The short answer is YES! you really have to wax your car. The long answer is well, a little longer. Before I offer tips on how to wax your car, we need to remember that waxing your car serves not just one single purpose, but two specific purposes:

1. Protection

2. Visual enhancement

As the saying goes; you only need to wax your car if you want the paint to last, and you want it to look good doing it. The reality is that you could neglect your car's paint for 3-4 years on a new car and your car would look fine. But then you would be trying to play catch-up, and and as the adage goes, an ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure!

How to Wax Your Car

Now that you have some fundamental understanding of car wax and the important role it plays in the health and beauty of your car, let's dissect the actual steps necessary to follow when asking how to wax a car:

- Prepare car paint surface first by removing airborne contaminants.

- Apply your choice of car wax or paint sealant.

While the obvious answer to waxing a car would be to simply follow the manufacturers label directions, the problem is that physically applying and removing car wax from your car is an oversimplification to a more important understanding of the car waxing process. Follow along as I show you how to not only get better results visually, but better results with performance with any car wax you may choose to use.

How to Wax Your Car:

Steps to Success

1) Prepare Car Paint Surface: While many people will hastily rush to apply the best car wax they can find right over their car's paint, this is not only short cutting the process, but will also short cut your results. For a more comprehensive understanding of the critical role that detailing clay plays into the health and beauty of your car's paint, you can go to detailing clay. For the purpose of learning how to wax your car, use the following steps:

Have car washed first to remove superficial dirt.

Use detailing clay on freshly washed car to remove embedded contaminants from car's paint.

Rub clay bar (detailing clay) back and forth across wet paint surface until paint surface is smooth and contaminant free.

Use of clay lubricant is the preferred method for keeping the surface lubricated while using detailing clay.

The only way for truly silky smooth and clean paint.

2) Apply Car Wax: Now that your paint surface is silky smooth and contaminant free, you are ready to apply your choice of car wax or paint sealant. (To simplify things in the moment; wax generally refers to any car wax made using some form of natural ingredients like carnauba wax. Paint sealant refers to any product made using synthetic ingredients.) Follow using label directions from whatever choice you have made in car wax products. I will lay out my professional recommendations below for car wax products.

Auto Depot Sudbury

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705-673-6079

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