Ever wax fresh paint?

[Tim Lingor]

Originally posted by Mike Phillips

However, Meguiar's always recommends following the paint manufactures recommendations, or the painters recommendations as they know their product best.

Sounds familiar!

Tim

[echoesian]

I've repaint my left door panel, the painter told that i can wash & wax it immediately because the paint has been baked in a oven room with high temperature. Should i still need to wait 30 days to wax?

[rusty bumper]

Originally posted by echoesian
I've repaint my left door panel, the painter told that i can wash & wax it immediately because the paint has been baked in a oven room with high temperature. Should i still need to wait 30 days to wax?

If it was my car, I would wait 30 days, but it may be just fine to go ahead and wax it though.

Better get Mike's opinion just to be sure.

[Mike Phillips]

Originally posted by echoesian
I've repaint my left door panel, the painter told that i can wash & wax it immediately because the paint has been baked in a oven room with high temperature. Should i still need to wait 30 days to wax?

Hi echoesian,

Welcome to Meguiar's Online!

Just because modern basecoat/clearcoat paint systems are catalyzed and then baked dry doesn't mean they still don't use solvents that need time to outgas.

It's really common sense to understand that if you take a freshly painted car, park it in an enclosed space, like your garage, and then close the doors and come back in a few hours, you will smell something in the air. That something is the odor of solvents evaporating out of the paint. How can any one person know when full evaporation has taken place? The answer is you can't that's why paint manufactures recommend waiting at least 30 days before applying anything to the paint that could seal the surface, and thus block or trap these solvents from escaping.

The temperatures used to bake paint in a body shop are much lower than the temperatures used to bake paint on the assembly line. On the assembly line, the car doesn't have any plastic coated electrical wiring, fabric interior materials, vinyl, leather etc. when it's baked so they can use much higher temperatures. At the body shop level, the car has been completely assembled and many of the components could be damaged at the temperatures used at on the assembly line.

You might want to double check with your painter t make sure that it's perfectly safe to seal fresh paint with a wax or paint sealant and see what he says...

[echoesian]

I think would rather safe wait for another 30days before applying the wax.

I was suprised to see that the painter use the polishing machine to polish my car with compound and glaze once after take out from the oven room!!! Will this compound and glaze thingy affect the new paint?

[Xtreme99_s-Dime]

After talking with my painter about this subject, he told me that if I felt like i needed to wax, to use a spray wax such as NXT booster spray wax, or something to that nature because it is thin enough to not seal the paint and still allow it to breathe while protecting it.

He bakes every panel he paints and still recommends 30 days before sealing the paint as a precaution.
"You can polish all you want" he said, but don't seal it for 30 days just in case.... especially on a dark car, because when the surface heats up, it will vent more gasses than normal because the pores of the pain open up a little more.

so if you feel like you just have to have wax on the car, use a spray wax that won't seal the paint up.

Stevo