How To Polish A Car For Beginners At Home || Remove Swirls and Scratches || Ceramic Coat

today I'm going to share with you the five steps that you need to know to polish your car's paint

and remove all scratches and swirl marks and apply a ceramic coating if you're a complete

beginner this is something that you can accomplish too or if you're professional but I'm going to

share with you all my tips and tricks so you can do this at home as well so let's jump right into

it here is the before of this Yukon Denali as you can see there are swirl marks everywhere on

this paint we got a couple deep scratches up here but the swirl marks and spiderwebs are insane on

thing and this happens when people drive their car through a car wash um those automatic car

washes do this to your paint completely destroy it um but you know what honestly no harm against

that we can get this completely corrected and removed very very simply so let me show you all

the products that you need so in order to polish your paint this is what you need you need some

sort of Polishing Compound which the Maguire's Ultra finishing polish and the ultra cut compound

this is probably one of your most economical but go-to products that just work you have your

harder cut compound for the deeper scratches and then you have your finishing compound which is if

you have light swirl marks you can almost get away with just using this and when it comes to

polishers this is a small circular polisher this allows you to get into those tight to

reach spots that are around your bumper and it's not those larger panels like your doors or your

hoods now this is my Milwaukee 21 mm cordless orbital polisher this one rotates in an orbit

which allows you to not have to worry about your paint being burnt but any random orbital

polisher like this one which is corded this one you can also pick off of Amazon any economical

random orbital polisher will work now when it comes to polishing pads this is a softer core

microfiber pad microfiber pads is kind of my go-to just because they have come a long way

with making the work a lot quicker this one's a thinner stiffer backing plate for the deeper cuts

the softer ones are more pliable and friendly when it comes to removing lighter swarm marks

and scratches or you can go to the tried andrue foam pads and this one's from Lake County comes

with three different pads orange white and black black being the softest white being mid- grade

and orange being the stiffest when you get to the stiffest grades that's when you're trying to cut

more the softer ones or for when you're trying to do your fine finish polishing with like a Polish

like that so pads are not necessarily the end of the world but Lake County or a high-end microfiber

pad always seem to be something that I would recommend picking up you also need a stack of

clean microfiber towels you're going to need some sort of clay bar along with Clay Lube which can

just be water and soap so you can slide your clay bar after you've washed it to remove imperfections

on the paint before you polish next thing you're going to need is some sort of so this is 3D wipe

Surface Prep just rubbing alcohol from the store you're using this after you polish to remove any

oils or residues the other product that I like to use is this light it does allow you to have a

wide range of light to see all the scratches and Imperfections and this is a polishing pad for um

removing polish and cleaning the pad in between each door panel or pass you just have your pad

spinning and you use this to kind of scrape it and brush off any of the residue there's tons of

different ceramic Coatings you can get they come in little bottles like this I always fall back

on sah coat for their Ceramics because they make the best in my opinion in the industry um but any

other off-the-shelf ones work just sometimes they don't last as long as a more high-end professional

detailing uh ceramic coating but this one uh is the one that I like to use from Sak coote Now when

using the clay bar all you want to do is make sure you have a flat surface you spray on some

of your clay lubricant and what you're going to do is take that clay flat surface pad and you're just

going to lightly with two fingers just press down a little bit and let it slide across the surface

and by doing that you're going to feel high spots you're going to feel rough points and those rough

points are contaminants that didn't come off in the wash phase and you're removing them with the

clay bar to pick them up so your polishing pad doesn't scrape dirt across the surface of your

paint the clay bar is to take up the big stuff and not remove any scratches it's more of just

a prep stage and you want to do it on the entire vehicle which should take you about an hour to

complete once you've covered one spot fold the clay bar over and press those contaminants into

the clay bar to reveal a flat new Surface with no contaminants so that way you can

remove from the next [Music] panel [Music] so I've added this tapel line here and this

is just for polishing to kind of show you the difference the before so before super swirled

on both sides and I'm going to polish this side to show you the difference in between the two

so this is the side we hit with the ultra cut compound this side we did not you can see here

it's not absolutely perfect but the larger imperfections compared to this side all of

these higher deeper swirl marks were completely cut down or removed the ultra fine polish will

then go through and take care of those minor scratches that you see but the main point of

this step the first step is to take care of all of the deep big scratches that you see on this

side that were removed from this side now that we got the entire Hood done with the ultra cut

compound so the the ultra cut the stronger cut always change your pads you want to change your

pad at least every four panels so four doors is equivalent to one pad um and in between that pad

you're going to use that brush to essentially remove some of this and then blow it out to get

any of that powder from the actual compound remove but now that we're going to switch to

the ultra finish compound we're going to use a new pad this is a softer one but for finishing

still microfiber but more of a finishing pad with a finishing [Music] compound [Music]

now that we have the hood completely polished there's just dust from the Polishing Compound

on the hood it's time to use our rubbing alcohol to spray on the entire surface clean it off so

it removes any oils or any residue left over from the polishing phas before we put on the

ceramic [Music] coating [Music] when you're applying the ceramic coat and you're obviously

putting all those drops onto the pad itself you're barely putting any pressure and you're doing half

overlapping passes to ensure that the coating is completely covering the surface for the area

you're working on you usually you want to work on like a 3X3 surface maximum and once you do it this

direction you're going to want to turn around and go back in the other direction the whole point for

this is you're doing an even cross-hatch to ensure that you're covering the entire [Music] surface

once you have the coating applied you're going to want to let it sit and Flash for about 2 to

3 minutes it is dependent on the manufacturer so every time you do this look at the bottle and the

instructions for the product that you're using for the ceramic coating and then you're going to just

buff it off with a microfiber towel and the whole point is as this flashes you're just leveling

off the coating so there's no high points so that way you have a clean glass ceramic coating on the

surface and when you're buffing off and leveling the ceramic coating with your microfiber towel

you're barely using any pressure and you're just lightly dragging across the surface if you want to

see a complete car getting detailed and ceramic coated and Polished click this video right here

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