[RKDinOKC]

Know a couple of car detailers that no longer really detail cars. It's now called paint restoration and costs a lot more even though they spend about the same amount of time on the cars. Both of them the cars they do are winning car shows.

The stuff they use is different. They do the claybar thing, but the polish step is a lot different. They use different grits of cleaner (now called polish) and pads like you would us grits of sand paper wet sanding. Then instead of waxing they use a protective coating, then wax that.

Kinda like a long time ago I had a Mother's system, You started with the wash, then claybar, then cleaner, then polish, then wax. Then if you really wanted it shiny the was a pure carnuba, but the pure carnuba only lasted about a month before it evaporated off the car. The difference it was used to be a one step cleaner (that wasn't very good) is now polishing the paint and uses cleaners that are several different grits and is used with paint depth gauges before you start with the protective stuff, that used to be called polish. I've seen some pretty amazing results from some pretty faded out paint jobs.

Kinda interesting to me because I used to wax cars when I was a teen, it was before clear coat. I had a cleaner stuff that did wonders. There was only one car I wasn't able to clean up and Mercedes ended up repainting it. When couldn't get the old cleaner stuff any more couldn't find anything like it. Zymol cleaner worked at first, then it changed and quit working very well. There was also some stuff I found that looked, smelled, and worked like the original cleaner stuff, but only found it once. Lately there was some cleaner stuff from Zaino, but it still doesn't work like the old cleaner.