Since buying our monte a few weeks ago we haven't had any sun, just rain. The paint looked awesome in low light/ shade, but the other day we got a few minuets of sun and the paint is actually loaded with ugly swirl marks. I had the same problem on my Bonneville but never really did anything because, well, it was a Bonneville. But being our monte is a much better car, I'd like to do something about it and get a mirror finish (or as close as possible) in the sun.

What is the best way to remove swirl marks on a budget? I haven't washed it since buying it because of all the rain but I think we have decent weather coming up soon so it would be the perfect time to do it

 

Use meguiars swirlX it takes most if not all swirl markes out then finnish with nxt Generation tech wax 2.0. a claybay b4 it would help to it that to can take out swirls

 

using a random orbiting buffer will aviud thos in the first place

 

Thank you. I finally got a chance to wash it this morning. I didn't get any pictures though. I'll admit I went through the touch free automatic wash because it looked like rain and I wanted to get everything do quick, but then I went over it with a meguiars clay bar, the swirl x, and followed by a coat of meguiars wax (not the tech wax 2.0, I didn't have enough cash). I spent close to 3 hours on it. Then the sun came out. It didn't take out all of the swirl marks but it make a huge improvement, but boy does it shine. I think by the end of summer I'll take it to a place to get buffed and get the rest out, but for now I'm happy with it. My biggest concern was just getting a coat of wax on it. We've had a month of rain and it was obvious it needed some wax

Now off to clean the interior

 

Just wanted to let everyone know I've upload pics of our monte to the photo gallery and here's one of the better pics

 

looks like a new car to me

 

Thank you.

 

Thats looks like a very Klean car to me man.

 

Thank you, I hope to keep it that way, lol, at least till winter. Then its impossible to keep it clean

 

It looks beautiful. Do you have a garage? If not I'd invest in a car cover. My 03 gets garaged, but my 05 doesn't (only in the winter time). So I just bought a Cover Craft Evolution 4 car cover and I love it!