matt852

Hey I park my Jeep in the driveway and there is no other place to park it and it is completely covered with trees and I know that sap on car paint is bad. So how often should I clean my Jeep to make sure the paint stays good? I usually clean it every month to the month and a half and its a Deep Water Blue JK.

Thanks

spleify

Well here are a couple of tips that I hope will help you, and others.

A good hand wash with a mit and some good car wash soap will cut the sap. If you have some old crusted on sap and its real stubborn, isopropyl rubbing alcohol will cut it with ease! After you have it all off and nice and clean and shiny. Be sure to add a good coat of wax. Any good carnuba wax will do. IMO a carnuba wax, is a carnuba wax is a carnuba wax. You dont need to spend a lot on some fancy name, just some type of carnuba. Wax's will only really last for 30 days, and the process should be repeated monthly.

The wax will help a little bit for making it easier to remove the future tree sap, and to help protect the finish.

HTH

Good luck

mandor6863

Just adding my 2 cents - I tend to use WD-40 on the tree sap from the pines in my driveway. Works well, does not discolor the paint or finish.
Hope this helps.
Tim

matt852

Thanks for the input guys. Yeah I mean wash with soap and water not wax. I've never waxed the Jeep before I'll start doing it though to give it that extra layer. Is there anything I should do if sap gets on the soft windows? I always hand wash cause I don't get why people get their Jeeps cleaned by people when it only takes 10 minutes with a crew of 4 sons haha.

funwthmud

I tend to wash my jeep only every 2 to 3 months. unless i see something on it that needs to be washed off. i do hose the dust of daily. where i park my jeep for work i get sap and bird crap on it. alot of times on the way to work i seem to get tar also. regular soap just dont cut it for me. I wait until its cool an spray it down with simple green scrub & and rinse. then i go over it with wash and wax. I try to do a carnuba wax twice a year.

Lorrel

If you havn't waxed it before, you may want to go over it with a good claybar prior to waxing.

matt852

Thanks Lorrel I will do that whats a good wax you guys recommend?