Car Polish

When I check cars at auction, I notice some cars have shiny bodies without faded colour and some totally covered with dust. At auction, the bidders are all professional so we do not bid less just because they are dusty; and the inspectors there have the same attitude. However, when I see a well polished car, it is true that I sometimes feel like raising our budget for it a bit more. Today, I would like to talk about car polish.

Some people love their cars so much that they wash them every weekend and polish them. When you see a well polished car, it looks good and water stays in balls on its body for a long time. On the other hand, a car without polish dries quickly because it does not repel water and water does not form balls. So if you want to “get rid of moisture on your car”, not polishing our cars seems better. Is car polish good for our cars?

Car polish is used to protect the paint from sun damage (especially from ultraviolet [UV] ray), dust, harmful substances in the air, salt, etc as well as from damages of water stains and car washes, pitches from asphalt and to slow the body’s degradation. So if you regularly polish your car, it will keep its shine.

There are two types of polish: ones made from natural materials such as plants and the other from chemical synthesis; but both are to coat cars for protection from “foreign enemies”. Polish is not permanent and because it is like a thin film, it peels off from frictions and sometimes melts away with high temperature. Polish totally melts away at a temperature of 60-70 degree Celsius. If it starts raining like cats & dogs, even if you spend all day applying it on your car, the polish easily peels off. Depending on the materials, some polish leaves water drops on cars and causes spotty stains called “water spots” while the water evaporates. Please note that car polish is very sensitive. To avoid these unwanted results, people tend to use polish of plant origin.

I do apply polish on cars very often because of my job, but it is actually not to protect them but to increase my exercise load. How about you?


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