I got a new G8 GT, I love the color.. Pacific Slate Metallic, but it shows things. The car sat on a dealer lots for at least 6 months, and was at 2 dealers (one Pontiac dealer went down).
The paint is in bad shape (to my eyes) theres a lot of micro marring that looks like it was probably caused by the cheap $1/car washes it got with 6+ months on lots.... ugh! thats the most of it, since it covers most of the car. The paint doesn't feel so hot either.
planned to wash it with Dawn to remove whats there, hit it with some clay (have both mothers and zaino clay) using car wash soap/water as a lube...(QD spray is just to $$$ to use for this if you don't have to use it)
Now I am stuck, on the swirls and scratches from the uncaring washes with dirty rags!
I have Z-PC, and am not sure if I should use a white or black pad with it to start. Some of the scratches look pretty bad, like a wet sand, but you can only really see them under direct intense light, so they are micro? It will be applied with a PCXP.
I think that is all I'm stuck on, afterward I planned to hit it with the Z5, then a coat or 2 of Z2+zfx, though after reading another thread I am now thinking of doing the Z5+zfx twice and the Z2 once?
I didn't get Z8 or anything... I have some Mothers QD and also some spray wax and QD from Victory Wax.
I wash with a Micro fiber mit from Target... blue one, had orange and white packaging, hope I'm not causing scratches with it... I dry'd with a chamois, but recently got a waffle mf for drying and a jelly blade I'm not sure I want to use lol
The paint is in bad shape (to my eyes) theres a lot of micro marring that looks like it was probably caused by the cheap $1/car washes it got with 6+ months on lots.... ugh! thats the most of it, since it covers most of the car. The paint doesn't feel so hot either.
planned to wash it with Dawn to remove whats there, hit it with some clay (have both mothers and zaino clay) using car wash soap/water as a lube...(QD spray is just to $$$ to use for this if you don't have to use it)
Now I am stuck, on the swirls and scratches from the uncaring washes with dirty rags!
I have Z-PC, and am not sure if I should use a white or black pad with it to start. Some of the scratches look pretty bad, like a wet sand, but you can only really see them under direct intense light, so they are micro? It will be applied with a PCXP.
I think that is all I'm stuck on, afterward I planned to hit it with the Z5, then a coat or 2 of Z2+zfx, though after reading another thread I am now thinking of doing the Z5+zfx twice and the Z2 once?
I didn't get Z8 or anything... I have some Mothers QD and also some spray wax and QD from Victory Wax.
I wash with a Micro fiber mit from Target... blue one, had orange and white packaging, hope I'm not causing scratches with it... I dry'd with a chamois, but recently got a waffle mf for drying and a jelly blade I'm not sure I want to use lol
