Shoe polish on paint

Very disheartening thread over there. I suppose I am glad that they're happy with the results. I guess thats the important thing.
 
Whoa, nice persepctive. Kinda hard headed, mostly Meguiars and Zymol wars.



Isn't an acrylic a type of polymer?



I used to use Meguiars (cleaner wax, #26, #7, consumer QD, overspray clay.) They are fine products for the average consumer. I still use the QD and overspray clay. The #7, #26, and cleaner wax have seen better days, they basically just sit there. If anyone wants a sample of the consumer cleaner wax give me a PM or e-mail, I have a huge 32 oz. bottle of it, couldn't pass up that deal when I began detailing a few years ago, it still good only $5 for the bottle at Costco (a decent wax for a car with light oxidation, also good to perfect technique.) Now Costco is pushing the heck out of gold class wax, I still have a tin of that to use on beater cars.



Zymol, I got their leather kit, works ok. Gotta use it again for the leather inside the camry this spring.



Other than that, jazzyjack hit th nail on the head, what a bunch of boners.
 
Come on now, Meguires and Zymol products can produce a teffific shine if applied right. They are not not my choice because they don't last very long and I think the Zymol is difficult to use and way over priced. But, I bet there are some great looking cars owned by the people on the other board. I went to one of those import car shows last year that had a lot of very customized cars and paint jobs. I ask a lot of the poeple showing their cars what they used and very few responded with Klasse or Zaino, but a lot of the cars looked great. Seems Meguires and Mothers were the most frequently used products of the people I ask at the car show.
 
According to Meguiar's website, 21 of the 26 Best of Class winners at the 51 Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance used Meguiar's products. I'll bet a few of the others used Zymol.



But none of my cars are ever going to come close to being entered into an event like that, so the polymer sealant route is much more practical for me.
 
My personal favorite line:



>BTW - my friend works for a funeral home and cleans the hearses and limos

>so he knows what he is doing.



That one really had me laughing! But to each his own, though. I think it takes a certain personality type to go all out for detailing. Most people just don't want to spend hours and hours on their car, and a one step product like MCW does a good enough job. I'm an "information" person, and I want to know all the details about anything that I'm doing. That usually leads me to pursue the "best" of whatever I own, which usually results in me spending way more money than I should on just about everything I buy (I'm talking within my own personal financial limits here, otherwise I'd be driving a BMW!).
 
OK, I have searched the forums with no hits :banghead:

I would like some tips on how to remove the stuff the HS students put on their cars (none of mine thank goodness) without damaging the paint underneath. My neighbor is outside scrubbing the stuff off with a regular scrub brush and water (very bad I know) :doh::doh::doh:. Will Dawn or something else help dissolve it so that some minor polishing removes all traces? Glass is easy, paint is the question - and before anyone asks I doubt there is any wax/LSP on that car she has.

Yes football season has started here in TX and is another religion on its own.
 
grungy said:
OK, I have searched the forums with no hits :banghead:

I would like some tips on how to remove the stuff the HS students put on their cars (none of mine thank goodness) without damaging the paint underneath. My neighbor is outside scrubbing the stuff off with a regular scrub brush and water (very bad I know) :doh::doh::doh:. Will Dawn or something else help dissolve it so that some minor polishing removes all traces? Glass is easy, paint is the question - and before anyone asks I doubt there is any wax/LSP on that car she has.

Yes football season has started here in TX and is another religion on its own.
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Getting it off the paint is not usually the the problem. Its when it gets on your rubber trim is where you will be eating the clock :soldier:

Wash the car with Purple Power/Castrol Super Clean. Full stregnth. Poor a ounce or so in a bucket along with a few squirts of Dawn and suds up the bucket of solution. Rinse the car down real good and start scrubbing. If you get to a tough area take your bottle of APC and squirt directly onto paint. You also want to try your best not to let it dry all the way. Its not nescecary to rinse completely on each section, but at least knock off the majority :-B

I know some of the "Experts" are shaking there heads right now, but I tell you the truth. I have been through this on many occasions with my clients children and there are absolutely no ill effects to the paint or trim. If anyone tells you otherwise they are blowing smoke :Snowman:
 
:sarge - Flash speaks, I listen!

Thanks Flash, I will let her know about the correct wash after she/her mother have already scratched up the paint. I'm sure you get your share of this up your way too :tongue:
 
grungy said:
:sarge - Flash speaks, I listen!

Thanks Flash, I will let her know about the correct wash after she/her mother have already scratched up the paint. I'm sure you get your share of this up your way too :tongue:
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I'm very fortunate in that aspect. Most all my customers never do anything to there cars between my maintanence plans. They may look like crap when I start on them, but surprisingly they hardly get swirled up at all <:-P

Another thing, Autozone sells a shoe polish like stick that its sole purpose is for situations such as this. It is so much easier to remove then actuall shoe polish :soldier:
 
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