Best Wax for Black Paint

[The Guz]

Re: Best Wax for Black Paint

Some black paint is very delicate, try the Ultimate Polish with a black finishing pad. The erratic movement of a DA along with a polishing pad is what caused your micromarring.. Slow down the DA to say speed 3, nice slow arm movement, with just the machine weight, no additional pressure, black finishing pad, should be nice gloss, and no marring.

If that doesn't work, try maybe a cleaner wax such as Black Wax, you can then use ULW, or UPW over it, wait 12 hours and top with GCCP+.

Well said. I agree with everything. Some paint is soft that it scratches or marrs just by looking at it. Don't let the frustration get to you.

[ClearlyCoated]

Re: Best Wax for Black Paint

But wax alone isn't going to really maximize the finish, that's all in the prep work. But there is another option if you prefer to not machine polish the car, and that's our Black Wax. This has light cleaners but a pretty high polish load (similar to M07) and a very nice synthetic/carnauba blend that work in concert to give black paint a great look with little effort. As great a look as dedicated machine applied individual steps? No. But this baby deserves the sort of extra attention that will take it to the next level.

I'm going to add my +1 for Meguiars Black Wax. I applied MBW for the first time to my Challenger just last week and the results were every bit as advertised. The black paint did seem to darken and the pop has put an ear-to-ear grin on my face. The results were most dramatic in low light, such as the photos below when I had just finished in the early evening.

I also took some shots in direct morning sunlight and put them into a Photobucket slide show. The first 7 shots were taken in the morning sunlight, the last 6 were taken at dusk.

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[ClearlyCoated]

Re: Best Wax for Black Paint

I'm going to add my +1 for Meguiars Black Wax. I applied MBW for the first time to my Challenger just last week and the results were every bit as advertised. The black paint did seem to darken and the pop has put an ear-to-ear grin on my face. The results were most dramatic in low light, such as the photos below when I had just finished in the early evening.

I also took some shots in direct morning sunlight and put them into a Photobucket slide show. The first 7 shots were taken in the morning sunlight, the last 6 were taken at dusk.

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Sorry. Apparently I entered a dead link for the slideshow. For those of you interested, click this link: http://s567.photobucket.com/user/joh...20Wax%20Detail

[ffboy]

Re: Best Wax for Black Paint

Wow, the shine!! No plans of topping it with Gold Class, NXT 2 or Ultimate?

First time I used Black Wax, it didn't blow me away. I expected a lot more (or too much?) or maybe I wasn't working it enough. Having said that, I reblack waxed my Metallic Black SUV, I massaged it a bit more, and some of the minor swirls were less visible, it left an deep, even finish and brought out the metallic flakes too. I topped it with 3M perfect it paste wax. Maybe topping it isn't needed, but I feel more at ease with doing that.