Best coloured polish for Laser Blue Please

[Mk5 GTian]

As above, thanks.

Ian 

[stealthwolf]

??? You're polishing the clearcoat. This has no colour. The question is are you goin to polish by hand or machine?

[Horatio]

Have you tried poorboys black hole polish? Really good at masking swirls on dark colours. Would use a wax/sealent over the top though, wont last longer than a week i find. I can recommend autoglym super resin polish, good filler as well, as its easily purchased at halfrauds. Autoglym also do a polish specificly for darker colours, not tried it although ive got a bottle somewhere. Would also recommend using a claybar before polishing, i have found without, the results are almost night and day and the polish bonds loads better.

[Mk5 GTian]

??? You're polishing the clearcoat. This has no colour. The question is are you goin to polish by hand or machine?

Very confused. Clearcoat? I will be hand polishing.

[stealthwolf]

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=767166&postcount=3

^^^For an understanding of polishing and how it works. It talks about machine polishing but useful info nonetheless.

When you touch the car, you're not touching the blue paint. You're touching the lacquer or clearcoat on top of it. This is what you are polishing. It is clear. There would be no point using any "colour polish" and the only one I'm aware of is turtlewax.

Hence you can use blackhole, srp and uds by hand if you wanted to.

[Nodz]

I use either AG SRP or meguires one (cent remember the name). It's the wax you use which can show off the colours better, I use meguires carnauba  wax and it brings out the flake in the paint well.

Others use purple haze on blue paint

[Mk5 GTian]

http://www.detailingworld.co.uk/forum/showpost.php?p=767166&postcount=3

^^^For an understanding of polishing and how it works. It talks about machine polishing but useful info nonetheless.

When you touch the car, you're not touching the blue paint. You're touching the lacquer or clearcoat on top of it. This is what you are polishing. It is clear. There would be no point using any "colour polish" and the only one I'm aware of is turtlewax.

Hence you can use blackhole, srp and uds by hand if you wanted to.

Thanks Stealthwolf, but how do  I know If I have clear-coat lacquer on? How do I know i'm not on the two stage colour coat as the top layer?

[Mk5 GTian]

Have you tried poorboys black hole polish? Really good at masking swirls on dark colours. Would use a wax/sealent over the top though, wont last longer than a week i find. I can recommend autoglym super resin polish, good filler as well, as its easily purchased at halfrauds. Autoglym also do a polish specificly for darker colours, not tried it although ive got a bottle somewhere. Would also recommend using a claybar before polishing, i have found without, the results are almost night and day and the polish bonds loads better.

So I need to use:

Claybar, then polish, then wax then sealant?

[Nodz]

Ian, ours is clear coat

[Nodz]

That's it, here's a guide to the process http://www.mk5golfgti.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=4823

[stealthwolf]

Thanks Stealthwolf, but how do  I know If I have clear-coat lacquer on? How do I know i'm not on the two stage colour coat as the top layer?

Because clearcoats have been used for years. It's de facto on most cars (>95% IIRC). The only ones that don't have it are pre-1980 and some colours like Vauxhall's reds which don't have clear coat.

[andrewparker]

then wax then sealant?

Don't put sealant over wax, it's one or the other really.

[Mk5 GTian]

Ian, ours is clear coat

Thanks Nodz 

[Mk5 GTian]

then wax then sealant?

Don't put sealant over wax, it's one or the other really.

But the guide says order is as follows:

Claybar
polish
Sealant
Wax

Says wax is final  step in process?   

[DMcG]

SRP or black hole glaze for polish. Dodo blue velvet pro for wax.