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DIY Car Detailing Advice

Car detailing is a skill that you can master over time. If you love your car, then read these tips to “do-it-yourself” car detail your vehicle. Be sure you take great care of your car by regularly giving it a quality detail.

Utilise polish to smooth out the paint

The reason car detailers use polish is to smooth the surface of the paint, which will make the paint shine and help your car look newer. Some polishes available for sale contain wax, which also protects the paint, but the wax will not smooth the paint itself. When you polish your cars paint, if you know how, you can use an oscillating polishing machine. The professional detailer use a rotating polishing machine, which works faster but will harm the paint if not used in the right way. If you are not a professional detailer, oscillating buffers are easier to use and more forgiving.

To measure results, a professional car detailer will hold a ruler perpendicular to the surface of the car and see how far its reflection stretches. The higher the number they can view on the ruler, the glossier the paint and better the finish.

Wax protects paint

New vehicles have a clear coat when they leave the factory, but that coat wears off over time and leaves the paint to fight the elements itself. That is where wax will help the paint. Wax is sacrificial and will wear off the cars surface over the course of a few months. However, in that time it will absorb stains and small scratches before those hazards make it through to the paint. The older generation prefers paste wax, while the younger generation prefers liquid wax. The choice is simply up to you as both products do the job equally as well. Finally, professional car detailers usually use two coats of wax; the purpose of the second coat is to cover areas that the first coat may have potentially missed. Do not waste your  precious time by applying additional coats for added protection. They do not adhere and will be wiped off when the car gets a buff.

 Wax according to the season changes

In between paint cleanings and applying wax, you will notice you have picked up stains and scratches. Using liquid spray wax that can touch up stains and scratches between waxings is a fantastic idea but this is not a substitute for a real wax coating. Because there is no definitive way to tell when wax has worn thin or worn off, it is recommended that you stick to a regular schedule. Give your car a wax job every change in season if the vehicle spends a lot of time in the outdoors.

There is a famous trick for telling when your car needs a wax, toss a terry towel at the car and seeing if it will slide off.

If you are after great mobile car detailing Melbourne, car detailing or car detailing Melbourne, then be sure to get in touch with F1 Car Detailing on 1300 132 750.