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<blockquote data-quote="ace79" data-source="post: 1076585" data-attributes="member: 4828"><p>Polish is primarily used to clean your car's paint finish ( beware, there are many types of polish, some with mild abrasives that does not eat up your clearcoat, some have abrasive cleaners that will eat up your clearcoat and requires more work with other products to "re-do" the affected clearcoat area ) and wax is a LSP ( Last Step Product ), to protect your car's finish, to give it THAT glow, to make it REFLECT better, to ease washing up the car 7 days later, to lessen and ease the removal of the effects from bird poo / tree sap etc on the car's finish. If you're the kind of fella who have the time and tools ( a rotary buffer is a damn good tool! ) you can do the whole shebang from washing, claying, wash again, repair / do treatment on affected areas of the car ( stuffs like Scratch X to lessen the effect of cobwebs, scratches on your car ), polish, wax, do tyres and rubber trims, then do clean up and finish up the interior. If you don't have lots of free time or don't have the rotary buffer ( like me! ) then just do weekly wash, polish and wax ( takes about 50 mins + 40 mins + 40 mins : total time around 2 hours and 10 mins for my 3 door hatch, maybe around 2 hours and a half plus rest in between ). If you do polish your car last week, and the finish is still very clean ( not those black grime sitting on your bonnet! ) the next time your wash your car, no need to polish and therefore save more time! With our weather, road conditions, neighbours and construction work around, it's good to do the wash + polish + wax on a weekly basis. Hell, even my car's finish is not as good as I want it to be, but I still do the routine every weekend to avoid more damages on the car's paint finish later on. Brands doesn't really matter much ( but then, Meguiar's and AutoGlym is the best and easiest to work with ) so you can actually mix and match between 'em, just make sure if, for example, the 1st polish u used to treat your car is made with synthetic polymers, the next or finishing polish must have the same basic properties as well, to let 'em work together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ace79, post: 1076585, member: 4828"] Polish is primarily used to clean your car's paint finish ( beware, there are many types of polish, some with mild abrasives that does not eat up your clearcoat, some have abrasive cleaners that will eat up your clearcoat and requires more work with other products to "re-do" the affected clearcoat area ) and wax is a LSP ( Last Step Product ), to protect your car's finish, to give it THAT glow, to make it REFLECT better, to ease washing up the car 7 days later, to lessen and ease the removal of the effects from bird poo / tree sap etc on the car's finish. If you're the kind of fella who have the time and tools ( a rotary buffer is a damn good tool! ) you can do the whole shebang from washing, claying, wash again, repair / do treatment on affected areas of the car ( stuffs like Scratch X to lessen the effect of cobwebs, scratches on your car ), polish, wax, do tyres and rubber trims, then do clean up and finish up the interior. If you don't have lots of free time or don't have the rotary buffer ( like me! ) then just do weekly wash, polish and wax ( takes about 50 mins + 40 mins + 40 mins : total time around 2 hours and 10 mins for my 3 door hatch, maybe around 2 hours and a half plus rest in between ). If you do polish your car last week, and the finish is still very clean ( not those black grime sitting on your bonnet! ) the next time your wash your car, no need to polish and therefore save more time! With our weather, road conditions, neighbours and construction work around, it's good to do the wash + polish + wax on a weekly basis. Hell, even my car's finish is not as good as I want it to be, but I still do the routine every weekend to avoid more damages on the car's paint finish later on. Brands doesn't really matter much ( but then, Meguiar's and AutoGlym is the best and easiest to work with ) so you can actually mix and match between 'em, just make sure if, for example, the 1st polish u used to treat your car is made with synthetic polymers, the next or finishing polish must have the same basic properties as well, to let 'em work together. [/QUOTE]
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