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Originally Posted by darkonion
It sounds like you are looking more for durability. That's absolutely okay. Let me lay out some of your options.
First, you want to wash your car. Pretty straightforward. Next thing you want to do is clay bar the car. Clay bar will remove any surface contaminant that is stuck to the paint, especially if your paint feels gritty. Clay bar each section until the panel feels smooth and free or grit. You want to do a decent job. Just keep in mind that the reason you are doing this is to give a clean plaint surface for the wax or sealant to adhere to.
Next, would be polish. You can choose to do this or not. It really just depends. I would try to do this if time permits. I feel like a light polish will help with leveling the paint and making the surface a little cleaner for the wax/sealant to adhere.
The next step is to seal/wax your car. Sealant is more durable than wax, but usually doesn't look at good as wax. Here are your options.
You can put 1 layer of wax or sealant on and call it a day.
You can put two layers of wax on. So... put first layer on. After it has crosslinked to the paint, buff the excess off then put another layer on. In this case, you'll get the "glow" of wax, but with the durability of 1 layer of sealant.
You can put one layer of sealant, then follow it with wax. Same with wax/wax, you let the sealant crosslink, then apply wax. This is kind of the middle ground. You get the glow and durability of the two products. Not going to be as much glow as wax/wax, but better durability.
Last, you can go sealant/sealant. Lot of protection, but definitely no glow.
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Yeah in my head I've gone over the process as you stated.
Wash > clay > polish > glaze/finishing polish (or is this too much?) > Sealant > wax.
Not sure about the glaze part. It's another step but if I'm going all out anyways, there no harm.