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Milli (Milli)
| | Posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 06:57 pm: | 
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Hoping to get some advice on good exterior detailing products (Cleaners, Wax, Protect, etc).
I'm feeling some spring-cleaning coming on. |
Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
| | Posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 07:05 pm: |
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Meguires. |
BW
| | Posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 08:39 pm: |
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What's wax? |
John Moore (Jmoore)
| | Posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 08:46 pm: |
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What's spring? |
Phillip Perkinson (R0ver4x4)
| | Posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 09:04 pm: |
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Rain Dance or Zymol. |
Pugsly (Pugsly)
| | Posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 11:27 pm: |
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WD-40! |
muskyman
| | Posted on Friday, January 24, 2003 - 11:32 pm: |
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Zymol rocks on a BMW...but I think rovers break out in a rash when you wax them? |
Erik Olson (Jon)
| | Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 10:51 am: |
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Anybody know the difference between paint shop style "massaging" versus a regular detail polish and wax? A friend of mine who restores said it would be better for some of my trail pinstripes.
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Warren
| | Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 12:01 pm: |
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My truck hasn't been washed in six months!
Just clean the windows and wheels and it looks as good as new! |
Danno (Danno)
| | Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 12:02 pm: |
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Brazilian  |
Greg French (Gregfrench)
| | Posted on Saturday, January 25, 2003 - 08:13 pm: |
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Surf wax doesn't work very well.
It just makes your roof sticky. |
Paul long
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 06:04 pm: |
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Mothers. Any "cleaner wax" is a single application cleaner and wax. They don't last as long as pure carnuba without the cleaners. If the surface is really bad, Clay bar it to remove even the most stubborn surface polutants first. My truck did some Mt.St. Helens time (you climb it cuz your stupid kinda thing) But it's white. Ash looked like tiny tar specks all over the upper surfaces. You could feel it more than see it. The specks were so hard, unlike tar that no solvent softened them. You had to scratch at them with a finger nail until your nail won to get them off. I was told by a body shop to have it painted. Another body shop told me about the "clay bar" that pros use to remove fresh overspray on new paint. It was a lot of work, but came out show room new. It is potters clay inside a rubber pouch, like a yellow stiff piece of innertube. You wet the surface with a lubricant (Mothers showtime detailer) and the particles are picked up by the porous rubber. Feels real slippery as you do it, like it's not doing anything. Will not scratch. Clear coat safe. Mothers uses it in a 3 part wax system. Once done, I think they claim a year between waxing. I do mine in spring and find the salt in the NE tears it up about midway through the winter. I use a cleaner wax to remove any embedded junk between the real wax jobs in spring. Zymol didn't make much of a difference applied to clean surface. It seems to work better on darker colors to me. I hated the coconut smell from it compared to the strawberry pink stuff of Mothers. I'm a firm believer in the harder it goes on, the harder it comes off, the better it is. |
TPH (Snowman)
| | Posted on Monday, January 27, 2003 - 07:11 pm: |
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Ever use an electric buffer with success? I bought one and it just did not do the same trick as by hand. I also use Mothers carnuba pink and it does smell great!
S- |
Jaime (Blueboy)
| | Posted on Tuesday, January 28, 2003 - 09:28 am: |
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http://www.zainobros.com/
Jaime |
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