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Hey guys I just got my car resprayed about a month ago.

I was told not to polish or wax it yet.

Is this right?

All I have been doing is washing the car once a week since I hate dirt getting stuck on the car.

I'd agree with that.

Wash it to keep it clean, wax it in a month or too for protection and it shouldnt need a real polish (ie cutting compounds)

My car was painted close to 3 years ago, and to this day it hasnt needed a polish, it is just washed and waxed reguarly. (has had a few bits touched with the clay)

Yep, don't polish or wax a new paint job for at least a month. The paint needs time to cure - basically the solvents used to make the paint a liquid need to evaporate out and if you wax it you put a barrier on the paint that stops that process.

On a new paint job either just wax, or use a pure polish (for example Meguiars #7 Show Car Glaze) to bring out the depth of the paint more. Don't use a polish that cuts the paint :D

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[man it probly needs a cut n polish not just a wax... wax is to protect the paint but if your just waxing crap it aint gona do nufn... well thats what i know....... use to do detailing on prestige cars. good luck.

You do not have to cut and polish your car to achieve a shine like this providing your paint work is in great condition.

Wax is what creates the dept and shine. Its not hard to achieve this finish jst time and patience.

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at the moment my rear bar is a white gelcoat fibreglass, and im guessing it might be harder to clean the black stains of it from my exhaust (when it starts building up)

can anyone recommend a good cleaning item to clean the black stains of the white gelcoat? i guess when i get it painted they might need to sand it back a bit :O

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Hey All, So after using a lot of different types of Wash/polish/waxes I thought I might give the Autoglym stuff a go. I just first of all like to say that im not really here to say that one brand is better then another, I use all different types, and I thought id post this up as a guide.

First of all I washed my car using Autoglym Shampoo at the car wash and then dried the car.

The 2nd step was to go around the car looking for minor scratches and imperfections in the paint and tabbing it with Meguires scratch X. letting it dry and then buff it by hand. This also helped get rid of some swirl marks.

The 3rd step I missed out on as the closest auto store to me had run out of the meguires clay and lube combo, and while I really wanted to do this, I had to skip it until next time as i couldnt be assed trying to track one down.

The 4th step was to use the Autoglym Deep Shine Polish (Its meant to be better for darker cars then their normal resin polish) pretty much lightly coverd the car with this stuff using a micro fiber cloth (one panel at a time) and then buffed it back by hand. (yes my arm is killing me)

I was pretty impressed after buffing back the whole car, the panels immideitly seemed more reflective and the little scratches and so on were either gone or becme less visible

The 5th step was to put on the Autoglym Extra Gloss Protection (wax). This was a like a clear liquid that your meant to just dab onto a clean cloth and then dab onto the paint without rubbing it in. This liquid started to dry into like a thin film after a few mintues and according to the directions I had to let it dry for around 30-60 mins. I then buffed it all back by hand once again. Once I had buffed it back and all the wax/smudges was removed. I got a new cloth and polished each panel again with more force. This really brought out the Paint.

Verdict: Keeping in mind that my car is a 93 model R33 (so the paint is over 13 years old), I thought that the paint came out really well. The Polish and wax from autoglym was great I found and the best thing about it was that it didn’t leave hardly any white powder which is a pain in the ass when u have a black car cos it always gets in between the paneling. Price wise, its not too bad, $35 something for the polish and $25 something for the gloss protection. The Autoglym car shampoo wasn’t anything special and it didn’t foam as much as say the meguires stuff, however it did clean really well.

All feedback welcome.

Cheers,

Din.

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Pics:

1. at the wash, (before)

2. after washing

3. with the polish on and then buffed

4. And another

5. With the Extra Gloss protection (wax) on and then buffed back

6. outside after final buff

7. After photo

8. Products used (forgot to put in the scratch x)

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I have found that a product called Carlack 68 is a great base for polishing, applying fairly thick as its pretty piss easy to get off and then a nice coat of Meguiars Gold Class will bring the car up awesome.

Also, a product called Platinum Car Polish by Autoglym is also too.. just hard to get your hands on some unless you're in the detailing business. I use to be, hence where I got it from, but if you can get some.. its worth it ;)

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Just got my random orbitial polisher so this weekend its swirl kill'in time

Plan

Wash - Just some Meguires

Clay - clay magic and some wolfgang lube

Wash - Zymol Auto Bathe

Swirl removal - Pinnacle XMT 1.0 on a polishing pad

Polish - Pinnacle finishing polish on an ultra fine pad

Wax - Zymol Japon by hand...maybe two layers if i have time to let it sit.

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Swissol has a good rep as a high end brand but I find some of it a bit over priced. $50 for 250ml of car bath is Oprah money or is that Zymol money. The Samuari wax sounds interesting probably similar to the Zymol Japon but a bit cheaper.

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