MetalSludge
02-20-2004, 10:28 AM
Well I have trying to decide on weather or not I wanted to try this out or not. Well the neighbor had gotten some the other day and did his red truck and that thing turned out AWESOME! So we were talking yesterday and he said if you want to try go ahead.
So I went to the car wash and got the truck as clean as I could but it wasnt clean enough but the hood was really clean so I applied a little S&W to it and it looked great and clean.
So I applied Pro Polish to it and then added the NXT. Well the NXT went on easy and came off very easy. It says on bottle to apply to whole vehicle then wait 15 mins to take off so I waited and hour and then went out and removed what I had on the hood. It came with ease but herin lies the problem.
This was on Dark Shadow Grey Metallic paint and it made it darker and it all but lost the metallic look. I mean to the point where the rest of the vehicle that isnt really even all that clean looks way better in the metallic look than the NXT`d hood. And the hood didnt really have any slickness like i thought it should for just being waxed. So I decided to wait the 24 hrs like people say and check it again.
Well this morning it is alot slicker than it was yesterday but I still thought it could have been alot better and there still is no sparkle to the metallic part. I put on another layer this morning (24hrs later) and am now waiting to see if that does anything but so far it just looks like Dark Shadow Grey with no metallic.
I am by no means an expert in this feild but I find it easy tell that this didnt impress me at all on metallic paint but that red nissan maxima my neighbor has is AWESOME. Now if I only had a digital cam to show some pics. Was gonna take some film ones and have developed and then scan but they never really seem to come out that good of quality to bother messing with.
So I went to the car wash and got the truck as clean as I could but it wasnt clean enough but the hood was really clean so I applied a little S&W to it and it looked great and clean.
So I applied Pro Polish to it and then added the NXT. Well the NXT went on easy and came off very easy. It says on bottle to apply to whole vehicle then wait 15 mins to take off so I waited and hour and then went out and removed what I had on the hood. It came with ease but herin lies the problem.
This was on Dark Shadow Grey Metallic paint and it made it darker and it all but lost the metallic look. I mean to the point where the rest of the vehicle that isnt really even all that clean looks way better in the metallic look than the NXT`d hood. And the hood didnt really have any slickness like i thought it should for just being waxed. So I decided to wait the 24 hrs like people say and check it again.
Well this morning it is alot slicker than it was yesterday but I still thought it could have been alot better and there still is no sparkle to the metallic part. I put on another layer this morning (24hrs later) and am now waiting to see if that does anything but so far it just looks like Dark Shadow Grey with no metallic.
I am by no means an expert in this feild but I find it easy tell that this didnt impress me at all on metallic paint but that red nissan maxima my neighbor has is AWESOME. Now if I only had a digital cam to show some pics. Was gonna take some film ones and have developed and then scan but they never really seem to come out that good of quality to bother messing with.