Dewaxing new car

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imported_dickie

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After a break of over 4 years from the car scene I am back and am due to collect my new 07 car in late January :)



This exact model in fact

YouTube - Skoda Octavia vRS





My last car I had was an 02 version, and I was so serious about avoiding swirl lines I made sure the dealer did not touch the car. Kept it as swirl free as possible for about a year or so, but the climate in Ireland is so bad it's impossible to keep a daily driver clean, much less swirl free or stonechip free for that matter.



With the new car arriving I will do my best..probably weekly wash if possibe...wax every 3 months, polish twice a year....autoglym man myself.



When I mentioned today to the dealer about not touching the new card, the sales guy said the car comes with manufacturers wax which is heavy duty stuff and used to protect it from salt on the trip over in the boat. They remove it with powerhoses with a mixture of water and kerosine !!! Anyone heard of this. Should I let them prep it ? Is there less chance of swirl lines on metalic finish. I saw the one in the showroom in the same colour and I only detected a few minor swirl lines.



Thanks
 
If you guys have 'Dawn' dish soap that should help remove wax.... personally I would



-Wash with Dawn twice (since you dont know how much or what make of wax is on it)

-Clay the car using dawn as a lubricant

-Apply your choice of Sealant.



That should take care of any bonding issues that may come up if you seal.....
 
Thanks for the advice. The problem is this time of year the weater is totally pants, so there is no way I am going to be able to do a thing with it. I am half thinking of letting them remove the wax and wash it. They said they could do this without actually touching the paintwork. Hopefully that is true, and to be honest under showroom lights on the 06 blue metalic they had, I could detect very little swirl marks. Not enough to bother me. I could then give it a 'serious' wash/wax when weather picks up. Usually mid Jan.



How soon to wait before polishing. I was thinking 6 months, but a wax straight away ?



The other problem of course is availability of good car products where I live. The 2nd biggest city in Ireland and up until a few months ago we had no auto shops whatsoever ? Seems noone looks after their car here. Just the occasional garage jetwash or auto wash :( We now have a Halfords which stock the total range of Autoglym and Meguiars, including some nice microfibre stuff.



So I was thinking Meguiars Gold Class for washing, probably need to use some tar remover too since the roads are so bad over here. Have found Autoglym and Meguairs stuff to be fairly decent in the past.



At this stage I don't think I would look at using clay or any paint cleaning products since car is so new. I have tried various ones in the past - again Meguairs deep crystal, P21S, all of which I found good. But that was years ago. What's recommended these days ?



For polishing I have tried Klasse, Autoglym super resin - both of which I found very good too. Again - what is the polish of choice these days ? Is the Meguiars 3 stage system considered any good anymore ?



Regarding waxing, I always went with a sealant like Autoglym extra gloss protection. I once tried a well known caranuba wax (that was very reasonable price wise). Can't for the life of me think of the name. But it was popular on these forums to top it off with a Klasse or Autoglym sealant.
 
I don't see how they can clean the transit-protection off without touching the paint evenif they use the powerhose for most of the work (think about it ;) ) and every time I've allowed a dealer to do it I've had *some* kind of marring. With any luck they won't do anything too awful and yeah, there are some jobs that you just don't want to tackle, especially this time of year.



No need to wait to polish, but hopefully you won't need to.



Autoglym and Meguiar's are (still) good. I'm not a big fan of the Deep Crystal stuff, I'd much rather use Autoglym's SRP and then something like their EGP or some wax like Blitz (which might be the one you're thinking of).
 
I'll leave it up to you whether to let them wash it. If you don't have facilities to do a proper job yourself at this time of year, that makes it a real challenge.



As for polishing, if you plan on using the car over the winter, some marring is fairly inevitable. If it were me, I'd ask the shop to do the job, perhaps even hovering over them as they do it, then go straight to wax regardless of whether it could use polishing or not since it will be neccesary in the spring anyway. For a winter wax, I'd use a few coats of a durable carnauba such as Colonite (or whatever you have available where you live), perhaps with a sealant under it.
 
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