streetracer

iTrader: (1)

The treatment's involves in order:
1- clean the car
2- Rub on it a plasticine with some liquid. This is done by hand and not machined. The plasticine is red and is sort what the kids play with. have also seen cartoons made from this malleable plasticine.
3- clean the car again witha stain remover
4- Wax the car manually

Supposedly the plasticine restores the clear coat of the car without being abrasive. A polish would shine better but would eat the clear. So the guy said. I'm sort of ignorant in that area.

DavesZ#3

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My guess is that the "plasticine" is actually claybar, a common product we use to clean contaminants from the surface of the paint. It's good for removing some things, but it won't remove scratches or swirls and it won't fix dull, oxidized paint.

That's where the abrasive polish comes into play. It will leave you with a "like new" surface by removing a little of the old clearcoat.

Guinness1880

I used that nano wax on my 03 eclipse and it worked great i havent got my 350z yet but i mean it looks great on that finish... eagle1 makes it i think i threw out the bottle so

Guinness1880

yea what you are talking about was on a show on spike called trucks they were talking about the best way to detail and they said to rev up the finish u get an abrasive polish to pick up the color... just thought i'd add that incase anyone can get on their website to get teh details they went over all the different ways of getting ur car looking brand new. just thought this might help some of you if you...

DavesZ#3

iTrader: (26)

You're probably thinking about the show where Stacy restored the finish to the hood on a truck. He started with wet sanding then went through compounding and polishing. Wet sanding would be called for in extreme cases.

glogan

iTrader: (22)

so which zaino product should we get and in what order do we use them?

Guinness1880

o okay thanks... i couldnt remember i just recall them goin over a lowrider s10 or something that was blue and he went over the whole process thanks for clearing that up so i dont look like a fool lol

dkorr

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I heard that Turtle Wax Cleaner T-6 and Black Magic Wet Shine are the best...

nissan24

i used meguiars nxt for the first time a month ago and it was awesome liq is clear so u dont have to worry about any white residue made my 35th anny clean and shiny

picus

Carnauba will melt off? Please; your dealer is a moron - which isn't really a shock I guess.

dkorr

iTrader: (3)

actually a few detailers told me the same thing about carnuba waxes. the fact is, it does melt off at like ~130F. that temp on your car's paint surface is easily achievable if the ambient temp is 85F and your paint is black.

picus

This is clearly a debatable point. I will conceed that it is possible for a carnauba to get soft of a black car in 100+F heat; however it should be noted that natural carnauba has a melting temperature of 180F; any wax with more than 4-5% natural carnauba will become as durable as the carnauba as soon as the solvents burn off (so about 10 minutes after application or so). I suppose if you were using a wax with a lot of paraffin or bees wax and not natural carnauba (paraffin melts at 140, bees wax at 130) you may have an issue with melting wax.

I was assuming that for the purposes of this thread (and forum) we were all using wax with more than a few percent natural carnauba, since most of the waxes discussed here (all meguairs waxes, nattys, souveran, clearkote, p21s, etc..) have well over 5% natural carnauba.

I suppose I should have been more specific in my first post; it's unlikely the dealer in question has experience with "good" waxes. FWIW, we get multiple 40+C days here in Toronto and having detailed over 200 cars this summer I've yet to experience an issue with melting wax.

Cheers.