Best for red/maroon?

[08ChevImpala]

Is there a wax, polish or sealant that will give better results on a red color car?
I read somewhere that it's best to not use a white color wax for some reason.
Thanks

[The Guz]

What do you currently have?

[08ChevImpala]

I actually just got the car recently, so I haven't used a thing on it yet. Doing my research so I get the best results.

[FUNX650]

I'll suggest the following...

First use this:
Finish Kare 303 Foam Pad Glaze, machine glaze, finishing glaze

Followed by:
Finish Kare 1000P Hi-Temp Paste Wax, high melt polymer car wax, Finish care auto wax ...



Bob

[Mike Phillips]

Is there a wax, polish or sealant that will give better results on a red color car?

Pinnacle Souveran, a true show car wax also called a finishing wax...






How-to Machine Apply Wax using a DA Polisher


Applying Paste Wax By Machine
Souveran Paste Wax can be applied by hand or machine, I personally prefer to apply all my waxes and paint sealants by machine plus the owner Mike has never used a DA Polisher before, only rotary buffers, so I wanted to introduce him to one of the most popular types of machine polishers in the industry.


Using a microfiber glove to hold the wax, you can pop the wax out of the jar and then simply swipe the wax a few times across the face of the foam finishing pad and you're ready to machine wax. Sometimes it helps to lightly heat the outside of the plastic jar with a Hair Blow Dryer as this will loosen the grip crated by surface tension the wax has with the jar.







Here's Mike the owner using a DA Polisher to machine wax his Corvette...





Results....












I could do this all day.... Larry the Cable Guy

[Desertnate]

I've used Collinite 845 on my wife's dark crimson pearl Toyota with great effect. Of course, I think the product works great on just about any color.

On darker colors I think any suggestion that works well for black will give great results. I can't imagine how nice the products Bob and Mike mentioned will look. They have a great reputation.

[Dereksdtail]

Carpro reflect gave my wife's maroon some serious gloss, topped it with Wolfgang sealant spritz

[99monguse]

I have found that these expensive carnubas look great but don't last very long at all, especially in the sun!

[08ChevImpala]

Thanks a bunch for all the help, but I should've said that the product will be applied by hand.

[trekkeruss]

Is there a wax, polish or sealant that will give better results on a red color car?

It's not so much the color that matters, what matters is the condition of the paint. It also matters what you mean by wax; there are different kinds used for different purposes. Do you need an all-in-one, a cleaner wax, or a finishing wax?

Polish is for when the paint needs, um, polishing. If your car's paint is dull or has scratches, you need a polish, and if the paint is real bad, you need a compound. Both go on before a wax or sealant, and neither has any protective qualities.

A sealant is just a man-made version of wax.

I read somewhere that it's best to not use a white color wax for some reason.
Thanks

A layer of wax is only a few mils thick, and regardless of the color it is in the container, it will be virtually invisible once it's on the paint. Some might darken the paint slightly, but that's about it. Some waxes do stain trim.

Meguiar's does make a couple of over-the-counter waxes (I think they are actually sealants), one for black/dark cars, and another for white/light cars. I haven't tried them. While I'm sure they are good products, I have to believe their existence is as much marketing gimmick as anything else. Put another way, I doubt there would be any real detrimental effect by using the black wax on a white car, or vise-versa; I'm sure both will make a car's paint look "good."