Meguiar's Paint Products

Taking care of your car is one thing, keeping it looking like new is another. Anyone can throw some dishwasher detergent into a bucket, sponge down the car, and then drive around the block to dry the excess water. That’s not really taking care of your car, nor is driving it through a car wash once a month to get the bugs off the windshield so you can see clearer. Proper maintenance of a car, your investment, means a lot more than the occasional rain shower to clean it off.

Fortunately for those of us less inclined to spend an entire day washing and waxing our cars, we have companies like Meguiar’s doing our homework which allows us to restore and keep our car’s paint like new with very little work. Established in 1901, Meguiar’s has passed down its knowledge over the years to car enthusiasts as well as the novice with their long line of car care products. The best advice from the technicians at Meguiar’s is to always keep your car’s paint as clean as possible. With so many contaminants in the air, especially in bad parts of the country like Los Angeles, it’s not an easy task to keep the paint clean all the time.

Your Mustang’s paint is similar to our skin, needing the proper care and protection from the elements and aging. Believe it or not, your Mustang’s paint is only .006-inch thick, which means that if you don’t take care of the finish regularly, forget about it. It will be gonzo before you know it. According to Meguiar’s, repairing the original finish is far better than having it repainted for obvious reasons. Cost effectiveness, color matching, car value, and so on. These next few pages will hopefully clear up any questions or confusion you might have about how to rejuvenate your Mustang’s finish and maybe inspire you to go out there and give it a good waxing.

Many of you will remember our red-with-white SVO 4.6L project car which 5.0 Mustang & Super Fords inherited from Hot Rod magazine a year or so ago. Since the adoption of the vehicle, we’ve done some good mods like 18-inch Momo wheels with Nitto tires, a Borla Cat-Back exhaust, and a nitrous system. All of these mods have gotten our 4.6 to about 320 horsepower at the rear wheels (on the juice) which should translate to high 12s on the right slicks. Needless to say, the 4.6 has added a few miles as well as some not-so-good contaminants from the Southern California atmosphere. So for this car-care story we decided that the car was definitely in need of some paint cleaning with the help of Meguiar’s and their extensive line of car-care products. Generously, Meguiar’s sent us some of their best stuff to help the 4.6’s oxidized paint look like new again. Follow along with the photos and captions as we show step by step how to rejuvenate your Pony’s paint.