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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 04:14 PM
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Whats the easiest way to take off a coat of gold class?? I love the stuff but I'd like to know how to take it off easier.
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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 08:10 PM
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palmolive or any other dish soap...its like acid to wax but doesnt harm your paint...

just wash the car with palmolive and then wash it with what you usually wash it with (magurires, eagle one etc) and itll come right off

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ps.this doesnt have anything to do with this post..but i just hit 1700 posts...YAY ME:lala:
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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 08:35 PM
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Does normal car wash take wax off? Im using coral blue car wash and some kinda meguires wax, the meguires had #26 on the bottle. Leaves one heck of a shine and the water just beads on the car, love this stuff.

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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 08:47 PM
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Originally posted by pasky
Does normal car wash take wax off? Im using coral blue car wash and some kinda meguires wax, the meguires had #26 on the bottle. Leaves one heck of a shine and the water just beads on the car, love this stuff.

well in answer to your question...in time normal products will take wax off..but with dish soap..its instanious.

and some of the washes on the market now (like the maguires i use) have some "waxing agents" in them..so thats what makes it bead...

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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 08:52 PM
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I meant the wax makes the water bead after I waxed it. Not the soap. Im using blue coral soap and meguires wax .
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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 09:03 PM
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I meant the wax makes the water bead after I waxed it. Not the soap. Im using blue coral soap and meguires wax .

oh my bad..

yeah that number 26 on the bottle is for customers to know what product it works well with...

i think (if i remember correctly) that that is one of the "3stage polishing" #25is paint cleaner #26 is the wax #27 is the polish..

but i could be wrong...what colour is the bottle for the wax...a yellowy bottle with a red "label"?

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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 09:23 PM
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Guys I think he's asking how to buff off the wax after its dried to a haze

I personally use Microfiber towels, you can pick them up at Autozone or any other parts store. They leave no fine scratches and work GREAT.
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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 10:45 PM
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nono i meant how to get it off the car when washing it, sorry i wasn't too descriptive.....that blue coral stuff is the same stuff i use and it doesn't even look like its taking it off

oh and when taking it off from the haze, i just use my moms good towels
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Old Jul 14, 2004 | 10:46 PM
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Originally posted by iroc2nv
oh my bad..

yeah that number 26 on the bottle is for customers to know what product it works well with...

i think (if i remember correctly) that that is one of the "3stage polishing" #25is paint cleaner #26 is the wax #27 is the polish..

but i could be wrong...what colour is the bottle for the wax...a yellowy bottle with a red "label"?

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Yep thats it. Crap, I need to go get all the others then, I just thought it was wax, lol.
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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 03:02 AM
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I always use "Palmolive" dish washing crap & when I polish a car I only use Formula 113
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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 09:34 AM
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Originally posted by pasky
Yep thats it. Crap, I need to go get all the others then, I just thought it was wax, lol.

dont worry man...it still works amazingly by itself..but you dont see its true value until you use it in the 3stage process it was designed for.

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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 01:59 PM
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Cool beans, gonna go pick the other two steps up and some palmolive and re-wax the car using all three steps this weekend.
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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 02:16 PM
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Originally posted by pasky
Cool beans, gonna go pick the other two steps up and some palmolive and re-wax the car using all three steps this weekend.

cool be sure to take pics man...and...WEAR YOUR SUNGLASSES!!

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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 02:24 PM
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Originally posted by iroc2nv
cool be sure to take pics man...and...WEAR YOUR SUNGLASSES!!

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I hope your right, I wish I could get it to shine like Sweetride45's trans am, damn that was a nice shine.
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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 04:23 PM
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Just picked up the whole shabang on my lunch break. Gonna get my cousin to help me do this, washing your car in 100+ degree weather is not easy by yourself when you try to keep it wet.
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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 04:52 PM
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If I use dish soap it will remove all of the wax on the car??? Then there will be no wax on the car and i can use something better, correct?? Just curious cause I bought the car a year ago and dont know what the previos owner used. I dont want to keep changing waxes and harm the finish
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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 07:03 PM
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Just picked up the whole shabang on my lunch break. Gonna get my cousin to help me do this, washing your car in 100+ degree weather is not easy by yourself when you try to keep it wet.
thats why you shouldnt do it in the middle of the day and waxing in the middle of the day is even worse!! youll be very pleased with the maguires 3 step process..


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If I use dish soap it will remove all of the wax on the car??? Then there will be no wax on the car and i can use something better, correct?? Just curious cause I bought the car a year ago and dont know what the previos owner used. I dont want to keep changing waxes and harm the finish
yes...dish soap does remove wax (i dont know why, i think it has something to do with the additives to take off food particles or something) and if you mix and match waxes..its not neccessarily a bad thing, just some products work better then others on certain cars/vehicles and or the persons likes or dislikes, you just need to find something you like and stick with it..

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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 07:46 PM
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Originally posted by iroc2nv
thats why you shouldnt do it in the middle of the day and waxing in the middle of the day is even worse!! youll be very pleased with the maguires 3 step process..




yes...dish soap does remove wax (i dont know why, i think it has something to do with the additives to take off food particles or something) and if you mix and match waxes..its not neccessarily a bad thing, just some products work better then others on certain cars/vehicles and or the persons likes or dislikes, you just need to find something you like and stick with it..

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This just ain't the middle of day man, this is all day. At night at 11PM its still 90 degrees down here. Me and him are gonna wash them at around 10PM lol.
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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 08:02 PM
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jesus..

i think i need to move to texas...

its friggen freezing here in canada and its the summer time..

we have been gettin bs weather all year..

i wont be able to take more of it..

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Old Jul 15, 2004 | 11:52 PM
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LOL, down here in laredo, you get 8 months of summer and 4 months of fall and thats it, there ain't no in betweens.

BTW, we just got done, I was sweating like a pig, that paint cleaner (step #1) was hard as hell to rub off. After that it went pretty quick. Total was about 4 hours doing his 00 Trans am and my Camaro. I can't judge the shine yet because its too dark to really see. I'll let ya know how it goes tomorrow.
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Old Jul 16, 2004 | 11:07 AM
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Iknow what you mean pasky, Im in the DFW area and its HOT here too. Thanks for the info, wasnt sure if using diffrent waxes would affect anything or not just want to use a good wax and stick with it
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Old Jul 16, 2004 | 11:15 AM
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I used to live up there in Corsicana for a year, most boring town i've been anywhere. At least up there you would get winter .
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Old Jul 16, 2004 | 11:56 AM
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Wow, just wow is all I have to say about that 3 step. Makes the car look wet. But damn, anyone else hate that license plate area, already has dust everywhere and I dried that area squeaky clean.
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Old Jul 16, 2004 | 02:00 PM
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yeah it gets really dirty there for me too, worse off cuz i have a gravel driveway
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Old Jul 16, 2004 | 03:11 PM
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Originally posted by pasky
Wow, just wow is all I have to say about that 3 step. Makes the car look wet. But damn, anyone else hate that license plate area, already has dust everywhere and I dried that area squeaky clean.
im glad you enjoy the shine man!!

thats why i take my license plate off when i do that..

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