I love my Swissvax Concorso (Best of Show in Europe) and it looks fantastic on darker colors. You won't be disappointed with it .

Here's a Scud 16M I polished for 3 days and then treated with Swissvax Concorso

 

hey there,

love your work with the sv. did you take classes to get so good at using it? limited experience here but I tried using swissvax best of show by applying with a pad and by hand. I think by hand is more wasteful but at the same time using a pad to apply it takes a little more work as you really have to put your arm into making a ton of swirls all over the car in a light light application.

thanks

marcus

 

Thanks Marcus ! Although SV Concorso does suggest that you apply by hand, you don't have to. Honestly applying by hand is mostly just a "wow" factor, but I do enjoy doing it after polishing a car like this for 3 days. You'll get a much more even pattern by foam applicator, but if you only barely rub your fingertips in the wax and not scoop a piece of the wax in your hands, like Vintage and Swissvax would suggest, you'll get a much more even application by hand. Here's the hand job on the 16M >>



As far as the "wax on, wax off" motions go, I guess you get used to it when you do it daily like some of us do .

 

dont know if you have heard of this but I read it on another forum.

this guy was using black fire's paste wax and he was tired of working so hard to apply it and then to remove it from the car. he heated some water to just below boiling and then put it into a spray bottle. from there he sprayed some of the hot water on his blackfire wax and application pad and rubbed some wax on and then rubbed it on the car.

I did this tonight with some of my wax and man was it easy to cover my black s2000 with a thin coat of wax with ease.

thought I would run this by you. was thinking about using it with my swissvax best of show to try and save some product as well as make it cure/bond faster to the paint.

when you do this it is like using a pad lubricant like gloss-it EVP with some compound. it makes a little bit of the compound go a long long way. saves me time and money

thanks

 

Well if Blackfire was difficult to apply or remove, I would say that too much product was applied... Although I've never used Blackfire myself, I have heard from fellow detailers that it's quite easy to work with so I can't imagine that application/removal would be an issue.

As for the water technique, your friend was on the right track with it... but just a little off . Most waxes these days don't need anything else but an applicator and a little elbow grease. People used to add water when applying wax in the old days because wax is hydrophobic and it acted as a lubricant when applying the old-school "waxy" waxes. Nowadays most waxes are filled with enough oils and other chemicals that there's no need for "special applications". Also, using water to apply a wax may sometimes be deceptive, as the streaks from the water sometimes give the impression that wax has been applied to an area, but it really hasn't. The same goes for waxes that have too many oils in them; The oil streaks give the illusion of wax coverage, but when that oil gasses... nothing there.

The best advice I can give you with wax application is this >> use a foam applicator. Overlap your circular motions several times. Do a swipe test after 5 minutes or so to see if it's cured. Wipe it off. That's it. Sometimes you may have to go back and do a final QD wipedown with a SV MF if you're doing a dark car and if you use one of the lower-end Swissvaxes like Scuderia or Zuffenhausen, but in a nutshell that's it.