Not fast, nevermind... but must shiny

What do you do when you’re on medical leave, and the weather is good?

Wax your car!

Here are some waxing tips for dummies. From a fellow dummy. You may find it helpful.

Pre-wax preparations:

1. Wash your car first. Any type of car wash shampoo will do. No need to waste money. Buy the type that says “car wash”, not “car wash and wax”. It’s better to wax your car separately.

2. Dry it fast! Before hydrophilic dust starts to stick to your car again. Use a rubber towel. It does a much better job than dry cloth.

During waxing:

3. Wax on. Use a soft, dry cloth (or a special applicator) to apply the wax. Do not use a sponge! It will soak up the wax when you’re applying in on your car.

• You don’t need to polish (as in, rub and scrub hard) when you’re applying the wax. Just apply it.


• Don’t be too stingy with the wax. Don’t apply too thin, until you cannot see the wax on your car. Don’t apply too thick, until it looks like your car kena colgate.

4. Wax off. Now, here is where you need to do the polishing. Use a microfibre cloth to “polish off” the wax. Use one side of the cloth to polish off the wax one time, and use the other side of the cloth to polish off another time. You should be able to see the gleam by the second polish.

• Point to stress: Waxing off is more important than waxing on. Firstly, the shiny gleam effect depends on how well you can polish off the wax. Secondly, if you don’t polish off the wax properly, the residue will make your car look stained.

Post-wax precautions:

5. Do not park your car under any trees! Or you will kena chiao sai! The last time I waxed, my car got bird poo-ed within 24 hours.

Birds always love to pang sai on clean, shiny, gleamy cars. Why? Lemme ask you la... When you go public toilet, do you look for a dirty toilet or clean, shiny one? Of course the clean, shiny wan, rite? Use your blain! Use your blain!

Waxing can be quite time consuming. Make sure you have a lot of time to spare before you start. The first time I did a wash + wax + window job, it took me more than 2 hours. Yesterday, I did it in only 1.5 hours! Vast improvement. I believe I can go much faster when I get used to it. Yesterday was only my second attempt.

This post was sponsored by Meguiar's Gold Class wax.