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How to clean, cut and polish and wax your car.

Note: Do all of this outside direct sunlight, in a garage or other covered area.

1) Use car wash on an already rinsed down car, with two buckets, clean water and a rinse bucket. The rinse bucket is for the used sponge, the clean water with carwash fluid for redipping after you have rinsed the just used sponge. Don't use one bucket.

2) Wait for the car to dry and use Cut and Polish on the whole car. For older cars, use a lighter grade Cut and Polish, or you will wear down the paint too much. Use the supplied circular sponges to work in the chemical. Then buff it off when it dries to a white haze. Do not allow it to dry (i.e. sit there for longer than 2 minutes).

3) Wait for the car to dry and then use Liquid Polish on the car, spreading it with a clean rag. Do not allow to dry. Almost instantly, buff off the white haze with a buffing cloth. The longer you wait the harder it is to buff out, but you cannot buff wax that has not dried at all to a white haze. Be weary of cheap electric buffing machines as they may not be good enough for a job as involved as hard buffing of set wax.

5) A week later, cover the waxed areas near any black trim with newspaper and masking tape. Use Black Trim Wax on black trim, and buff when it gets hazy also (it takes much longer than with carwax). Remove the masked off paper only after the black wax has dried (2-3 hours at least).

6) For mudflaps, if they are already peeling away, remove and clean them. When installing them again, use a Silastic Automotive Sealant (Dow Corning) and clamps to hold them in overnight (as well as the original bolts).   myxlfidian (150)

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