Glaze before Meguiars NXT?

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Erick

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Hi,
I've found this to be a very helpful forum.

I need some advice, though. I am detailing my 1993 Porsche. I have many products - mostly Meguiars - and was wondering how I should best use them. In particular, I have purchased Meguiars NXT 'wax', and was wondering if I should use their "Show Car Glaze" prior to using the NXT?

Thanks for your comments.

Erick
 
The show car glaze (aka #7) will deepen the paint and fill in some swirls. It will give better visible results, but if you have some Swirl Free Polish ( #9 or #82 ), I would use that first. BTW, even thoough the SCG has oils & fillers, the NXT will work fine over them
 
Yes #7 goes under NXT. I have used #9 + #7 + P21S and was very impressed. The dark green metallic was very wet looking.
 
Great. Thanks for the advice. I have completed the #9 swirl remover step and will proceed to the Show Car Glaze and then NXT. I'll let you know how it turns out.

Thanks.

Erick
 
I'm from the school of thought that NXT isn't going to work well over anything. There are small abrasives and cleaning properties in NXT. Just don't believe that you can put NXT over anything and still have the first product be there. Especially something fragile like a glaze. You never layer a sealant over a glaze that fills swirls with oils. NXT won't bond to that well at all I wouldn't imagine. Its still a synthetic.
 
I tend to agree with Jngrbrdman. Putting a water based polymer (guessing that NXT is water based), over oils, fillers, silicones, and other stuff with the intent of increased durability, just doesn't quite make sense to me. Especially a product that has some special cleaning/polishing abilities.

On the other hand, I believe that the folks at Meguiar's don't buy much into the "layering" theory. Therefore, their products aren't made to perform with "layering" in mind.

Are they right, or are they wrong................. who "really" knows? They certainly have been pretty successful doing things the way they do.
 
The only time I concern myself with bonding and durability is in the winter. In warm/hot weather I put stuff on my car for experimental and appearance sake only. I do agree with what Boss and Jngrbrdmn said about the bonding and durabilty issues.
 
I have used NXT over Meguiars #3 Machine glaze and it worked great.
Lasted quite a while ... who knows if it removed the machine glaze or not ... all I know it looked really deep and wet. It was more wet looking than NXT by itself.
If in doubt, try one panel with the glaze first and another without the glaze ... see if you see a difference ... What your eyes see is what matters!
 
Erick
Try this combo wash & rinse clay and rinse and dry COLOR X, THEN 2 COATS OF NXT waiting 30 min apart each coat.
 
Erick,

I used the combo!

But I went NXT first, then #7, then topped with P21S!

Read and see the pictures here! I thought it worked fantastic!



First Time Using #7
 
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Yes color X is a great underated product _ I'm posting some pics of a regime using that and scratch x + some UPP and TS that came out awesome!
 
Okay, I give it a try...

1. Clay
2. Swirl Remover (Meguiars #9)
3. Show Car Glaze (Meguiars)
4. NXT

I've completed up to step 3, and the car looks really, really good. I'll post my results after the NXT.

Thanks for the advice.

Erick
 
Well, I did Meguiars Show Car Glaze #7 before NXT. I have no way of knowing if the NXT worked perfectly well with the #7, but I can't argue with the final results. It looks pretty good! Here's a picture of the final result...
 
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Erick..

Looks Awesome! Great Job!

I hope you don't mind, but I re-sized the picture so we can see it all without scrolling!

Super Job!


:)
 
Outstanding results. Black is da bomb! Very wet looking. Great job f1.Btw that's a beautiful car.
 
Looks very good.

I did a little comparision of NXT with and without #7 on my car this weekend. I forgot to take pictures, but you could tell a difference. The addition of the #7 reduced some scratches and a little of the swirls. I think it is work the extra step.
 
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