MightyClean
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can you was inbetween compunding or polishing? i know a glazy will remove quicly? Is it true it take 72 hours for wax to cure?
Washing OK?
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MightyClean said:
Assuming you meant "can you wash in between compounding AND polishing"; there's really no need to do so.
MightyClean said:
Is that a statement or a question? I'm confused either way. :nixweiss
MightyClean said:
It will vary from wax to wax but I believe 24 hours is a good starting point.
Mike
You can wash in between compounding and polishing, but there's no good reason to do so unless maybe you plan on compounding the car one day and saving the polishing step for another. Then, of course you would want to rewash the car prior to polishing since you wouldn't want to be introducing new marring by polishing a car with dust or dirt on it. However, if this is not the case it would be much better to compound, polish and then wash to remove splatter and dust from both products then apply an lsp afterwards.
David Fermani
Forza Auto Salon
Everytime I compound a whole vehicle, I always wash it before the next step. I don't want any compound abrasives left behind that will get picked up by other pads. It can and will create big problems. If I'm just compounding 1 or 2 panels, I won't go through washing the entire vehicle, but I'll be real careful to do a complete wipedown before polishing. Water spilling out of the cracks and crevises of the body lines doesn't bother me either. The water can actually act as a lubricant for the pad/polish, which helps. The compound I use is water based too and most of the time I won't dry the vehicle after washing if I'm going to compound it. Saves time.
MightyClean
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Thats what i was asking. seeking perfection.. means to me no abrasives left on the car. I use diapers/and or microfiber. yet the fear is still there. I wash the car after compunding and blow Nooks and emblems and around weather stripping. not to remove excess water. but the fear of compound coming out with the water. and my bad on the question.. i mean to say. I know a glaze can be removed by one wash. But since a polish is mainly just a finer abrasive. is there any loss in washing before waxing? Im working in a darker workplace and sometimes have trouble spotting "caked" up polish spots. and i have previously waxed over them before.