[dnphillips]

Please forgive the way that sounded.

My MINI dealership gave me a "kit" of car treatment products. One of them is a spray-on wax for the exterior. How soon is too soon to use it?

 

[Peter Crowl]

You can probably use it as soon as you'd like...but...

If you want to learn how to properly maintain your new baby inside, outside and under the hood <bonnet> ..please...take some time and visit www.autopia.org . On the top of the home page you'll see a link that says "Learn". Follow that link. You can download an entire book on detailing <valeting > . You will find an entire new universe.

I could go on...but you'll learn it all at Autopia...and the forums there are an invaluable source of knowlwdge and help!



Peter..in Denver

 

[too cool blue!]

The New MINI has a clear top coat of laquer on top of the paint, that is factory hardened.

You can wax straight away

Max :red:

Because of problems with VOCs, most paints are now acrylic-based...waterborne basecoats and topcoats. So I don't think the mini has a laquer clear coat. Four to 6 weeks used to be the waitng period for the paint to cure even after the factory baking. That's about the time from the paint shop to delivery, so like Max said, wax away.

 

[too cool blue!]

I am not questioning the use of a clear coat over metallics... but laquers haven’t been used by PPG or Dupont for years.

Here’s an informative article about the Mini paint shop.

http://www.autointell-news.com/euro...ni/oxford-plant/bmw-oxford-plant-05-paint.htm