Professional Car Wax

Looking for the insider info on professional car wax?

The real secret behind any professional wax product is more about two things:

• Product knowledge
• Professional experience in using products

With professional detailing experience of knowing what products can perform and which ones cannot, you can produce the kind of results you see on this BMW M3!

Let this expert give you some professional car wax advice based on first hand experience. Having been in the auto detailing business now for over twenty years, I have to know what products and techniques deliver the results, or I am out of business; it's that simple!

I am going to lay out the facts with regards to wax and my professional car wax advice. Knowledge is power; or more specifically, knowledge applied is true power.

Introduction to Auto Wax

• Liquid
• Paste
• Spray

For true professional results, waxing should be used for two purposes only:

• Paint protection.
• Paint enhancement.

While there are many combination's of wax products like cleaner waxes, or polish waxes, a wax dedicated to just protecting and enhancing will be your most optimum choice. Other process of proper paint care like cleaning and polishing, should ideally be handle as separate and dedicated steps.

Car wax is used to not only enhance the look of your paint, but to protect your paint from the many harmful elements of weather. Wax will enhance the look of your paint by creating a uniformed, flat, and consistent reflective surface. Wax will aid in “filling” fine scratches and blemishes, as well as add luster, depth and gloss to your paint.professional car wax

Advances in chemical engineering have made waxes of today, far superior to waxes of yesterday. Wax is an ongoing process of paint care, as it will degrade and loose its protective and enhancing qualities over time. Just as SPF sun block is used to protect one’s skin from damaging UV/UVB rays, so does proper use of car wax add a protective layer to your cars paint.

Just as the science behind sunscreen allows a transparent layer to protect your skin, so has science been able to create waxes that allow a transparent layer to protect your paint.

• Wax is good.
• Waxing is not cleaning or polishing; each has its own objective and is unique in purpose.
• Wax protects your paint from the elements of weather.
• Wax enhances the appearance of paint by creating a uniformed reflective layer that fills minor imperfections and scratches.
• Wax needs to be used periodically as it will "wear off" over time.
• The days of hard to use paste waxes are gone.
• As a professional, I believe that a quality spray wax will work for at least 80% of you and your cars.

1. Wax is used to protect and enhance paint.
2. No wax or sealant lasts forever; despite what you have been lead to believe.
3. All waxes/sealants wear out over time due to sun and dirt exposure.
4. Not all waxes are created equal.
5. I personally prefer the spray waxes of today, that offer the best blend of natural and synthetic ingredients.
6. Water by itself is nature’s most prolific solvent. Water will also degrade the wax on your paint through simple washing.
7. Wax enhances your paint by “filling” in scratches and blemishes, and helps to create a consistent, uniformed, and flat reflective surface.
8. Waxes and polishes are not the same, despite many who comingle the terms; each has a specific purpose that is unique.
9. Just like many areas of life, you can combine duties within a product, but this always comes at the expense of one or more of the areas of duty.
10. Wax should be applied to your paint every 4-12 weeks based on two things: How much sun exposure and dirt exposure.
11. Sun and dirt are paints worst enemies; the more exposure to these, the more often waxing your car will be necessary.
12. Micro fiber towels are the recommended choice in applying and removing wax; not baby diapers.
13. While not necessary with today’s leading spray waxes, it will make your job a bit easier by applying wax to a cool surface.professional car wax
14. Wax can be used as often as you like for visual enhancement; while the fear has been spread, it would be hard to wax the paint off your car through too many applications. Remember, waxing is just that…waxing. Not cleaning or polishing that requires abrasives and friction to the paint.
15. Unless you asked for it specifically, your new car has not been waxed at the dealer as part of your new car prep charge.
16. Despite some of the so-called experts, applying wax with your bare hand is not the recommended or expert way; applying with some form of applicator rag/towel creates a padded and more uniformed application tool.
17. Yes, paste waxes still offer superior “covering” capabilities over their liquid or spray counter parts. Just like many areas of life, the harder choice is often the correct choice. But what we are looking for here is that winning combination of balance of all qualities, and I believe that in most cases for the end user, a spray wax will fill that need precisely.

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