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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 11:01 AM
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 11:14 AM
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Wow! Where do you get the claybar?
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 11:17 AM
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beautiful job
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 11:21 AM
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damn my pupils constricted from all that brightness
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 12:54 PM
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damn...you just made my wax job look like $hit!
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 01:09 PM
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 01:15 PM
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Wow, that looks awesome--nice work! the pic with the speed limit sign is sick!
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 02:35 PM
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Very nice! Want to come over and wash/wax my 04 DB??
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 03:24 PM
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Good job!
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 04:33 PM
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Looks good, gives me something to shoot for with mine!
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 04:34 PM
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Did you apply it by hand or with an oribital? Looks really good. What do you use to scrub during your wash? Cotton towel, boars brush, microfiber?
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 05:53 PM
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incredible job. maybe make it a living some day?
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 06:06 PM
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my Z after some Zaino... unfortunately it was not sunny
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 08:25 PM
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WOW the car looks brand new!
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 09:28 PM
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Wow the shine is unbelievable. Gotta clay my car as well!
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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 10:54 PM
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This is what it would look like if you had used zaino


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Old Jul 8, 2006 | 11:05 PM
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The first pic with... the fake sparkles.. why? The rest are just AWESOME! I love DB!
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Old Jul 9, 2006 | 01:11 AM
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you have inspired me to do that tommorrow. thanks man.
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Originally Posted by 3hree5ive0ero
The first pic with... the fake sparkles.. why? The rest are just AWESOME! I love DB!
haha, uhh.. first of all i dont have photoshop, and second those sparkles aren't fake!

those are real my man, lol
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Old Jul 9, 2006 | 02:55 AM
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thanks for all the comments guys! i did everything by hand, starting with a wash with dawn, meguiar's claybar, then as the title says two coats of nxt. I put the first coat on, waited about 20 minutes then removed it. Second coat, waited about 20-25 min before i took it off. I used aerospace 303 on the interior and cleaned my windows with stoner's invisible glass. BlueBoxer, I used a microfiber mitt for my wash using the two bucket method (one with soapy water, one with just water to rinse the mitt before putting it into the soapy one again) then i used a meguiar's waffle weave water magnet to dry it. i applied the liquid nxt using the meguiar's applicator pads and took it off using a really soft terry cloth, haha also from meguiar's. I really have to owe it to the meguiar's class I attened with other fellow members (http://www.meguiarsonline.com/forums...0&pagenumber=1)
I really learned a lot of very important techniques like how much pressure to use when using claybar, or how thin of a layer of wax is really needed.

rockinbboy, it's not a good comparison since you took those pictures a few days after the wax, after the rain and in no sun, etc. I took these pics moments after i was done. but i'm sure yours looked good as well

yg_jonzz, thanks that's very flattering, i'm way too slow at this right now since it took me from 9:30 till around 3:30 or 4:00. maybe when i get a dual action polisher that will change everything. I had fun though, i had a few beers while doing it too. a perfect way to spend the day off of work.

Wired 24/7, hey mike haha now it's going to suck because i was planning on going with zaino all this time and now i did meguiar's. I was actually considering going to the socal distributor and buying the starter kit but it's all the way in West LA and i didn't feel like losing precious sick time from work to do all of that when i could just go to kragen and pick up a bottle of nxt. I really want to do zaino sometime though especially Z-8. But i dont see that happening anytime soon since I put all that work into applying the wax by hand to strip it off.

edit, oh i forgot to mention i used Eagle One Tire Shine on my tires using a foam applicator, and Meguiar's Multi-Piece wheel cleaner I got free from the meguiar's class. I learned the first time using the multi-piece cleaner that it dries your hands out like a b*tch! I got wise this time around by wearing rubber gloves while cleaning my wheels with the wheel cleaner and also wearing them when applying the tire shine.

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