What is car wax?

What is the best wax for black cars? Wax (or wax) is a protective product used to protect a surface, such as the body of a car, from external contaminants.

It is composed of several ingredients with wax as the main ingredient.

Do not forget to check our category for wax and sealant .

Natural and synthetic wax (hybrid)
The waxes may contain polymers to improve their characteristics, when these polymers are synthetic, they are called silicones .

When the silicones are used in a wax product, it becomes a hybrid wax. Although the "hybrid" or term "synthetic" does not refer directly to the silicone ingredients, it refers to sealants (sealing), which are based on polymer protection products.

A wax with silicone ingredients is therefore considered a mixture of a wax product and a sealant.

Since the focus is on the wax ingredient, there is no obvious need to express the fact that a wax is hybrid. Almost all commercial waxes contain polymers, but not all of these polymers are synthetic.

Waxes that do not contain synthetic polymers (silicones) are called natural wax .

ingredients
In general, a wax consists of:

Wax: as main ingredient
Solvents: to use the wax and wipe it after application
Oils: to soften the product and help its application
The wax used can be very different, for example:

Wax carnauba
Beeswax
Etc.
The wax used may depend on certain characteristics.

The carnauba wax is powerful, which offers more reflection to the paint (luster), the beeswax is lighter and offers a warm shine to the color. This is due to the refractive index created by the wax.

Several different waxes are often mixed to combine their characteristics and create a wax that is primarily aimed at providing shine to the car's paint and improving the color of the bodywork.

Self-sacrificial layer
Wax is, unlike most other protection products, self-sacrificing.

This means that it prevents dirt from coming into contact with the painting by sacrificing itself. For example, sand particles can be trapped in the wax layer.

By trapping dirt, she will not be able to come in contact with the paint underneath, but that means the wax layer becomes dirty. Which in turn means that it must be replaced after a certain time. Source detailing wikipedia .

The wax can also degrade over time due to its sacrifice to protect the paint. The trap of dirt and decomposition cause a change in the surface tension, which creates fewer round water drops (beads). The beads become flatter, with irregular edges and lower surface contact angles.

WTCC - Portugal: Vila Real, house of cars

A circuit was laid out in the streets of this city of 50,000 inhabitants to host a round of the championship of cars. Explanations. By Antoine Grenapin , Special Envoy to Vila Real, Portugal

Just 100 kilometers east of Porto, Vila Real is surrounded by the green and hilly landscapes of Algavre. Be careful not to be confused: it is not about Villarreal, the Spanish city enclosed a few kilometers from Valencia known for its football club with yellow jerseys. Vila Real, the Portuguese, is above all one of the steps not to be missed for all those who wish to discover the Algavre, in the north of the country. A city of 50,000 inhabitants which is famous for its white stone buildings, its wines, but also its passion for motor sport. For the first time, Vila Real hosts this weekend a round of the world championship for passenger cars, the WTCC, with a circuit in the city center. Thousands of inhabitants can thus attend from their balconies the performances ofSébastien Loeb , José-Maria Lopez and regional stage, the Portuguese Tiago Montairo.

However, nothing predisposed the actors of the WTCC to leave the circuit of Boavista near Porto, where a race has been disputed in recent years. Except that the mayor who supported this race did not represent himself last year and his successor was reluctant to commit. Consequence: the meeting of Portugal does not appear on the sketches of the calendar of this season prepared last November. However, difficult to imagine this country keen on motorsport does not host this race. This is the conclusion of François Ribeiro, the promoter of the WTCC which is activated: "One of our race directors is Portuguese and had spoken to me about Vila Real.I discussed it with Tiago Monteiro (the Portuguese driver Honda, Ed.) who thought the idea was very good even if he.

"The car, a second religion after football"
The day after the last round of last season, in MacaoFrançois Ribeiro goes to Vila Real where he asks to make two laps. This one being urban, it is stuck in the local traffic that it discovers this winding and very fast course. "In the second round, I did not look at the road, but the eyes of Tiago Monteiro who accompanied me," recalls François Ribeiro, his eyes wide and oscillating between apprehension and excitement. "We can not ride here," says the Portuguese. "For me, it was the opposite: the concept of danger and the difficulty of the circuit offer a real sporting challenge," says the promoter of the WTCC. A week after this discovery, he proposes to the FIA ​​(the International Automobile Federation) the calendar of the 2015 season with a round in Vila Real.