Most of the car detailer advice to wax over to a sealant, is
this really a need to do so? Some
detailer may deny this in some forum we read through. Here I’m going to put
this into a real action, in order to tell what the need to do so.
I assume readers reading my article here had been went
through the information I shared here before about, wash, clay and wax. Hence I
would like to jump into the pictures of car been applied with sealant and
wax-ed
The sealant used was PG sealant which is the most common to
get in our local hypermarket store. After laying 2~3 coats of sealant in this
car, I go for a nano wax of bullsone. Do remember the wax over sealant might
need to apply only after a few days in between. In order to make sure the
sealant is fully cure and lay on top of your car. And for sure we need to go
through the whole process again for : wash, clay. Add in the process of
polishing and compounding if you need to.
You will see like a coat of plastic laminated into your car
surface and sure I’m not meaning a real plastic surface…. Just look like.
You will notice this clearer for a solid color or plain dark
car. Forget about white car, you will hardly notice it.
while from the back.
Ok. after afew days, wash and clay. Then follow with a wax
of nano over whole car. And how to know whether it is really helps? And why to
do so?
Overall, the sealant we can get in market is actually a
cheaper brand which also serves the purpose of an almost similar product which
may price higher. Hence the motive of sealant is durability. Another layman
term, to stay longer than wax to end user car. So if I’m a person use to wash
my car for 2 to 3 weeks once, it doesn’t make much different to me to wax or
sealant, I rather go for carnauba which may lay a deeper shine probably.
So if we are to discuss about whether to lay a topping coat
of wax over a sealant, is this a must?Or I will rather say this is just a
consumer preferences at the end. We might need to consider how frequent we are
going to wash our car. And what shampoo we are going to use? Is it harmful to
pain as well?
And what to do with wax over a sealant ? The normal brand
that we can get a sealant in our local store normally has less power to bead
water, if the surface is less defensive over water rain which shown us its lack
of beading water function will mean one thing…..the dirt, tar and mud will be
easily to stick over your car surface even you had been covered with a layer of
sealant.
To speak honestly and more clearly as I knew not
everyone catch my word here. Refer to below diagram:
YES! Wax stay on sealant! But not your expensive coating,
but the cheaper sealant! Watch the picture!
There are dusts on top of the car. After washed and waxed
for a few days.
And surface still bead nicely, whichever is not able to
perform by normal sealant but wax can do.
See the dusty, but nice water bead in placed.
Let see how the sealant can reflect. And the most important,
wax do bring it a deeper shine.
Picture tells thousand words. Let’ see more:
There are scratches/swirl and dusty surface. But they are
all still under protected under the wax surface. Your choice to think of
coumpounding the surface?
This article is not to argue how nice the car surface can
maintain. Not to argue to compound a surface for swirl/scratches removal.
But to discuss 1 thing, is the surface of sealant can be
applied with another layer of wax?
The answer is yes. And it was nice than just a single
sealant layer. By the way the picture of this car I shown here is lay more than
1 layer of sealant. Which means you still can put a wax on top of your sealant,
no matter how hard/how many of your sealant staying there.
