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Polishing/Waxing
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Real men wax their own buses!
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Real men (and ladies) polish their slack adjusters.
Polishing copper is optional.
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Ditto what you say Tom.
Washing is easy with Larry and Diane’s recommended Shurhold brush and waxing ain’t so bad with a 16′ pick scaffold.
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Sorry this may not be the right thread for this question…. but I could not help but notice on Jon’s old bus the fog lights. What kind are they and do they work any better then just the standard ones that I have in my 98 Liberty? It looks like they would be a good up grade. Who sells them?
Thanks,
Fred
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Fred,
Maybe Liberty can offer some help on sourcing them. They are a dual unit, with one side fog lights and the other side driving lights. I avoid driving in fog so I have no opinion on how well that side works. I have used the driving lights and they are sensitive to being aimed correctly. They threw a lot of light sideways and seemed to give me the greatest benefit when aimed for about 200 feet ahead. Anything more than that and they did not seem beneficial..
The switch on the dash had three positions, Fog, Off, and Drive.
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That’s good to know, thank you. I’ll check with Liberty and see what they say.
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Detailing the outside of a 45′ bus is not for the faint of heart.
I spent 4 hours on the front. I am almost finished with the starboard side, and it will end up taking 5 hours. The back end will probably “only” take about 2.5 hours, as it has never had to endure bugs head on at 62 miles per hour (Jon’s maximum bus speed…). The roof will take another 5-6 hours, as will the port side. But once I am done (about 20-24 hours total), it will be pristine, and all I will do from then on is wash it as needed with Zaino soap, and perhaps do an 8-10 hour Zaino overcoat every couple of years. I have a Flex dual action random polisher (http://www.autogeek.net/flex-orbital-polisher.html) that I use on my cars, but I didn’t have the guts to use it yet on the Liberty, so I have done it all by hand. I have no doubt that using the random orbital buffer would cut the time by at least 50%, but I have never worked on a stainless finish, so I was a little too nervous to use the buffer. Perhaps I’ll try it on the roof.
By the way Jon, I will not continue polishing the slack adjusters. They will just have to get dirty and dull from this point forward! I will keep the copper polished, however….
Finally, it would take a huge barter to talk me into detailing the outside of Larry and Diane’s bus (or anyone else’s)!
If anyone is not familiar with Zaino, it is the best. I have used about everything else out there, and there is no comparison for results or longevity of the products.
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I’m going to go back to bed. I got tired just imagining the work Sam is going through.
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Sam,
You must be a car guy or Zaino distributor. I’ve used Zaino in what seems like forever and really like it. I must admit I never used it on anything that was very exposed to the elements. It was on street rods, the Corvette, or similiar garage queens. With the newer formulas out by Mequirs and the like, I wonder how well Zaino competes when the vehicle is out on the road or at a camp ground for a while. You’ll have to report back after a while and let us know.
BTW, I too clean and polish my own bus. Maybe it’s just the car guy in me that can’t let someone else do the work.
It does look good!
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I just have a hard time believing there was 20 MINUTES worth of cleaning you could do on something Jon used to own. You must have driven through a bug storm on the way home!!
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Apparently if Sam isn’t pickin’ and grinnin’ on his banjo, he’s waxin’ on his bus.
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I have never heard of the product Sam uses.
On the pecking order how does this product compare with McGuires ?
Using McGuires for years it works well and I believe it has quality ingredients in the make up on there premium lines.
Price point is near each other.
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It’s Meguiars Mr. NAPA. I would think a guy who made his millions would know how to spell one of the biggest selling waxes on the planet. Jeepers.
I get all the car migazines and have spent a lot of time goofing off on car forums. I get Griot’s Garage catalogs. With all this stuff coming at me I realize there are about a gazillion good car car products out there. I am not convinced the price of the product is a measure of its value, nor am I convinced any of us can do a good job comparing them unless we have a very comprehensive test with controlled conditions. So I just pick up whatever bottle looks the nicest, or whatever is on special, or one that sounds like it will work. When I wax my cars about 3 or 4 times a year the water still beads on them so obviously whatever I used last works.
No brand loyalty, don’t care what Consumer Reports says and as long as it goes on and goes off and shines I am OK to go. I do wax the front of the coach a lot. It makes bug removal easier. I have waxed the back to clean off tar and grease that seems to get pulled up against the back. The rest of it gets a wash job with cold water followed by a complete drying so there are no water spots. I just did wax the new coach. Didn’t need it, but it gave me a great excuse to go in the garage where it is 10 degrees or more cooler than outside.
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Hey Al, note Mr. Perfects spelling of “migazine” above!
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I love – it. Just does’nt get any better then that.
He is just taking it out on all of us that he needed to wax his new bus.
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