waxing advise

[pirates]

Hi guys,

Was waxing my car yesterday with NXT Tech 2.0 liquid wax. Normally I would add a little wax to my applicator pad for each panel (hood, 2 front fenders, 4 doors, roof, 2 rear fenders, boot/hatchback) but I have always noticed that the pad was saturated with wax and that it was possible to continue waxing with an extremely thin layer of wax as long as the pad remained damp. This meant that one only needed to add wax to the pad every third panel or so. Is this a good and viable technique or should one always apply a little wax for each panel. Is applying as much wax as demonstrated in the video (2:06 timeline) below not an overkill, especially if one had to apply as much to each panel?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9sUZ8Hl8Xg

Thanks
Malcolm

[William_F]

Re: waxing advise

You only need enough wax to put down a thin layer. As long as you are getting enough wax from the applicator, there is no need to add any. You won't hurt anything if you do, you just end up wasting some product.

I have found that the color of the car I'm working on can make a difference in how much wax I apply. My car is blue, so I can see the wax layer pretty well. When I work on the wife's truck which is white it can be hard to see so I add a little more than I would otherwise just to make sure I have enough.

[Murr1525]

Re: waxing advise

Yeah, dont need too much, though 3 panels does sound like a lot.

[pirates]

Re: waxing advise

thanx for the advise guys

[Michael Stoops]

Re: waxing advise

That video was shot from almost directly overhead and with some pretty harsh lighting so it might give the appearance of using more product than we should.

You are correct in assuming that once the pad starts to become a bit loaded with product you can stretch the application pretty far. After all, you're really doing nothing more than spreading a thin film of product onto the paint, and a pad damp with product will do just that.

We've seen people load up a pad so heavily when waxing by hand that we could stop them in their tracks and get them to finish waxing the other half of the car without ever adding more product to the pad! And a couple of years ago while prepping cars at SEMA, we waxed 39 cars with a single bottle of NXT Tech Wax 2.0. We were using a G110 buffer and we waxed these cars literally one after the other, but the point is once that pad became saturated we didn't need to add product to it for quite some time - or we just added a couple of pea sized dots of product at a time.