Guide To Polishing Your Car
Car polish helps to smooth out scratches and imperfections in your car's paint and leaves your car or van looking great. Using a chemical formula that is slightly abrasive like a very gentle liquid sandpaper, polish will get your paintwork looking as good as new when applied properly. If you need polish to follow our guide, scroll down this page to see our fantastic selection of microfibre cloths, machine polishers and a fantastic range of affordable polish as well as prestige polish. Contact us, or call our team on 01744 808586 today for further advice or to place an over the phone order. We recommend ordering online.
How to polish a car by hand
You can of course polish your car with a polishing machine which are available to buy further down this page. These take a huge amount of time off this type of job and most of the time give an even better finish. That said, you can get really successful finishes with hand polishing depending on how much attention your car needs, and of course, how much time you have on your hands.
Step one - Cleaning
Clean your car using a microfibre towel, then dry it off - don't miss a drop or the polish effect won't be as strong.
Step Two - Apply the polish
Apply a small amount of polish to your cloth or foam pad and gently spread it around your paintwork. Then, start working in the polish - some people like to use circular motions, and some like to go up and down, then left and right, but either way works. Just keep following the contours of the car and rub the polish in until it's almost transparent. Leave the polish to cure if required. Some polishes need to be left on the car, so check the packaging to see whether you need to do this.Top Tip. Run your finger through the polish once it has been left for the right amount of time. If it comes away clean its ready to take off. If it doesn't, it needs to cure a little longer
Step Three - Get Buffing!
Use a clean, very soft cloth microfibre towels are great for this and buff off the polish residue, making sure to keep folding the cloth to use the clean areas. Once your car is looking exceptionally clean and shiny, you're all done!
If you want the ultimate shine for your vehicle, following our guide can give you just that. You put in what you get out - so take your time, and your car will be looking gleaming and new before you know it!
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