Ive recently purchased my first scooby(a 51 plate uk300)from my local dealer. when i collected her she was sat in the show room looking like new, couldnt wait to get her home and treat her to a nice coat of Auto-glym. 4 hours later job done, perfect, or so i thought. It looked brilliant all day but as soon as it went dark and the street lights came on it all went pear shaped. she was left with what looked like greasy smear marks all over and now i cant get rid of them, Any ideas please.
P.S it was a brand new bottle of auto-glym super resin polish and a fresh roll of auto-glym polishing cloth.

 

with you shouting like that i thought theyd been invaded again

 

LOL

 

Do this... wash the car with very soapy red hot water pref with some fairy W-up liq... Go out and buy some magquires "think thats How you spell it" Liquid gold polish... £11-£13 depending on shop.
This polish is the dogs, trust me. I've been trying to find the best polish for years and this is it really... masks swirl marks better than anything i've used before and has the deepest shine I ever seen. Tip, leave it on for at least 15-20 mins...
i've been through every polish on the market and this does the deel! I bought it in the states for £8, hopefully it'll last until the next holliday.

 

Its called Meguiars

The Quick Detailer & Clay Bar is very good too fro removing built up road grime etc

 

Dont ever, ever use fairy liquid on your car or even your wheels.
Washing up liquids have a very high salt content and will damage your paint, would you knowingly wash your car with sea water?. The salt is there to soften the water, hence the megga bubbles you get with washing up stuff. Its a real no. Go to a garage pressure wash and use that, they have strong but safe cleaning fluids in that will remove all and every polish. Or Autoglym do some traffic film remover this strips it all of too. One tip is to polish the car again with a terry towling or proper polishing towel towel a little while after the first polish.
But if you want it to shine and be protected then use the proper stuff, a Zymol or Swissol glaze not any clay laden 'polish'.

 

swissol is the best gear out there mate, will leave your scoob looking immaculate...


gav..

 

Sorry R32, I asked my the woman next door how has a degree in chemistry and works in a lab about the washing up liquid. And she says 95% of all soapy solutions contain Sodium Lauryl Sulfate.
In other words almost all car soaps as well!

Extract from chemestry book...
(SLS) & Sodium Laureth Sulfate(SLES)
Potentially, SLS is perhaps the most harmful ingredient in personal-care products. SLS is used in testing labs as the standard ingredient to irritate skin. Industrial uses of SLS include garage floor cleaners, engine degreasers, and car wash soaps just to name a few. The effects of these depends on the quantity in the solution.

She did say it can be harmfull to the skin, but in terms of salt water its not the salt as in salt from the sea... SLS is a chemical sudsing agent as used in shampoos.

At the end of the day if you washed your car wish washing up liquid a 1000 times your more likley to harm yourself then the two pack laquer on the car let alone the actual paint under it...
Isn't that why they test car paintwork and can offer 5 year paint cover...
PS if you can find a soaping agent that does not contain SLS it will have some other chemical degreasant that will have the same effect... hence soap is a degreasant... if it cleans it will have some form of chemical cleaning agent begining with sodium...
that was from the chemistry expert next door!

 

Well if your gonna get technical about it, just blast it with cold water, and then leather it off, let it dry for about an hour then apply your polish.
Cheers
Colin

 

[quote] Dont ever, ever use fairy liquid on your car or even your wheels.
Washing up liquids have a very high salt [quote]
Think Dazza's covered that one more than adequately.

Pressure washers can cause their own problems, especially if the car is very dirty. Blowing grains of sand/mud/etc. across your car at very high speed isn't a million miles away from what sandblasters do.

 

Never had a problem with my pressue washer it does a great job
Cheers
Colin

 

a few weeks ago i went to my first kent meet and pulled up next to another red classic,when i got out of my car and looked at it compared to the next to it,it made mine look very very dull,so i had to ask the owner Pele what she uses on it,(or as i found out what her husband uses on it, lol sorry Lee )and i was told;get yourself some wonder wax from halfords,so,i did along with some halfords own polishing cloths,and WOW, wot a differance it made,this stuff is the nuts....now mine still wasn't as shiney shiney as Pele's,but it looked ten times better even at nite.i did later find out that Lee also puts glide and glaze on after to give it the extra shine,known as the mirror finish(i think)...anyway so get yourslf down halfords it was only £9.99 and i got a free bottle of wonder wheels with it too.

BM

 

Cheers folks, been down to halfords and brought some Auto-glym intensive tar remover and some Zymol cleaning wax. just done a test on the bonnet and wings and the finish is brilliant. Awaiting darkness for the final test.

 

there was a woman on gmtv this morning using baking soda to clean the car...

 

Welby,

Can you let us know how you got please as I have EXACTLY the same problem on my DBM MY00.

Cheers

 

converted to meguirs!! magic stuff

 

Hi cmdcorrola,
After a whole weekend polishing(and following the advie of scoobynet), my problem is sorted.
First i washed the car with fairy liqid(sorry r32),and then leatherd it all off. then i used auto-glym intensive tar remover, and then washed it again using fairy liquid(very weak mix) and rinsed it thourouly. then leatherd it,again...Then i used Zymol cleaner wax(Halfords £11.99). I polished it 1 panel at a time, as unsure how long to leave it on. It now looks mint in the day and at night.
good luck mate, let us know how you get on.

 

haaar Welby your just being nice! "using fairy liquid(very weak mix)" LoL...

cool

good 2-c ya problems sorted...