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Re: New to detailing and excited to learn
If you are not ready yet to go with a polisher. The Poorboy's Black Hole Glaze and Collinite 845 is a great start to get the paint glossy and protected. If it where me I would look at the Collinite 915 Wax. It's more carnuaba and for being a carnuaba wax it has a good longevity from it. If you drive in the winter with road salt and grime from the roads. I would look at the Collinite 476s as a long lasting LSP or Jescar Powerlock Plus. 845 is also great but IMO the more carnuaba in the other 2 Collinite waxes 476s and 915. Gets you either a little more depth with 915 and both more carnuaba and longevity from 476s. Which I especially like on the black paint. If you had have a white paint the 845 gives you a great look from it in a crispy shine.
Eldorado2K brings up an important thing to work in the shade or on a cloudy day or garage. I will ad it's important or more easier to work in those conditions with whatever color of paint you have.
One thing that I also see as a very important to get dialed in before you polishing your truck. Is to learn how to do washes without getting more swirls and scratches. And also a great drying technique for the same reason. Here you can go with different methods to reach the same goal. Keeping your awesome finish looking amazing for as long as possible before you need to be doing a new polishing. Also when you are doing the next polishing you don't need to be useing as an aggressive combo that you useally needs to be doing the first time. Invest in some great products that you with a great method can reach this goal. Some products can be a little more expensive and some you can get a lot of your bucks for. Look into others threads or start your own thread. What did you do today, in regards of detailing is a great thread where you can see what products others has used when doing their maintance or polishing and everything else that has to detailing to do. Show and Shine has a lot of great threads in it that you see what methods and techniques they use. 2 bucket method and rinseless washes and waterless washes is the methods to use and then they have different kind of methods in them selfs LOL.
Also if you do apply Black Hole and a Collinite wax. Do a thorough decon with both chemical decon and mechanical decon. The chemical decon depends on what kind of dirt and contaminants you have on the paint. The first time I would have access to a tar remover and iron remover. To help you get the tar and tree sap and rubber spots and the iron particals and industrial fallout off the paint. The mechanical decon step is to use a clay bar or clay alternatives that you get the topical contaminants you have on the paint off. You can also use a paint cleaner by hand to deep clean the paint a little more. Then you apply the Black Hole and the wax/sealant of choice.
/ Tony
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