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I don't know how many of you remember my review of the Mother's California Gold wax system. http://www.ferrariforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2926&highlight=product+review I was happy with it but not jump up and down estatic. I had always steered away from Zaino because of the price. I had however always heard good things about it. Well I finally got sick of looking at those fine swirl marks in my car and said screw it. I'm gonna see if the Zaino is as good as everyone says it is and I sent away for their Ultimate show car kit.
Let me tell you, this product does live up to it's claim. My car has always looked good from 10 feet away, now it looks good from 1 foot away. The finish is just about flawless. A week ago I thought the only cure for my car was new paint. Now I feel comfortable going years before paint (And I think then it will be to address a few minor rust issues rather than paint issues). Here's the link to the Zaino site: http://www.zainostore.com/
Here was the process:
I washed the car with dishwashing liquid to strip the old polishes off. I gave the whole car the Z-18 Clay bar treatment, washed it again with the Z-7 show car wash and gave it an application of the Z-5 polish for swirl marks with the ZFX flash cure mixed in. After this first coat I was still seeing the swirl marks and kind of thought maybe this Zaino was just some more of the magic snake oil stuff that makes wild claims. I went and got some 3M fine cut rubbing compound and applied it to the entire car with a random orbital polisher. Washed it again and then I went back and did 3 more coats of the Z-5 with the Z-6 gloss enhancer between each coat. After that I did 2 coats of the Z-3 Show car polish with the Z-6 between the coats and then topped it off with the Z-8 Grand finale spray seal. Wow! You want to talk about a flawless mile-deep shine! I used the Z-12 clear view glass polish and that stuff made all my windows practically vanish.
So I am sold on this stuff. It sounds like a lot of work and it was, but don't forget I was trying to correct problems and it did the job. My buddy Pete came over with his 2003 Ford Ranger and within 2 hours we were able to wash, clay, polish and gloss enhance his solid black truck and even he says it looks better than the day he bought it. Looking into his fender is like looking into a mirror.
Let me tell you, this product does live up to it's claim. My car has always looked good from 10 feet away, now it looks good from 1 foot away. The finish is just about flawless. A week ago I thought the only cure for my car was new paint. Now I feel comfortable going years before paint (And I think then it will be to address a few minor rust issues rather than paint issues). Here's the link to the Zaino site: http://www.zainostore.com/
Here was the process:
I washed the car with dishwashing liquid to strip the old polishes off. I gave the whole car the Z-18 Clay bar treatment, washed it again with the Z-7 show car wash and gave it an application of the Z-5 polish for swirl marks with the ZFX flash cure mixed in. After this first coat I was still seeing the swirl marks and kind of thought maybe this Zaino was just some more of the magic snake oil stuff that makes wild claims. I went and got some 3M fine cut rubbing compound and applied it to the entire car with a random orbital polisher. Washed it again and then I went back and did 3 more coats of the Z-5 with the Z-6 gloss enhancer between each coat. After that I did 2 coats of the Z-3 Show car polish with the Z-6 between the coats and then topped it off with the Z-8 Grand finale spray seal. Wow! You want to talk about a flawless mile-deep shine! I used the Z-12 clear view glass polish and that stuff made all my windows practically vanish.
So I am sold on this stuff. It sounds like a lot of work and it was, but don't forget I was trying to correct problems and it did the job. My buddy Pete came over with his 2003 Ford Ranger and within 2 hours we were able to wash, clay, polish and gloss enhance his solid black truck and even he says it looks better than the day he bought it. Looking into his fender is like looking into a mirror.