Finally got my Nautica Blue tC w/ Spoiler and Blue Illumination lights! =) One Question...There is so much dustttttttt on my car now because the color is pretty dark. What do u guys use to wipe these dust off -_- It's like bothering me.

When they gave me the car....they actually took it to the car wash before giving it to me -_- And there are like watermarks now...I thought it's not good to get a car wash with a new car? What do u guys suggest?

 

I have an IIP tC so I know about the dust problem...usually I just wash it, and if I dun have time to do that I just spray it down with a hose and dry it off. waterspots are evil. but with all the work I do keepin my car clean I really wouldn't trade the color for the world.

 

factory paint is baked on at the factory. In other words it is already cured completely. You can do whatever you want to factory paint from day one. For the dust problem, I used a combination of frequent washing, daily QDing, and keeping a california car duster in the car and using it whenever I get out (you may think that's a little much, but it takes about 2 minutes to do the whole car).

and get it right, its nauticaL blue metallic :D

 

DO NOT USE ANYTHING OTHER THEN A CHAMOIS!!!! ANYTHING ELSE WILL SCRATCH YOUR PAINT!!!

 

welcome to a dark colored car.. it happens.. nice part is.. doesn't show the rock chips that always show up on the front bumper!

also.. the waterspots? usually scratch x removes that for me

 

uhhhh... wrong

if anything, chamois are the worst thing you can put on your paint to dry the car. reason being, chamois have no nap (common word for this is plushness). With no nap, any dirt particles caught between the chamois and the paint have nowhere to go. This means that they will get dragged across the paint. This will cause swirls. I suggest a plush waffle weave microfiber drying towel. the ones from pakshak and exceldetail are excellent.

 

You obviously don't know crap, thats why you make sure your CHAMOIS IS CLEAN!!

 

My NBM is a dust magnet. Of course, it doesn't help that I park in a dusty gravel lot three days a week...

 

I've had my nautical blue tC for about 3 months now and it get's pretty dusty too.
But I got a California Duster and it's a life saver.

 

Whats a california Duster?

 

It's a car duster, you can get one from autozone. Doesn't scratch your car's paint.

 

if you do not want swirls, do not use any "dusters", ever. they all scratch the paint because as they collect dust particles, they also push them across the clear coat. that causes etching, however small. (an angled view of your hood in the sun will demonstrate just how much damage a "duster" does even though you don't realize it.)

wash the car with no hard contact with the paint, i.e, only use high pressure water and soap ...no sponges, cloth, etc. they also drag dirt across your paint. also, if you are going to dry with a cloth, be certain that it is a microfiber cloth and the paint surface was well waxed and nearly dry. i recommend a wind dryer at the car wash instead to avoid wiping anything across the surface of the paint.

in the event you have to drag a towel across your paint, i suggest waxing and buffing the surface afterward. it takes a few extra minutes but our paint is pretty soft and even a drying towel leaves swirls. wax gets rid of those.

you probably don't want to go to the extent i do, i tend to be **** about the paint surface.

 

Good to know. Never knew the extent that the duster does.
It always makes my car at least look cleaner. I've waxed
my car a few times so i haven't noticed any swirls that weren't just on the surface of the wax, and were easily buffed out with a microfiber cloth. I just got tired of washing my car and having it look like a$$ 2 days later.

 

the colors we chose tend to show the dirt...but when clean, there are no better colors.

 

Exactly why i love my nbm tC(dirt and all)

 

i know if you use the maguires instant detailer (after you give your car a good waxing) you can use thier instant detailer with a microfiber cloth......it helps eliminate static cling supposedly, but from my experince it works.........the dust may settle, but does not seem to stick, i use the californina duster, and get a new one every month or so. and it works fine.......your going to get small swirl marks from something, your sponge, your microfiber towel, nothing is perfect, but its in the clear coat, so if anything if it gets real bad, have you car buffed.

 

Wait, I know the paint is baked at the factory, but is it completely "cured" or whatever they call it at the time of delivery? I heard you have to wait something like maybe 2 months before you give the car the first waxing cuz so the paint finally hardens to the last stage.

 

If that's true than oops cause I ended up waxing my car about 2 weeks after I bought it. Did make it look "shinier" though, until it got dusty again.

 

uh r u planning on turning it into a show car? if not i would simply go to one of those do it yourself high pressure washers and then take a chill pill and remember it is DUST on a CAR, there r many more important things to worry about in life like ohhhh say HUMAN SUFFERING.

 

Do you mean like the suffering I just went through reading your post?