I just picked up my Z and it is absolute HEAVEN. But I won't bore everyone with how great my car is, I know everyone has heard that before. The dealer tried to sell me a Teflon coating for $400. I turned him down, but I did think about it because they give you a 5 year warranty on everything except road chips in your paint. I don't know anything about this and I was planning to go with Zaino, but the 5 year warranty makes me wonder if this should be something I should think about. Thx for any info anyone can provide.

 

Teflon does absolutely nothing in a car wax, it is only a marketing scam. A friend of mine got conned into purchasing a "permanant protective coating" from a dealer that was guarenteed to last 3 years. The wanted $500 for it. She bought it and then came and asked me why after only 3 weeks the shine was gone.

Go with the Zaino.

 

Being a person that has worked with several new and used car dealers, I think very little of these programs.

All it is is a polish/wax. Sometimes acrylic based. It doesn't last 3
months let alone three years. It's applied by the dealer or an outside shop. It costs the dealer about $10.00 if they apply it themselves or approx. $60 if farmed out to an outside shop. It's a great money marker for the dealer and salesmen joke about it all the time. The sales guy usually gets another 100.00 added on to his or her commission if they can talk the buyer into the "sealant" program. Sometimes the dealers are so nasty that they include the price of the "sealant" in the payments hidden from the buyer. The guarantee of the "sealant" is useless and hinges on the laws of average. Don't waste your money. If these systems could ever work they'd be formulated in the paint or applied at the factory.....

Teflon is bullsh$t in a wax, kinda like slick 50 is bullsh$t in a car engine.

Read on:

Dupont several years ago released a press statment about their trade mark product Teflon. In a nutshell, they said the Teflon added nothing to waxes or polishes as Teflon can and will only bond to metal while heated to very high temps. Basically what they were doing was giving a disclaimer for all of the polished and waxes hitting the market making claim after claim about how superior their product was just because it was supposed to contain Teflon. This came out about the time the debacle about PTFE resins and the Slick 50 product that also turned out to be a big farce.

I would like to point to some concrete evidence regarding Teflon. This comes from Professional Carwashing & Detailing magazine, January, 1989, page 110.

A direct quote:

My conclusion is based on the information I have gathered in the past year from representatives, lab technicians and chemists from many leading car care product companies, including DuPont, the maker of Teflon. According to G.R. Ansul of DuPont's Car Care Products Division, "The addition of a Teflon fluoropolymer
resin does nothing to enhance the properties of a car wax. We have no data that indicates the use of Teflon fluorpolymer resins is beneficial in car waxes, and we have not seen data from other people that supports this position." Ansul also notes that, "Unless Teflon is applied at 700 degrees F (371 degrees C), it is not a viable ingredient, and it is 100 percent useless in protecting the paint's finish."

As we can all see, DuPont answered this question once and for all in 1989, over 10 years ago! Let's use the advice of the manufacturer of Teflon that it is no good in a car wax (except for marketing reasons) and move on