suddenly one question came to my mind
if to let you guy choose with option and stick with it in your whole life
will you rather want a hard CC or a soft one?

any idea on the pricing? anyway. if going there what product also is worth to purchase. any personal sales contact at osren easier to wassap them

I don't know man, I always wash with shampoo.
AFAIK, shampoo not only acts as lubrication. It lowers the surface tension of water (form five kimia) so that water would wet the surface more and become more miscible with oil, grime, and dirt to carry them away. Shampoo also have properties to encapsulate dirt and "suspending" them away from the surface to prevent scratches. This is one of the key properties especially in rinseless wash shampoo but I think exists in all shampoos. This is known as colloidal properties. Sightly advanced chemistry but Google shalt be thou teacher.

Being an avid follower of Larry Kossila, and based on my understanding of basic chemistry,  I won't skip using shampoo. Being a technical guy by profession, I only work with data and understanding of basic principles. Using shampoo is my preference. I wouldn't say not using shampoo is wrong but it just scares the shit off me. So, there shall be no test from me.

Heck, there's even argument to not to use shampoo when washing our hair. Google and you'll find that there's also a 2 sided argument.

EDIT: Maybe read this for our hair: https://www.thehairpin.com/2014/01/what-ive...ithout-shampoo/

But baking soda add water is actually soap.
So it's home made shampoo.
https://www.quora.com/What-reaction-occurs-...g-soda-to-water

NaOH is alkali and soapy.

how you guys wash the micro fiber towel and pad? thx

thanks. will pm on facebook.

Btw after you wash - rinse - dry -
how do you guys clay ? which type of lubricant do you use ? or can just use soapy water ?
or any special type brand that can be used to make life easy while claying ?

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We are not sending our cars to Canada.

Hi, all. I need an urgent help here.

Two days ago, i tried polishing my car for the first time myself.
Unfortunately I let the polish liquid dry on my car for some time before watering it off.

Now there are many white line scars on my car.

Even the car wash person couldn't help me remove it.

Anybody has any solution?

Thanks.

On paint or plastic I wonder

Do you guys use any well-known brands for Microfiber Towels (i.e. the Rag Company)?

lol...A friend of mine used Osren Reblack on his dashboard and leather seat...he said very shinny...told him its wrong purpose...he said 2 days already all good 

Wonder whats the implication...

where you guys find the pail/bucket to fit grit guard? i go many hardware shop they are not selling empty paint bucket.

Result from yesterday 5h work

2 passes of polish
Ipa wipe and Duragloss Environment Shield

Already clayed it the previous day before polish.

Everyday rain and barely got time to wash...
2 week's Dee haven't been washing car...

Hi.. Will degreaser or those chemical spray/use to clean engine bay will react with SS piping?..

Ss= stainless steel

Conclusion time, it was quite fun, but not so fun when I saw my shirt covered in all the slur after sanding. It's quite a dirty job, also explains why I didn't do a full wash prior to sanding. I did it all with a Rupes mini and 3 inch interface pad. I don't know why they specifically marketed the Duetto for sanding. I think any machine in the Rupes line should work, but you better pay a lot of attention on what you're doing because they sand really really fast (especially the 15 and 21 with larger orbits). It cut really fast, not sure it is the trizact that are awesome or the 12mm orbit of the mini that helped. I think most other da machines will work too, maybe except any forced rotation ones and rotary. 

Don't ask me why I used a Rupes mini, it's all I have now. I'll probably get a 15/15mk2 down the road, but now that's all I have. I think I know why they use a 6" pad on most sander, you'll get a flatter and more even surface, but in my case, I was doing 30% overlap and it turned out okay. Not the flattest surface ever, but good enough since I'm not chasing for perfection on such an old car.

Besides, I didn't notice any heavy load up or "clogging" on the sanding dics, probably they are that good. A couple squirts of water and they are good to go again. But I did feel that there's noticeably more resistance gliding the machine over the surface once it is covered in lots of slur, so I think that how they do it. Spray some water, wipe the slur off and continue.

But I do advice not to do it on normal cars because you simply don't know how much clear coat there is and how fast you're cutting. In my case, my car have 2 panels that have been re-lacquered (respray clear coat) before and I talked to the painter too so I was sure that there's plenty of clear coat for me to play with. If you are not confident, don't try it. But it is hard to see any brand new cars with this heavy of orange peel, probably only applies to resprayed panels.

I'll continue to finish this panel tomorrow and probably work on another panel too. Hope this long post didn't offend you.

Thanks for the compliment 
One more note, it is a must to use a foam interface pad to help the sanding disc contour better and not to destroy your backing plate.

I got them from Taobao, actually most of the stuff that I can't find online in Malaysia too.
1500 and 3000 grit one is 18yuan and the 5000 grit one is 25yuan.
It comes in 6" and I cut into two 3" discs myself(will waste a bit la). Same goes to the meg's mf cutting disc, but those are super expensive. 

Any clue of getting them or other mf cutting disc like Lake country or Buff and shine locally? I think I prefer them much better than the rupes blue foam. The blue foam pad just disintegrate too fast (small blue bits coming off) and not to mention they are not cheap too. 

Guys,

any recommendation for waxing pad? Lazada selling meguairs waxing pads for 104 for 2... but only needed one.

Problem here , bought a car wash http://www.lazada.com.my/magic-101-wash-am...re-1429640.html from tesco but after washing the surface is more rough almost like sand paper ?

Did I did anything wrong? using normal yellow sponge .

Is this brand magic101 need to wash more than few times to get smoother ?

So I did my first time waxing today since it has been quite some time since last car wash I spent around 5-7 hours just for it

Routine: Rinse > touch wash (since no foam gun) with 2 bucket method > dry off > claying > touch wash 2 > dry off

Materials used:
1. PG car wash (have meguiars ultimate wash and wax but didn't use since I'm gonna wax it anyway),
2. PG quick shine detailer and clay
3. turtlewax carnauba cleaner wax
4. rain X
5. meguiars microfiber cloth and water magnet microfiber cloth
6. microtex wash mitt

Challenges
During my first time claying-waxing I had several issues:
1. Detailer is greasy. Had to give second car wash after claying, despite some saying buffing it is sufficient
2. The detailer dried off even before finish claying one section. Weather was windy. It left patches so I had to keep buff it off
3. Clay dropping on the floor. I had split my clay into 3 pieces yet first 2 dropped on the floor. Quite challenging to handle those clay I'd say
4. Clay gets dirty so easily. I mean like SO EASILY. I've seen past comments here stating that his 3-part clay could be used for one year. IDK. I suspect my first car wash wasn't clean enough..
5. Carnauba wax is damn tough to be buffed off. Unlike rainx. When the wax dries it is so dusty. And it required medium-hard back forth rubbing with microfiber cloth. Am I doing it wrong? Would too much force actually removes the wax layer also?
6. WATER SPOTS. Since it's been quite some time since last car wash water spots accumulated on the front windshield (rainx already worn off). Unlike rear windshield is still perfect coz rainx layer is still there.

I couldn't remove the water spots. I tried: claying with detailer, applicator foam pad with toothpaste, steel wool, steel wool with toothpaste, stoners invisible glass all won't work. I also tried isopropyl alcohol last time

How? 3M sanding sponge?

Would appreciate if any sifus here could point out any comments on my issues? Newbie here. Thanks in advance and happy detailing!

Thanks for going through my post and giving feedbacks accordingly! 

In terms of efficiency in removing residues, does clay bar > clay cloth or they are the same? Personally I feel claybar is better than clay cloth, but I guess opinion can differ. I was previously using Meguiars consumer claybar, then tried clay cloth, then moved to Meguiars professional claybar. My opinions are only confined to my experience with Meguiars claybar, so maybe others can shed better light on this.

In the instruction section of the wax it only says buff it out after haze appears which I did not notice. It's like dried powder bonded to the paint. What I did was sort-of "knuckle/scratch" it out with microfiber cloth. Was it over-dried? I would then suggest doing test spots before working the entire car so as not to waste your time and effort. Play with the duration between wax-on and buff-off time to get the right timing. Also important is definitely applying as thin as possible, because from my experience, wax doesnt work any better when applied thick, but instead can cause more issues buffing off.

I'll repeat the whole process again - clay and apply thinner layer of wax this time, two layers.

Would you suggest a good clay brand, and the polish cream with cerium oxide please? Osren glass polish abrasive cream? Planning to combine this cream with 3M microfine sanding sponge it should be fine right, since I don't have a DA: Generally I dont recommend any form of abrasive like stainless steel wool, razor blades, or even sanding sponge because of potential risk of micro scratching. U can try Osren glass polish or Autoglym. However, the only glass polish I know available locally that clearly markets their product with cerium oxide is Carpro Ceriglass (sold by Cquartz Malaysia). For pads u can use any good and firm polish/compound pad for the glass polishing process. If u are getting Carpro Ceriglass, it should already come with its own pad as part of a kit and can be done by hand.

Also if a car is coated with ceramic pro coat can I clay and wax another 2 layers onto it? Erm, If I am not mistaken your coating dealer would have told u what u can and cannot do on coating. Maybe u should refer to your detailing shop for this answer.

5 - i still have one new bottle each of "Waxco-Carnuaba Wax" and "Turtle Wax-Ice Speed Compound" haven't tried on my car yet......how or when should i should  use this on cars? Carnauba wax is natural wax for very high gloss, but low durability. Compound is for aggressive polishing if normal polish cant remove the defect.

- claying with "3M-Clay Bar" on my car doesn't really pull out any impurities/dirt from my car's paint even after running many many time, did i do this right? As douglas_tong said, alot of cheap claybars out there using 3M name but is fake. Maybe u should try a different brand claybar or clay cloth to see the difference.

- first time using hand held polishing machine, having problem with the device as it need really firm hold (if not it seems to jump around a lot and pulled to one side...........need to get used to this device) then using my hand which i have more control but tiring Key word: practice, practice, practice. With more practice u will master your machine, pads, and creams u use. Youtube has plenty of tutorials u can watch and learn from.

- i use to polished with "Soft99-Luster Cleaner+Polish" and waxed with "Turtle Wax-Super Hard Shell" on my other car (saga BLM - solid white, 8years old original factory paint) and the result is way much better and shinier then my metallic silver color car, any reason on this?.....or need different methods to do detailing between metallic silver paint and solid white paint? To assess actual detailing results, it is always recommended to use some form of torchlight, this helps to reveal the paint's actual condition.

- any advice on how to removed water mark stain on my windscreen.......using any of the products that i have as above? Try using your claybar. If fail, try using your polish cream on a test spot.

Question
Will coating prevent bird crap burns?

Thanks a ton guys. Will do consult the coating dealer first.

Blurcase, do you know what's the difference between CeriGlass and Spotless? Product by same company.