Pretty new to the site. I'v been detailing for about 4 years for local dealerships and ended up buying this car after it came thru our shop a little over a month ago. I just finally got around to really cleaning it up today. Paint had a lot of scratchs in it, so it was buffed with Automagic Syntheticut Compound on an aggressive foam pad. This **** is messy as hell so I went ahead and washed it again after to get all the dust off. It was then polished with AutoMagic XP Polish with a white final finish foam pad. After wiping and cleaning up some more scratchs that were still visable, it was hand waxed with some new Maguires Tech wax or something? I forgot the name of it, ran like $16/bottle, so I get to try it out.

 

Do you ever use clay bars??

 

Not very often. My car was scratched up bad enough to warrent buffing it, clay wouldn't have done much for it. Only time I use clay is darker paint that doesn't need polished but isn't in good enough shape to just wax.