I recently had my front hood and a new oem front bumper painted and installed due to someone backing into my Z. I plan on spending a day or two getting about 10 layers on my car in the near future. I was wondering if i need to do a dawn wash on the hood and bumper that was painted or can i apply zaino directly to it?

 

Yes but you need to wait a while before doing it. While it's okay to apply Zaino or other waxes to a new car, it's not a good idea for a freshly painted one. The "new" car is actually a couple months old plus the paint was oven baked to facilitate curing.

Unless the shop oven baked the parts, you'll probably need to wait a few months to make sure the paint has cured. Check with the shop and see what they say.

You will want to wash with Dawn to make sure the surface is free of any grease, polish or waxes left by the body shop.

 

it was actually repainted about 3 weeks ago, the guy at the shop said i could wax it after a few days.

 

If he says it OK, then by all means go ahead. Do the Dawn wash and start applying the Zaino. Remember that you should only put a max of 3 coats per day.

 

I have Zainoed a car the day after it was sprayed.. no problems.. Zaino will not hurt or hinder a freshly sprayed base coat/clear coat......

 

I will second that, Zaino'd the next day, with no problems.

 

Wouldn't 10 coats be over doing it over a span of few days?

Put a few coat on, like 3 or 4 in few days. Then maybe next time when you wash your car then add 1 or 2 more....

 

It is, the max you can put on with ZFX is 3 coats in a 24 hour period.

 

thanks for all the advice, i had forgotten that its a max of 3 layers per day with the zfx. However, can i do 3 layers of zfx then do one without it and leave it on overnight?

 

Not really, 3 is the max at any one time. The polish needs to to fully cure. I experimented with this and found the area that had the extra coat(Did an extra ZFX and a non-ZFX), just didn't seem to have the full shine as the rest of the car.