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

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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.

Best Selling Car Polishers

Meguiars Dual Action Polishing MachineMeguiars Dual Action Polishing Machine£155.00More information about Meguiars Dual Action Polishing Machine
Dynamo Power Car Polisher Platinum Deluxe PackDynamo Power Car Polisher Platinum Deluxe Pack£59.97More information about Dynamo Power Car Polisher Platinum Deluxe Pack
Dynamo Power Car Polisher Platinum Pack AlphaDynamo Power Car Polisher Platinum Pack Alpha£49.97More information about Dynamo Power Car Polisher Platinum Pack Alpha

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.

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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Featured Product

Meguiars Dual Action Polishing Machine Meguiars Dual Action Polishing Machine Price: £155.00 Visit Store

The ideal gift for a car enthusiast, a powerful twin action car polisher for that showroom perfect finish. Due to its dual action the Meguiars polishing machine is easy to use for beginner or expert alike.

The perfect present for any car enthusiast!

Dynamo Power Car Polisher Platinum Deluxe Pack Dynamo Power Car Polisher Platinum Deluxe Pack Price: £59.97 Visit Store

This quality rotary car polisher could easily be sold by itself for much more, but with the full range of accessories and a tough carrying case this has to be a must have purchase for any car enthusiast this summer.

With 7 adjustable speed settings as you would expect from a quality polisher and a D handle for optimal comfort, this is a quality car polisher at a bargain basement price.