Category: External & paint care Forum

Hello dear car friends! I hope you can help me with a question about car care. Recently I cleaned my entire car thoroughly, but after a few days it looks dirty again. I wonder if there is a way to make the result of my cleaning last longer. I have read online that polishing or growing can help, but there are different opinions and I do not have an electric polisher. However, I have read Can anyone give me a few tips? Had found the following products: SONAX Polish+Wax Color black SONAX PROFILINE EX 04-06 Sonax hard wax politure SONAX P-Ball microfiber cloth But I’ve never done it before and I hate to “suck” my car in which I take the wrong products. Thank you in advance!

Hello dear community, I would like to gain your experience here for washing boxes around Frankfurt am Main. Where is it possible for you to use a washing box with your own products (in compliance with certain conditions) at the moment? We would like to have two buckets of laundry with their own foaming and shampoos, snow foam and rim cleaners (with the exception of premium products) Are there good and well-known addresses in and around Frankfurt, which you drive regularly? there, if at all, the conditions? Current lists that can be found about google are unfortunately already very old and contain addresses that now prohibit such use by changing owners.. here in the forum there are only other regions.. Already in advance thank you for your help.

Good evening to everyone, Bin “new” in the topic car care and would like to try the 2 buckets washing method for the first time on the SB-Box around the corner on the weekend, but I asked a few questions which order would be the smartest. I had thought about how to proceed. 1. Apply rim cleaner (velvet) + apply on all 4 rims 2. Clean with rim brush “intebrage” 3. with high pressure cleaner (cleaner included) Felge + wheelhouse cumshot 4. Power foam (from the SB-Box) on the A 5. with high pressure cleaner (cleaner included) from the SB Box cumshot 6. hand wash (only varnish + disc, no rims) 7. rinse clearly 8. Rinse hot wax from the SB Box 9. 10. Dry the car Even if the questions may seem stupid for you but as I said my first hand wash usually only with the lance on it and off again Should I rather rinse at 3. or 5.? Can rimbeast “dry in when I am too slow”? with separate bucket to rinse out and take shampoo from the hand wash then for rims too? Hot wax on the SB box makes sense or just wasting money?

Evening people, tomorrow I may pick up my TT that was built at the end of 2015. As a paint fanatic, polishing was never the problem on my Klapdach Roadster that I had driven before. Now I’ve been looking for tests on convertible seals especially for newer FZG because I assume that the cover fabric has changed a bit. I haven’t had a fabric cap under my fingers for a long time. I assume that the cover is still well sealed from the factory. I have been washing with Optimum no Rinse for years now according to the conventional method. I pre-spray and then go after it with microfibre sponge Dry off. Has anyone ever made this method with a fabric cap? Which cleaner do you use for this laundry? I will of course polish the car at the latest at the winter and seal the paint will be t being jet sea,I don’t have an idea at the top yet. Who has experience values and can recommend a cleaner and seals for “new” cover? Greetings Thorsten

Hi guys, I didn’t find anything suitable for this topic. I’m a beginner in terms of polishing/growing. I waxed my wife’s car 2 weeks ago with Collinite 476s by hand and holograms were created on one side. Auto: VW Polo 9N3, BJ 2006, grey. Workflow: Handwash with lots of shampoo (Chemical Guys) Drying with Water Magnet Pre Cleaner by Collinite 476S with 1 pad (Lupus) wipe with 3 MFT by Meguiars Now are my questions: What am I wrong? How exactly do such holograms arise and how can one avoid them? Answers as they can be removed again fortunately I have already found enough in this forum

Servus. I’m pretty much on the ground right now. Maybe someone can give me some advice from you. New used Audi TT Roadster 8s picked up last week. Impeccable condition. After a week I wanted to do hand wash with the professional today and was at Autofox Berlin. They then did hand wash and the owner looked at the car when returning with me to see if you could make a paint treatment. Suddenly, everywhere was more scratching. I haven’t seen that yet. The car is 2 years old and only 20000km down. Now the question is, did the car house hide something or did they at autofox the scrapers extra in to turn me on a paint treatment. Before was to be seen zero. Would be grateful about any opinion.

Servus, before the winter I had seen someone in my city in the SB-Box who applied the detergent by means of a pressure bottle. The paint was then really buried under a thicker, viscous foam layer. After a short exposure time everything was scratched off and the result was also seen. What impressed me about the method was the fact that everything was going very fast. After about 5 minutes (excl. rims) the outside was through. r, that this is not comparable with a hand wash. For a fast laundry, especially at current temperatures it seems to me to be a suitable alternative method. Does someone of you also grasp the pressure bottle and if so which shampoo you use? Would all means be suitable for this or are there any ones that glue the spray nozzle? Thanks already in advance

Hello guys, I have an Opel Astra J GTC, color mineral white, such a light gray-white metallic. I usually do car washing once a month. The usual wash road at the tank, and if necessary repolize with Sonax wax. Today what it is again so far: wash road at the gas station nearby, drive home, sunshine, and I see so first brown dots. Both sides at the doors and lower surfaces. When looking more closely it is whole splashes or heaps of reddish-brown F I took my Sonax Xtreme BrilliantWax to polish it away. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. I didn’t know where these brown spots were coming from, nor did I ever have that. I’ll probably go to the workshop tomorrow and ask what helps. Did you ever have something like this? LG, Drago

Greet all of you, I, never a car polished, would like to prepare my BMW E61. I’ve done the car for 5 years and never done anything on the paint, except of course. The car itself is BJ.2009 I would like to refresh the paint a little bit with simple means. I realize that I can’t get it 100% but would still want to try it. I don’t have a polishing machine. Would polish with hand. I’ve seen some products at Mezerna now and I’m at the One-Ste p Polish 3in1 landed. The car has strong holograms and some very fine scratches caused by washing line and box wash. Is the product recommended or for my project the right one?! Thanks in advance

Moin, so ́n sch****, got to me last night while polishing in the garage, messed up the paint… Background of the whole action has been, because I drive a black car, you can see of course every “fur” on the paint among other things also these small wash road scrapers… Ok I thought, take a good profile polisher and the care additives of 3M and start to do something about it.Did then start with the light machine polisher (The light blue for all the 3M know), the scratches au and then polished and sealed on high gloss, was almost 4h there… Yesterday in the garage at the “Neonlicht” everything looked quite perfect, only today I looked at the result again in the sun and hit me almost the blow… In the whole varnish, are now so-called “holograms”, i.e. small circular traces, as one knows them from the brushed aluminum … Such a crap, what went wrong, actually did everything like Is the paint completely messed up now and I have to have it painted NEW or gets it polished out by a professional…. PLEASE, need help urgently, I could really “break into food”…. Thanks, by a completely kinked regular user… Bear