Wax/Polish for black cars

[370Z/28]

Sorry...I know y'all have probably covered this 100 times, but what is everybodys favorite wax/polish for black cars?

I have been using Zaino in the past and I'm really kind of tired of the expense and difficulty of it. I would really like something that I could just pick up at AZ.

My car has light scratches all over it. It was that way when I bought it. I assume it is the way the dealership washes it. I need something to remove the scratches, and leave no residue. I hate to use anything too abrasive because my car has a coating on it that the dealer put on it and I sure hate to take that off, it sure beads water good. I guess I will have to remove it to get the scratches off. Why do perfectionists buy black cars??

[pfarmer]

Sorry...I know y'all have probably covered this 100 times, but what is everybodys favorite wax/polish for black cars?

I have been using Zaino in the past and I'm really kind of tired of the expense and difficulty of it. I would really like something that I could just pick up at AZ.

My car has light scratches all over it. It was that way when I bought it. I assume it is the way the dealership washes it. I need something to remove the scratches, and leave no residue. I hate to use anything too abrasive because my car has a coating on it that the dealer put on it and I sure hate to take that off, it sure beads water good. I guess I will have to remove it to get the scratches off. Why do perfectionists buy black cars??

I have been using ICE. Maybe not the best compared to what you have been using but certainly easy and I am getting good results.

What I would like to know is if you could actually do the self healing clear coat if one desired to go that route. Probably cheaper just to trade it in on an 09 but still it would be interesting to know.

I have an 08 G35 XS.

Perry

[370Z/28]

No way I'm getting rid of this car. I have worked too hard getting all the tunes I want on my Music Box.



I have used the ICE too. I used it on my S2000. It did work pretty good. When I was at AZ Saturday, they had a new ICE wax and I believe it was called Liquid Clay Bar or something like that. It was in 3 different layers, so it must have had a lot of abrasives. I almost bought it.

[pfarmer]

No way I'm getting rid of this car. I have worked too hard getting all the tunes I want on my Music Box.



I have used the ICE too. I used it on my S2000. It did work pretty good. When I was at AZ Saturday, they had a new ICE wax and I believe it was called Liquid Clay Bar or something like that. It was in 3 different layers, so it must have had a lot of abrasives. I almost bought it.

ICE was comes in liquid and paste, I like the paste. As far as the clay bar that is a different product. I believe it works only fair, not nearly as good as using a solid clay bar by someone else like Meguiar's, Mothers or others although a lot easier.

Perry

[370Z/28]

No....I mean this stuff.

https://www.icepolish.com:453/clay_bar.html

[C-Kwik]

That's supposed to take place of a traditional clay bar based on their marketting. It simply looks like a light abrasive.

As for your car, if you can't hide the scratches in a coat of wax, try a good swirl remover to remove and reduce any fine scratches and swirls. Then follow up with a good wax. Don't have any recommendations on swirl removers, but I use Eagle One Nanowax. I can't recall the article it was in, but it placed among the top of the tested waxes. It is synthetic so it should offer good longevity. From my experience, it works great as a wax. But nothing that different from any other good wax in terms of performance. What I do like about it (I had a black G a couple of years ago)is that when you go to wipe it off after it dries, the wax doesn't dust. It actually cakes onto the rag you are wiping it off with (they recommend microfiber towels for this). The only downside to that is you have to flip the cloth often and use more of them (Costco sells a huge bag of them cheap). But you don't end up spending any time trying to get the last bit of wax dust of your car, or washing it after waxing to try and get this dust off; which is a particularly noticable issue on a black car.

Another nice feature is that if you happen to get it on rubber or plastics, you can not tell. Eagle one claims this is because the particles are so small. Not sure if this is why, but indeed, you can get it all over everything and not worry about the white streaks wax normally leaves behind. Allows me to spend less time trying to get wax in areas that are close to black rubber or plastic.

[370Z/28]

Thanks for the tip. I actually had a bottle of that in my hand while I was at AZ and thought I would ask some folks first. It did make some great claims. I'll get some and give it a shot.

And BTW C-Kwik....as far as your signature goes, in the south it is: "Hey Bubba....watch this".

[pfarmer]

That's supposed to take place of a traditional clay bar based on their marketting. It simply looks like a light abrasive.

Don't have any recommendations on swirl removers, but I use Eagle One Nanowax. I can't recall the article it was in, but it placed among the top of the tested waxes. It is synthetic so it should offer good longevity. From my experience, it works great as a wax. But nothing that different from any other good wax in terms of performance. What I do like about it (I had a black G a couple of years ago)is that when you go to wipe it off after it dries, the wax doesn't dust. It actually cakes onto the rag you are wiping it off with (they recommend microfiber towels for this).

The liquid clay bar works, but not nearly as good as a solid clay bar. ICE the wax will also not dust with the liquid version, the paste does but not bad and works well without problems with rubber, etc.

My recommendations for a microfibre towel is to make sure it has non-sewn edges. There are several out now with this feature. Many microfibre towels are great except the edges are sewn in such a way that they may actually cause small surface problems.

Perry

[370Z/28]

I was in a car show this fall and the goodie bag had one of those Mother's polishing balls and some Mother's liquid wax. I would like to use that on maybe just one fender until I have some faith in it. Things like that make me nervous. I have seen paint jobs ruined with polishers.