| The two tricks I can think of right now (which I'm sure most Autopians already know) are as follows:
1. Dress your plastic trim with protectant right before waxing when using a wax that stains trim (i.e. Blitz, Meguiar's #26) and the hazed wax will wipe right off when buffing.
2. Washing your car contributes greatly to the degradation of your wax protectant (more so than every-day driving, IMO). To help counter this, mix a little bit of liquid wax into your shampoo (at a ratio of about 3 parts shampoo, 1 part liquid wax), shake vigorously in a small bottle similar to a ZFX bottle and pour into your bucket. This should only be done when your car isn't too dirty and doesn't have any embedded dust because the amount of suds you'll get will be severely reduced. Make sure you rinse your car very thoroughly afterwards. |