I detailed my car on Saturday. Being the nerd that I am, I read up on a few forums on the best process for waxing your car. Admittedly, I have only waxed a car twice before, both times it was my old Saturn SC2. I don't think I ever washed my Passat, and I only took it through a automatic car wash maybe four or five times, it just didn't make sense to try to keep it clean while I was living in Newark. It just seems to rain dust there.
I used Mother Gold car wash, that stuff smells great. I followed up by claying my car, this was Meguilar's claybar detailing kit, I clayed my mom's car first to get the hang of it, and then took out a small surface plastic mark on my car. And then prompty dropped the clay on the ground, which means it becomes garbage - you don't want to scrub the surface of your car with rocks. So, after that small failure I used NXT Tech Wax 2.0, a very web-enabled sounding enterprise car exterior waxing solution. It's a liquid wax, but it got a lot of amazing reviews, so I used it. I don't have an orbital buffer or anything though, so it was all elbow grease. I gotta say, it came out great, but you can take a look for yourself.
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