I just purchased an 8 oz.can of car wax for $ 175.00

If I'm gonna spend $175 on wax, it better be sex wax. And I don't mean Zog's either.

SnowMongoose wrote:

novaderrik wrote:

SnowMongoose wrote: Upside number 13 of never owning a nice car: What the hell is wax?

it's the last step in the automatic car wash.

What the hell is an automatic car wash? It rains 'often' here, so I typically wash a car when I first buy it, then once a year until I sell it. At which point it gets washed once more.

This.

Buy new cars for cash. Drive for 10 years in crappy salty Canadian environment. Call scrap yard to remove hulk. So, that puts me 11 washes at $3.00 and 20 hours of my life ahead of you!

NOHOME wrote:

SnowMongoose wrote:

novaderrik wrote:

SnowMongoose wrote: Upside number 13 of never owning a nice car: What the hell is wax?

it's the last step in the automatic car wash.

What the hell is an automatic car wash? It rains 'often' here, so I typically wash a car when I first buy it, then once a year until I sell it. At which point it gets washed once more.

This. Buy new cars for cash. Drive for 10 years in crappy salty Canadian environment. Call scrap yard to remove hulk. So, that puts me 11 washes at $3.00 and 20 hours of my life ahead of you!

I buy new cars for cash, drive for 10 years in crappy Michigan environment , spend a couple hundred along the way in exterior upkeep, sell 10 year old car that looks like new for for $5K as the scrap yard removes your pitted, rusted out hulk for scrap value. I need to do the math but who's ahead now?

jstein77 wrote: Meguiar's Gold Class - $15.99 plus some elbow grease results in this: Good enough for me.

I wish I could get a SE-R for $15.99 and some elbow grease.

I use Optimum Spray Wax. You can get that at autogeek too, great stuff.

e_pie wrote: I use Optimum Spray Wax. You can get that at autogeek too, great stuff.

Ya I have that too. Good stuff.

There's such a disconnect on this board sometimes. On one hand you have a group of guys working their asses off on sub $2k cars to make them absolutely showroom gorgeous. On the other hand you have a group of guys purposely neglecting perfectly good cars and turning them into the pieces of crap that the first group buys and wants to make nice again. Circle of life and all that but it's amazing that we all get along.

Can I wax rust and primer?

You can but I think its best to use old motor oil for that perfect shine.

Tom_Spangler wrote:

NOHOME wrote: One of the most liberating things I have done is to stop washing, let alone waxing, automobiles. What the hell is the point? The time and money savings are substantial and best put towards the purchase of a new car 10 years down the road.

I don't spend much money on it, but I do spend a fair bit of time in the summer. But I enjoy it. It's decent exercise, it's bonding with my car, it's a good chance to look for paint flaws or the beginnings of rust, and when I'm done I have something I can be proud of because it looks better than it did when I started.

X Eleventy. It's satisfying. Takes me about 4 hours top to bottom, inside and out, but I only do that once a year.

Feedyurhed wrote: I buy new cars for cash, drive for 10 years in crappy Michigan environment , spend a couple hundred along the way in exterior upkeep, sell 10 year old car that looks like new for for $5K as the scrap yard removes your pitted, rusted out hulk for scrap value. I need to do the math but who's ahead now?

I'll note here that my current car is the newest I've ever owned, and it's a 95.
Were we talking a hypothetical 'new' car (say, less than ten years old) I'd be much more proactive with aesthetic upkeep

the only really "nice" cars that i've ever owned were a pair of black Luminas ('93 2 door Euro and '94 4 door Euro 3.4) that i absolutely could not keep looking nice and clean no matter how much time and effort i put into them and a 94 Chrysler LHS that was goldish in color that never looked dirty no matter how much i neglected it.. the LHS totally won in that category- in the 18 months i owned it, it got ran thru the automatic car wash maybe 3 times..

my white 94 Caprice 9C1 got hosed off every spring for the 3 years i had it, and it never looked dirty. the blue 92 Caprice never looked clean no matter what..

i think that's pretty much every car i've ever owned that had anything close to shiny paint- the other 150 or so just got/get neglected as far as the looks is concerned... it's less stressful that way.

novaderrik wrote: 94 Chrysler LHS that was goldish in color that never looked dirty no matter how much i neglected it.. the LHS totally won in that category- in the 18 months i owned it, it got ran thru the automatic car wash maybe 3 times..

You mean this color?

I always wash my cars. I don't care how much I paid for them.

I think the major cost is in the hand-made Birch box in comes in. The pics on the web page are clearly photoshop'd, I would love to see a personal review of this product, (before/after) before I run my mouth about the initial cost.

mazdeuce wrote: There's such a disconnect on this board sometimes. On one hand you have a group of guys working their asses off on sub $2k cars to make them absolutely showroom gorgeous. On the other hand you have a group of guys purposely neglecting perfectly good cars and turning them into the pieces of crap that the first group buys and wants to make nice again. Circle of life and all that but it's amazing that we all get along.

Don't get me wrong I wash my cars probably once a month and wax them two or three times a year but I am not exactly OCD about the cleanness of my car especially it is a black car. And also I just buy whatever wax is on sale with carnubea (or what that crap is) in it..

poopshovel wrote:

Tom_Spangler wrote:

NOHOME wrote: One of the most liberating things I have done is to stop washing, let alone waxing, automobiles. What the hell is the point? The time and money savings are substantial and best put towards the purchase of a new car 10 years down the road.

I don't spend much money on it, but I do spend a fair bit of time in the summer. But I enjoy it. It's decent exercise, it's bonding with my car, it's a good chance to look for paint flaws or the beginnings of rust, and when I'm done I have something I can be proud of because it looks better than it did when I started.

X Eleventy. It's satisfying. Takes me about 4 hours top to bottom, inside and out, but I only do that once a year.

I'm with poop on this one. It only gets done once a year now, too many kids to keep track of, but is a very satisfying job to do.

StatusPerformance wrote: II would love to see a personal review of this product, (before/after) before I run my mouth about the initial cost.

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/wolfgang-car-care/15771-buja-reviews-wolfgang-f-zion-carnauba-polymer-estate-wax.html

and

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/product-reviews/41867-wolfgang-f-zion-estate-wax-review.html

and

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/product-reviews/30134-review-wolfgang-f-zion-carnauba-polymer-estate-wax.html

I made a detailing thread a while back if anyone is interested.

http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/epies-diy-detailing-thread/48403/page1/