Detail pros, my car just got a fresh paint job. The shop said that the paint is cured and ready to go and said that I can wax it asap to help keep the shine of the fresh paint job. I've heard the saying don't wax or apply chemicals (at least not synthetics) for ~90 days after the paint job.

What is your guys' advice on waxing it after? They said it's fine, but i'm skeptical so i'm double checking. Also what other procedures can I follow to care for the paint job?

TIA

 

use dish soap!! its the best soap you can you!! you dont ned to wax the car till about 3 months after the paint job.

 

ok i know this is a slighty older thread but first of all NEVER use dishsoap on ur car, and second when u get new paint, it is NOT fully cured right away, the surface layer may be hardened but the lower layers are still releasing gases so if u put on a wax that works well it will seal the outer pores of the paint and will give the gases from the inner layers nowhere to go and it will end up making ur paint shrink up and look a little simmilar to a piece of sand paper, best thing to do is give it a few months, paint with shrink up a bit over a few months either way but wax will make it much worse...

 

My shop said 45 days minimum before putting any wax on.

Dish soap? LMAO. Maybe if you want to remove wax.

 

when i got my car painted..painter (foreman at a local autobody shop) said wait a couple weeks before applying any thing..Just as precaution i waited about a month..

My car gets washed and detailed/spray waxed once a week still looks like new!!=), been 9 months. But still needs to be wet sanded, just been lazy and broke to take it back for the dent that some d*** parts truck at work made..

 

What about when they use one of those giant car ovens between coats of paint? Then after the clear coat they keep it in there overnight to dry.

Would you still want to wait 3 months?

 

They do that at the factory, they don't do it when you get it repainted. I've never heard of a place that does body work do something like that.

 

The local paint shop has a paint booth with climate control.... I guess not EVERY body shop does it but some do? I think it would take MONTHS in our climate to cure a paint job unless it was in july.

 

I don't think that is to "bake", that is just to give it a stable place to settle down with no moisture and no big temp swings, and of course no dust.

 

That makes sense, thanks . I hadn't thought of that.

 

I would wait one month before applying anything to the cars paint. 3 months is the older paints that use to take longer to cure. Dish soap? That's what Red Necks use, ever check the paint on thier trucks?

 

yea we have a spray booth and a seperate oven at our shop, but with the new water based paints u cant bake them, so the only time we use our oven is to put a fresh car in to keep it free from outside dust till it is dry to the touch an nothing will stick to the surface, we still can bake some lower grade single stage jobs for 20-30 mins but we dont do much more than that and we will use it together with the spraybooth in the winter time so our spraybooth is at a decent tempurature... other than that u dont really bake a car long term...

 

Water based car paint? wtf...

 

yup they kinda suck to work with but the color looks alot nicer, its like mre crisp looking if that makes any sence lol