I may be biased towards redgoober4life's ideas because of the fact that his posts have proven true in my experience. But that aside, i also feel that i'd rather detail my car every couple months than once every 6 or a year because no matter how well it beads or whatever, i just feel that the enviornment is too powerfull to allow anything i put on my car to really protect it for that long. The fact is, nothing you can put on your paint is more than a microscopic film that IMO is just not thick enough to fight off the contaminents, weather, bird crap, and sun that beats the hell out of your paint everyday for an entire year. I suppose it depends on where you live too. Being in L.A. my car is exposed to a paint job's equivilent of a nuclear bomb over the course of a month or 2.

I think what redgoober4life is saying, and i feel the same, is that the paint on a car is very fragile when you consider what it's exposed to. And that a good waxing every couple months not only protects it, but give peace of mind that you may not get when contemplating the fact that your car hasn't been touched for 6 months or a year, no matter whats been rubbed into it. And it also allows you to remove whats been embedded in it on a fairly ofen schedule because i really don't believe any product can keep contaminents from getting into the pain for 6 months or a year. It may keep beading, but whats embedding itself into the paint between those beads?!

Anyway, the point is that like him i cannot feel peace of mind knowing my car's paint hasn't been freshly protected for many months. I just don't feel that theres anything you can put on a paint job short of a layer of plastic that can truly keep contaminents from damaging it to some extent if you let it go that long. I guess it also depends on how much damage is acceptable to you. Wanna keep your paint as it was when new? IMO, nothing will allow that with an annual or bi-annual application.