Zaino, I'm a believer.

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ronrosa

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Newbie here.



Seeing the all the black, and red cars with the great poping reflectiing shines, I thought the Cyclone Gray color on my 2005 Pontiac GTO was one of those colors that would be easier to keep clean, but would never reflect or shine that much.



Well, 3 coats of Zaino Z2 and Z8 finish spray, I'm now a Zaino believer.



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My GTO
 
Nice job, compare Z2Pro to other products that you've tried just in deepness and wetness, are the comparable? Is that blue or a reflection? If it's a reflection, dahumm!
 
Burlyq said:
Nice job, compare Z2Pro to other products that you've tried just in deepness and wetness, are the comparable? Is that blue or a reflection? If it's a reflection, dahumm!
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My car is new and I know next to nothing about detailing.



Previously I washed and clayed the car, applied 2 coats of Tropicare with their detail spray applied in between coats.



The results were ho-hum.



The next weekend I put on 2 more coats and detail spray in between. A definite improvement, but still not the "pop" I was expecting.



This weekend, I washed the car twice with Dawn to remove the Tropicare and applied Zaino.



I now have the depth and wet look I was looking for. With the Tropicare, the shine was reflective, but everything in the reflection was blurry. For example my face was a blur. With the Zaino, I cam clearly see details, my eyes, nose, lips, etc..



The car color is a blueish gray. The coloring looks different depending on the angle and sunlight. These shots were taken late in the afternoon.
 
:welcome Welcome to Autopia, Man, are you gonna be sorry you came here! ! It gets addictive really quick, so if you dont want to learn waaay more than you ever thought there was to know about detailing- Run Now, before the bug gets ya ! :buffing:



Actually, judging from your car, you already have the bug ! It looks nice and wet, good job ! I am really impressed with the Zaino system too.... The Z2Pro/Z8 is awesome stuff ! :xyxthumbs
 
That's pretty much how I would desribe it, the deepest wetest clearest look I can find. Some other polishes aren't as clear, which makes them look as deep. I think it's a preference thing, but I definetly prefer the clear deep look as opposed to the distorted wet look. It's a small difference between looks except if you are doing all the detailing, then every little thing counts. Everyone else would probably say that old turlte wax shine looks excellent.
 
I've seen someone that recently did 6 coats of Zaino and was proud of his shine and Mike at Megiars taped off half his hood and did NXT to see the difference and the NXT looked better so I'm a believer, just different religion I guess.



Ronrosa, you car does sparkle, thank you for keeping America shiny!
 
From what I remember there was no prep. It's the consensus that NXT has cleaners and therefore would have removed the Zaino.
 
Mad iX said:
NXT cleaners are very light. It won't remove any previously applied layers that have cured. Depth and gloss noticeably improved with each application.

Haven't tested with other sealants, though, but there's a thread on MOL with NXT paste applied over #21 and it looked really good to me.
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I'm not sure there is a consensus, I've never heard that NXT was near the stripper (woohoo) that AIO was. Another thread had a lot of differing opinions on that. I'm not sure why he clayed, unless the vehicle had a rough surface or something, which means it wouldn't have been freshly detailed with the 6 coats of Z. I think a good comparison would have been to clean with prepsol or Alcohol, and then put the NXT. Then you would have had an equally sealed surface.
 
Burlyq said:
So it would have been NXT over Zaino on one side and Zaino on the other.
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The claying would have removed the Zaino unless Zaino happens to be the only wax that is clay proof. Imagine, if clay can remove paint overspray and imbedded contaminants it certainly can remove Zaino. Then the NXT was machine applied and since it's more a cleaner wax, like AIO as someone said, I doubt any Zaino was left. But for the unbelievers, someone could try an independent test, half the hood with Zaino's best and half with Meg's best and take pics.
 
Well, I dont think anyone would have to remove NXT.... It seems to remove itself just fine !:LOLOL



Seriously, the cleaners in NXT are too weak to remove Zaino...

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buellwinkle said:
The claying would have removed the Zaino unless Zaino happens to be the only wax that is clay proof. Imagine, if clay can remove paint overspray and imbedded contaminants it certainly can remove Zaino.
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Clay will remove some of the Z, but not all. I did a test one day just out of curiosity. One section with Z, one with Z they clayed, and one stripped with alcohol. Then I sprayed it down. Good beading on the first section, some beading (but noticably different) on the clayed area, and sheeting on the alcohol wipe . I know it's not all scientific, but I was just curious if clay would strip the old Z (was getting ready to to some paint touch up), and IMHO it removes some, but not all of it.
 
mochamanz said:
Well, I dont think anyone would have to remove NXT.... It seems to remove itself just fine !:LOLOL
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LMAO !!!! :D



Seriously, different people enjoy a different look. It would have been nice if Mike compared the 2 products a week later after a wash to remove the visually depth enhancing oils in NXT.
 
I won't argue that NXT has oils in it which might enhance its depth but on our white pickup after a month the NXT still has killer depth and is still slick. No one product is absolute tops in every category regardless of what its pushers try to claim. If NXT was put over clean paint or over Zaino and either way it looked better than Z alone then NXT looks better period. If your going for looks and are willing to apply wax more often then durability is out the window then choose the better looking product.
 
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