Was thinking of that or Meguiars #7 glaze then a coat of either NXT 2.0 or #26 yellow wax.

 

Why use a cleaner wax after claying instead of a polish, then a wax to seal/protect?

 

Memoirs cleaner wax is the first stage of their 3 step. then comes ppolish. then carnauba

 

 

I wont even bring mine to a store parking lot. People are rude and dont care!

 

I'm retired so I don't have a daily driver but I do have a "Parking Lot" car and its not the Corvette. It's a Ford Edge and it seems to fit right in so it isn't a target like the Corvette would be.

You've convinced me to give my car the clay bar treatment. I'm heading out for a two week road trip so when I get home it will be: a good hot dawn wash to remove the dirt and bugs and maybe a little kerosene to remove the road tar, I'll hit it with the clay, polish and wax.

White Corvettes are always very classy and yours is no exception. Good job.

OBD

 

Actually if you're talking about their "Deep Crystal" line of products, if memory serves me correctly, it was a 3-step process, with step 1 being cleaner, Step 2 being Polish and Step 3 being the Carnauba Wax.

I believe that Meguiars Cleaner Wax is a 1-step stand alone product.

 

Looks great! Your efforts really paid off.

 

I use it to remove surface scratches that carnauba wax and polish cannot, and it gives me a clean base to start with before using the polish and carnauba. It may not be the most popular or recommended process, but after seeing what it did to my old 1970 Nova that sat uncovered under an oak tree for six years before I bought it, I've been sold on it ever since.

 

I may just follow your lead, especially since I've got those products sitting on the shelf!

 

Let me know what you think of the end result. I'm curious to hear another perspective from someone who isn't as biased as I am. I saw 6 years of oxidization from the California sun, bird droppings, and oak tree drips disappear and turn into a brilliant maroon that received compliments everywhere I went. I was sold after seeing the first section of the cleaner/wax wiped off, and even moreso after seeing the final result.

 

A Corvette in a Wal-Mart parking lot is inviting retaliation from 10 year old Hondas 2 months behind on payments to the local buy-here, pay-here lot.

 

Unfortunately I don't have much of a choice; the Vette is my only car. I do my best to limit my trips, but a man's gotta eat.

 

 

I have my vette and a 06 jetta and I can never bring my self to get into the VW no matter how much I say I wanna take it to spread the miles between the two. I have accepted the fact that my car is amazing and I dont care about the miles.

 

 

Last summer I decided to clean up the paint on my utility/beater/parking lot car...'94 Olds.

It had been relatively neglected for about 10 years. After I washed & clayed it I used
Meguiars Ultimate Compound followed by Meguiars Ultimate Wax. It turned out remarkably good.

My favorite clay is Griots, and there is a good demonstration video on their web site on how to use clay.


Corvette_Ed, Your car looks great!

 

There is really not much use in using a polish on a light colored car. It may help some but nothing noticable. The cleaner wax is to make sure sure the paint is clean after claying and rewashing it. They actually have two types of cleaner waxes. One is part of their 4 step process and the other is just a typical wax that cleans and waxes together. I've used both and both actually do the same thing, they just market them differently is all.

So actually if you use a good cleaner wax of some type you're good, again, no real reason to use a polish on a light colored car and I'm not completely convinced it helps as much as they claim on a dark colored car. I've done it both ways and everyway in between with basically the same results.

but everyone has their own habits and processes so whatever works.

 

That's what I do as well with the same products. But of course I don't compound every year. i've even went as far as clay-compound-cleaner wax-polish-wax-wax just like on the video at griots garage and still come out about like I do if I just clay-cleaner wax-wax

 

I did the clay bar today. First time I ever used one. Based on everything I've read, I was a little surprised that I didn't see more junk from the car deposited on the bar. About a month ago I had prepped it with Meguiars Ultimate compound, then waxed it with Meguiars NXT, so maybe that had something to do with the lack of junk coming off. I misted the finish with Quik Detail, but it seemed that the finish was almost always too wet to get any type of real cleaning done. Again it was my first time using one of these so maybe it was just me.

After the clay treatment, I started with Meguiars show car glaze, but quickly abandoned that approach because it just wasn't working. The glaze was leaving a film behind and I got tired of messing with it, so I went with Ed's approach and applied a coat of Meguiars Liquid Cleaner Wax. I followed this up with a coat of Meguiars NXT. I applied and removed both of these with a random orbital buffer. I hand buffed the finish down with a cloth between each coat, and finished the job by buffing with a lambs wool pad after removing the NXT. Although the car looked no different than usual after a fresh wax when in the shade of the carport, it truly "popped" when I backed it out into the driveway and into the afternoon sun. Until that point I was really questioning whether the work of the clay bar and two applications of liquid product were truly worth the effort.
I must say the car looks better than ever after the above procedure and clay treatment.