DIY Waxing

[Maddriver]

Since you have meguair water spot removal, use a yellow foam pads to polish again.. gotta work a few rounds.. from the pictures is quite similar to one i polish recently.. need to work a few rounds.

[Kenken]

noted with thx, will update u .thx shifu

[iphone8]

Since you have meguair water spot removal, use a yellow foam pads to polish again.. gotta work a few rounds.. from the pictures is quite similar to one i polish recently.. need to work a few rounds.

 

Hi,

Do you have quick wax product to recommend?

Hopefully can finish waxing within 30 minutes.

[SGCMHello]

Try multi storey carpark waxing vendors. They should be cheap. Waxing is only to shine for a few days to smoke potential buyers when selling your car..... it’ll have swirl marks though.... cheap mah. For DIY, any wax is wax, same.

 

Real shine is ceramic coating, or 1 class lower, glass coating.

[Ryanredho]

Try multi storey carpark waxing vendors. They should be cheap. Waxing is only to shine for a few days to smoke potential buyers when selling your car..... itâll have swirl marks though.... cheap mah. For DIY, any wax is wax, same.

 

Real shine is ceramic coating, or 1 class lower, glass coating.

If you want some quick wax that are easily available try meguair ultimate quick wax or smth more durable is Sonax brilliant shine a spray sealant. Both give superb results. And it's not true that waxing keep your car shiny for few days. There's a lot that goes into a shine of car. A immaculate condition paintwork should be almost free of swirls not not judged by how shiny it is. All cars look shiny unless it's matte. And wax do play apart not all wax are the same. There are many different types of blend. Why do you think prices are different. Because ingredient and quality of wax is different and more importantly the skills of the applicator. Glass coating are totally different. And ceramic coating and glass coating are not all that different. Not really in class above or lower. It still boils down to quality of the coating and skills of installer. Wax and coatibg gives very different look.

[Maddriver]

Hi,

Do you have quick wax product to recommend?

Hopefully can finish waxing within 30 minutes.

 

 

Hi,

 

For wax

I have Duragloss Aquawax https://www.maddetailer.com/product-categories/sealant-and-wax-protective-coating/duragloss-aquawax-952.html

 

For optimum will be Optimum car wax

https://www.optivax.com.sg/products/paint-protection/optimum-car-wax-ocw.html

 

For sealant

Optimum Optiseal

https://www.optivax.com.sg/products/paint-protection/opti-seal-new-formula.html

 

or Opticoat Hyperseal but i out of stock now.

 

All above products can be used on wet surface as a drying aid.

[Fett]

get those spray wax from autobacs or even like mustafa or petrol stations, they r all basically the same, purpose is to slightly protect paintwork, yes it gives a shine but just for a few days. u want real shine u need to go for a good proper polishing/paint correction, and then seal with a sealant or paste wax. 

Even those glass coating or ceramic coating wont be shiny enuf if they dont do proper paint correction before

[iphone8]

Hi,

 

For wax

I have Duragloss Aquawax https://www.maddetailer.com/product-categories/sealant-and-wax-protective-coating/duragloss-aquawax-952.html

 

For optimum will be Optimum car wax

https://www.optivax.com.sg/products/paint-protection/optimum-car-wax-ocw.html

 

For sealant

Optimum Optiseal

https://www.optivax.com.sg/products/paint-protection/opti-seal-new-formula.html

 

or Opticoat Hyperseal but i out of stock now.

 

All above products can be used on wet surface as a drying aid.

 

Thanks. Can spray on headlights and windshields too?

[Maddriver]

Thanks. Can spray on headlights and windshields too?

 

I used them without any issue.

[Blueray]

Bought this over the weekend to try.

[Corinth57]

Hi all, just wondering, if car is washed with water only (no soap), is it okay to wax it? Or is it a necessity to wash with soap first?

[Ct3833]

Bought this over the weekend to try.

Hi, do you use hand or a electric polisher ?

[Blueray]

Hi, do you use hand or a electric polisher ?

Use hand. Exercise.

[Ct3833]

Use hand. Exercise.

Thanks for sharing. I decided to polish and wax my very battled COE Altis, basically it is anything done is better than none. So I bought a used Black and Decker polisher to do a quick and dirty job to save my effort.

This car is hardly washed, once in 3 months maybe. Parked under hot sun all day long, quite a lot of bird poo at times because of the location the car is parked. Simply zero water beading type, when rain the whole car surface is wet with 100% water retention, no shine on the surface at all, so I claybar the body once, polish off the water mark and scratches, the following day then I wax it. Not perfect but at least can see the car smiling.

Edited August 16, 2019 by Ct3833

[car50]

Bro, 100 marks for effort 

Inspire the rest of us to wax ourselves too 

 

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Thanks for sharing. I decided to polish and wax my very battled COE Altis, basically it is anything done is better than none. So I bought a used Black and Decker polisher to do a quick and dirty job to save my effort.
This car is hardly washed, once in 3 months maybe. Parked under hot sun all day long, quite a lot of bird poo at times because of the location the car is parked. Simply zero water beading type, when rain the whole car surface is wet with 100% water retention, no shine on the surface at all, so I claybar the body once, polish off the water mark and scratches, the following day then I wax it. Not perfect but at least can see the car smiling.

 

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[Blueray]

Thanks for sharing. I decided to polish and wax my very battled COE Altis, basically it is anything done is better than none. So I bought a used Black and Decker polisher to do a quick and dirty job to save my effort.

This car is hardly washed, once in 3 months maybe. Parked under hot sun all day long, quite a lot of bird poo at times because of the location the car is parked. Simply zero water beading type, when rain the whole car surface is wet with 100% water retention, no shine on the surface at all, so I claybar the body once, polish off the water mark and scratches, the following day then I wax it. Not perfect but at least can see the car smiling.

 

to me car washing is weekly zen time. 

[Maddriver]

Hi all, just wondering, if car is washed with water only (no soap), is it okay to wax it? Or is it a necessity to wash with soap first?

Please use car shampoo before any polish or wax. At least shampoo remove oil film from surface.

[Ct3833]

Please use car shampoo before any polish or wax. At least shampoo remove oil film from surface.

Now then I read your post. Luckily I did wash it with shampoo. Never used claybar before but the $5 claybar works magically. Edited August 17, 2019 by Ct3833