Car polish

I used to use Simoniz Liquid Diamond. I guess there are better products around now such as Meguiars etc. I'd appreciate your advice please.

Mothers

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Meguiar's

Kemo-pro.Expensive but gives amazing results :)

Mothers all the way
dont use turtle wax or armouroldits just like dishwashing detergent

Cant go past Dura Seal, Costs $250to treat car and guaranteed for 5 years, has been on my car since brand new (2007)and still shiny as after every wash! No soap needed to wash car, no polish, just cold water and a chamois. Awesome stuff

I've been painting cars for 21 years now, and the best polish I have ever come across is a relatively new product called Turtle Wax Ice liquid polish.

Here's a review. http://mustangworld.com/ourpics/News/ice_review_07/index.htm

Turtle wax ice, makes washing a breeze

Thanks for all the opinions.

XT88 wash your car with itleave for a wile then hose off no rubbing requiredhave been using it for 3 years would not use anything else. When it dries it has a buet shine.

Kemo-pro, followed by flash.

Kemo-pro is great stuff

I don't like any of the stuff you can get from repco. I prefer to go to the paint wholsalers and buy farecla or similar trade product. Its heaps better value, even though its "proper" stuff usually around $45 will buy you a whole litre which will last you years! Its also a significantly better product than most stuff from retail outlets and in my opinion even better than the overpriced "mothers" products and similar.

The key thing though is probably not the Polish though. Most people don't "read" their paint to see what it actually needs.

Its not often that a car will just need a wax, and if you ignore the proper prep you end up just sealing in contaminants which will eventually result in little "pinhole" rust spots and other annoying problems.

So. give the whole car (or at least a portion) a really good clean) then look for minor abrasions that may mean you need to use some degree of cutting. A product like farecla's G10 will get rid of most minor abrasions without grinding hang out of the paint.

If there are no obvious abrasion marks run your hand over the paint, if you can hear a faint sound like your fingers are rubbing together and your fingers don't just glide accross like its teflon you probably need to clay bar the car first.

Clay barring is easy and will lift all the nasty contaminants (like rail dust) out of your paintand stop them being sealed under the wax. After clay barring you could then use something like farecla's wax top.

The pro quality wax type final finishes don't contain silicone as you don't want that on rags etc around car painting shops but I find the farecla one at least still shines beautifully and lasts well.

Both a clay bar and the farecla wax products are applied by hand and don't require any specialist tools (other than perhaps a spritz bottle and some microfibre towel's.

If you need to remove some abrasions with a light cut that is best done with a machine though. I can walk you through a nice cheap way of getting set up with a "proper" polisher that will work every bit as well as the real thing. However what ever you do, don't buy one of those silly super cheap auto home polisher rubbish things. The way I do it is to use a knock off of the Hitache Polisher which will take the correct polishing pads and work at the right speed, but is still cheap to buy.

Best of luck!

Detailing your paintwork properly is incredibly satisfying (as the results should be as good or better than any groomer can do) and surprisingly the proper process usually dosn't take long.

that's just a good car wash (I use it myself), however it does not constitute as a polish and will definitely not remove imperfections in the paint such as swirl marks, scratches and oxidation.

Well thanks but I'm not sure I'm energetic enough to do the full polishing thing. Maybe a claybar (I can see the merit in that) and then a wash with XT88.
Appreciate your thoughts.

Auto glym is a good product

I think you would want more than XT88 on your paint after clay barring it (as this removes all protection).
The good news is though, the proper glaze products like the farecla wax top don't require any elbow grease to put on. Its really a pretty quick and easy wipe on wipe off type process as its liquid with no abrasive, nothing like polishing with Simonize etc.