Washed the car, but wish I hadn't!

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sportyreptile

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Working from home this morning when the power went off :rolleyes: .

It's fairly sunny so I thought I'd give the motor a good wash. It looks lovely from 10 feet away but getting closer I can see flecks of "dust" ( i think cement dust or something) in the paint.

Went over it again with shampoo and rinsed with hose, nope still there. Also I have little scratches all over the place, not deep but now it's clean quite noticeable close up. It looks like I'm going to need somekind of cutting polish to get rid of these pesky "dust flecks" and scratches with a top coat polish to finish off.

I've used Diamondbrite before which was good but can anyone recommend a good polish range I can get from the motor factors? Autoglym has an mind boggling range, do they do a cutting polish as well as top coat? Any of these coloured polishes any good?
 
For the paintwork contamination I would recommend using a clay bar system before the compounding or polishing starts. :)

Will
 
Clay...

I've heard of this on some American program somewhere. I'll get searching.
 

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