Price: £11.99
Buy from: Amazon
Min price per litre: £23.98
T-Cut remains a household name when it comes to polish, and we can see why from the results that this colour-specific polish delivered. It’s intended to be particularly good for deeper scratches, with the pigment of the polish helping to blur out the damage. It works, too. We had a lightly vandalised white Corsa in mind when we chose to try this T-Cut product, and the polish worked wonders on the key-mark, polishing out the worst of it out so that it was only visible where the scratch was very deep. It also comes with great polish and buffing pads.
Autocar says 4 stars
6. Sonax car polish
Price: £9.80 (250ml)
Buy from: Amazon
Min price per litre: £21.10
Ironically, the only English on the Sonax’s packaging is the phrase ‘Made in Germany’, which is self-evident given that everything else is in German, including the instructions. Thankfully, polish isn’t complicated to use and the Sonax proved to be very good. It does dry a little too quickly than is always convenient, but it did a good job of bringing the paint’s colour and metallic finish, leaving it smooth to the touch and impressively shiny. Not the cheapest, and with a few linguistic challenges that we weren’t expecting, but ultimately a good product.