lukey knows it microfibre wash mitt to reduce scratching two buckets one with hot water and one with hot water and car shampoo so every time you take the mit off the car dip it in the hot plain water bucket then into the shampoo then dry it off with like the kent microfibre drying towel as they are fantastic then use some decent products ie auto glym, meguirs, poor boys, and dodo juice everyone has their favorites use a decent system once and it ll make your life easier ie, i cut my car using ultimate compound then stage 2 polish stage 3 wax then high deff waxed it then like glass polish next time you go to clean it ll be so much easier