jacsil
03-09-2005, 05:02 PM
Been reading this forum for a few months now. We bought a new titanium grey volvo xc90 in january. I was thinking about zainoing the car myself but in reading up and talking with the zaino distributor in san jose ca I come to the conclusion that it would take about 4-5 hours including claying etc. The problem is with all of the kids activities I dont have this amount of time. I would wind up claying washing then waiting a few weeks and needing to start over. He had someone who does detailing with zaino but I would have about 3 hours of toatal travel time which is to much.
I get the car hand washed at a shop that does detailing. They were recomended by a body shop. the owner is a nice guy. He used to work for a delearship in San Francisco that sells high end cars. Jaguar being the least expensive.
He uses various products including "touch of class" something from a company called "prestige" He even has a polish that is sold for bentlys at his old dealership. but he doesn`t recomend it.
I have heard good and bad about touch of class. He would charge $100 for the exterior. I had told him I saw a benz with a touch of class on it that just looked ok. He says the prep is very importan in how the shine comes out. He also said that certain brither colors such as red will shine more than darker colors.
The hand wash he does on the car comes out beautiful and his shop is very neet. He says he will use what ever I want on the car.
The only other place I found is in San Francisco where I work they charge $225 for the exterior of a newer car including all of the prep. They say they put on 3 coats of some airplane polish/wax along with another ingrediant to make it adhear better. He says it lasts for 1 year even trough car washes. He wont say what he is using. He says it shines better and lasts longer than "touch of class". He has a website californiadetailing.com . The pictures do look good.
Any suggestions
Sorry about the length of the post.
Jack S
I get the car hand washed at a shop that does detailing. They were recomended by a body shop. the owner is a nice guy. He used to work for a delearship in San Francisco that sells high end cars. Jaguar being the least expensive.
He uses various products including "touch of class" something from a company called "prestige" He even has a polish that is sold for bentlys at his old dealership. but he doesn`t recomend it.
I have heard good and bad about touch of class. He would charge $100 for the exterior. I had told him I saw a benz with a touch of class on it that just looked ok. He says the prep is very importan in how the shine comes out. He also said that certain brither colors such as red will shine more than darker colors.
The hand wash he does on the car comes out beautiful and his shop is very neet. He says he will use what ever I want on the car.
The only other place I found is in San Francisco where I work they charge $225 for the exterior of a newer car including all of the prep. They say they put on 3 coats of some airplane polish/wax along with another ingrediant to make it adhear better. He says it lasts for 1 year even trough car washes. He wont say what he is using. He says it shines better and lasts longer than "touch of class". He has a website californiadetailing.com . The pictures do look good.
Any suggestions
Sorry about the length of the post.
Jack S