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   on screen and subscribe if you're new and if you  like today's video and I'll see you guys next time

Channel: Stauffer Garage

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Length: 10min 4sec (604 seconds)

Published: Sun Dec 17 2023