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Originally Posted by Tcoat
Just to give the opposite end of the spectrum:
I am the swirl mark King!
My car is a DD that gets almost 4,000 miles a month on it, year round. When not driving it sits outside. It is constantly exposed to sun, rain, dust, pollen, bugs, smoke, debris, snow, ice, tree sap, bird crap, cats, dogs, alien scans and any number of other mystery materials. I want to keep in clean and shiny but don't think of the paint as some delicate flower that can't be touched or take some abuse.
I wash it every week with a microfiber cloth that I rinse out and hang in the bucket which sits beside my hose and then wipe it down with an artificial chamois that I also rinse and throw back in it's container.
Do I have swirls? You bet I do and if I look at it at just the right angle, squint perfectly with the precise level of light I just may see them.
Can I tell from just looking at the car from 2 feet away? Nope and nobody else can either.
If it was a garage queen or show car then by all means I would handle it differently but it isn't so I don't.
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Haha ya I'm in the same boat. About 2000 miles a month all highway, so I get rock chips and window dinks all the time. Live in an apartment also, so my car is under a tree every night. Normally I don't care too much, I take it to the wash once a week spend about an hour on it, and normally it isn't bad. It's to my liking, just yesterday for some reason the smudges from the microfiber were atrocious and noticeable from 15+ yards back...
I guess I'm still in the baby phase since I've only had the car for a month, before I freaked out over the smallest thing, now I look at the front and just say, damn thats a lot of chips...oh well... But washing it and having swirl marks is something I can kind of control, so I want to avoid it if possible.