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Whats good niketalk. I am 22 years old and I have finally purchased my first new car from a dealership and it is a fully loaded 2008 Acura RL. I got a supersweet deal on it, and now i unexpectedly own a car that was MSRP $55,000. The car is so nice i almost don't even want to drive it for fear it will nolonger be "new" anymore.
Anyways, I have never owned a new car, or even a "nice" car for that matter, and i am looking for tips on how to care for a new car and how toroutinely clean/wash the car. For my past cars, i have just done the basic wash with zipwax car wash which seemed to work just fine. I used to own a 95 4runnerso i rarely waxed it as it was not really needed (i know you carheads are gonna say "yes its needed to protect the paint" but quite frankly ididn't care about that cars appearance at all.)
please feel free to chime in, as this is a open discussion for everyone to input their own methods, techniques, theories and styles of maintaining that new carappearance. I want my !*$+ to be gleamin on the daily, you feel me!?
anyways i'm not a total car noob, and what i really wanna know is are all the car detailing products offered really neccesary. There are so many differentkinds and types that i get confused just looking at them and if someone could just tell me the bare minimum of what it takes to keep a car looking/performingtop notch with minimal effort that would be great. please tell me the steps you use (for example i hear people talking about using 2-3 coats of different kindsof wax sometimes but i don't know which they are talking about and which come first), and your routine.
sorry for the long post and yes i could have gone to car forums for this but i know Niketalk is fully capable of helping me out. Thanks and Happy New Year toyou all.
Anyways, I have never owned a new car, or even a "nice" car for that matter, and i am looking for tips on how to care for a new car and how toroutinely clean/wash the car. For my past cars, i have just done the basic wash with zipwax car wash which seemed to work just fine. I used to own a 95 4runnerso i rarely waxed it as it was not really needed (i know you carheads are gonna say "yes its needed to protect the paint" but quite frankly ididn't care about that cars appearance at all.)
please feel free to chime in, as this is a open discussion for everyone to input their own methods, techniques, theories and styles of maintaining that new carappearance. I want my !*$+ to be gleamin on the daily, you feel me!?
anyways i'm not a total car noob, and what i really wanna know is are all the car detailing products offered really neccesary. There are so many differentkinds and types that i get confused just looking at them and if someone could just tell me the bare minimum of what it takes to keep a car looking/performingtop notch with minimal effort that would be great. please tell me the steps you use (for example i hear people talking about using 2-3 coats of different kindsof wax sometimes but i don't know which they are talking about and which come first), and your routine.
sorry for the long post and yes i could have gone to car forums for this but i know Niketalk is fully capable of helping me out. Thanks and Happy New Year toyou all.