I have a 1 year old Honda city which has been washed weekly. Modern steel. Daily Driver to work which is parked under the hot sun.
I have not wax it or done anything since getting the car for the first time.

Reason for doing the waxing is because
- Have Door scuff marks, paint transfer (from other vehicles opening their doors hardly onto my door side panel)
- Watersmarks and hard to remove bird shit stains.
- Little bit of swirl marks
- micro scratches behind the door panel
- and some minor scratch marks with are not deep.

I don't have a car porch(live in condo) so my detailing time seems to be limited.

I am going to do:-
- A wash (turtlewax brand wash and wax)
- Dry first or maybe go straight to claying (3M claybar from lelong) with new soapy water.
- Rinse and Dry
- Cleaner Wax it with either Turtlewax carnauba cleaner wax or Meguires Cleaner Wax.




Questions;-
- Are those steps above suffice? To remove most of the marks mentioned above.
- Should I get paste wax or Liquid wax of the same type? I am going to go ol skool and wax by hand.
- After this one time clay and cleaner waxing I am going to wash weekly as per usual with the turtle wax and wash shampoo.
Will using different brand for the wax (If i decide to go with Meguires) and shampoo diminish the wax faster?
- Lastly If the Claying and Cleaner wax does its job of diminishing the imperfections to acceptable levels.
lets say in a month when the wax wears out or I wanna top up the wax and there are no new scratches and all.
Do I need to redo all the steps or can I just wash without claying and use Wax(not cleaner wax)
- Cleaner wax can be used on chrome bits?

Apologies for the long post. But any answers from sifus here are much appreciated.

So I definitely need to use some sort of scratch removal products for those scuffs and paint transfers and bird poop?
I was hoping i didn't need to do any of that.
Oh....Mine is terbalik from yours......my carpark(where i am going to do the waxing) is quite near the condo main dumpster.....sigh.

This post has been edited by Zoopdiidoo: Feb 2 2017, 12:44 PM

Damn...was thinking forgore compounding and polishing and use Cleaner wax all in one instead.
Carnauba not tree sap from South American Tropical forest? Also wont last in Malaysia weather? Thanks for this info I tot can last long ....haha
Ultimate wax is synthetic wax?

This post has been edited by Zoopdiidoo: Feb 2 2017, 01:25 PM

Managed to get Meguiar's cleaner Wax for cheap in the weekend from Tesco Egate Penang.
Seems to be a deal at RM63.
Normally its RM80++

Yup if you need to stock up ...can buy to keep.
So you used this Cleaner Wax before?
Hows the verdict? Does it last long? the shine I mean.
Before using this wax...what are the steps you took?
You mean the mother's carnauba cleaner wax? I saw that too was tempted to buy cos was way cheaper but I read
ppl in this forum saying carnauba doesn't last long in our Malaysian weather.

Previously i bought two microfibre clothes from tesco egate promo area...rm10(mistaken pricing i guess cos few days later i wnet to purchase was rm16, still cheap though) its the size of a hand towel. Ultra plush and with these two clothes i can wipe my entire car dry...city....without wringing the clothes.

Yup....never tried meguires waffle weave....but wont be cos this cheap one works for me. Just put it flat down on the hood and pull it across..without applying pressure at all with 2 three passes...done d

Yeah 100 plus for one. In malaysia...buy from US is about 10 usd

Any pictures of how it looks like?
Just did Meguiers Cleaner wax on my car last weekend.

Read your full car wash post....damn using colander as grit guards...pure genius, never though of that ......been looking for grit guards like forever....even Ace Hardware doesn't have them.
For the Claying if you use the quick detailer from PG...should it be done when the surface is wet or dry? I tried doing it when my car was already dry.....i had to buff off the quick detailer with pressure as though i am waxing my car.

This post has been edited by Zoopdiidoo: Apr 27 2017, 03:32 PM

Handwash.
I wash it using car shampoo...lol.
Sometimes will use just regular detergent.
Just never use softener with microfiber.