorback and clay-barring the paint. So far I have not waxed the Ram, I have only been using detail spray wax.
Over 20 years, I have been using and testing different waxes on my cars and bikes/motorcycles. And let me get this off my chest, I'm not a fan of (PPF)! Does someone buy a new corvette or motorcycle and get the entire thing ppf, if so how do they wax it every weekend? Can you wax PPF? In my twenties after catching the bus for many years, I saved enough money working at Wendy's to buy my 1992 Ford probe with pop-up headlights which had light surface rust. My stepdad introduced me to turtlewax colorback, this stuff removes light surface rust such as the brown streaks you see on white work vans. I kept that Probe looking clean for years, and felt cool like the corvette owners because I had pop-up headlights too.
After learning about colorback, I found about master formula products at the Detroit International motorcycle show, and then soon after Meguiar's NXT wax. Many years later, I tried chemical guys, 3m products, zymol, pink wax, cosmoline insulator wax and turtlewax color wax, and many others. Most of my vehicles are from the 90's/ early 2000 era. On my red car, I use red color wax from turtlewax followed by Meguiar's NXT and found this to be my favorite combination. Next master formula's sealer and polish I feel is on par with nxt but I have been using these mainly on my motorcycles.
My favorites and go to items based on ease of use and best shine are...
1. turtlewax colorback
2. turtlewax color wax
3. Meguiar's NXT wax
4. Master Formula's products.
And my favorite detail spray is....
1. Mother's California Gold Instant Detail Spray.
As well I was reading that someone said they applied cosmoline insulator wax to their windshield? Can you apply wax to a windshield? I just use invisible glass cleaner or similar.
Every vehicle and equipment paint quality is different and I'm no expert at this stuff and keep my stuff forever; my eclipse has 131,000 miles and my wife's convertible has 37,000 miles both with original paint at 27 years old.
So what's your favorite wax or detail spray you use on your cars, bikes, farm tractors, semi-trucks, boat,
Ram or anything...ect?
And pictures too please.. John Deer or Farmall tractors pictures; any pictures of your shiny equipment, thanks.
Today I decided to wax my red car, I usually try to do my vehicles once a year with a liquid wax letting it haze and then buffing it off by hand. This is after removing oxidation or contaminates using a porter cable buffer or using turtlewax colorback and clay-barring the paint. So far I have not waxed the Ram, I have only been using detail spray wax.
Over 20 years, I have been using and testing different waxes on my cars and bikes/motorcycles. And let me get this off my chest, I'm not a fan of (PPF)! Does someone buy a new corvette or motorcycle and get the entire thing ppf, if so how do they wax it every weekend? Can you wax PPF? In my twenties after catching the bus for many years, I saved enough money working at Wendy's to buy my 1992 Ford probe with pop-up headlights which had light surface rust. My stepdad introduced me to turtlewax colorback, this stuff removes light surface rust such as the brown streaks you see on white work vans. I kept that Probe looking clean for years, and felt cool like the corvette owners because I had pop-up headlights too.
After learning about colorback, I found about master formula products at the Detroit International motorcycle show, and then soon after Meguiar's NXT wax. Many years later, I tried chemical guys, 3m products, zymol, pink wax, cosmoline insulator wax and turtlewax color wax, and many others. Most of my vehicles are from the 90's/ early 2000 era. On my red car, I use red color wax from turtlewax followed by Meguiar's NXT and found this to be my favorite combination. Next master formula's sealer and polish I feel is on par with nxt but I have been using these mainly on my motorcycles.
My favorites and go to items based on ease of use and best shine are...
1. turtlewax colorback
2. turtlewax color wax
3. Meguiar's NXT wax
4. Master Formula's products.
And my favorite detail spray is....
1. Mother's California Gold Instant Detail Spray.
As well I was reading that someone said they applied cosmoline insulator wax to their windshield? Can you apply wax to a windshield? I just use invisible glass cleaner or similar.
Every vehicle and equipment paint quality is different and I'm no expert at this stuff and keep my stuff forever; my eclipse has 131,000 miles and my wife's convertible has 37,000 miles both with original paint at 27 years old.
So what's your favorite wax or detail spray you use on your cars, bikes, farm tractors, semi-trucks, boat,
Ram or anything...ect?
And pictures too please.. John Deer or Farmall tractors pictures; any pictures of your shiny equipment, thanks.
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