Colin asked do you ever wax your bus?

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Colin asked do you ever wax your bus?

Post by cheesehead » Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:49 am

What wax should I use is there a good brand or a worse brand? How long do you leave it on before rubbing it out? I guess I should wax my bus and wanted recommendations....

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Post by Amskeptic » Fri Sep 28, 2012 8:05 am

cheesehead wrote:What wax should I use is there a good brand or a worse brand? How long do you leave it on before rubbing it out? I guess I should wax my bus and wanted recommendations....
Glad you asked.
For paint in serious need, all three below in order:
3M Polishing Compound (black bottle)
Mother's California Gold Cleaner Wax (red bottle)
Mother's California Gold Carnauba Wax

Please start very modestly. Here is my weekend program:
I recommend that you do the tailgate first, all three steps on Friday evening. Feel how smooth the paint is. This will motivate you. Then finish the rear of the car, including the bumper. Saturday, do both rear quarter panels up to C pillars (sliding door edge).Sunday, finish the car. This is good exercise and it is good for the car.
In a couple of months, you can do the carnauba wax only.
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Re: Colin asked do you ever wax your bus?

Post by hambone » Fri Sep 28, 2012 9:09 am

I have been using Nu Finish since my first car, it really holds up like the old commercials say. "We're here at this auto graveyard".
1ce a year and the water still beads. It's a space-age polymer you see.
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Re: Colin asked do you ever wax your bus?

Post by Amskeptic » Sat Sep 29, 2012 10:08 am

hambone wrote: It's a space-age polymer you see.
Awwwww, beesWAX.
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(that's what I use, you see, carnauba)
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: Colin asked do you ever wax your bus?

Post by rallybug » Mon Jun 03, 2013 11:51 am

Will doing those three help the mattness of areas like Harvee's tailgate?

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Harvee the Wonder Bus - a 1979 CA-spec 7-seater bus

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Re: Colin asked do you ever wax your bus?

Post by Bleyseng » Mon Jun 03, 2013 1:33 pm

For serious polishing paint first buff out the paint with a buffer and a 3M sheepskin pad using 3M Finesse-It compounds. There are several steps to this as well but you can get nearly any paint back to a serious gloss using their products after a wetsanding with 1500grit to smooth out paint.
Step 1. Wet sand with 400, then 600, then 1500
Step 2. Using brown Satex polishing stick and a 3m buffer pad polish the paint using a crossing pattern to the best finish you can with this
Step 3. Using the blue stick same as above
Step 4. 3M Finesse It Polishing finish as above
Step 5. Using only a fresh 3M pad finish polish and admire the deep glossy shine :cheers:
I use this system in Suriname to gloss the painted cabinets fronts I build there instead of trying to get a perfect spray finish.
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Re: Colin asked do you ever wax your bus?

Post by Amskeptic » Tue Jun 04, 2013 5:52 am

rallybug wrote:Will doing those three help the mattness of areas like Harvee's tailgate?
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Might . . . I will surreptitiously hit it while you are at some task. When I run across a nice original paint job languishing under neglect, I make big polka dot circles of beautiful waxed paint to help motivate my customers to get on it.
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BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles

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Re: Colin asked do you ever wax your bus?

Post by rallybug » Tue Jun 04, 2013 6:26 am

Amskeptic wrote:
cheesehead wrote: For paint in serious need, all three below in order:
3M Polishing Compound (black bottle)
Mother's California Gold Cleaner Wax (red bottle)
Mother's California Gold Carnauba Wax
I've found the middle one (called Mother's California Gold Brazilian Carnauba Cleaner Wax), but not the other two as yet. I did see 3M Rubbing Compound in AutoZone - would that be it for the first?
Harvee the Wonder Bus - a 1979 CA-spec 7-seater bus

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Re: Colin asked do you ever wax your bus?

Post by rallybug » Tue Jun 04, 2013 6:28 am

Amskeptic wrote:
rallybug wrote:Will doing those three help the mattness of areas like Harvee's tailgate?
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Might . . . I will surreptitiously hit it while you are at some task. When I run across a nice original paint job languishing under neglect, I make big polka dot circles of beautiful waxed paint to help motivate my customers to get on it.
Colin . . . heretohelp
Ah, the original orange and beige is probably hiding under whatever green paint the original owner resprayed in back in the day (I can see the orange in the engine bay and wheel wells, and obviously the roof is still beige).
Harvee the Wonder Bus - a 1979 CA-spec 7-seater bus

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