Ice water to enhance wax's shine???

WOW! Blast from the past! The closest thing some do that resembles this is to use chilled distilled water or a carnauba based QD while spit shining.
 
Zymol suggests using a spray mist of cold water to enhance shine with their blue OTC polish-I doubt it makes any noticable difference tho
 
Jngrbrdman said:
It also helps if you are wearing animal print underwear and standing on one foot too. Make sure that ice water is the purest bottled water. I've heard that using tap water and homemade ice cubes will simply cause the car to disolve. :rolleyes:



Some people will say anything just to talk. I'm one of them sometimes. :D I've never heard that using ice water has any positive effects on your wax. My car doesn't look any better after a coat of wax in the summer than it does in the winter. Washing your car with ice water after you wax it isn't going to make the wax last any longer. Especially if you just pull it out and park it in the sun again. :rolleyes:
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Yeah... But it will add extra gloss and depth if you wear a pair of ladies' stockings. (Webbed is best on dark colors and garter belts will add extra protection...) :rofl
 
I have the extra space in the fridge ( not much of a butter eater) so I don't mind keeping a little spray bottle and my paste waxes there :o
 
Rinseing a car with cold water(not ice water) is a old trick that was used in the Simonize days. In the old days it would work great with the kind of paste wax that was used back then. Modern waxes are a completly different animal. There are a lot of tricks that were used in the 1940s and 50s that wont work with modern stuff. I find that the best thing to do is follow the directions.
 
Hmm...interesting that the tone and comments were a little different back then, obviously a smaller community...if anybody today complained about spelling and grammar, well...
 
lawrencea said:
Rinseing a car with cold water(not ice water) is a old trick that was used in the Simonize days. In the old days it would work great with the kind of paste wax that was used back then. Modern waxes are a completly different animal. There are a lot of tricks that were used in the 1940s and 50s that wont work with modern stuff. I find that the best thing to do is follow the directions.
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I agree. The directions on the original Blue Coral wax container said to rinse with cold water and dry after applying the wax. Blue Coral polish and wax was *the* way to go back then. I'm not quite back to the 40's and 50's but I was waxin' like crazy in the 60's.



Tom :cool:
 
Note that Meg's #16 seems to be the same stuff they were selling (and my family and I were using) back then, and I somehow suspect that the pre-VOC Collinites were unchanged for a very long time too....



We *did* used to use the cold-water rinse after waxing. I quit doing it because I don't want to bother drying the vehicles all over again. Can't say I noticed any detrimental effect when I quit doing it; sincerely doubt that I'd notice any beneficial effect if I started doing it again :nixweiss
 
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