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08HoeCD

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Meh....my Tahoe is Gold Mist and hides everything. I hand wash it sometimes and I take it through car washes, too. No issues. Of course, it's gotta be a good-quality car wash and not just a dump.

I used to drive a Pitch Black Challenger. Same thing----hand wash sometimes and car wash sometimes. No big deal. In fact, coworkers and even strangers would look at my car and marvel at how clean and sharp she looked. Any issues that may arise can be corrected in a twice-yearly detail with good quality compound and a DA polisher.
 

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Its not so much where or how you wash, I believe the best thing you can do for your paint is after cleaning, hand apply a good quality coat of wax to repel and protect. The one pictured below is a tad pricey but excellent quality,.. Turtle Wax has a high end carnuba wax. Effort is key here,... you wont get the same protection from a spray on wax as you would with a hand applied, hand buffed, quality wax.

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I have no issues with car washes either. Been going to South Beach car wash,Sample Road car wash and Secaucus car wash forever.

I am not concerned with swirls..I am more concerned with the tons of construction trucks on all the highways and surface streets down in my neck of the woods constantly dropping rocks on the roadway every time they hit a small bump in the road. It is already destroying the paint on my Hoe.
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I am not concerned with swirls..I am more concerned with the tons of construction trucks on all the highways and surface streets down in my neck of the woods constantly dropping rocks on the roadway every time they hit a small bump in the road. It is already destroying the paint on my Hoe.

I feel for ya Gary. Good thing you ain't in Sweetwater I hope!
 

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Its not so much where or how you wash, I believe the best thing you can do for your paint is after cleaning, hand apply a good quality coat of wax to repel and protect. The one pictured below is a tad pricey but excellent quality,.. Turtle Wax has a high end carnuba wax. Effort is key here,... you wont get the same protection from a spray on wax as you would with a hand applied, hand buffed, quality wax.

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Hand waxing is SO time consuming and takes so much effort. I can do a whole wax on my truck, after proper steps that is, in 15 minutes with my porter cable and a Chemical guys wax. And then buff off the haze in about 10 minutes. I see no point in doing it by hand when there are machines readily available to make the job easier.
 

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You Da Man,.. go for it ! ,...but surely theres got to be a couple things left that are still better done by hand ,..:buffer::burnout:
 

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You Da Man,.. go for it ! ,...but surely theres got to be a couple things left that are still better done by hand ,..:buffer::burnout:
There isn’t really much detail-wise that can’t be done by machine..... that there isn’t a good reason against doing it by machine... except maybe claying.
 

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ill never hand wax a damn thing again. buffer for the win.

its amazing what it does to paint thats not be treated right for years on end.
 

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