Miata Mailing List: September 1995, Message #13
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   From: mbooth@cts.com (Mark Booth)
Subject: Re: Order of wash/wax
   Date: Fri, 1 Sep 1995 09:52:00 -0400

At 12:50 PM 8/31/95, Carla J. Ruigh wrote:
>A couple of weeks ago I gave my new little red car it's first wax treatment
>etc.  Following advice from the list I used the various different Meguiers
>products.  What I am wondering is, what order do you clean your car?  I
>choose to do the wax first, then discovered that doing windows and vinyl
>afterwards caused spray to go on newly waxed car :-(.  I am wondering, if I
>do the reverse, i.e. windows and vinyl treatment first, then will I discover
>some problem when I go to wax?
>
>My logic was to get a coat of wax on the car before I applied the vinyl
>cleaner, window cleaner, so that the car finish was protected if some spray
>did get on it.   Thanks

Carla,

Wax the car first.  Then, rather than spray the window cleaner and/or the
vinyl protectant directly on the car, spray it directly on a rag/towel
(away from the car) and then apply to the car with the rag/towel.

Works for me.


Mark - '92 B Classic Red, MCA, SOCALM, Team Voodoo