Wash, Wax...Rain!

So anyway it is a beautiful Saturday morning and I decide that it is a great day to detail my taco. I finish waxing it and a whole bunch of storm clouds slide in and open up on my hard work. Majorly pissed off. Anyway here are a couple pics of my clean truck. Its stock, but I will be doing my first mod on Tues, adding some nerf bars. Then I want to paint the rims and grill black, and eventually do BHLM's.





I want to paint these black until I can afford new wheels and tires.


The Rain

 

I washed, clay bared, and waxed my wife's ride yesterday and the same thing happened. Oh well.

Nice looking truck.

 

Well since you waxed it, all the little dirt and debris should come off fairly easily with a soft cloth.

 

yeah, now you can find out how well you waxed your truck. it shouldn't be that big of a deal since all the rain should be beading up

 

looks good man!


its just murphy's law.............anytime you clean the truck up....it is guaranteed that it'll rain!!

 

Dont you know that when you detail the truck its supposed to rain, works like an old indian rite to call for the rain....

 

Yeah I shouldn't have been surprised. The rain beaded up pretty good, so it shouldn't be too hard to get it cleaned up again.

 

Can you get clay bar with out the lube? I've got a lot of lube from kits but the clay is dirty. Thanks

 

Sorry to hear about that. I could only imagine that hours of your life were just wasted away, BUT you know as well as all of us that our trucks look good dirty too and that the time spent cleaning her is really not time wasted, but time well spent. It looks good either way. All the more reason to go out and find a mud puddle!!! Got to look for the positive in the rain. It means MUD! Lucky!!!!

 

yeah the rain yesterday and today was pretty random.. it looked like a nice day, then all of a sudden its raining probably the hardest this year haha

 

Same thing happend to me today. Yesterday my truck looks AWESOME, today it looks like crap from the rain and dirty roads from construction. What do you do? Oh well...

 

Hahaha that never fails to happen to me also. Damn unpredictable Texas weather

 

I know you can get just the clay bars on line - autogeek.net is one place. I haven't seen them in stores.

 

it rained BECAUSE you waxed it.

 

Thanks for the info. I didn't even know what clay baring was until I checked out the website. I'll have to try it and see how the paint comes out.

 

Don't feel to bad, I Zaino'ed the wife's truck at my neighbors house using her garage, spent 6-7 hours wash, clay bar, wash, and 3 coats Zaino. It stayed dry for 30 minutes just long enough for my wife to seen truck immaculate. I reside myself to the fact that the paint is protected.

 

I didn't know either until I found this site last year and read through the detailing thread... there's alot of information there...

 

It never fails, a couple weeks ago i did the same thing on the X and 10 minutes after i was done it rained

Nice looking truck...

 

i had the same thing happen to me today..washed the truck, and it rained tonight. O well, what ya gonna do

 

Thanks!