Most high end wax guys like Zaino tell you to wash you car with Dawn etc. before using their products because it will strip wax and such off. They then tell you to use car washing soap.

The mainline car wax companies all say not to use dishwashing or household soap on a car.

I have also heard claims that it will turn car rubber brown.

I know back when I started using Zaino in 2001 I used Dawn on a car for prep like they said. The car had Mothers on it and it killed the beading of water on it.

Edit: Oh, BTW...the guy that painted my hot rods does use Dawn and solvents to take stuff off cars and prep them.

 

i am an adam's polishes guy myself, and they said wash with dish soap to remove the old wax before putting on the new stuff as well.

 

All good to know, thanks. Like I said I use only a few drops in a bucket so that may be why I never saw much of a difference.

 

NP, i have found in all honesty there is no comparison to some good car car stuff and most of what you can get at walmart. I used adams polishes to remove swirls and them super machine wax and finished it off with their americana wax, the grabber blue glows. the thing i really like though is that the wax is so slick bugs and tar can't stick i can blow them off with my water hose sprayer. anyhow, wax that boss and stop with the dawn

 

It is, in fact, a decal. I posted this back in Jan. because one of the Detroit Auto Show Boss 302's had the decal peeling at the corner.

Dave

 

I saw that at Detroit as well, at the time I didn't know if it was some kind of vinyl sticker or a thick decal,,Bottom line, someone tried to see if it was a decal/sticker and pulled on the edge with a fingernail--->IMO!