Kinda curious to how often you wax. I've always done it in the beginning of summer, and end of fall. But then I read people do it every 2 weeks! Seems overkill to me. So just wondering what everyone does, and if I should be doing it more often.

 

3-6 months. Multiple layers

 

3 times a year, spring summer and fall (that is what I do.)

 

my friend does it every weekend hes dumb

 

Who has time to spend 8 hours once a week doing that... When I wax it is a full day long job.

 

Every 3 months.

 

Thought this thread was going in a completely different direction...

 

When I had my car it was every monday for the week and then thurs fri sat and sometimes sunday for car shows.

 

he does it alot so hes fast at it lol

 

Not to thread jack, but I wanna wax an buff my car.. Wats a good way to go about it? I'm really a noob an have done Lil to no detailing aside from cleaning my rims Lol Ive used 'spray on wax' stuff, but it never seems like its ever that great

 

Well that's a little different. For shows that **** has to look

 

This

https://www.cobaltss.net/forums/show...ng-how-116717/

 

once a month

 

This. Though with the new stronger wax I'm using now I'm going down to twice a year, spring and fall.

 

Every 3 months

 

1. end of winter (once it's above 40ş outside)
2. late spring
3. Mid-summer
4. late fall (before the first snow)

so 4 times/year

 

3 times a day, i mean 3 times a year

 

you know if you think about it in a sick and twisted way...this thread should really be in the dungeon.

 

Depends on what is being waxed

 

I have a black car; arguably the worst to maintain the finish on.

I use a quality paste wax 2/3 times a year - after a major toothbrush/soft scrub brush/microfiber towel wash.

However, Eagle One (I think) makes a "wax as you dry" spray-on that is phenomenal as an inbetween-good wax detailing wax spray. I wash the car, rinse it good, then spritz this stuff on sparingly as I towel off the car. It leaves no swirl (unless I'm stupid enough to do it in the direct sun), no haze, no white stuff, and it leaves a phenomenal and smooth finish behind. I use it every other time I wash the car because its so easy to do.

I also use the supposedly "wash/wax" combo car wash liquid, but it really does nothing as far as leaving any type of finish behind - that is why I got the spray after reading about it in a restorer's mag.

 

my point exactly!!

 

Every two weeks. Clay bar with purple stick from carbrite, then Compound with white wool pad, then wax* with yellow wool pad, then more wax* with Orange pad and random orbit, then nano wax with black pad and random orbit. Spray wax for door amd trunk jams.

 

Machine buff/wax at start of warmer weather (May, June) Hand wax montly, machine wax before the snow flies. Makes for easy machine washes throughout winter months.

 

Once a month for me

 

Once a month on a sunday, when the gf works.