Paint Protection and Treatment

[Sleepergm]

Hi All, 

 

So my paint shop said that I cant use normal wax (Megauir gold) on the original water based paint on my R32 GTR. As its an original paint. They are saying that it is not suitable and makes the paint misty looking. I have polished the car in the past and it looks show level. My question is what does everyone use and if I can just use a simple Meguairs Gold Wash and then a GTec EXO coating - Ceramic serum coating. Or what does everyone recommend otherwise? 

Side note I just had to respray the rear bumper which is not original paint now due to installing new Muse spats. They have fuel stain ... what does everyone use to put on the rear bumper to protect the paint better from the fuel staining? 

 

Thanks

[GTSBoy]

1 hour ago, Sleepergm said:

Meguairs Gold Wash

Contains some of the same waxes that are in the Meg's gold wax anyway.

Your car is white? Wax won't make it look "cloudy" enough to worry about it. Just put wax on it and decide if you think it looks cloudy. I would bet you couldn't tell.

If you want to follow the paint shop's advice, then you'd be looking to ceramic coat the paint first. Then wax on top of that (although the ceramic coat purists would say that you don't need to wax on top of ceramic - I'm not in their camp).

I am of the opinion that ceramic coat should only get put on top of paint that has recently been properly corrected by an expert, or thereafter as maintenance. But wax can be put on anything and keeps the nasties away from the paint and can either be removed easily enough, or comes off on its own over time - unlike the ceramic, which you can have a hard time knowing what condition it is in.

1 hour ago, Sleepergm said:

They have fuel stain ... what does everyone use to put on the rear bumper to protect the paint better from the fuel staining?

Um, what? Fuel stain? On the rear bumper? Please explain.

 

[Milkmun]

Car running rich I assume and leaving black stains near exhaust outlet?

Some type of coating will help it be easily cleaned off or PPF.

Edited April 30 by Milkmun