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What’s the difference between waxing, buffing and polishing?

There is often confusion about the term polishing with respect to your car. If you talk about polishing your furniture, you are almost certainly using a form of wax to buff the surface. Strictly speaking, car polishing is the process of using a cutting compound (polish) to remove the top layer of paint thereby removing any imperfection.

What many people refer to as polishing their car is actually waxing and buffing. Wax achieves the nice shine by filling the tiny imperfections in the paintwork of your car and so achieves its results in the opposite manner to a polish.

The good news is that car polishers can be used to both polish your car and buff the wax. I would guess that the majority of orbital car polishers sold are used for buffing rather than polishing despite their name.

Choosing your car polisher

For ease of navigation, this site splits the various types of car polishers into three groups.

• Orbital car polishers , these units have two handles on either side making it easy to control the machine. The twin handles make it easy to control the polisher on vertical surfaces like car bodywork.
• Rotary polishers, these look very similar to angle grinders and in some cases can perform both functions. These machines are typically more heavy duty than the twin handled models and are suitable for polishing a wide range of surfaces, including as floors
• Air powered polishers, air powered tools are generally the preserve of commercial organisations or the keen amateur. However if you have access to a compressor in your workshop you will want to consider these professional car polishers.

Best Selling Car Polishers

Meguiars Dual Action Polishing Machine£139.99	Draper Expert 1500W 230V 180mm Angle Polisher£82.95	DELUXE Car Polishing And Buffing 'SUPERSET'£50.90
Halfords Car Polisher 240v£34.99	RAC Twin Handled Car Polisher.£34.95	Direct Power PP245 120W Auto Polisher 230V£19.97

Why use an electric car polisher?

Whether using a car polisher to buff the wax on your car, or to remove stone chips and other imperfections in the surface of the paint, their fast oscillation or rotation speed can make short work of even the most time consuming job.

Buffing the wax on your car can be a really time consuming job and tiring job. If you are going for that showroom look, then you will need to apply several layers of wax which will take hours to do by hand.

If the paint on your car has become dull and faded, then a car polisher will make the job of polishing and subsequent waxing much, much quicker and easier. Although as with all power tools caution has to be exercised. In particular rotary car polishers are incredibly powerful and have the potential to do harm as well as good.

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