17 MarWaxoyl

This month while the Spitfire’s been temporarily garaged, I’ve taken the opportunity to remove the Waxoyl from the front wheel arches, touch up any stonechips and reapply.

Everywhere I read on the internet, Waxoyl takes a bit of a bashing. Based on my experiences, I think this is really unfair – even if there are better products out there. This car was restored and put back on the road in 2003, and used every year for the past 8 years. The previous owner had applied waxoyl and nothing more, and taking it off has revealed absolutely mint looking arches. Not only are they totally rust free, but even the paint looks like it was applied last week. The paint shop did a less than perfect job, and there are some patches of primer showing through I had to touch up with paint – even these are completely rust free, and primer is porous!

Now, given that the waxoyl was the clear variant, there were some stonechips revealed when taking it off, but not one had any rust at all on it. Touched em up which took 5 minutes, left a day and they’re now indetectable.

Today the new Waxoyl went on, instead of faffing with the spray arrangement, here’s what I did.

Take one plastic cup, pour it with Waxoyl. Put plastic cup in another plastic cup, fill larger container with boiling water and stir the waxoyl with a brush. Use brush to apply a nice thick coating of hot runny Waxoyl. Job done!

The garage does stink a bit, but there’s very little mess anywhere and my clothes are completely Waxoyl free. Total time took less than an hour to do all the important bits in the bonnet (arches, front edge, seams etc) and that part of the car is now protected for the next 7 years on the road.