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I am an absolute novice at car cleaning. I have also just purchased some of the above stuff. How do is it best to apply it?
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Presume you mean it's some stuff you add to a bucket of water? Did it come from Aldi by any chance?
Depends how much time you want to spend on your wash regime. Give the car a good hose down, then wash the wheels and under the wheel arches. Then fill one bucket with water, one with water and the wash n' wax stuff. Using a lamb wools wash mitt, soap over the car and rinse the mitt in the bucket of plain water to ensure you get off the grit now collected. Then charge the mitt in the wash n' wax bucket and off you go again.
Rinse the car when you washed it all over then dry with a deep pile/waffle weave towel.
I'm a complete amateur at it, there is more to it if you really want to, have a look at some detailing forums for advice.
Or you could use a bucket, sponge and leather....
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Presume you mean it's some stuff you add to a bucket of water?
I don't know. It's 5 litres of sloshy milky looking stuff in a container with no instructions.
Did it come from Aldi by any chance?
Yes. Bother those impulse buys!
Depends how much time you want to spend on your wash regime.
As little as possible, really.
Give the car a good hose down (big snip)
That sounds like a lot of work! How often do people actually do all this?
Maybe this isn't such a good idea after all. I could use the wash'n'wax on the floor in the house I suppose, but I'm tempted to give it one go on the car to see what it's like. Ho hum.
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I am an absolute novice at car cleaning. I have also just purchased some of the above stuff. How do is it best to apply it?
Blimey. It's not brain surgery, you know! Slosh the car over with water containing a shampoo, if you wish and then rinse it off and leather it down. QED OR QEF.
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Thank you, but my question was in fact about how best to apply this wasn and wax stuff.
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>>I don't know. It's 5 litres of sloshy milky looking stuff in a container with no instructions.>> Did it come from Aldi by any chance? my question was in fact about how best to apply this wasn and wax stuff.
I saw that stuff in Aldi, but was put off from buying it precisely because there were no instructions on "how to use". The label said nothing whether to dilute or apply it neat.
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The label said nothing whether to dilute or apply it neat.
True. I wonder what you're supposed to do with it. There are probably instructions on a German website somewhere.
Cheap, though, isn't it!
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I avoid wash 'n wax like the plague. It takes ages to end the windscreen smearing afterwards when using the wipers...:-)
Simonez used to make a wax-free wash shampoo, but never seen it for some time now. Used to be £2.99 for a large bottle on Ormskirk market.
Is the "Carnauba" brand a clever marketing ploy?
Edited by Stuartli on 01/08/2008 at 11:44
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wash 'n wax (smears) windscreen
I will watch out for this.
Is the "Carnauba" brand a clever marketing ploy?
This stuff contails "carnauba wax", alcohol, preservative (somethingbenzomumble).
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>>This stuff contails "carnauba wax", alcohol, preservative (somethingbenzomumble).>>
I'm fully aware of the merits of carnauba wax - hence the query as to whether the "brand" was a marketing ploy.
Usually car products containing carnauba wax are not cheap.
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It's mentioned on hotdeals:
www.hotukdeals.com/item/207595/carnauba-wash-wax-4.../
The last post asks "what measurements to use"!
In another forum, someone says "2-3 capfulls in the bottom of a bucket" (of water? Hot? Cold?), which if true means 5L will last far longer than I care to think about.
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Instructions for washing the car:
1. Carefully place the bottle of car shampoo in the corner of your garage.
2. Drive to the nearest car wash.
3. Hand over 7 Euros.
4. 15 minutes later enjoy beautifully cleaned, dried and waxed car.
5. Repeat the process every 3 weeks.
6. Discover unopened bottle of strange substance hidden in the corner of the garage in the year 2013 and start a thread in the Back Room titled "Anyone know what Carnauba is?"
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I was thinking along similar lines... I might try this stuff, though - I'm sure the floor sould do with a polish, if all else fails.
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7. Particularly if you have a dark coloured car, after a while wonder where all those swirl marks in the paint have come from. :-)
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7. Particularly if you have a dark coloured car after a while wonder where all those swirl marks in the paint have come from. :-)
Like that one!
There is some truth in what you say, but I'm too fundamentally lazy to wash my own cars.
My company car is a metallic black BMW 530d. It was 2 years old and had 100,000km on the clock when I took it over from my predecessor who, when I commented on how good the condition was, mentioned that it had been periodically washed in car washes since new and by the BMW dealer when it went for for servicing. No special care, waxes or anything. I have to say, the paint is in amazing condition. There are some stone chips on the front befitting an autobahn express that has spent over 2 hard years being hammered the length and breadth of Germany but that's it.
In my tender care it has clocked up another 20,000km and I can't see any other visible paint damage, swirl marks or anything and, after a trip through the local car wash, the car looks like new. I can only conclude that either the car washes here are better here than in the UK (unlikely), or that BMW has the process of painting its cars really well sorted.
This is off topic, but I think if the bonnet and front valance were resprayed to hide the stone chips, you could probably pass it off as a 20,000km vehicle with most people not realising.
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Look in the back of Octane magazinwe, and see the ads for some of the waxes which go about 150 quid for a tiny tub...
yes, 150 quid!
That wax must be handpicked from the ears of corn-fed baby carnubas, at that price!
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I have noticed that many car washes have moved on from the spinning nylon brushes, which look a bit like that hound from the Magic Roundabout, and they now have cylindrical X-section sponge rubber strips which don't seem to be even slightly abrasive or scratchy.
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FFS, FT! HAve you been abducted by aliens? Two carwashing threads, and a pointless spat about absorbent shocking? ;)
Just like the Fairy when you were a child; a capful (or three) in a bucket of hot water. Don't use it on the windows; use fairy on them else you will get streaking.
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Carnuba wax is soluable and I have been using it for years, since I read that an application of solid wax is the cause of the swirls and is also mildly abrasive. Make sure you wash off all the dirt first, I use a soft brush and tap water, then one capful of the liquid wax to a bucket of water (warm in winter). Apply with a large mitt and leather (synthetic) off to a lovely shine. you can up the strength of the mix if the paintwork is particularly grubby. All done in 30mins, 45 if you stand back to admire your sparkling pride and joy!!!!!
Info-look up carnuba wax in wikapedia.
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Alsi Wash and Wax is brilliant as long as you take HJ's advice and wash the car when it is raining.
So simple , takes minutes and the grime is softened before the wash and the suds are washed down by the pure rain water leaving no streaks.
Failing that use collected rain water from a water butt.
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