robnalex

The first wash of a new car is a scary event because this is almost always when we find those little defects and warts that we hadn't previously noticed. We were pretty lucky, especially since our RDX had been driven for a couple of months by the Dealership GM's wife, and had 2,500 miles on it. Only warts we've found are a teeny tiny dark area (less than 1mm) on the paint and a teeny tiny flaw in the rear window glass (a light colored area, less than the size of the head of a pin). You have to really go looking and zoom in on either of these, otherwise, you'd never notice.

Otherwise, the construction detail of this car is immaculate- every seam perfectly aligned.

What's your experience with the first wash? Was your baby perfect?

cm2021

Yes, I'm glad you brought this up. First wash, I found a slight dent on my driver's side front door. It was only visible from a certain light. I never made it back to the dealer to repair it, so I'm living it with it. I don't know if it was there during delivery or not. My first wash was two weeks after I took delivery.

Tony Pac

Glad you both had great experience

NooYawkuh

Got the car at the very end of Feb and washed it the first time a couple weeks ago. It was pretty dirty from tree pollen. No flaws dents or scratches. Only some residual glue from the adhesive protective coverings. It gleamed when I was done. Gave the windshield and rear window a Rain-X treatment. I think I'll wash it again today and Rain-X all the windows including the sun roof. I wonder how long it will be before I have the nerve to take it through a car wash. Giving it a good sponge bath is getting harder as I get older.

BUG SPLAT!! It got warm here this weekend and more bugs came out. All over the side mirrors and front of the car. That shit is hard to get off.

Wander

Yeah, about the only time I hand wash anymore is dealing with the bugs. I'm done with stressing about panel gaps, microscopic chips, and stealth door dings. Sorta.

Turtle Wax Bug and Tar Remover, or an equivalent wax-based product, is good. Less harsh and toxic than old-school solvent-based products.

Just be patient and let the stuff soak. You can also use it as a pre-wash before you enter a commercial car wash.

NooYawkuh

Turns out I discovered a spray bottle of that in the garage. I have no idea how old it is but it worked great. On bird shit too. It looks like I'll be going through a lot of it this summer. Why the hell did I buy a white car?!!

Wander

I have been pondering that as well.

A) Jackson Pollock envy. ( It's the perfect canvas for bug splatter ).

B) masochism

C) sick and tired of metallic grey/charcoal/whatever

D) all of the above

robnalex

In our case:

A) They didn't have a blue one.

B) They could have found us a blue one, but we weren't wild about the grey interior that comes with the blue exterior.

C) We've both had silver cars for 19 years.

D) Wife likes grey and black. I don't.

E) Red is just too....red.

F) Bronze looks like poop.

G) We bought into the notion that white doesn't show dirt. Turns out there are many different colors of dirt!

Alias1431

wat.

Wander

I was thinking white wouldn't show road salt. But then there's all the dark grit that gets splashed up. Kinda like salt and pepper on a potato. Oh well.

The good news is I still like the saddle brown "Espresso" interior. Package deal.

Midnight Mystery

Same for people who take delivery at night or in the rain...

robnalex

Found another imperfection on our RDX that I now can't "unsee". The paint on the middle of the edge of the spoiler, where it meets the rear of the roof, has rough, bumpy, crumbly paint job- not smooth like the rest of the edge. On the one hand, it's extremely minor (took me 3 months to notice it), on the other hand, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A GDMF LUXURY CAR!!!

Midnight Mystery

GDMF!

markm929

Thanks for pointing this out. Just for giggles I went and looked at mine in that location...same thing, rough bumpy paint. UGH! When was yours built? Mine was one of the first off the line, be interesting to see if this was corrected as the line progressed.

robnalex

Ours was built in January, 2019, so they've been turning them out like this for a while!

markm929

UGH!

JB in AZ

I'm not even gonna look!

markm929

SMART MOVE

Dereileak

I wanna check but I don’t wanna check if you know what I mean 😂

robnalex

Sooner or later you are going to look.