Detailing Crew - Polish & Glaze?

[07si]

Anybody use a Polish and or glaze after compounding, before waxxing there vehicles using a porter cable or similar machine? I've read polish is good on brighter colored vehicle's (blue, red, yellow, green etc) and glaze deepens and enriches the color after compounding (any color). I personally get best results with a good claybar, compound, and wax. Just looking for personal experiences and your thoughts on the other 2 steps. Do you do both or 1 or the other when detailing your vehicle's? I don't here of people doing claybar, compound, polish, glaze, and waxxing generally. Thanks in advance for any input again I'm just using a dual action Porter Cable and a hand applicator for smaller areas not a high speed machine.

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[Turk]

If you're good at polishing you don't need a glaze. Glaze just hides imperfections.

 

[Grabber]

^^^ Furthermore to what Turk said. Most glazes hide imperfections. Adam's Glaze does not hide imperfections. Merely enhances the finish of the paint. No real protection either from a glaze.

 

[cacicgtp7]

Good polish then sealant or wax. Skip the glaze.

 

[greasy]

I have not used glazes just because I always understood them to hide imperfections like the others have said.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

When I first started using the PC, I would polish to correct the paint with Menzerna and follow it with Clearkote's Vanilla Moose Glaze. It helped create even more shine and depth to the paint on my car.
Sealed with Wolfgang Concourse Paint Sealant.

it depends on how crazy you want to get with the # of steps prior to your LSP

 

[07si]

When I first started using the PC, I would polish to correct the paint with Menzerna and follow it with Clearkote's Vanilla Moose Glaze. It helped create even more shine and depth to the paint on my car.
Sealed with Wolfgang Concourse Paint Sealant.

it depends on how crazy you want to get with the # of steps prior to your LSP

Vanilla moose glaze!? I'm going to have to look those products up. Sounds like some good shit. I'm just thinking theirs not going to be much correction using a PC even though they claim these new products have corrective micro abrasives in them I don't know how much they actually do. So even though a glaze hides imperfections it may be better because it's not performing as a Polish would with a highspeed machine? That's just my thought anyway

 

[skeezer]

glaze these nuts

 

[ThirdgenTa]

Glaze will last until it rains. I would only use it on garage kept show cars. Plus I still question how well wax or sealant bonds to the paint on top of a glaze

 

[Grabber]

Glaze will last until it rains. I would only use it on garage kept show cars. Plus I still question how well wax or sealant bonds to the paint on top of a glaze

That's probably the reason there.

Sealant or a Coating should always be the first thing applied to the paint for protection. Glaze comes next to enhance the shine of a Sealant and Wax depending on how crazy you are about wanting the most shine out of the paint.

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

I'm not sure I have heard or read of people glazing over a LSP ( Last step product )
suitably named ?

 

[Grabber]

I'm not sure I have heard or read of people glazing over a LSP ( Last step product )
suitably named ?

Traditional method is Sealant/Coating followed by a Glaze and then a wax (Wax being the LSP)

3-Step method.

Others skip glaze. If you want maximum shine, glaze followed by wax is the way to go.

As previously mentioned, certain glazes do not contain fillers, and even so as long as the person corrected the paint properly, this shouldn't be a reason to say no to glaze. It is an added step that some feel is not at all necessary, but, I do it to increase the shine over the correction I've already done.

It's certainly not a requirement, but, I'm kind of an extremist when it comes to paint correction, detailing, etc.

 

[07si]

Don't know what ive been doing all my life used some old meguiars polish after compounding my mom's whooped ass paint. Holy shine!

 

[07si]

Not sure why there 2 photos tried removing one didn't work. There the same!

 

[HeavyG]

hurts my head

 

[07si]

Before and after shot. Used meguiars ultimate compound followed by ultimate polish and finished with meguiars high tech yellow wax #26

 

[Mook]

Dat shine

 

[WOLVERINE]

All that work polishing and you top it with a wax that lasts 2-6 weeks? Sheesh. At least a sealant dude.

 

[Mook]

Ice cold

 

[07si]

All that work polishing and you top it with a wax that lasts 2-6 weeks? Sheesh. At least a sealant dude.

My detailing supplies are dwindling. Need Alot of things. I actually compounded with a highspeed foam cutting pad with my Porter Cable. Just been working with what I got for now. I'll throw some sealant on there in a week or so.

 

[WOLVERINE]

My detailing supplies are dwindling. Need Alot of things. I actually compounded with a highspeed foam cutting pad with my Porter Cable. Just been working with what I got for now. I'll throw some sealant on there in a week or so.

You'll have to strip the wax first. Try a FLAPS for Duragloss sealant good stuff and cheap.

 

[07si]

You'll have to strip the wax first. Try a FLAPS for Duragloss sealant good stuff and cheap.

How do you stripwax other than claybar if there is a way? I've heard long ago dish soap does the trick.

 

[WOLVERINE]

How do you stripwax other than claybar if there is a way? I've heard long ago dish soap does the trick.

Skip the soap. Use a clay bar, but I'd do a light polish again then wipe down with 50/50 distilled water/alcohol.

 

[07si]

Yea I figured it would need a touch up after another wash and claybar. But REALLY? what's the water/alcahol mix do never heard of that. I'm assuming you do that before sealing and after polish?

 

[07si]

You'll have to strip the wax first. Try a FLAPS for Duragloss sealant good stuff and cheap.

I just ordered some poor boys worlds ex sealant with carnuba used to use it at ktraver97ss shop loved that shit exited for it to come!