What is the best for removing scratches? Car Wax or Car Glass Coating?

Want to remove scratches on the car body! What should we use?

How do you do the maintenance for your precious car?

There are quite a few people who are obsessed with washing a car regularly and detailing car wax or car coating.

Your precious car which you have in your daily life.

Not only when you crash and scraped your car but also there are many chances to damage surprisingly.
The reasons are various.
For example, stepping-stones, sands, using a washing machine and so on.
Whatever any situations it is not good your precious car is caught a damages, isn’t it?

“It is not so serious to ask a professional detailer, however, I want to deal with scratches…”

Some of you might think like this.
Then, we’re going to introduce which items are effective for removing scratches.

●Scratch-off Car wax

There are many types of scratch-off car wax. We will explain about the difference roughly.

-Solid type

Basically it does not contain any polishing agent like compound.
It makes a car shiny by filling in the scratches.

-Paste type

Basically it contains polishing agents.
The ingredient of polish in the wax makes scratches less noticeable.
Also the ingredient of wax makes a car shiny.

-Liquid type

Many products are based on polymer.
It depends on products polishing materials have or have not.
This is easier to apply than any other types which is good point.

-Seat type

The cloth has already contained wax.
It can wax a car with just wiping.
This is very workability, but its durability is so-so.

●Car liquid compound

Car liquid compound makes scratches on the car body less noticeable by polishing to make the car body around the scratches gently.
Please use the appropriate type of compound which depends on the depth of scratches.
If you want to remove a deep scratch, you should polish with rough compound, and then, you should polish with fine one and finish it.

We introduced about car wax and car liquid compound mainly, but especially car wax might be difficult to choose the best one because there are beyond the number of products on the market.

From now, we would like to explain about more detail.

Is it true that car wax cannot effect depends on its ingredients?
Truly, there are many types of car waxes.
Moreover, if you have a mistake to choose it, the car body might be caught damage by its ingredients or might get the less effect.
Therefore, you should understand about types of car waxes and let’ choose the appropriate one!

Types of scratch-off car wax

■Car wax with an abrasive

It can polish the car body and remove scratches, but not for deep scratches.
Some water spots and dirt are removed as well.
If you polish it strongly, there is possibility to make small scratches on the car body.
Therefore please do not polish with too much.

Scratches are removed by polishing, so these become less noticeable even though the car wax is off.
The work is not so hard because you can do polishing and waxing together,
however, it also polish not only scratches but also the car body little by little at every applications.
Please be careful when you apply it for plastic parts.
They are almost paste type and liquid type.

■Car wax without with polishing materials

This type of compound is silicon fills in scratches and it make them less noticeable. However, it just makes scratches less noticeable, doesn’t remove. So after car wax comes off, scratches become noticeable again.
Usually this type is stronger hydrophobic than paste and liquid car wax with polishing materials/
We don’t recommend this if you are reluctant to polish the car body.
Also this is almost type of solid type.

The durability of scratch-off car wax

Car wax is not durable such as glass coating.
Solid car wax, paste car wax and liquid car wax can long last in this order,
but we recommend to apply car wax once a month even though solid type which is the longest durability in these.

Bad points of scratch-off car wax

If you leave your car long time without car washing after you apply car wax or apply it too much, these cause oxidation of car wax and it sticks to the car body. Then it is very difficult to remove it, sometimes your car might be damaged.
Moreover, it looks not so good due to black and yellow stains. Especially, please be careful about gaps in a hood, this part is easy to oxidize.

In the long run, how about scratch-off car wax?

In our conclusion, we don’t recommend to use it for removing scratches…
It cannot remove them completely and the car body is damaged by using the car wax again and again. However, the type of fill-scratch cannot remove scratches themselves.
Therefore we think that polishing with compound is the best way for removing scratches.
We would like to describe how to polish with compound below.

This is the best! How to remove scratches and make a car glossy!

We understand that “removing scratches = making scratches less noticeable”.

“Is there any ways to remove them completely?”

You might think like this.

To tell the truth, for removing scratches, polishing with compound is the most excellent.
Compound is a fine-grain and there are a several types such as coarse and fine.
It sounds difficult, but saying in an easier way, it is a liquid version of fine for a wood.
The work is by using a sponge or an electric machine.

If scratches are not so deep, they can be removed because polishing tears off scratches with the car paint surface together thinly.
(※ If scratches are deep such they reach under the car paint surface, it impossible to remove by polishing, so let’s ask professional’s work!)

Also compound can remove stubborn dirt which cannot be removed with normal car shampoo, such as water spots, the pitch, droppings and so on.
For this reason, it is not too much say that the car body rest by polishing at once.

However, please make note that polishing with compound has demerits.
It polishes the car paint surface and the clear layer even though the compound is how fine.
This work is needed a certain level of technic, for example if we polish the same part,
you might need more repairing because the car paint surface is polished, too.
This is the one of troubles which can be happened when we use the polisher.

On the other hand, polish the same part with a sponge,
rarely the car paint surface becomes whitish like a thin haze due to the heat.

Moreover, using a polisher has some problems which that a polisher is expensive and it needs a source of electrical power to use.
(It is very time-consuming if you need to polish not only partial or but also whole of a car.)
Special paintings, for example a scratch sealed and self-restoring coat, should be better to avoid unless we find the influence by polishing as much as possible.
The car paint surface cannot be undone at once you polish, if you feel fear of these demerits, asking professional car detailers can be the one way even though it is expensive.

After polished the car body with compound…

This is just an addition, after you polished the car body with compound, it is the perfect time to apply glass coating!!
Because the car body is clean – there is no scratches, the dirt and the oil – the preparation for glass coating finished already.
You can apply glass coating immediately after you wash the car with car shampoo carefully and drying the water.
Surely it can keep a car beautiful and glossy.
We recommend it highly even though it is a little bit time-consuming.

By the way, glass coating is able to make superficial scratches less noticeable.
(Please don’t forget that glass coating CANNOT remove scratches completely.)

Prevent against daily scratches by glass coating!

From this paragraph, we described about how to remove scratches which has already been on the car body.
Nevertheless, if we’re going to do it, it is much better than it we can prevent against scratches, isn’t it?
Of course, if your car gets scratches, you can deal with them by filling or polishing unless the scratches are very deep.

However, there is one thing which we cannot forget…

As we said above, we polish the clear coat and the paint surface.
If we polish a car every time when the car gets scratches, its car paint surface will run out.
If the car paint surface runs out, you need the expensive and time-consuming repair,
in the worst case, there is possibility to say good-bye to your precious car…

If you prevent against scratches in advance, you are caring and keeping your car beautiful, don’t you?
Then, for the prevention of scratches, glass coating is highly recommended.
Please consider about “100% genuine-glass coating”, not “glass-like coating”.
100% genuine-glass coating forms the glass layer on the car body.


▼Our Pika Pika Rain PREMIUM is like this.

[View details about 100% genuine-glass coating Pika Pika Rain PREMIUM]

If we apply it to a car, the glass coating doesn’t form the thick glass layer with naked eyes,
but the car body is protected by the glass layer indeed. The glass coated car body is harder to scratch than the naked one.
Sadly, a car will be got some scratches by all means, such as driving, parking, daily washing and using a car wash machine.

However, it is different from before applying glass coating, in this case,
the area where gets scratches is the glass layer on the car paint surface.
It means that when we polish with compound to remove scratches, first the glass layer is polished at first,
so the damage will be reduced quite a lot.

In Pika Pika Rain PREMIUM’s case, reapplying glass coating is possible to fill scratches with glass
and then the scratches is made less noticeable due to the reflection of the light.
The reapplied parts the strength of glass layer become stronger, so that is killing two birds with one stone!

Additionally, the water repellency (the water-sliding effect) is very well,
so we recommend it strongly because dust and droppings are removed easily and then you can cut the time for daily car washing.
Therefore, we recommend Pika Pika Rain PREMIUM for not only the prevention of scratches but also the maintenance!

By the way, this strayed from the topic of removing scratches…
The faded black plastic parts by the long-term deterioration can take back its original color by applying Pika Pika Rain PREMIUM, too.
Please don’t forget to apply this part!

Perfect application with Pika Pika Rain after removing scratches!!

From now, we would like to explain how to prepare and apply Pika Pika Rain PREMIUM step by step.

STEP1: Washing a car with your hands

First, remove the dirt which is adhered on the car body with plenty of water.
After this, make bubbles with car shampoo and wash a car with microfiber like you stroke it softly.
Finally, please wipe off with another dry microfiber cloth or microfiber chamois completely.

STEP2: Polishing with compound

(You can skip this step if you don’t care about scratches, water spots not so much.)

It can solve almost all of problems like scratches, water spots and so on.
Compound is also useful for removing old car wax or car coating.
Pika Pika Rain Liquid Compound has two types, Fine and Ultra-Fine. Please apply Compound Fine for scratches or swirl marks removing.
On the other hand, Compound Ultra-Fine for final mirror finish.
(Application order is Fine and Ultra-Fine.)

[How to apply with a sponge]

First, put proper amount of compound which you shake it well on a sponge.
Next, apply compound straight forward.
Please move to a next small area and repeat these steps to finish.

[How to apply with a polishing machine]

First, put proper amount of compound which you shake it well on a sponge.
Next, move a polishing machine horizontally and buff the area that needs attention.
Please move to a next small area and repeat these steps to finish.

※Caution※

Please be careful not to polish too much for both cases.
Moreover, after polishing, please don’t forget to wash a car well and wipe off the water with Pika Pika Rain Microfiber cloth.

[View details about Pika Pika Rain Liquid Compound]

STEP3: Removing the oil

Remove the oil with Pika Pika Rain Oil Remover.
This is not necessary,
but it makes car glass coating is better, so we would like you to do it even tough your car is brand new.

[View details about Pika Pika Rain Oil Remover]

STEP4: Applying the glass coating

Finally, after the preparation, let’s move to the application of glass coating!
At first put proper amount of Pika Pika Rain PREMIUM on a sponge (The first time is 5 or 6 drops, after that please add 2 or 3 drops) and apply to the car body with the sponge thinly.
Then immediately please wipe the area where you applied in with Microfiber Cloth.
We recommend to repeat applying the car body into small areas.
If you apply it for a spread area at one time, the liquid get dry and you cannot apply it evenly.

This is how to do the preparation and apply Pika Pika Rain PREMIUM.
Some of you might feel troublesome about STEP2 and STEP3, but the durability of glass coating will be quite different from you do it or do not it!!
Car wax can last from one month to three months.

However, Pika Pika Rain PREMIUM can last three years at once you apply it!!
(Of course, it depends on the situation of keeping and the frequency of driving…)
Please consider about it if you think that “It is troublesome the application again and again…”

[View details about 100% genuine-glass coating Pika Pika Rain PREMIUM]

Cost-effective Glass Coating!!

How was this article?

We introduced about many merits and demerits about glass coating, but if we’re going to do the application, it is important to think about its caring for the future.

Of course it is not bad to make a car beautiful with the paste wax.
However, when we think about the durability of gloss, we can recommend glass coating because it forms the glass layer and it can last three years.

We cannot help avoiding scratches on the car body in a daily life.
If we apply the car wax to them less noticeable, but after the car wax removed, scratches are remarkable, again.

However, if apply the glass coating after polishing with the compound,
you don’t have to be worried about scratches not to damage on the car paint surface directly, because they are on the glass layer of glass coating.

Car wax is cheaper than glass coating, but we have to apply car wax many times.
Therefore, the application of glass coating which is only one time should be very easy.

You might think that paste car wax with polishing materials and gloss, but the after caring is hard and you glass coating is better.

Both of them have their own good sides, it is the best you can care about your car by your own way which adjusts your preference and your life style.