Best products for light swirls/oxidation by hand

**JustinL67** · 05-07-2006, 12:08 PM

I do not have PC or the ability to get one right now, but I still want to see what I can do to help out my 11 year old paint (Red 1995 Mustang GT). I do not mind the work involved in doing it by hand.

The oxidation is very light, it really can only be seen under flourescent lighting or very bright and direct sunlight. He said AIO is a great on oxidation but I am wasting my time trying to do anything about swirls by hand. I don`t really care if it actualy gets the swirls out, I just want to somewhate hide/mask them as a bandaid until my friend or I take a buffer to it, which could be months.

The car has also never been claybarred and probobly never actualy polished, just a layer of mothers wax every 18 months or so. I am amazed at how good of shape the paint is in for how terrible it was maintained, it wasn`t even washed that often, and bird **** and brake dust and all that fun stuff left until the next wash which could be two months away.

Here is what I was thinking about using

Clay Bar

AIO

Megs ScratchX

PoorBoys EX-P sealant

P21S carnauba wax

thoughts?

**TFin04** · 05-07-2006, 01:16 PM

I`ve found AIO to mask small swirl marks fairly well, but I haven`t used it on red.

You can make a huge difference in looks just by washing with dish soap, clay, a good polish/cleaner product and carnauba wax to top it off.

I think your list is a good one. If it just has loads of old wax on it I would wash with dawn or water/alcohol mix to get right down to the paint.

**wytstang** · 05-07-2006, 03:17 PM

Megs ScratchX people have gotten good results from it.

**hook** · 05-07-2006, 06:45 PM

I`ve used Meguiar`s Scratch X and also 3M Perfect-It II Fine Cut Rubbing Compound both by hand with good results. The 3M is a bit more aggressive than teh Scratch-X, and "flashes" easily by hand.

blue skies,

Andrew