Car detailing?

[mwsriders]

I have a black 97 grandam gt . I use turtle wax colored wax. It is black in color and makes the color really deep. I also use maguiars nXt car wash. Make sure you use a car wash not dish soap because dish soap will strip that nice wax job right off your car.

[LeatherPants]

A clay bar is an abrasive meant for smoothing out drips after spraypainting.

it's current marketing status as a cleaning tool is just that, marketing.

if you dont' clean furniture with sandpaper, don't use clay. if you screw things up you can really screw things up.

ditto for powered polishing tools.

The best way to prevent swirls is to always clean/polish/wax in STRAIGHT LINES. Mr. Miyagi was wrong! swirls show up best at a 90 degree angle to the scratch, if you use round strokes then you're always going to be 90 degrees away from some mark, and be able to see it. if you use straight lines then there will only be one small area where you see the marks, and the rest of the time the car will look better.

of course, I only know all this from dealing with freinds who are car nuts. I use the $6 automatic drive-through car wash/wax at the gas station. ;-)

I agree 100% with the straight lines but not the clay.

Have you ever noticed that no matter how much you wax and polish certain panels especially the rear bumper or trunk deck still are not smooth?

If you look closely you can see specks in your paint. These road deposits require the clay or clay type baar to remove them. If you take one of these specks and look closley they look like tiny drops of solder. Most of the time it is brake dust that burns in to the paint. The Clay really isn't an abrasive. Think of it more like how you would remove somthing of a piece of glass.

You don't win first place trophies with just wax and polish......trust me.

[AcemanPB]

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