Paint swirl fix day

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After a winter of running my cars through the tunnel wash it’s time to fix up the marks. I have 2 black and 1 navy car and did the wife’s 24 yesterday, my plan is to do my 21 and 18 today, if my shoulders hold out. I had the older cars ceramic coated, felt like a waste of money honestly.

I’ll do the same thing I’ve done for years. Turtle wax 53448, black, hybrid solutions acrylic ceramic but does take a fair amount of elbow grease. It’s supposedly a corrector and polish and has always worked well. I’ll then use the black ceramic acrylic spray wax for the 2nd coat. I use this combo on my navy blue car as well and the end result is a pretty flawless, swirl free shine. I do this a few times a year, using meguiars gold class (black) detailer in between times. I’m sure there’s better options but this works and I get tons of compliments.

Swapped out the wife’s wiper blades yesterday, oem to trico silicone ceramics, which was a sad day. The Nissan mitsuba oem wiper blades are hard to beat, but a bad winter of snow and ice took its toll and they were in bad shape.
 
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After years of reading Volvo fora from both here and abroad, I assumed you were tackling the common "broken swirl flap actuator" found on many diesel engines when I read the title.

How long did it take your wife's OEM wipers to fail? Being a '24, I guess you got the vehicle in late '23.
 
After years of reading Volvo fora from both here and abroad, I assumed you were tackling the common "broken swirl flap actuator" found on many diesel engines when I read the title.

How long did it take your wife's OEM wipers to fail? Being a '24, I guess you got the vehicle in late '23.
I bought it May of 24. I’ll normally get a few years out of them but we had so much ice this year that they weren’t wiping evenly. I may have found the oems at a dealer in Wisconsin but haven’t heard back. Nissan dealers seem to only sell the value advantage line, which are a very nice wiper, but don’t have the same look. I like the trico silicones minus the look. I don’t like seeing holes where the blades attach, or like seeing the wiper in general while driving. It’s a cork, along with many. My wife thinks I’m nuts. If I do find oems I’ll use the tricks as a winter blade from here on out.
 
Why not just go to a touchless wash and avoid the damage all together? Every time you polish the vehicle you're removing clearcoat.
 
No touchless in my smallish town. We have a family owned and one of those commercial places with the interior cleaning station. The new commercial place chased the only touchless out and into a car lot.
 
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