Best prep wash

[Just02896]

Need some input on which prep wash product is best suited to remove wax / sealers before correction.

[geekdout]

Iron X snow foam soap would work pretty well for your purposes.
Are you not planning on claying the car before correction ?

[Evan.J]

If you going to be doing a correction then just wash and clay will be fine. When you go through polishing and or compounding you will be removing and sealant or wax.

You will be doing an aggressive wash method so the goal is make the surface as clean and debris free as possible.

[Just02896]

Iron X snow foam soap would work pretty well for your purposes.
Are you not planning on claying the car before correction ?

Yes, I'll be claying the car as well.

If you going to be doing a correction then just wash and clay will be fine. When you go through polishing and or compounding you will be removing and sealant or wax.

You will be doing an aggressive wash method so the goal is make the surface as clean and debris free as possible.

I'll more than likely be using a fine grade clay as the car is garage kept and is pretty clean to begin with. I'm looking for an aggressive yet safe prep wash. Something that will strip off all wax / sealer.

[Evan.J]

Well since your not doing any polishing Im going to give you this thread to read through about stripping wax or sealants. There is a lot of great info about what works and what doesn't

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/...ealants-2.html

[swanicyouth]

My experience is fragile non polymer show type waxes are easily removed by Chemical Guy's Citrus Red Shampoo oz/gal.

We can not seem to agree if any paint safe chemical will remove sealants, other than a solvent type product like mineral spirits or Prep All (contains MS).

However, I can tell you with some degree of experience and testing nothing you can pour in a bucket and mix with (or use as) "soap" will reliably remove all sealants.

If you are polishing a car, it doesn't matter. The polish will remove it. Clay may remove LSPs to varying degrees as well (no guarantee).

One of the craziest thing I've heard is you need to remove your "wax" before polishing paint because it somehow affects the polishing or gums up pads.

If I can wax my SUV 10 time with a 1oz Dodo Juice panel pot, that means I'm using about 3 grams of wax each time. Now, for arguments sake, let's just say I'm only buffing off 1/2 gram as wax residue. That means my big SUV has a total of 2.5 grams of wax on it. That's roughly 1/2 a teaspoon of wax. To think that much wax spread over a whole car could have any affect on paint polishing with abrasives is nuts.

[artofdetailing]

I usually add APC + to my foam gun and let it soak on the cars for a couple mins and then wash regularly. Clay after that, then Decon. Some people decon and then clay. After that, you are ready to polish.

[Just02896]

Well since your not doing any polishing Im going to give you this thread to read through about stripping wax or sealants. There is a lot of great info about what works and what doesn't

http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/...ealants-2.html

I will be fine polishing, jeweling, and applying a sealant.

[ski2]

If you really want to remove sealants you could always use DG Squeaky Clean or DP Prep Polish--both designed to remove everything and leave nothing behind so that coatings can bond to the paint.

[STSmal01]

How's the griots paint prep?