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I gave up 
So here's my story.
I been waxing my car for years, yes, waxing. I didn't know the difference between correcting vs protecting. I just thought you are supposed to wax after washing your car to create a shine and to protect the paint. Although I had the protection part right, I still didn't know anything. I love my cars, and I always called myself "babying" my car. I thought I took very good care of my car, but for some strange reason my car would always end up with light scratches and swirl marks only a few months later from owning the car. So I started researching and researching and finally, I seen the light lol. I now realize that the way I was washing/waxing my car was actually ruining my car slowly. So my goal was to eventually either get a PC, griot, or meguiar DA polisher to remove the damages and really start taking care of my car the correct way. The only problem is that the plan sometimes doesn't go as you had originally thought. I started asking myself, is it really realistic to spend all this money for a polisher, accessories, chems, towels, etc..etc.. For something that I will barely use? I mean after all, I only have one car and a full time job with barely no free time as it is. So this is where it brought me to this good old use my hands idea :-) The only problem is that I started with my trunk today and just gave up. The main reason is because it didn't work. The product I used is mirror glaze swirl remover 2.0 #9. I understand that this product is on the light side, but my train of thought was to use the least abrasive product that work. I have a deep blue 13 mustang and the swirls are minor. Is not to the point where it show up as spider web hologram. You know its there if you look for it. So I was going to use the swirl remover #9 on light defects and polishing compound on very light areas. However, none of those two worked.
So I guess I need some help guys, recommendations, or should I just get a DA polisher as originally planned? I had high hopes with using my hands but it's much harder than I thought. Just rubbing the **** out of my trunk really put my arm through a work out lol.
So here's my story.
I been waxing my car for years, yes, waxing. I didn't know the difference between correcting vs protecting. I just thought you are supposed to wax after washing your car to create a shine and to protect the paint. Although I had the protection part right, I still didn't know anything. I love my cars, and I always called myself "babying" my car. I thought I took very good care of my car, but for some strange reason my car would always end up with light scratches and swirl marks only a few months later from owning the car. So I started researching and researching and finally, I seen the light lol. I now realize that the way I was washing/waxing my car was actually ruining my car slowly. So my goal was to eventually either get a PC, griot, or meguiar DA polisher to remove the damages and really start taking care of my car the correct way. The only problem is that the plan sometimes doesn't go as you had originally thought. I started asking myself, is it really realistic to spend all this money for a polisher, accessories, chems, towels, etc..etc.. For something that I will barely use? I mean after all, I only have one car and a full time job with barely no free time as it is. So this is where it brought me to this good old use my hands idea :-) The only problem is that I started with my trunk today and just gave up. The main reason is because it didn't work. The product I used is mirror glaze swirl remover 2.0 #9. I understand that this product is on the light side, but my train of thought was to use the least abrasive product that work. I have a deep blue 13 mustang and the swirls are minor. Is not to the point where it show up as spider web hologram. You know its there if you look for it. So I was going to use the swirl remover #9 on light defects and polishing compound on very light areas. However, none of those two worked.
So I guess I need some help guys, recommendations, or should I just get a DA polisher as originally planned? I had high hopes with using my hands but it's much harder than I thought. Just rubbing the **** out of my trunk really put my arm through a work out lol.
, so I guess I wont be doing everything by hand..yay and I can clean,polish,wax etc her car and mine, i'll test it out on her car first.
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