Just wondering how often I should wax my xB. I'm thinkin once a month??

 

Lots of variables here, including where u live and what you use to wash your cash with, how bad your water is. Many car wash liquids have detergents that strip wax, which means you can wax your car today and wash it in two days and be left with no wax.

So rather than busting your head reading labels, make it a monthly thing and you will be safe.

 

I wax my xb every 2weeks...

 

Dont use a chamois, they strip wax, so does most household detergent. I wax with a good grade automotive product every 6 months, and touch up every other week with pledge (read the label, its carnuba & leaves your car lemony fresh)

 

Wax on, wax off, wax on, wax off...

 

Wax it when it needs it.

Yeah, it sounds like a smartass kinda answer, but I mean it. If the rinse water beads up, the wax is there.

I wax my vehicles before winter on general principles, but they seem OK even then 'cause I use a premium carnauba wax which lasts, and lasts, and lasts . . . .

To help keep the wax working, I'd recommend the Mr Clean Auto-Dry system. It washes well without stripping the wax, and dries without wiping . . . .

-Don

 

Maybe some of you will laugh but I use every weeks ( in the winter ) baby hair shampoo to wash my car. I Wax my car twice in the summer. Right after winter and right before...That does an awesome job!!! Clean paint and everything that comes with it!

Eric

 

Don't use chamois? What do you use? I didn't know that it strips off wax.

 

I heard that the Mr. Clean auto-dry system can strip your car of wax and what nots. Is that true? Has anyone experienced that?

 

Use terrycloth towels, much better at leaving wax on than a chamois - used to detail for a living long ago, loved customers that used chamois because I'd get business more often.

 

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You can usually tell when it needs waxed again by the "feel" of the paint. A freshly waxed car is very smooth and slippery. When it gets to the point where after being washed and dried, it doesn't feel slippery anymore, it's time to wax again. I usually average about once every 6 weeks or so while the weather is nice.

 

No. Whenever I've used it, it's been clear that the wax is still there because the water beads up for the last rinse before the *final* rinse. The final rinse is when the water sheets up and runs off, leaving a clean dry car with no wiping needed . . . .

If you do use Mr Clean, be sure to read and follow directions. It only works well that way . . . .

 

Does anyone have any ideas for hand washing and waxing cars in the winter? I live in Minnesota, which is HELL on cars! (any car over 20 years with no rust around here is either garaged or brought in from out of state)... so I need to at least rinse off salt once or twice a week. However, I live in a condo w/ no indoor parking, and I'd like to be able to do a little more detailing than that and wax the car where I wash it. I think most of those DIY car wash places close in the winter, am I mistaken? What would be perfect is a large, heated, indoor wherehouse type place where you could DIY wash, dry and wax all at once w/ out freezing your ___ off. I'd certainly pay for that privillege!

 

Hey, I'm in MN too!

Here in [drawl on] Southern MN (Rochester) the carwash places are running all year 'round unless the temps get below zero . . . . But I don't worry about it 'cause when it's really COLD the salt doesn't do much. The corrosion only really happens when it's warmer, and then the carwashes are open again, or I'll do it myself (more likely 'cause I'm a cheap bast...so-and-so)

So, do it yourself when the temps are warmer or else look for a "touchless" carwash that's open year 'round. If it's really COLD, don't worry about it . . . .

-Don (tha's my advice, anyways)

 

if there is salt where you live use the uindercoating in a can and spray the undercarriage if you know somebody that has a lift do it! you first have to clean off all that gunk you have underneath you car, then scrub it with a red scuff pad the kind body shops use to cut paint with, before they spray the parts. it might take a whole day but IF YOU LIKE YOUR CAR, IT WOULDNT MATTER.

 

Not a good idea, really. Modern cars are pretty much totally rust resistant, but when the undercoating separates from the metal (and it almost always separates) it makes pockets where the brine can settle in and rust out the body. I've never had undercoating of any kind on any of my cars, and the only one that ever suffered from rust was the '72 Pinto (they ALL rusted out!) -- this in MN where there is SALT on the roads . . . .

-Don

 

i dont have an Xb but i wax my car once a month

 

Unforunately not often enough. With my bad back I'm lucky if I can get to wash the
xb twice a month. And I hate taking it to those fancy car wash places because they
never get it as clean as I would

 

i bought the wash&wax from rain-x and i wash my car every week lol sometimes 2 if i get lazy ;p