When to polish

I use grit guards and foam the car before washing. Thanks for the suggestions guys! I don't change mitts and I just use a microfiber one. Should I get a better one? Multiple ones?

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I don't regret my purchase of a black car. But boy is it work! OP, I feel your pain.

I've found one of the unique issues is how bad ash, soot and dust show up. Where I live lots of folks heat with wood. Standing next to my outside, parked car I can see several smoking (24/7) fireplace chimneys and several (also, always burning in he winter) wood furnaces. So every morning, I have an ever so faint dusting of gray ash, soot, and dust. It's why I wash about every other day. Sure is a pain. But I love the way the car looks clean so much it's worth the fact that it looks dirty pretty often.
 
This is the first winter where I really care about my car. It seems all the swirls are on the lower portions of the car not really any on the hood or roof but mostly lower doors and front bumper

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The car needs to be clayed. After the Baggie test it's got some light contamination, but it's there. After my Sunday wash this weekend I'm going to lay down another coat of black hole and natty blue for temporary swirl hiding. Then in march I'll give her a light buff and I'll be good!


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Romans5.8 said:
I don't regret my purchase of a black car. But boy is it work! OP, I feel your pain.

I've found one of the unique issues is how bad ash, soot and dust show up. Where I live lots of folks heat with wood. Standing next to my outside, parked car I can see several smoking (24/7) fireplace chimneys and several (also, always burning in he winter) wood furnaces. So every morning, I have an ever so faint dusting of gray ash, soot, and dust. It's why I wash about every other day. Sure is a pain. But I love the way the car looks clean so much it's worth the fact that it looks dirty pretty often.
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I'm experiencing that too. I live and work in an area that is semi-agricultural, so every time the wind blows I get dust all over the car. It doesn't help that the city decided to go cheap and resufaced the roads around my neighborhood with some gravel/tar mixture rather than chips. The gravel is continuously eroding as you drive on it and creates tons of dust . I can wash the car and drive to work the next day and you'd never know I washed it.
 
Is it advisable to purchase a paint thickness gauge? Even if this will only be the third time it's being buffed with m205 on a white pad?


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Sorry. Can't edit from tapatalk, but I know there's not a set number of times you can polish but really how much can such a mild approach like that be done?


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