You pre treated your car and gave it it´s bath. Now it is time to really finish the job and get that showroom shine. This means you are going to use some elbow grease and and will be deploying waxes & polishes to achieve that looked after finish.

Waxes & Polishes serve several distinctive purposes. The first one, very simple, is cleaning a car´s finish. The second one, could it be any more obvious, is a to improve the overall shine of the body work. The last one is to protect the whole surface against a wide variety of malevolent factors. The biggest one being Mother Nature herself.

All waxes & polishes contain (mild) abrasives, chemical cleaning agents, lubricants and waxes. But not all waxes & polishes have an equal amount of these ingredients. Moreover, there is an extremely wide variety of usefull abrasives so you better watch out which wax/polish is up to the job you are working on. Not all will give you the same result. Otherwise said, use a different wax/polish and you will end up with a different finish.

That being said it is safe to say that the abrasive is the workhorse in the potion that will remove the surface oxidation while leaving behind a high gloss shine.

Be sure to never, ever apply wax/polish in direct sun nor on a body that is hot to the touch. Removing the wax/polish residue will prove to be very hard.