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Richn83:
Hi all, I am hoping that the weather will be good enough over the weekend to give the car a good clean, polish and re-apply some wax.  Question is whats the best way to make sure all the old wax is removed before I start polishing, and pre-wax coating?

Ive heard washing up liquid mentioned, is this a good idea?

Or is the best way to clay the car?

I plan on doing the following incase this will make a difference:

Snow foam
Wash
Clay
Polish (have some SFX-2 which im going to try out on some swirl marks)
might follow up with some super resin polish
AG HD pre wax
AG HD wax

icenutter:
I tried washing up liquid a few times, but because it contains salt, I had problems with water marks, which just creates more work. Claying is definately the way to go. If you are looking for something to spend money on then you could wash first with some Meguiars APC as this strips more wax than normal car wash.

Mandy:
I would personally clay the car to get rid of the old wax etc and start again from fresh.

JPC:
Firstly, Washing up liquid is really not a good idea. It contains far too many ingredients that can be quite damaging for a car. First up the be damaged will probably be all your rubber seals and plastic. It can dry out these.

What i normally tend to do is snowfoam the car with an all purpose cleaner. Let that dwell, then rinse it off.
Then i would clay the car, then I give it a Wipedown with IPA.

You might think this is a bit overkill, and in some scenarios it is, but there are some pretty strong sealants out there.
Some might come off with an APC, but stuff like collinite can be a pain to remove.

Zymol vintage and royale sometimes give me a headache, but with those three steps above, your pretty much sure you have removed it all ;)

stealthwolf:
I thought claying and polishing would remove the LSP?

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