I’m due to get my new Kodiaq in a couple of months.

 

I’ve never had a brand new car so not sure if I need to treat it any differently as the paint might be softer, is it, I don’t know.

 

Can I just polish and wax as normal, or will the polish take too much off if the paint or lacquer is still a bit fresh.

 

Should I just wash it well, then put a wax on it as it’s new and hopefully the paint work will be in fairly good condition.

 

thanks

 

I'd do a polish and then a sealer, I've had 2 black cars from new and it did the job on both.  

Thanks.

 

Ill polish and wax then.   I use Collinite 915 and it does a great job on my current car, so as the Kodiaq in Race blue is going to be a similar colour it should work well.

 

 

Depends on what you mean by polish.  Some polishes are just really filling minor swirls and halos, leaving a uniform'ish layer over the top that will ultimately fade/dull over time/washes. OR, you can actually use a polishing machine and varying levels of abrasive pads/product to permanently remove swirls and halos.  Unless you are using a machine (or to a lesser extent, a Sonus SFX pad or similar) you aren't really going to touch the top coat and certainly not enough to cause any damage.  I would say rubbing the cars paint with anything before decontaminating the paint and washing thoroughly will actually cause more harm than good as you'll likely introduce fresh marring and micro-scratches. 

 

A new car will likely have a lot of fallout on it and a load of other contamination...sitting at the docks, being transported by train (iron/metallic fallout) and not to mention whatever the valet monkey does to the car during PDI.  

 

My last few VW group cars had medium hardness of paint.  Rubbish for stone chips and such but relatively easy to detail.  The last two cars I've had have been factory orders and both had paint that was far from clean. 

 

Personally I would give it a wash and pat it dry then put your hand inside a plastic bag and rub over the body panels, if it's dragging and not passing over the car smoothly then I'd say there's some contaminants bonded to the surface already...so then I'd go down the route of applying fallout remover, rinse, then claying each panel before washing again and reassessing the paint.  The more crap you can remove before rubbing your paint with polish/sealant the better.  It will allow the product to work to it's full potential and should also last longer too.  

 

My wife used to have a Deep Impact blue Fiesta.  It was the best colour/paint to work on.  Almost looked like liquid when it was freshly cleaned ; the Kuga looks lufly

Edited 14 February, 20206 yr by penguin17

Thanks

 

I dont do any aggressive polishing, a machine polisher scares me.

 

Perhaps I will opt for fallout remover, clay bar, gentle polish, then a good wax.

 

The Deep Impact Blue is a good colour to work with.  I'm hoping Race Blue will be similar.

9 minutes ago, GrowlingDog said:

Thanks

 

I dont do any aggressive polishing, a machine polisher scares me.

 

Perhaps I will opt for fallout remover, clay bar, gentle polish, then a good wax.

 

The Deep Impact Blue is a good colour to work with.  I'm hoping Race Blue will be similar.

Google 'DAS6-PRO' polisher...

 

https://www.cleanyourcar.co.uk/das-6-pro-dual-action-polisher?UA-26518971-1&gclid=CjwKCAiAp5nyBRABEiwApTwjXirLrWdACBvcSy7FPps3e4ULgvsgOKU3QQNzUCfzB9YOI9c5xtVW0hoCUSMQAvD_BwE#186=25

 

Honestly, nothing to worry about.  You'd have to seriously and monumentally screw up to go wrong with one of these things.  Don't confuse them with the hardcore rotary polishers which can, if not used carefully, 'burn' through paint and cause more damage than you're trying to correct. 

 

Look on youtube at some video tutorials (Chemical Guys Channel is awesome IMO) and you'll see they're quite easy to use.  Honestly, they pay for themselves in time/effort saved and the finished results.  Also handy to have should your car pick up the obligatory car park scuff.  

You shouldnt need to polish a new car, i would just put a wax on it to seal it.

 

if you start getting swirls and stuff then autoglym srp polish has next to no abrasive particles and will fill in the defects making it look fresh again then top off with a wax.

 

if you don’t use car washes (the devil) a wax every now and again is all you will need

 

rotary polisher is only really required for older paintwork that has been through the car wash by owners who don’t care about paintwork

Edited 14 February, 20206 yr by BigJase88

You say that Jase, but I’ve seen cars coming out of the factory that looked terrible. This includes expensive Range Rovers and Jags 😱

1 hour ago, jars said:

You say that Jase, but I’ve seen cars coming out of the factory that looked terrible. This includes expensive Range Rovers and Jags 😱

Someone who is into detailing and looking at their car under a microscope then fair enough, detail it, rotary polish it until ones heart is content.

 

for the majority a new car and a coat of wax is all that is required really. 

No need for a microscope, just sunlight. 
 

I must be the only one expecting a £70k car to have pristine paintwork 🙄

I expect my 30k car to have immaculate paintwork, however I imagine the treatment it gets in transport and then it the dealership will need repairing immediately.  
 

I’m not after perfection, but I don’t want swirls and I do want a nice coating with excellent water beading.

16 hours ago, BigJase88 said:

You shouldnt need to polish a new car, i would just put a wax on it to seal it.

 

if you start getting swirls and stuff then autoglym srp polish has next to no abrasive particles and will fill in the defects making it look fresh again then top off with a wax.

 

if you don’t use car washes (the devil) a wax every now and again is all you will need

 

rotary polisher is only really required for older paintwork that has been through the car wash by owners who don’t care about paintwork

I agree in theory but by the time the car has been transported and washed by the clowns at the dealers before delivery they are invariably damaged by the time you get the car. Plus loads of contaminants and fall out, depending how long and where the car was stored during transit.

 

I had my new Superb professionally polished and ceramic coated after delivery. It took the guy 6 hours to deal with all correction work - and to me it didn’t look bad beforehand.

 

but the before and after pictures tell it all really..

In all honesty, cars can be washed by the manufacturer if they’ve been sat there a little while. It’s in the contracts with the transport companies that the cars they (the transport companies) pick up are clean enough to conduct a pre-transit inspection, so the damage is, on occasions, inflicted by the manufacturer themselves! 

My 2018 car when new was not bad at all, no matter how you treat the car swirls are inevitable, after a year the car has swirls anyways. You can never keep them swirl free

Got silver Roomster from new. Always washed with plain water no detergent and every 3 months I have given it a coat of Autoglym High Definition Wax and the paintwork is still showroom fresh after 6 years. I make a point of a good waxing before a holiday trip so insect and tar stains only want a wash off on my return. I have never required the abrasive properties of a polish or used detergent.