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Old 04-04-2013, 10:07 AM   #46 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Amj2020 View Post
The truth is you will never achieve a shine with wax alone. You must polish a cars paint in order to get a greater shine from the paint. You can protect and make it feel slick with wax but this will not change any imperfections in the paint surface. IF you want to cheat polishing, just use Zaino products as they produce a nice "shine" after applied but they do not require orbital polishing. Whoever said that earlier was right on point. Good luck but sounds like you may benefit from a cleaner wax or an all in one type product. It all depends on how committed you are to your cars appearance.
Waxes that have fillers will hide the imperfections. Sometimes these waxes are called "glazes".

Regardless, you're completely correct. When people wax and the car looks better, they're seeing this imperfections filled in and they think the wax gives the car more of a gloss, when it's really just a more uniform surface area reflecting the light more evenly.
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