For the Junkman.....

RyanWest

You can clay the entire car and bring it in for correction. Just use a quick detailer if it sits to long.

Junkman2008

NO. No, no, no!

If it sits too long then it will need to be washed, period. That's not what a quick detailer should be used for, although every manufacturer will tell you to do so because they want to sell product. They have a dog in the fight that needs to make money, not your paint's best interest in mind. If they weren't trying to sell product, then they would tell you to grind week-old dirt across your paint with a cheap microfiber towel.

To the OP, YES you can work in stages. It takes me 3 weeks to a month to do an entire car. Do you think that I am working straight through during that whole time? Hell no, I only work when I'm felling it. Those sessions may last 1 hour or 18 straight hours but once I hit the wall, I walk out of the garage. I always know what I have done so far and where I have stopped. I've had people ask me how I remember what I have done. That question completely blows me away as I don't know how you can forget where you've stopped (after all, YOU'RE doing the work ). But thanks to man's invention of the writing utensil, you can always make yourself a note. It's not rocket science, it's fixing paint.

Now there's one thing that should be happening here and if not, you are seriously doing something wrong. You should only have to do a major paint correction ONCE in the life of your car's paint and from that point on, NEVER have to do a major paint correction on it again. If you are doing a major paint correction more than once, your paint maintenance methods suck and really need to be re-evaluated. Stuff like using a quick detailer all the time and improper washing are the two main things done incorrectly that introduce swirls into your paint. Whenever you touch your paint, that's an opportunity to create paint damage so you want to make sure that you are touching it the proper way using a proper method.

Once your paint has been completely fix, maintenance is going to take A LOT LESS TIME. You will run into light scratches here and there (i.e. from some fat chick walking past your car with a kitchen sink for a purse), but those scratches should come of the car in a few buffing passes. So maintaining your paint after it is finally fixed won't take nearly as long as it did during the first fix. If so, you're doing something wrong. From how you are touching it to where you are parking, something would need to be addressed.

All of this should make sense because as you can see, I only preach common sense. I don't do rocket science and as you know from my videos, I definitely don't fake the funk.

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