black expo impossible to keep clean

[jlexpo69]

no matter what i do black wont sytay clean and when i wah it with my asorber it leaves swirls what should i do? also how do u clean the crome in the front by the grill

 

[rocket 5979]

If your absorber leavs swirls you first off want to start by washing around dusk. That way the sun doesn bake the watermarks in by the time you start to dry it. Then you might want to go with a terry cloth towel after getting it all dried with the absorber. That wy you can get the swirls out with something that will soak any additional water up and also not like to swirl like it does. I personally have never had a problem with swirling with my absorber, and though my car is not lack it is still dark enough to se swirls or anything easier than if it were a light color. Biggest part of advice is to wash it at night time or very close to it. After the sun has gone down under the horizon.

 

[liquidx9]

make sure you throw a coat of wax on (i use meguiars gold label, best bang for the buck), and youll be amazed at how your black ex looks

 

[GaSouthern1]

You might also want to pull it into a covered place and use the Meguiars Final Inspection (#34), this stuff is awesome and will take off any minor marks left by drying in the sun as long as you dont wait too long to use it.

 

[alphabets13]

aww, welcome to the world of black. nothing looks better when it's clean and shined up...but getting and keeping it that way is the real trick.

 

[Bill Kemp]

Check out this site and with a lot of reading and some searches you can find how to keep you veh. in the best condition you are willing to put it.http://www.autopia.org/

 

[Black Magic]

I always like to wash at dusk. Or if not after washing it pull it in the garage and then dry and wax in the shade. Makes it a hell of a lot easer.

 

[FLYIN 5.0]

I also have a black ex and do not ever wash it in the sun. I get up real early or wait till the sun starts to go down. A good coat of wax helps with the results. My previous ride was a white ranger. This black ex is ten times harder to keep clean looking.

 

[MuddLover]

Next time you wash it try waxing it with black Turtle Wax Color Cure. I've found nothing that can make your black X look as nice as black wax.

 

[alphabets13]

Next time you wash it try waxing it with black Turtle Wax Color Cure. I've found nothing that can make your black X look as nice as black wax.

i tried that stuff, and still have some. i like it for covering up small scratches and dings, but i don't think it shines nearly as well as a meguiars or mothers. and the lipstick bottle paint chip cover-up is worthless.

 

[MuddLover]

hmmm....... Maybe I just got a good bottle? It made a mirror finish of the paint on my 96 which has never been garage kept and gets taken off the beaten path regularly, but I did notice the "Chipstick" takes some getting used to. With the chipstick you have to make several perpendicular passes across the scatch until it fills up and actually has a wax build up higher than the level of the paint then leave the entire build up and apply the Color Cure, once its dried buff it all off. I covered a couple of bare metal scratches this way, no it doesn't look like they were never there but it looks a helluva lot better than a big silver and rust-red gash.

 

[Sallad420]

I just bought the same wax about a week ago, still haven't tried it yet, but I did try that little Chip-stick on a scratch I had, the scratch was white on a black body, and it did a pretty good job.

I just did a small test, and buffed the scratch with a towel, it hid the scratch pretty good.