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Maintaining your Car: A Newbie's Guide to Paint

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Old 10-24-2010, 12:36 PM
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Originally Posted by A8 LOOONG
WOW! Great write up. Very professional. I wondered what I was supposed to do with my paint sealer i bought a few years ago. It seems I need to wash the car well, dry it carefully and then seal it BEFORE I wax, correct?

That way the sealant sticks to the paint and not some layer of wax or polish, right?

Great stuff!

Oh, as for glass, I've heard you can get bug juice off easily and quickly with kitchen cleanser like softscrub. Just make sure to keep it off the paint and plastic and rinse really well.
Use APC for bug juice. Kitchen cleaners contain a lot of chemicals that you don't need to be spraying on painted finishes. Although I doubt it would harm the paint why take a risk that is not necessary? Bug juice is really not that hard to get off. Even a good glass cleaner will get rid of it if you let it dwell for a minute and use some muscle.

Sealant before Wax is the correct process. A sealant bonds to the clean painted surface. If there is a layer of wax inbetween then the sealant will have nothing to bond too and thus will be useless. That is why sealant first then wax.

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What do you recommend for windows? Is Invisible Glass any good?
Stoner's Invisible Glass works well. You can also use Zep Glass Cleaner (ammonia free) diluted 32:1.

The best product I've used is Sprayaway.
 
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Old 10-31-2014, 12:37 PM
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thanks for the info
 
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I just wanted to say thank you for all your informative posts. They are appreciated.
 
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