Just bought a black 05 denali which will be sitting outside. What are the best steps besides wash/zaino to keep it looking nice?

 

Have a look at the Zanio web site for the procedures but basically its:

Clay bar washdown

Dry using 100% cotton towels - up and down only on the sides - front to rear only on the top/hood/trunk.

Z-5 w/ZXF added - one hour buff as you dried with a clean 100% cotton towel. Z-5 will really help with a black car to fill in the swirls and whirls if you have them.

Repeat a couple of times - it might take you a day to lay down and get three layers of Z-5 to take.

Z-2 w/ZXF added to top it off and make it glow.

Z-6 or -8 to put a high gloss on.

 

Anything I can do to keep fading to a minimum. Also it has fairly light leather interior, just use lexol about every wash to keep it looking nice?

 

Offtopic but with the employee discount what was your OTD price?

 

You're going to hate a black car sitting outside

But just wash regularly with high quality materials (chenille or wool wash mits, high quality towels, 2 bucket system).

Wipe down the interior each time you wash. I wouldn't worry about putting protectant on the interior but every month at the earliest. Keeping it clean really goes a long ways though.

Washing atleast once a week and cleaning bird crap, bugs, and tree sap ASAP is going to be critical.

Did you get the Yukon Denali or the Envoy Denali?

 

Close to 48 with tax/license. But we bought the fully loaded nav/dvd/xm etc.


Back on topic, will it be ok to use a california duster to removed dust from it everyday?

 

Just buy a house w/ a 2/3 car garage. This will help you out. My Denali XL and my Z sits inside the garage when not in use. My camry stays outside and it gets dirty so fast after you just washed it.

 

house has 3 car garage........z is in the garage+boxes

 

Why would you put a $55,000 suv outside rather than a $35,000 car. Rent a storage space for your boxess, just my 2 cents.

 

God SUV's are a PITA to hand wash. I hand paste-waxed my old Jeep grand cherokee once... felt like it took all day and it wore out my arms really bad...

I would apply Z6 regularly to the SUV since it has a sun-blocking agent in it. Since Zaino stuff is polymer based, the sun will damage it significantly over time... Z6 for the win.

 

suv=moms

350=mine...

Just how it works I guess, I only have one more year at home anyways.