applying paste car wax

 Most paste car wax has some color, which is irrelevant to the finished application. In other words if the paste is yellow or green you don't want your car to be yellow or green, the final layer of wax on your car should be completely transparent and shiny. Here's why that is important.

It his tempting to put on a relatively thick layer of wax and rub it in. But think about how much of the wax ends up staying on your car. You wipe off 99.9% of what you put on there. An extremely thin microscopic layer of hard material stays on your car. That hard layer that's on your car doesn't really stay on there that long. In some cases just two or three weeks. So putting on a thick layer just means that you're going to wipe off a thick layer, which is a lot of work. In fact you see people review the wax application and many of them will say it's easy to put on but very difficult to get off. And many of those cases they are probably putting it on way too thick.

Put on a very thin layer. Wipe it on quickly with broad strokes. Make sure the car is around 70° Fahrenheit and that it is not in direct sun. If the wax dries out too quickly have some liquid spray Wax which is a separate product that you can mist quickly so that you can wipe it on very very thin and spread it around. Make sure that the paint is completely covered and that you've smeared in reasonably well but not too hard. Then let it dry for a few minutes. Then this is an important part of the step. Get a large towel even possibly a beach towel. Start wiping the wax off with the large towel. Each wipe reposition the towel. This is critical because the wax will come off much easier with a fresh spot on the towel with each wipe. If you wipe One direction and then even wipe back one time there's wax stuck on the towel that basically smears around on the car and makes it more difficult to get off. This is a hard lesson to learn, because our instinct is to wipe around with the towel leaving your hands in the same position. This just wastes a whole bunch of time. Even if you just barely reposition your hands at all even just an inch, it gives the towel enough new surface to wipe the wax right off with each wipe.

 Then some people recommend buffing it with a completely fresh towel or handcloth to just bring out a complete polished shine. This isn't necessary but it gives a little extra shiny look. And you will notice there is more wax on this separate towel. But frankly the wax wears off from the atmosphere from small sand abrasion and I guess from just UV exposure to the Sun, so you want to leave some on there iz the point.

 Liquid spray wax is faster and supposedly leaves a thinner layer of wax on the car. So paste wax has always been considered Superior, although ceramic and graphene spray waxes seem pretty effective. The point is using paste wax will take a little bit longer, but using the hints in this article it should go much quicker. The whole car should take an hour or so. If you're spending all afternoon waxing your car it's just because you want to spend a bunch of time fiddling around with your car which is fine too. Cars are fine and feeling connected to your car is meaningful.