It’s REALLY important to wax your car in the winter.
It’s import to wax your car in the winter because the mud and dirt of the winter is especially abrasive on your paint, which damages the paint. Wax protects the paint and keeps your car looking good and protected. And this also maintains the value of your car.
So what are you waiting for…
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Listen to Santa Rosa CA expert auto detailer Benjamin Smith share in the video below about why it is important to wax your car in the winter.
There’s a couple of points we need to make. The winter time is more damaging to your paint surface than summer time.
That’s the bottom line.
Now, why is that the case?
The reason this happens is because of the mud and dirt. When it rains, it gets on your car. So, what is mud made of? What’s dirt made of? Oil and abrasive particles so that the abrasive particles stick to the paint.
Basically, dirt is stuck to your paint. When you wash it, you’re going to scratch the car because the dirt is still stuck there. Now, this is if your car has no wax on it or very little.
We’re talking about a car with very little wax. If the car is not freshly waxed or is in very good shape, then the dirt does not stick like that. So we’re talking about cars being neglected or not waxed.
Let’s come back to that scenario. When you go driving in the rain, and the car gets dirty, the tires kick up mud on the sides. You go, “Okay, I’m just going to go to the car wash and wash it.” Well, what people understand is that that dirt is abrasive? So you go to the hand car wash, or you go to the brush car wash, the one you pay for, and the brushes spin around.
The only way to get that dirt off is with mechanical abrasion. Basically, you have to rub it off with a brush from the car wash spinning around or some guy’s hand washing it. It’s got to come off somehow.
But when you’re doing that, you’re scratching the car because of the abrasive nature of the dirt. So,. the more your car’s neglected, the less wax it has, and you’re going to feel a drag across your paint. So if you go out and feel your paint, it should feel smooth as glass. There’s no friction and no drag.
If there’s drag or friction, it means the pores are exposed on the paint, and there’s most likely very little wax or coating protecting it.
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The point is when you don’t wax the car, then you get more swirls and scratches in the paint when you wash it, those swirly lines that you see in the sunlight. I’m sure you’ve seen that those are wash marks from washing the car.
The deeper they are, the more they are on the car, the duller the car looks. So when you have a brand new car. There’s no swirls on there. There’s no scratches like that, and people see that you bought a brand new car. It was all sparkly and shiny when you got it like glittery and like, “Whoa! This is pretty,”. But then over time, you start to ask yourself, “why is my car starting to look really funky?” And “that’s not as shiny as when I got it. It’s clean, but it’s not as shiny and glossy.”
That is why.
Back to the original question. When you put a wax coating on the car or what’s new, what’s called ceramic coating is the newest technology, it seals that paint. It makes the paint smooth. So then you don’t get those swirly lines and the abrasion marks, and the paint stays as nice as possible. The smoother your car is, the less friction, the fewer scratches.
So that’s the main thing. That’s the most important thing, and plus you won’t get someone brushing up against it and scratching it when there’s no wax on it Just your hand going across it like this can scratch it because there’s too much drag and friction.
Or a tree branch, and you can get deep scratches because it’s too much friction. So when the coating is on, there you’ll have a lot more protection from these things, especially the car. The brushes, they’re not going to damage your paint. You’re not going to get the swirly lines. It’s going to avoid helping to minimize other scratching. That’s why it’s so important. It keeps the gloss on your car.
Bird droppings, tree, sap, road, tar, anything that could stick to the paint, can damage it. So a bird dropping. I’m sure you’ve seen cars where someone’s left, a bird dropping on the car, on the hood on the roof. And then they wash the car, and there’s an etch mark left behind.
Where the bird dropping has eaten through all the layers of paint. And that’s because, partly because there was no wax in the car. Or wasn’t enough wax.
Here’s another thing. When the color of the car is dark, they are way more vulnerable to damage than a light-colored car because the paint gets hotter.
It’s physics. Why? Think about snow. Sun reflects off the snow. It’s white. It’s white or clear. Black absorbs the heat off the sunlight, the sun rays.
So in the summertime, the hood of a black car could be 190 degrees, almost boiling. If it’s 100 degrees outside, it could be 150 to 180 degrees on your car.
Then the paint softens up like jelly.
A bird dropping or sap. It sticks to it, it sinks in the night and it hardens and it’s stuck there.
However the wax, it’s a barrier over the paint. It’s like wearing a jacket for your car. And it’s protecting the surface from the damage. So the damage gets onto the jacket.
So bottom line, get your car waxed in the winter time to protect it.
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