Detailing

Anmacc2 wrote:
hhhhmmmmm........ Maybe I am compulsive. I've had my daily driver for 28yrs and it gets washed every week and detailed 4 to 6 times a year. It has 500,000 miles and pretty much looks like the day it came out of the showroom. Second car is 11yrs old and gets the same treatment. It is showroom perfect at 100,000 miles. Tow van is 15yrs old at the 100,000 mark and again near showroom perfect. This TT is a 2015.... It is our third one. Kept the other two 20yrs each and sold them to good families. Bought each one new. I'm thinking I'll still have these in ten years and maybe buy a new TV when we retire.

Bring your vehicles up here to the "Rust Belt", you will be able to watch your vehicles simply disappear in a pile rust before your eyes!

Around here you listen to the rust falling off the vehicles as they drive by..

You are way over the top needlessly worrying about nothing and over doing "detailing" just wears off your paint prematurely.

I have a 40 yr old car sitting in my yard which the last time it was painted was back in the 1990s.. The paint I used was PPG's System 2000 "concepts" paints which is a 2 part Urethane paint.. The paint has never been waxed, buffed or detailed and still looks nearly as shiny as when I painted it.. Unfortunately the underside of the vehicle rotted out forcing me to permanently park it until I get to the point of transferring interior parts to my replacement "donor" car.. That car has 297,000 miles on it when I parked it.

I currently have a 2003 F250 with 197,000 miles, never been waxed, buffed or detailed.. Seen many harsh winter drives and the paint looks as good as the day I drove it off the dealer lot.. That truck for the last 3 yrs lives outside and no harm has come to it yet.

I have never waxed any of my vehicles since I fount Urethane paints.

Pretty much every vehicle since the late 1990s come factory with a clear coat and pretty much all newer vehicles use two part paints to boot. That clear coat is far tougher and much more UV stable than the old, old Enamel paints from 1920's up to 1980s.

The old enamel paints would get a chalky haze that dulled the finish and was a bear to remove. Wax was extremely important to that paint in preventing the paint from going bad.

Relax, chill out and don't work so hard.. Camping and living should not be that much hard work and dedication..