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Improved and fortified formulation (more polymers) and not price change. :woot:
An Updated Z-16...
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Some fresh Z-16 on the wife's Maxima
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I have to retract my support for Z-16 until I hear back from Sal (email sent today) about a durability issue.
Has anyone else had their Z-16 wash away from tires and trim in one rain, and or run down the body panels from trimed plastic pieces (oily streaks)...even after it had been applied for 2 dry days?
(maybe a bad bottle?)
I'll update.
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I have to retract my support for Z-16 until I hear back from Sal (email sent today) about a durability issue.
Has anyone else had their Z-16 wash away from tires and trim in one rain, and or run down the body panels from trimed plastic pieces (oily streaks)...even after it had been applied for 2 dry days?
(maybe a bad bottle?)
I'll update.
RET
Some fresh Z-16 on the wife's Maxima
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Removed
RET
edit:
I had to retract my support for Z-16 until I hear back from Sal (email sent today) about a durability issue.
Has anyone else had their Z-16 wash away from tires and trim in one rain, and or run down the body panels from trimed plastic pieces (oily streaks)...even after it had been applied for 2 dry days?
(maybe a bad bottle?)
I'll update.
RET
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edit:
I had to retract my support for Z-16 until I hear back from Sal (email sent today) about a durability issue.
Has anyone else had their Z-16 wash away from tires and trim in one rain, and or run down the body panels from trimed plastic pieces (oily streaks)...even after it had been applied for 2 dry days?
(maybe a bad bottle?)
I'll update.
RET
Update:
I’ll be re-applying Z-16 this weekend to some of the areas that I experienced durability issues with.
Sal concluded a couple of points from our conversation that made sense.
The areas in which I had durability issues had previously and repetitively been dressed with silicon based dressing, although the areas were “clean� prior to my application of Z-16 it’s very possible that trace amounts of silicon still existed in the pores of these pieces.
I went through my “normal� wash routine prior to applying the Z-16, which would have been NXT soap over the body panels and trim pieces, and Westley’s Bleach White on the tires.
While I’d have to admit I gave a couple of extra squirts of Westley’s and a few extra brush strokes to the tires, the trim pieces were cleaned as normal.
I use to dress the tires and trim on both of my vehicles with silicon based products pretty heavily and on a weekly biases (hoping to saturate for longer lasting results).
The silicon may be lasting a littler longer than I want it to now.
Updates will follow.
RET
PS
My concerns were emailed to Zaino at 11:30 pm Thursday night.
Sal’s email reply was in my inbox at 6:30 am the next morning, and this issue was being addressed by 9:30 am.
Going forward, weather I choose to use Z-16 or not….I thought that was some pretty decent customer service.
I’ll be re-applying Z-16 this weekend to some of the areas that I experienced durability issues with.
Sal concluded a couple of points from our conversation that made sense.
The areas in which I had durability issues had previously and repetitively been dressed with silicon based dressing, although the areas were “clean� prior to my application of Z-16 it’s very possible that trace amounts of silicon still existed in the pores of these pieces.
I went through my “normal� wash routine prior to applying the Z-16, which would have been NXT soap over the body panels and trim pieces, and Westley’s Bleach White on the tires.
While I’d have to admit I gave a couple of extra squirts of Westley’s and a few extra brush strokes to the tires, the trim pieces were cleaned as normal.
I use to dress the tires and trim on both of my vehicles with silicon based products pretty heavily and on a weekly biases (hoping to saturate for longer lasting results).
The silicon may be lasting a littler longer than I want it to now.
Updates will follow.
RET
PS
My concerns were emailed to Zaino at 11:30 pm Thursday night.
Sal’s email reply was in my inbox at 6:30 am the next morning, and this issue was being addressed by 9:30 am.
Going forward, weather I choose to use Z-16 or not….I thought that was some pretty decent customer service.