But you see, it's not a lot of time involved if you are doing it right. The way I explain it is very similar to weight loss. Check this out.
Imagine being 450-pounds overweight. Now you didn't get there in one day and 14 hours so of course, it ain't gonna come off that fast either. But imagine if you were to do all the things necessary to lose that much weight. You would:
1. Get a thorough understanding of how different foods affect you personally and if said foods are things that you in particular should or should not be eating.
2. Learn about what is considered good food and bad food. Get an understanding of how each affects you and the human body.
3. Eliminate all of the foods that are of no gain to you, and that have a negative impact on your overall health. Notice that I haven't said one word about exercising because it does you NO GOOD to exercise when you are constantly polluting your body with garbage that is counter-productive to all the energy that you are going to expend while exercising.
At this point and ONLY at this point are you ready to start exercising. You put yourself on a regiment that you can accomplish without strain. You want to start out by doing something that you will not dread looking forward to, so that you will keep the activity up without fail. You will slowly start to see the benefit of your activity in that you will become more alert, you will sleep better and feel like doing more activities because of your newfound energy. This in turn will allow you to gradually increase your exercise regiment, which in turn will gradually increase all of the positive effects that you are receiving from this healthy activity.
Now once you start all of this healthy activity, there is one thing that you are going to simultaneously do.
EAT RIGHT AND EAT HEALTY, EAT RIGHT AND EAT HEALTY, EAT RIGHT AND EAT HEALTY, EAT RIGHT AND EAT HEALTY, EAT RIGHT AND EAT HEALTY, EAT RIGHT AND EAT HEALTY, EAT RIGHT AND EAT HEALTY.
Now notice the order that I have explained how to get into shape. The first thing that I had you do was learn all about nutrition so that you could obtain a CLEAR understanding of the damage that you were doing to your body by what you were putting in it. You can't exercise like a mad man, continue eating like a slob and expect the weight to come off and stay off. You first have to understand what caused you to arrive at the poor physical shape that you are in and then, ELIMINATE ALL of the bad things that put you into that horrible shape. If you do not understand how you got there, it does you absolutely no good to try and fix it. You have to understand the bad that you were doing in order to eliminate that health risk to your body. At this point and ONLY at this point are you ready to exercise.
The combination of eating healthy and eating the right foods, in combination with regular exercise will not only get you into shape, IT WILL KEEP YOU THERE.
So now, you should be asking the question, "What the hell does this have to do with paint care???"😗
IT'S THE SAME EXACT MINDSET.
You first obtain a understanding of how your paint got jacked up to begin with. All of the things that you were doing wrong: 1-bucket washing, taking dirt off the car, putting it into your wash water and then putting that dirt back on the car while grinding it into the paint. Incorrectly removing dust off the car, drying the car off after driving it in the rain, while a MILLION tiny little rocks are covering the paint. ALL OF THAT CRAP is what put your paint into the shape that it is in when it is jacked up! So before you can even THINK about fixing your paint, you have to understand how you are destroying it in the first place. People who constantly have to fix their paint have completely skipped this MOST IMPORTANT step of the paint maintenance regime!
Once you understand HOW you were destroying your paint, you can eliminate those practices. At this point and ONLY at this point are you ready to actually fix your paint. Here's the kicker. Once you take that time to completely fix your paint, you should NEVER have to repeat that entire process EVER in the life of your ownership of that car. IF YOU DO, YOU ARE DOING SOMETHING WRONG.
The complete paint correction process is a ONE-TIME event in the life of your car. You only have so much clear coat on the car (or paint for you one-stage guys), and there are no clear-coat fairies that are going to show and and respray clear-coat on your car in the middle of the night. It is completely up to you to embrace a proven method of paint maintenance so that you NEVER have to keep fixing your paint. Sure, you may have to do a random touch up here or there, especially if your car is a daily driver but spending hours upon hours of rubbing and waxing your car? Ain't gonna happen, especially if you are married with kids. If you maximize the time you spend with your car by properly maintaining it, it won't become this every other weekend headache of all headaches, trying to maintain a beautiful looking car.
I probably wash my car twice a week and do a touch up once a month, if that. Now that I'm married, I don't remotely have all that free time I use to have for making videos but my paint maintenance has not been negatively impacted because I DON'T CREATE DAMAGE THAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED.
So if you look at paint maintenance as one would look at properly losing weight and KEEPING IT OFF, you will see how they share the same, exact mindset. As I use to say to the gangbangers when I was a young L.A. County deputy, "Don't start none, won't be none." Do your paint maintenance the same exact way. If you aren't constantly creating damage, you won't have to constantly repair damage. All of these coatings that folks are so into now is giving them a false sense of security. They THINK (mainly because of advertising), that coatings are the next best thing since Captain Crunch cereal came in a double-wide box at Costco. I, on the other hand, rely on nothing but the knowledge I have about how and when to properly touch my paint. Once you obtain that level of knowledge, you are less likely to want to or need to try every little product that hits the shelves. I will probably never get into coatings and I definitely won't be making any videos on the subject because it is not something that benefits me personally. I'm not saying that there are not benefits for some folks out there but for me? NOPE, I'm just fine.
So I will end "War & Peace" by saying this. Paint maintenance is as much of a mindset as it is a physical action. The less damage you create, the less maintenance you will do and when your maintenance only takes an hour or so, keeping your paint looking flawless all of a sudden becomes something that you will look forward to. It's definitely not a chore for those of us with the right mindset and a solid technique when it comes to caring for our rides. You don't have to make your car a garage queen either because as you will see in this video, I drive mine like I stole it! 😁😁😁
FYI: Other than a few cosmetics, my 2001 Corvette is completely stock.