Detail Order

[Silver Phoenix]

So its time for me to detail my car once again and since my car front bumper has smashed bugs on it from driving to tampa and back I thought I should do it tomorrow.

I use clay bar, wax and polish after a wax, but what is the best order to do it in. I usually do wash, clay bar, wax, polish.

I heard after I did my car last time that I should switch the order between the wax and polish?

[The Mexican Next Door]

yes
polish fills in the scratchs or takes them out(depending on polish) and then the wax is the top protective layer

[kelso]

+1 polish is before wax, always

[Calera///]

+2
I think the polish actually removes the wax. Or at least the wax integrity.

[Silver Phoenix]

Last time I did wax then polish, it was shiny as hell for a few days, then the polish residue started to droop down the sides
lol

looked amazing for awhile after every wash though

[The Mexican Next Door]

mind telling us what products your using? not that we want to use them but might give you some adivce if they are good/bad :dunno:

[Silver Phoenix]

Ice polish, NXT wax, meguiars clay bar

[The Mexican Next Door]

both the NXT line and the meguiars clay is good stuff(defienitly not the best out there but more then adequate for a DD, some show people do use it as well) but the ICE polish :bonethug: i honestly detest the stuff
the ice polish is not a true polish in my eyes, it acts more like a light filler and more of a glaze/gloss enhancer
or atleast thats the affect it gave to me when i tried it out, but if you really like it, i have a close to new/full bottle i'll give you cuz i never use it and wont use it again

[Silver Phoenix]

What would you recommend for a polish then?

Somewhat cheap ofcourse

[The Mexican Next Door]

decently cheap and works great for me on silver colored meguiars No. 7 show car glaze

i've seen it at advance and discount auto parts, about 10 bucks if i'm not mistaken, but defiently worth it, its a very very mild polish so it will cover up or remove most minor swirls, there is other stuff i use but by machine and when i need to remove large scartchs
anyone else have an opinion?? :dunno:

[kelso]

well i do all polishing by machine but meguiars is definately osmething id trust way more than ice. i detest basically anything turtle wax produces

[mbanks21]

You cant put polish on top of wax. Well you can put it wont do anything. The wax is the final layer of protection.