Re: Smearing after wax fades?
In direct sunlight.. Hmm.. I'm just a bit curious and worried.. Since you mentioned "smears" as the wax wears off, it almost sounds like the fillers (the ingredient in some waxes that hide those very light scratches, spider webbing and light swirl marks), it almost sounds like the car's paint already had those not so good looking smears (correct me if I'm wrong).
Meguiar's Tech Wax. A nice synthetic polymer wax, nice depth, it does in my experience, a good job in hiding or filling in minor or light scratches and swirl marks. However, any wax with good filling properties will do that job nicely when new. As the wax wears out, so do the ingredients that help conceal the minor scratches.
You can do a small section to see if it is indeed the wax or the fillers in the wax wearing off, try a 50/50 isopropyl alcohol-water mix. The isopropyl alcohol content should remove any oils, fillers, waxes applied to the paint. If they are indeed swirls or spider webbing, the ultimate solution will be to do paint correction. If you have a d/a buffer, you can use mothers rubbing compound and polishing compound to remove the scratches. On a more consumer level product, you can use UWS Pure Polish by hand, with a microfiber applicator a few times to remove or to at least make the imperfections less visible, followed by UWS Micro polishing glaze to refine the initial results left by the Pure Polish, then apply the wax (ideally, cleaner free type) to complete the job. Again, Tech wax can be used as your final step.
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