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Hey guys,

Just pickd up a Mazda6 for the missus and the dealers detailer was obviously a monkey, I am no pro by any means but I do have a reasonable eye and the swirls/scratches etc are pretty obvious.

I was going to grab this today

http://www.meguiars.com.au/products/kits/paint-restoration-kit/

and have a go and see what I could do. I don't have an orbital fyi so this would be by hand.

Anyone tried that kit?

The car mainly suffers from obvious swirls and light scratches everywhere as it looks like it's been washed with an unwashed car wash brush. Car is "Stormy Blue" whic is a very dark black/blue colour. Blue really comes out in the sun. as do the swirls and scratches.

For the money, K's and mechanical condition though we could not pass it up.

As I understand it, I need to give ita good wash to remove loose dirt, grease etc, clay it, wash it again, get busy with the cutting compound during a decent polish and then give it a wax to seal it up. Looks like that kit would allow me to do all of that and it comes in around $60

I also noticed that on the silver interior plastics on the steering wheel there appears to be soem stains of some sort, what can I use to remove those?

Cheers

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Hi Dan.

If it's just been polished the it should not have to many containments on it!.

The marks not to bad, try clean, wax/grease remove etc and light/cut polish see how it comes up.

maybe all it needs.

guessing this stuff you have already.

No Crust Racing Grand Master

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The basic car wash I have is a wash and wax so will need some straight wash and would like to get some new polishing clothes and products too. I'll have a browse through supercheap and see what I come up with as I'd like to do my daily as well.

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If you're planning on getting a whole bunch of new stuff (wash solution and cloths) then why not go straight to good stuff from somewhere like FI or waxit?

But otherwise that meguiars kit seems like pretty good value for money, but I dont think hand polishing would get rid of too many swirls unfortunately.

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I didn't end up buying that kit as it only included small version of each product. Bought the the big bottle of the ultimate compound (the cutter) maguires applicator pads and microfibre towels and just a basic kitten polish.

The car had SO many scratches, I finished polishing it at 12 last night after starting around midday. The Maguires compound was no where near strong enough (The car has definitely spent its life being washed once a week through a brush style auto wash or something) I ended up going to a mates place (panel beater) and using his buffer with a panel beater level quality compound to cut out the scratches then used the Maguires to clear the finer scratches and swirls, then washed it or a second time that day, dried it and polished it.

Looks a lot nicer now but took a bloody long time

I hate seeing people washing cars at car washes in either brush style auto washes or using the foaming brushes in the bays....

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