Wax stripping question

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mrgoochio

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I was curious how important it is to completely strip the wax off my car before I go in to polish it? My car is a weekend car with about 2xxx miles on it (roughly 5 months old) and has only had 1 layer of souveran paste wax on it.. applied in the early days. It's always garaged so its protected from the weather and has never seen rain. The wax is diminishing (water doesn't bead as well anymore) but I don't think its completely gone. So I ask again, how important is it to completely strip the wax before I detail it? I don't have any dawn dish soap to strip it with and I plan to wash, clay, polish, glaze, and wax it. (meguiars gold, clearkote clay, menzerna polish, clearkote rmg, souveran paste wax)
 
IMO wash, clay & polish should more then take care of 5 onth old souveran



you will be fine and the wax will be stripped
 
I've had some issues when polishing without removing a healthy LSP, but I sure wouldn't worry about not-freshly-applied Souveran.



For that matter, I've polished right through *freshly* applied Souveran before, no problem.
 
Well I'm in middle of claying right now, taking a lunch break.. my back is breaking from doing the lower areas of the bumper and I dont think the wax is going to be much of a problem. I'll probably ease the detail through the next few days and do one step at a time since I have a daily driver as well. I'll be snapping pics along the way so I'll be able to post up my first C&B soon :)
 
mrgoochio- Glad to hear it's going well.



David Fermani said:
The wax might be gone, but will the silicone?
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I've never had any silicone issues with Souveran :nixweiss I've done all sorts of things along the lines under discussion and also including pre-paint prep, and it's just never been one of those problematic LSPs.
 
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