I've been hand washing/claying/polishing/waxing my cars twice a year for many years. I'm going to try the CarPro UK ceramic clearcoat. What's the best order? Do I apply the clearcoat instead of waxing or polishing or in addition to? What's the order?

1. Hand wash
2. Clay
3. Polish
4. Wax
5. Clearcoat?

 

The ceramic coating is instead of wax, not in addition to, as wax will stop the coating from bonding to the paint. So do your claening, prep and correction work and then apply the ceramic coating.

 

Pre soak
rinse
pre soak
contact wash
clay
rinse
polish
panel wipe
ceramic

if your swirls are light or they don't bother you, no need to polish. you can skip the polish step and proceed directly to ceramic.

personally i've chosen not to ceramic. i detail my cars often and frequently and see no meaningful benefit to ceramic as my cars have strong effective layers of other regularly applied sealants on them.

 

Waiting for my ceramic spray to arrive today so I can start the process.

 

Did you finish this? Curious how it turned out as I am contemplating doing this to mine. Also, did you do the wheels?

 

Whenever I apply a coating I apply it to wheels as well. Makes cleaning them a breeze.