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Thread: What is Turtle wax?

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    How often do you polish and wax your car? I found depending on the frequency of washing it doesn't last very long. Also it just masks minor scratches/ swirl masks doesn't remove it.

    Personally my opinion is if you going 2 take the time 2 polish and wax you might as well use decent stuff. I use maguiars polish and canuba wax or if you want an all in one the NXT tech wax is good. i wash my car every 2nd week with NXT car wash which removes the dirt and grime while protecting your polish and wax. Every 2nd wash I use the NXT wax detailer spray just 2 keep the wax protection up and car looking glossy.

    But yeah try a few different products till you find one that you are happy with
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    Quote Originally Posted by Fizz View Post
    How often do you polish and wax your car? I found depending on the frequency of washing it doesn't last very long. Also it just masks minor scratches/ swirl masks doesn't remove it.

    Personally my opinion is if you going 2 take the time 2 polish and wax you might as well use decent stuff. I use maguiars polish and canuba wax or if you want an all in one the NXT tech wax is good. i wash my car every 2nd week with NXT car wash which removes the dirt and grime while protecting your polish and wax. Every 2nd wash I use the NXT wax detailer spray just 2 keep the wax protection up and car looking glossy.

    But yeah try a few different products till you find one that you are happy with
    Sorry Fizz to single you out mate, I'm not having a dig or anything; I just want to make this very clear for people who don't already know:

    Polishing a car means taking paint AWAY. It doesn't add protection, and should not need to be done more than about twice a year if you're washing it using the 2 bucket method. The cheaper, off-the-shelf ''polishes'' are almost always a filler type product; that means, they fill in whatever scratches are there and when the stuff eventually wears away, you're back to square one. The PROPER types of polishes for cars are paint correction products; they are the polishes that take a skim off the paint and correct the scratches by buffing them away! Now don't be alarmed, you have a lot of paint and polishing takes next to nothing - it dulls down the edges of the scratches so they are less visible/invisible.

    So Fizz, the Meguiars you're using will indeed ONLY fill scratches. To get rid of them you'd need to actually use an abraisive polish, and not a filler.
    Mrk Detailing, premium automotive detailing. Paint correction/protection specialist. PM me

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    agreed u'll need a proper cut and polish to remove scratches and swirls i wasn't very clear, i appologise
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    2014 Octavia RS400 Combi
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