car polish

[Drew SS]

Any one recommend some decent car polish for my black ute and the best way to do it

[Global-i]

Wax on, Wax Off, Wax on, Wax Off, Wax on, Wax Off, Wax on, Wax Off, etc
Just watch out for the little Chinesse bloke.

[wolfracer]

Drew SS said:

Any one recommend some decent car polish for my black ute and the best way to do it

Carnuaba Wax is meant to be the best, look for a high content, beart in mind it runs into the £thousands for the REALLY good stuff!
"Detailing World" keeps cropping up on here from time to time - they have full descriptions of best methods if you really want to go that far...

[Drew SS]

wolfracer said:

Drew SS said:

Any one recommend some decent car polish for my black ute and the best way to do it

Carnuaba Wax is meant to be the best, look for a high content, beart in mind it runs into the £thousands for the REALLY good stuff!
"Detailing World" keeps cropping up on here from time to time - they have full descriptions of best methods if you really want to go that far...

no i just want to take the dullness out of it wasnt sure if an orbital polisher would be any good or good old elbow grease

[Chris_VRS]

If all you want to do is buy a couple of products from Halfrauds or similar you won't go far wrong with Autoglym Super Resin Polish followed by Autoglym Extra Gloss Protection.

You'll find these abbreviated on DetailingWorld as SRP & EGP.

[Magic919]

Drew SS said:

no i just want to take the dullness out of it wasnt sure if an orbital polisher would be any good or good old elbow grease

Some decent polish and a rotary buffer would take care of that.

[S600VXR]

Noose said:

you need to ask questions here and average major fix your paint Detail Work cost about £200.

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/

you'll find everything u need to know here... my car took 12hrs to get it better than factory finnish.

WHS

Mine is black as well and it took 9 hrs of work to get it gleaming! oh and a few hundred quid!
Go and read up on Detailing work but make sure you have alot of time free! Basically you need to decontaminate the paint, polish it to correct the surface finish and then wax it. I use Do-Do juice on mine to maintain the detil job I had done and now think of polish as a cutting agent! Things are very different to when I was a teenager and it has to be said alot better if you spent the time.

[Ferb]

Chris_VRS said:

If all you want to do is buy a couple of products from Halfrauds or similar you won't go far wrong with Autoglym Super Resin Polish followed by Autoglym Extra Gloss Protection.

[Bonnie and Clyde]

S600VXR said:

Noose said:

you need to ask questions here and average major fix your paint Detail Work cost about £200.

www.detailingworld.co.uk/

you'll find everything u need to know here... my car took 12hrs to get it better than factory finnish.

WHS

Mine is black as well and it took 9 hrs of work to get it gleaming! oh and a few hundred quid!
Go and read up on Detailing work but make sure you have alot of time free! Basically you need to decontaminate the paint, polish it to correct the surface finish and then wax it. I use Do-Do juice on mine to maintain the detil job I had done and now think of polish as a cutting agent! Things are very different to when I was a teenager and it has to be said alot better if you spent the time.

Roger your car is always gleaming, but then so is mine and i manage it without the need to rub any "Do-Do juice" on it. However if it works, i'll give it a go



By the way, where can i get Do-Do juice? America yeah. Have you got a link please?

[BigNige]

If you want to do it properly you'll need a good orbital polisher.
I use a Porter Cable polisher from the USA (you'll need a transformer too), Sonus polish for removing swirl marks and Poorboys wax for shine.

This is the difference an orbital polisher can make (half & half roof picture)




All shineded up

Edited by BigNige on Thursday 12th March 18:03

[Bonnie and Clyde]

That looks good

[S600VXR]

Bonnie - see the red picture, this is the difference when you polish and when you detail. Both our cars will look shiney but I bet mines easier to re-wash for a few months once its got a few coats of "wax" on it.

As for Do-Do juice, I got mine of evil bay, not cheap but it is good stuff. Have a read up first as there are different types for dark and light paintwork. You will also need some decent size Micro fibre cloths to buff it off. (god I sound like a train spotter!)

[Bonnie and Clyde]

S600VXR said:

Bonnie - see the red picture, this is the difference when you polish and when you detail. Both our cars will look shiney but I bet mines easier to re-wash for a few months once its got a few coats of "wax" on it.

As for Do-Do juice, I got mine of evil bay, not cheap but it is good stuff. Have a read up first as there are different types for dark and light paintwork. You will also need some decent size Micro fibre cloths to buff it off. (god I sound like a train spotter!)

We have plenty of microfiber cloths. Love um. I use porsche car wax(Techquipment) and i bet mine washes and buffs up just as well as yours
although you are a bit obsessive
mind you i spend hours sitting on the drive with the brasso on my pipes so i guess i'm a bit of a weirdo also. Oh well. The things we do for vanity

[davegreg]

Autoglym's Aquawax, you don't even have to dry the car first - and it smells like bubblegum......which is nice!

[BigNige]

Considered the ultimate wax by many

https://www.monzacarcare.com/products/?cat

[Drew SS]

BigNige said:

Considered the ultimate wax by many

https://www.monzacarcare.com/products/?cat

Yeah for 7000 pound wanna be good maybe if we all throw in 100 pound each we will get one and they do say free refills for life so we could just keep refilling till we all get one each whos in for that

[BigNige]

Get this lot and you'll have the startings of a really good set of detailing kit

Porter Cable 7424's are hard to get hold of in the UK and you'll need a transformer for it to work on UK voltage but this is a good alternative.
www.thepolishingcompany.com/sonuspolishers.html

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sonus-DAS-Foam-

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sonus-Der-Wunde

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sonus-Swirlbust

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Poorboys-World-

[L2VXR]

I use harley wax always an excellent shine with little effort plus no white marks and its resonably priced for a carnuba wax

www.woodsautomotive.co.uk/Harlywax.htm

[Well_Fans]

not bad for a few hours work by hand with Meguiars 3 stage clean, polish and wax

Edited by Well_Fans on Friday 13th March 09:24

[Bonnie and Clyde]