Mark Bennett
New member
I was going to post this in the University section - but it appears to have gone? :nervous:
Anyway, I have a Metallic Black Porsche Boxster which is 4 years old, although some paintwork was done about a month ago after some damage.
I just spent a couple of days prepping for layering on Zaino, which I intend to follow with Rejex for a more dust repellant top coat.
I'm in the UK so some of the common products in the US are a pain to get hold of, but I have imported a PC (thanks Autopia!
)
Here is what I have done so far:
Washed and Clayed car
Washed again.
Using a PC and a DAS Orange pad with 3M "perfect-it" Fast Cut I polished out the years of swirl marks from the old paintwork (not the new).
I followed up with 3M Imperial Machine Glaze on a green DAS pad on the PC over the whole car.
I've now taken all the masking tape off (that I used over the panel edges and joins), and used Zymol HD cleanse to remove the tape residue (it worked better than anything else I had handy!)
This is the point that I have now got to. :xyxthumbs
Next up I was going to wash again to ensure I got rid of all the Polishing dust (it'll give me the opportunity to sweep out the garage and get rid of the polish dust there too before applying Zaino).
I was then going to use either the HD Cleanse, or P21S Paintwork Cleanser (GEPC) as a final fine polish before applying the Zaino (Z5 + ZFX, followed by Z2 + ZFX... Probably 4 or 5 layers)
I was then going to finish off with a coat or 3 of the Rejex.
So finally to the questions:
I looked up P21S and PC last night here (I was hoping I could use the P21S cleanser (GEPC) with the DA - I have back problems and this really would help) but I was unable to find anything in the threads I searched. Does anyone recommend this or is it a definite no-no?
The thing I did find in the search was that "oily" cleansers are not recommend before applying Zaino. This seems to rule out everything I have as I have HD Cleanse, the P21S Cleanser, and 3M imperial hand glaze (IHG) - are all oily as far as I can tell!
Would a final Wash using Z7 help? (I'm not totally happy with Z7 though - it spots easily so I use a spritz of Z6 on the wet car when wiping off with a microfibre towel to enhance the drying/gloss - would this be ok before the first coat of Z5? I know you use Z6 between layers, so assume it would be ok?)
I used HD cleanse under Zaino 3 years ago and it seemed OK. Am I worrying needlessly or should I definitely use something else other than the items mentioned?
Please be kind :xyxthumbs
Edited to add keywords and a bit more detail...
Anyway, I have a Metallic Black Porsche Boxster which is 4 years old, although some paintwork was done about a month ago after some damage.
I just spent a couple of days prepping for layering on Zaino, which I intend to follow with Rejex for a more dust repellant top coat.
I'm in the UK so some of the common products in the US are a pain to get hold of, but I have imported a PC (thanks Autopia!
)Here is what I have done so far:
Washed and Clayed car
Washed again.
Using a PC and a DAS Orange pad with 3M "perfect-it" Fast Cut I polished out the years of swirl marks from the old paintwork (not the new).
I followed up with 3M Imperial Machine Glaze on a green DAS pad on the PC over the whole car.
I've now taken all the masking tape off (that I used over the panel edges and joins), and used Zymol HD cleanse to remove the tape residue (it worked better than anything else I had handy!)
This is the point that I have now got to. :xyxthumbs
Next up I was going to wash again to ensure I got rid of all the Polishing dust (it'll give me the opportunity to sweep out the garage and get rid of the polish dust there too before applying Zaino).
I was then going to use either the HD Cleanse, or P21S Paintwork Cleanser (GEPC) as a final fine polish before applying the Zaino (Z5 + ZFX, followed by Z2 + ZFX... Probably 4 or 5 layers)
I was then going to finish off with a coat or 3 of the Rejex.
So finally to the questions:
I looked up P21S and PC last night here (I was hoping I could use the P21S cleanser (GEPC) with the DA - I have back problems and this really would help) but I was unable to find anything in the threads I searched. Does anyone recommend this or is it a definite no-no?
The thing I did find in the search was that "oily" cleansers are not recommend before applying Zaino. This seems to rule out everything I have as I have HD Cleanse, the P21S Cleanser, and 3M imperial hand glaze (IHG) - are all oily as far as I can tell!
Would a final Wash using Z7 help? (I'm not totally happy with Z7 though - it spots easily so I use a spritz of Z6 on the wet car when wiping off with a microfibre towel to enhance the drying/gloss - would this be ok before the first coat of Z5? I know you use Z6 between layers, so assume it would be ok?)
I used HD cleanse under Zaino 3 years ago and it seemed OK. Am I worrying needlessly or should I definitely use something else other than the items mentioned?
Please be kind :xyxthumbs
Edited to add keywords and a bit more detail...