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Originally Posted by Fett4Real
if youre using a cleaner wax every time youre just sanding the paint down every time you wax....its not a good thing to do. little by little youre eating away at the paint. even if it doesnt need it
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How often do you think the average consumer that goes to Wal-Mart and picks up a bottle of whatever is even waxing their car? Once a month? One a
year maybe? Some of us have the perspective and experience that we can fix stuff, armed with DA polishers and a weekend to tackle it. You don't need to be constantly waxing your car anyway, only when that layer of protection is gone. Furthermore, they're not going to do damage when playing Daniel-san with a car - wax on, wax off - by hand, which is how the vast majority of people wax their car (if they wax at all!) If you want correction with a cleaner wax you really need a machine. A lot of the cleaner waxes are "clear coat safe" so they barely have much abrasives in them, and some use chemicals instead.
If you guys are afraid of it, so be it. Nobody's forcing you to use them. Plenty of people love AIOs though with great results. Me included.
To clarify what I replied to earlier, that nobody should use a wax that has abrasives, goes against the #1 rule of paint care. Use the least aggressive solution that works. A cleaner wax and a white or black pad is going to be a decent bit less abrasive than a polish and the same pad.
edit: I'm not trying to disprove what you said above. I'm fully aware of what the different products are and their effect on the paint. But I would argue that using a cleaner-wax a few times per year for a few years will remove less clear than one full detail, including compounding and polishing. Until someone proves me wrong with a paint-thickness gauge, I'll stick with that.