How do you know?

[imported_sal3291]

Im still confused on how to tell what products a car would need. In my case a 99 Accord, grey in color, no metallic or anything. I washed it, clayed and used Meg NXT 2.0 and I liked tghe look. It had a nice shine almost a wet look. Id like a lil deeper shine to it.

My other car is a 94 Lincoln Mark VIII Pearl White. I want to get this car where you could really see the pearl. Would clay, DWG and 845 get me the look I am after?

Besides these cars in general what makes you use certain products on a black car vs a metallic black or a white, red. etc....

 

[Setec Astronomy]

If you've got '94 and '99 cars that have never been polished...they could probably use a polishing! I'm not really sure what you're asking. Clay will certainly help, but on any car that old, unless it's been garaged and kept to Autopian standards, I don't think you're going to get that deeper shine without polishing.

 

[Accumulator]

Yeah, I agree. I'd give each a good polishing and then evaluate. Maybe a subsequent/penultimate step would add something, or maybe you could go straight the the LSP, but I can probably count on one hand (OK, maybe both hands if we include all the new cars I've seen over the years) the number of unpolished cars I've seen that couldn't have benefited from *some* degree of abrasive polishing. A '99 and a '94, I'd about bet my life they could both use it. My '01 S8 is about as close to perfect as drivers get, and I bet that *it* could benefit from some burnishing with a good finishing polish!



I don't decide on my LSP based on the color so much as on the overall paint/vehicle. Generally, I'd say that if you want "deeper/richer" you go one route whereas for "shiny/reflective" you go another.