Liquid wax is great. I use meguiars ultimate liquid wax it's so quick and looks pretty good and seems to last a fair while. Not as good as my dodo juice proper wax but pretty good and takes prob 1/4 the time. I'd love to learn how to cut and polish a vehicle properly to get rid of the swirl marks. I have my mates random orbital but too scared to really go hard with a cutting pad in case I *beep* the paint