Boiled Plastic?

[89HatchbackLxi]

I don't believe in putting wax on new cars or new paint too so everybody has their basis for forming opinions.

Same here.

It really just depends how long the paint has been on the car. If the paint has been on the car for 90 days or more, it's pretty much a guarantee that waxing the car it won't harm the paint. As long as there's the clear coat layer on top, the number of candy or tint layers under it shouldn't effect whether or not you should wax the car. If the car's paint was applied less than 60 days ago, it might be a good idea to wait another month or so before you wax it for the first time. Especially in cooler climates.

[DBMaster]

Rock Auto appears to have headlight assemblies for the 1990 Town Car at under $100 each. Still not chump change, but at least they are out there.

[2oodoor]

I expect the increased role these newer car headlights play in the entire facia , and the size, they are made of improved grade plastics.
Honestly is been longer than i care to say, that i've even had anything worth putting wax on. Going by what i see happen to vehicles at work though it wears down the clearcoat and makes the car age. These are cars that stay outside all the time though and never get pampered. It erks me too to see wax on black matte and all in the cracks, poor applications.

Garages are a blessing to have.

[lostforawhile]

Rock Auto appears to have headlight assemblies for the 1990 Town Car at under $100 each. Still not chump change, but at least they are out there.

I can mold new ones for the cost of one lens, and I believe I can get a uv inhibitor for the acrylic, people have molded impossible to find taillight lenses and turn signal lenses for decades, headlight lens should be the same only bigger

[DBMaster]

Guy, I agree about garages. I lived in Corpus Christi for a couple of years when the Accord was only a whipper-snapper and the heavy dew combined with all the ocean and chemical plant crap that gets blown around by the constant 30 mph winds would quickly corrode a car. I saw plenty of 3G's back then with visible rust, especially around the trunk lid.

A friend of mine down there had a new Cadillac STS which she did keep in the garage. She told me, "How much is the crap worth that fills most people's garages?" Good point. In my area they park on the street because their garages are full of crap. So, a brand new car sits on the street getting beat on by the Texas heat, rain, HAIL, and the occasional drunk that runs into parked cars. I guess it must be easier in states where the houses have basements. Still, I get pissed at my neighbors for congesting the neighborhood streets.