Last Updated August 4, 2022
One of our favorite customer cars, the 1969 Red Jaguar E-Type came to see the Dr. Beasley’s team to get glossy before a car show. Owner Bob left the beauty in our care, only asking that the red paint POP when he came back. Most people’s first thought would be to use carnauba wax.
It makes sense; you want your paint shiny and glossy. You don’t need the gloss to last that long because the car will just be sitting in at the show looking pretty. Here’s where we contest that idea…
Ditch the Wax
Raw carnauba has a melting point of 183° F, and most automobile waxes are a blend of other waxes (beeswax’s melting point is around 130° F and paraffin wax melts at about 115° F). When these waxes are blended in a compound with a solvent, the melting point is still well under 180° F.
This means that when the paint on the panel of your car gets hotter than the melting point of the product on it, the product no longer performs as it should. You might be thinking, “It’s never that hot where I live, so I don’t need to worry about this.”
The paint on your car gets WAY hotter than the air around it, especially when parked in direct sunlight. You know this as soon as you touch the hood of a car that’s been sitting in the sun. Ouch. We’ve seen car panels get up to 200° F or higher while sitting in direct sunlight in 90° F weather.
When paint gets this hot, the extremely fine film of carnauba wax is very quickly dissipated. The product will melt from a hard wax to an oil, and then there’s no longer protection from scratches or UV rays. The wax will also be easily washed off and will pick up environmental pollutants.
What Now?!
Well now that you know that carnauba products don’t perform well in hot climates, how are you supposed to achieve gloss and shine without applying a ceramic coating or something equally as time consuming? You just use PlasmaCoat! Not only has it been reformulated for better ease of use, but it performs amazingly well in hot temperatures.
Of course, you don’t want to apply the product in direct sunlight (that goes for basically any car paint product), but when you drive the car out of the garage into the scalding hot weather, PlasmaCoat holds up.
This VOC free, instant bonding, easy to apply nano coating protects glossy paint for a year and performs in temperatures as high as 1300° F.
Applying PlasmaCoat is the exact same process as applying the carnauba waxes you’re used to, except you don’t need to let this one haze. Go panel by panel, wiping the product off with a clean microfiber after each panel is fully covered.
Proof
Just to hammer our point home, check out how bright and beautiful the red paint on the ’69 Jag E-type looks after an application of PlasmaCoat. Not only does the paint POP, but it’s protected from staining, fading, and etching for a whole year.
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