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    Dress or coat trim before or after detail?

    When your doing a full detail, do you normally dress or coat the trim after the detail or before you apply any polish, wax, sealant that way nothing is on the paint?
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    Re: Dress or coat trim before or after detail?

    I dress after the detail so that my pad or MF don`t touch it and spread to the paint.

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    Re: Dress or coat trim before or after detail?

    Always after, trim and glass are always last.
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    Re: Dress or coat trim before or after detail?

    After

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    Re: Dress or coat trim before or after detail?

    Noting that I only use Trim Sealants (UTTG+) and LSPs on my trim, I don`t have a hard-and-fast rule about it. But overall I probably do the trim after the paint more often than before, not that it matters IMO.

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    Re: Dress or coat trim before or after detail?

    After. The finishing touches.

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    Re: Dress or coat trim before or after detail?

    Quote Originally Posted by Accumulator View Post
    Noting that I only use Trim Sealants (UTTG+) and LSPs on my trim, I don`t have a hard-and-fast rule about it. But overall I probably do the trim after the paint more often than before, not that it matters IMO.
    I just purchased WETS and plan on using it on my car this weekend. I assume since its a sealant it last a few washes where I dont have to re apply each wash
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    Re: Dress or coat trim before or after detail?

    Quote Originally Posted by Automoglow View Post
    I just purchased WETS and plan on using it on my car this weekend. I assume since its a sealant it last a few washes where I dont have to re apply each wash
    Never used that, but I hope it does last a while, otherwise it wouldn`t be much better than some Drying Aid, huh?

 

 

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