I saw a commercial for this the other day and was wondering if anyone has tried it out. It looks like it works pretty good, especially for suv's and larger cars that take so dang long to wax and stuff.

http://www.mothers.com/products/

 

Eeek... I don't know. That scares the **** out of me for some reason.

 

lol. me too

 

Your best bet is a Porter Cable 7424 with some Lake Country pads.

 

Yeah who knows. It's pretty cheap so i might get one and try it out on another car or something first before mine.

 

Well i went a head a bought one for like 25 bucks and tried it out with the sample wax they provided on my friends accord. It worked pretty well and left no signs of swirl marks. I ditched the sample wax and used some better caranuba wax on my car. Let me just say it worked great. Simply just spread some wax on the surface of the car or onto the ball and begin working it around the surface. Just make sure to keep the ball well saturated in wax and you'll be fine. I was able to wax my entire car in about half the time it would have taken me to do it by hand. And the results were just the same or maybe even better. Now it is probably by no means better than one of those more expensive buffers or polishers but it stil gets the job done and leaves great results. And it doesn't kil your arms from doing it by hand.

 

Thanks for trying it out and posting up your though, wakeboardr!! I think I'll stick to my PC though.

 

Yeah no problem. It's just between school and work and everything else its hard for me to find the time to take and wax and care for my car by hand, and this looked like something that could help out and it did.

 

yah i tried it too works great it even took out some swirl marks i had

 

From what I've been reading around here, by-hand is the best option for wax (and polish/glaze/sealant by machine). But, I could attach this bad boy to my RYOBI driver and go to town on the car with wax?

Does anyone know WHY it's best to wax by hand?

 

I wouldn't say you should go to town and run the drill at full speed. I tried to keep it at a medium speed 1/2 to 3/4 on the trigger and applied light to medium pressure. And you want to be sure to use the top of the ball and not the sides of it and make sure it spins clockwise, not sure why but thats what it says. Also you dont want to use any kind of paste waxes either.

 

what kind of wax do you use then? why not paste wax?

 

I dunno why. thats just what the instructions that came with it said. I used some Mothers Caranuba wax.