Originally Posted by Snagglefoot
What recommendations would you have to spruce up the exterior of a 10 year old vehicle that's never been waxed. Would a clay bar be a good way to start? This situation is probably common when buying used cars. Thanks.
Snagglefoot,
Do you have experience detailing cars and have you ever used an electric car polisher? Any chance you can post a picture of the car?
In general, I would start with this:
Presoak with a strong detergent wash followed by rinse.
Bucket wash with detergent using a separate (2nd) bucket for rinsing the wash mitt. Use a micro-fiber wash mitt. If you have detailing wash brushes, use them.
Clay-bar the car.
--- If you know how to do a paint correction with an orbital buffer, do it.
--- If you don't know how to do a paint correction, use a cleaner/polishing wax like this (Collinite 325)
https://www.autogeek.net/collinite-sapphire-wax-ss126.html and buff it by hand as evenly as you can.
Wax the car with any one of a million decent waxes. I like Collinite 845.
At the bottom of this link,
https://www.autogeek.net/detailingtips.html there are a bunch of how-to guides.
Ray