The key to the long-term operation of the car is the correct care for it. However, the content of the vehicle in good technical condition is only part of the care. The appearance and beauty of your car is daily exposed to tests in adverse road conditions and under conditions of a polluted atmosphere. And, though, the paintwork protects your car from corrosion well, over time, scratches, scratches and other flaws appear on it.

Polishing the car body, for what it needs

The question is why the body polishing is needed, can cause laughter from every motorist. Because the answer is obvious. Such a procedure is needed to give the car of the initial shine and elegance. However, this is not the only reason by which car owners resort to body polishing. Almost everyone, even at the newest car, there are minor defects that cannot be seen with the naked eye, but, nevertheless, they make the body vulnerable to adverse effects of external factors.
At first glance, you may have the impression will be that the paint is in good order. But if you look closely, you'll see various scrapes, tiny scratches and tarnishing the upper layers of the paint surface of the body, which is only getting bigger every day. Even if you have just washed your car, you need only a couple of hours of driving in the city, what would your "swallow" again bought cheap and dull appearance.

What would your car again shone "like new", you need a professional polishing of the body. To date, there are three types of car polishing:
1. Simple polishing (you can easily do on your own);
2.Glubokaya polishing;
3.Abrazivnaya (yet it is called recovery).

Tools and materials for polishing

In order to polish the surface of the body shop, we need the following tools, equipment and materials:
1.Mashinka polishing car or sander. In extreme cases, some drivers use a power drill, that's just you need to have a special adapter and special grinding and polishing wheels for electric drill.
2. Grinding and polishing wheels. As for the polishing wheels, they are foam or felt, yet they are separated by material stiffness - the stiffer the paste for polishing, the harder he is to be a circle.
3. Non-abrasive, abrasive and polishing pastes, moderately.
4. Sandpaper.
5. Soft Baykovoye rags or cloths microfiber.
6. Foam.
7. Rubber soft scraper.
8. A sprinkler water.
9. White spirit.
10. Portable lamps for good lighting.
11. Masking tape.

Workplace conditions

If you carry out the procedure in the street, you should opt for this good day that would not be too wet, cold or hot. However, it is best to carry out polishing of a body in the garage as well as direct sunlight can dry the pasta too quickly. At the same time, it is very important that the garage is well ventilated, because at work will be a lot of dust.
It is equally important to take care of a good and uniform illumination. It is desirable to position the light at five points around your car, so you do not miss any defect and damage to the body, as well as be able to better see results of their work.

Preparing the body for polishing

At the initial stage it is necessary to wash the car and completely remove it from different spots, marks and stains. To this end, it is desirable to use modern means of specialized, but in extreme cases, you can use white spirit or diesel fuel. The main thing - do not overdo it.
All chrome, rubber or plastic elements (eg lights) should be sealed with masking tape. Dents need to be aligned, and deep scratches or defects, as required seal, as they will be handled by a separate procedure.

Types polishes, polish what to choose

Polish the surface of the body protects it from the harmful effects of external factors, it gives the car a shiny and prolongs its shelf life. If the body shop to apply polish the surface, it creates a thin film which closes the pores in the ink and protects the ink layer from atmospheric influences, various dust and dirt.
It makes the surface slippery, and it is not possible to adhere to the body of various fine particles and protects the paint from the aging process (ie. E. Oxidation). Sometimes, the wax is applied not only on the paint and on the chrome elements. It is said that is recommended to apply wax for about two or three times a year, but not more often than once a month.
Cars polishes are divided into three groups: abrasive, wax and synthetic.
Polishing wax are the most ancient means of giving a car shine. They give excellent results and, at the same time, very cheap. Polishes made of natural wax, at least proved themselves worthy, only they have one drawback - they can survive only until the first or second car wash.
As for the synthetic polishes, they are divided into the polymer, and silicone-reducing cleaners.

Silicone polishes are very similar to wax. They have a liquid consistency and on the shelves, they come in plastic spray bottle. This polish can be rather quickly polish the car, however, they, like wax, are short-lived.
Polishing of a polymer is considered the most relevant and promising, as they are able to protect the car from the sun, bird droppings, and so on. D. It is easy to clean and a little dirty, and, at the same time, keeps a few months. But, unfortunately, there is such wax is too expensive, and apply it to the body of the vehicle is difficult.
Cleaners-reducing agents contain fine abrasives and special chemicals, which are qualitatively and quickly return the car a fresh appearance. Also, with their help, you can remove oxides of paint and remove stains that are difficult to deduce. This polish is for enamel coatings and coating type "mettalik". The complexity of this polish is that no additional processing protective polish, two weeks oxidized paint and the results will not be seen.
Abrasive polish is composed of abrasives. It is used in emergency situations when you need to eliminate the defects or to effectively and quickly restore an old car paintwork. The surface treatment of such a body is the removal of polish lacquer microlayer. When using this tool, you must be extremely careful, because not every car can withstand the grinding abrasive polish. As well as cleaners and restorer, requires additional processing protective polishing layer.

Simple polished with his own hands

This procedure is performed for small defects and superficial scratches. At the initial stage, apply polish to the desired surface of the body. To do this, we need to put a little polish on the cloth and spread over the entire surface. When it dries to a white plaque, it can be polished to a shine. For perfect coating takes about ten or twenty movements in one place. It is recommended to polish in a circular motion. However, before embarking on such a procedure, read the instructions polish manufacturer. Do not forget that the polish for some time to wash and easy polishing should be repeated every five weeks.

Deep polished to remove the defects of the body with their hands

It is used, which would fix the deep scratches and damage. Taken first small and very fine sandpaper, the water required for wetting the surface and the rubber bar that would support the sandpaper. With these tools, we carefully grind every scratch separately. The defect can be considered great, if you feel it with your finger. When scratching persists, you must use the very fine sandpaper, sand the area around it. Finally, should a homogeneous surface. To enhance the effect, you can use cross-shaped movement. If the item that you want to grind, too much and it has many flaws, you can mentally divide it into small pieces and grind them in turn.
To perform a deep polish yourself, you need a lot of time and patience. However, the result is worth it.

For the next step you need polisher. Before applying it, moisten the surface and apply on parts polishing paste. At first, you need to perform polishing in the slow mode to evenly distribute the paste. But, then, we can accelerate and begin to polish itself. That would not overheat the detail that you process, you need to constantly change the location of the machine and not to stay in one place until you get the desired result.

abrasive polishing

Restoring polishing is difficult and time-consuming process, which consists of several stages. First, you need to remove scratches, oxidized seals and other defects from the bodywork of your car's surface. In fact, the abrasive is a polishing removal of a thin layer of paint. According to this, such a process does not recommend doing unnecessarily. If the paint on the body will become very thin, then nothing good is not prizvedet.
Next, apply the special polishing materials, which allow the vehicle surface to repel moisture, dirt, protect it from corrosion, as well as give the body shine and prolong its service life.
If you wish, what would your car was always in immaculate condition, learn how to properly care for them.