Compound & Polish

Good polish & polishing paste is crucial for a detailer. With this you can achieve the greatest improvements on a car and transform it completely. You can transform the paint from dull, oxidized and full of scratches to a showroom shine with amazing reflection! How much shine, reflection and depth you can get and how quickly depends on the quality of your polish and polishing paste. In addition to other factors of course such as using a polisher or not, which polishing pads you use and your technique, among others.

In fact, there are a few different types of polishes. You also have polishes that have cleaning properties and have wax or silicone in them to camouflage scratches. But these are all in one polishes, we also offer these. The same with metal polish and glass polish. But these are completely different polishes. We focus here on compounds and polishes as they are also known. Specifically developed for paint correction.

You have polish & polishing paste that have ordinary polishing grains. These polishing grains abrade the surface at a microscopic level, removing paint defects. There are also diminishing abrasive polishing grains. These polishing grains start as large coarse grains but when worked on during polishing they break down and become smaller and finer. This polishing paste then also generally finishes better as it finer than the polishing grit that does not get finer. This then also generally ensures that the polishing grain that doesn't get finer has more cutting power because it remains just as coarse. So you will do more correction at a given time than the diminishing abrasive. But this is not always necessary of course.

If you get your paint defects removed with the right combination of polishing pads and technique then it is actually more convenient if the grain is refined to the point where you have to do less after correction to achieve maximum gloss. Both, of course, have advantages and have their place in the detailing world.

There are also the one step polishes. Basically, any polish & polishing paste can be a one step polish. But these one step polishes are designed to have diminishing abrasives and a long working time so you can generally use them anytime and get great results. They have good cutting power and finish very nicely making it a fixture for any detailer.

What we do think is important is that you have a polish that makes little to no dust while polishing. Therefore, you will find with us almost only polishes that are extremely user-friendly and do not create annoying dust. Of course, almost all polishes do create dust. But some brands that we have tested over the years create so much dust that you have no choice but to wash the car with a car shampoo after each polishing session. This should not be the intention. The polishes that we offer generally (almost) do not have this.

In addition, it is also important to us that they do not have fillers. Fillers mask paint defects and prevent you from doing a truly efficient paint correction. This is something you want to avoid in a polish. However, you can find this in an all in one polish. Hence, in our opinion, they deserve a completely different category.

It is also important that the polishes are naturally easy to wipe off. It is tremendously annoying and tiring to polish an entire car and have to scrub with microfiber cloths to remove the remaining residue. This can also cause you to scratch again because you have to apply so much pressure and rub so much to take off the excess product. This is why the polishes that we offer are generally all easy to wipe off with a microfiber cloth. You can always use an isopropyl panel degreaser to make wiping even easier. But generally this is not necessary. There are some polishes when they are worked on for a very long time or used in poor conditions that are a little more difficult to remove. But even then, these are considerably easier than other brands that we have already tested.

If at this point you don't know what polish & polishing paste you need then this is understandable. After all, you can never say for sure in advance which polish you are going to need for your car. Professional detailers never even know with 100% certainty. In general, if you have deep paint defects you need a coarse polish to remove the paint defects. And a fine polish to refine afterwards so you have a nice deep shine again. Or if your paint doesn't look too bad then sometimes you can just use a finishing polish to quickly give the paint back more shine and reflection. Is it a little in between or do you have a little more defects and want to do a quick solid correction and have good shine? Then you can also take a one step polish. With this you can (almost) never go wrong.

However a misjudgment that people make, even professional detailers is that they think the polish & polishing paste is the most important thing during a paint correction. They think that this determines how much paint correction you will do. However, this is not true. The biggest influence in how much paint correction you are going to do and how much shine you are going to get are polishing pads. If you need more cutting power, it is better to get a coarser polishing pad than to buy a coarser compound. Same thing when you want more shine. It's better to buy a finer and softer polishing pad than to take a fine finishing polish.

Of course, you don't necessarily need 10 different polishes. Basically, professional detailers often only use 4 different polishes. They have an all in one polish for customers that want some quick temporary shine and don't have too much budget. Then we have a one step polish for when you want to do 1 step paint correction. With this you can get good results on almost any car. And finally a coarse compound for removing deep paint defects and a finishing polish for maximum gloss.

What is always important before you do a paint job is to always make sure the paint is completely clean by washing it with a car shampoo and your 2 bucket method. Then it is best to remove the embedded iron particles and tar with an iron remover and a tar remover. Finally, it is also always tremendously helpful to do a clay treatment to remove the last contaminants from the paint. If you don't do this then dirt, iron particles and tar will be released during polishing and sometimes you will even make more damage and you can never get an optimal result!

So you can see that a polish & polishing paste is not as one-sided as often expected. Fortunately, we have a wide selection of the best brands and the best polish & polishing paste always in stock!