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Originally Posted by dawkinsrover
 Hi guys, what polish do other members recommend? I have a 2000 (W) Rover 75 in Midnight Blue, with 104.000 miles on the clock and the paintwork looks tired! I have tried Auto Glym and am using Turtle Wax High Gloss car wax....in liquid form. Although, very clean etc, the car still lacks the 'twinkle' I'm looking for. Is there a polish you guys would recommend, that is reasonably priced? The car is kept outside and is washed about twice a week and leathered off. How often should I polish?
Any tips and advice would be much appreciated.
Dave |
Ah, another Midnight Blue owner. A man of great taste!
On my example I've tried a lot of different brands over the years. I'm a bit of an Autoglym superfan as they have a good wide range and nearly everything they do is excellent at the job. Their interior cleaner is for me the best thing since sliced bread, it shifts shoe polish on the door trims like magic. However, I also use Zymöl on a regular basis and have a good collection of Meguiar stuff as well, mainly for the clay bar side of things.
The one point I would stress is that it is easy to end up with a patchy finish with different depths of shine, and Midnight Blue really shows it up too. A tip I saw on the back of a Zymöl bottle was to lightly spray the ca with clean water after the coat had been buffed off and then leather it again - this seems to spread the covering and give a more even depth. The other tip is to put another coat on and help build up the layer.
Several brands do tend to leave a bit of dust behind which is easy enough to remove either by a quick spray over with water or with an anti-static mop. Also, the streaky finish you sometimes see on a car from poor buffing - it's horrible! I use one of those home version of a buffing machine things and that removes any of that happening.
Last thing I would mention is to gloss the tyres and clean the insides of the windows. This alwyas makes a big visual difference to the rest of the car.