Polished the car over the weekend.

When I bought it, he handed me about half a bottle of Turtlewax colour magic, with the wonderful line "you don't have any excuse to not do it".

I do, it is s**te.

I washed it last week after a week of owning, and as most of the turtle wax had washed off, horizontal surfaces like the roof, bonnet, rear spoiler where almost pink and patchy in places. After another week of driving they were rough as sandpaper with all the grit it had held and looking so dirty I had to wash it again.

So, I pulled out my trusty Autoglym resin polishm, and autoglym top coat.

Took 3 aplications of resin polish to get it back to red, although there are still one or two small patches on the roof that need work, but at least it has a pretty much even shine with the top gloss finish.

What is it with some people who have no idea about the difference between a crap wax, and a polish. Who then go on to slap gallons of wax onto the car each time they wash it, until it is about 1/2thick and so dull, and because they can't get a shine, slap on some more wax?

Need to get some more top coat/sealer/wax soon as my autoglym is running low. I'm goign to keep using the resin polish as it is fantastic, but any recommends on a good top coat, as the Autoglym is a very runny liquid, and can easily be wasted on vertical panels. A paste or wax (not T-Wax colour magic please) would be better.

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MeatballTurbo
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Give MaxWax a try, I think it's made by Turlewax, it's the best compromise between finish and ease of use I've found. Lasts months and is "really" easy to apply and polish...

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Tony Bond

Seconded. That's the stuff I used to use back when I could be arsed to polish my car :)

IIRC, it's made by Simoniz ?

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Nom

So is there ClearVue wax, probably explains why it was buy one get one free as all it dose is leave streaks all over the car.

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Depresion

I'll give it a look. Like i said I like finish of Autoglym gloss, but it a bugger to apply to verticle panels.

Reply to
MeatballTurbo

La Mer?

What's that got to do with the price of fish? :-)

Peter

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AstraVanMan

Meguiars NXT is top stuff - best polish I have ever used. Meguiars are a huuuge company in the US and now sell stuff in the UK I used to use their 3 stage stuff (deep cleaner, polish then wax) then they brought out a 1 stage "polish" which is properly easy to apply. There is a forum on their website or do a google search for people raving about the stuff (these are proper anal people who think nothing of spending a whole day polishing a car with 3 or 4 stage Zaino).

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Reply to
GoJohnnyGoGoGoGo

Probably, Simoniz/Turtlewax, whats the diff ? (I knew I'd heard of 'em tho') ;)

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Tony Bond

I've been know to spend an 1 washing and then 1 1/2 polishing and 2 glossing.

And I'm not obsessed with it.

Reply to
MeatballTurbo

Hours or days? I spent over 5 hours washing mine and the wife's cars, waxing the wheels, etc on saturday...

Paul

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GoJohnnyGoGoGoGo

Mer is the bollox, My car is always waxxed with MER, and I love infomercials :)

Ronny

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Ronny

I've got some meguairs stuff - cleaner wax, I think. In the days when I could be arsed to polish the car, I quite liked it.

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Doki

hours. Tends to get washed once a month, re-glossed 4-6 times a year, and polished 2-4 times a year. Using the Autoglym stuff, seems to hold out pretty well.

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MeatballTurbo

Yep. When I had the old white favorit, it was full of stone chips, flat paint, and dirty scratches.

So I t-cut it, and it looked better but not great, so out came the Ferecla G3, much better.

And then I made the mistake of using White colour magic to mask the dirty scratches that remained,and the wax crayon lipstick for the chips.

Was terrible stuff, streaks, powedery, dull spots, no matter how you buffed it. Absolutley terrible.

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MeatballTurbo

AFAIK Was the best (only available to the trade) for years before QVC et al started selling it to the masses.

Guy back home used to restore old cars, he'd always use Rolls Royce paint. He would only let a car be seen by his customers if every panel on the car would stand up to his yardstick test.

He'd place the yardstick on the panel, and if the reflection was clear all the way to the end of the yardstick, he was satisfied. Used this weird stuff called Mer, now available in Halfords!

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fishman

pic of the car doing it's bling thing?

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Vamp

In what way ?

Pour AutoGlym onto cloth, wipe cloth in circular motion on door panel, leave for a few ticks to dry, wipe off with dry cloth.

It's not like you pour it straight onto the door panel or anything (or are you daft enough to pour it straight onto the door panel ? :)

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Lordy

To arrive shortly, although, TBH, I drove it yesterday (only motorway) and it is dirty again. What is it with red cars and dirt?

Reply to
MeatballTurbo

I like that guys standards.

And I shall look into Mer polish and the rest of the range then.

Reply to
MeatballTurbo

Try a matt black car. They show fingerprints better than a CSI.

Fraser

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Fraser Johnston

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