? about wax/polish

I just washed my car with a pretty harsh car shampoo that stripped it down. I am selling this car shorty so i just want to use whats in my garage. I have Mothers reflections premium polish and mothers california gold carnauba cleaner wax.

Are they the same? What should I apply first?

I am thinking polish then wax?

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If the reflections say that it is a glaze polish, then it would help to put that on first, then the california gold pure wax. If the reflections is a cleaner wax, then (if it were me) I'd skip it and go right to the pure wax.

Polish then Wax... Polish applies shine, wax only protects. People get confused and think that wax is what shines the car, it isn't, polish does this, wax protects the shine.

Not necessarily so. Wax products are fortified with additives that produces shine and beading qualities. Wax in its purest form, however, is meant to coat and protect a paint surface. Many people make the assumption that when their paint no longer beads that it means that the paint's wax has been used up. Your wax will greatly outlast the shine and beading quality, but will still protect the paint. Wax doesn't wash away, it has to be removed from your paint with an agent other than water.

Often in the past I skipped the polish step and applied a pure wax to a buffed paint surface and have had excellent results. Polish smoothens out a freshly buffed paint surface and enhances it for wax, but it isn't necessarily required for wax. In fact, there are several (high quality brands such as Zymol) wax and cleaning products that don't contain a polish or an intemediate step, and will contain a paint or cleaning enhancer, and the final wax (or polish in the case of synthetics).