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View Poll Results: Which of the following Waxes,polishes do you like the BEST and WHY?
Mothers California Carnauba Cleaner
2.58%
Mothers California Gold Pure Carnauba
2.58%
Nu Finish
3.72%
Turtle Wax Finish 2001
1.72%
Turtle Wax Super Hard Shell
1.15%
Turtle Wax Emerald Series
1.72%
3M Perfect-IT Show Car Paste
1.00%
Collinite Super Doublecoat
0.14%
Collinite Marque D'Elegance
0.29%
Eagle One Wet Polish&Wax
1.00%
Gliptone Original Carnauba Paste
0
0%
Gliptone Platinum Series Paste
0
0%
Meguiar's NXT Tech Wax
25.64%
Meguiar's #16 Paste Wax
2.01%
Meguiar's #19 Cleaner/Wax
4.44%
Meguiar's #26 Hi-Tech
4.44%
Meguiar's Gold Class
14.90%
Meguiar's Medallion
2.44%
The Wax Shop Super Glaze Liquid
0.57%
Blitz One Grand
0.86%
Griot's Garage Best Of Show
1.15%
Griot's Garage Carnauba Paste Wax
0.43%
Prestone Bullet Wax
0
0%
P21S Concours-Look Carnauba Wax
4.87%
Pinnacle Paste Glaz Carnauba
0.14%
Pinnacle Souveran Carnauba
3.30%
BlackFire
0.57%
Finish First World Class Auto Polish
0
0%
Klasse All-in-One & Sealant Glaze
7.16%
Liquid Glass Ultimate Auto Polish
1.72%
Zymol Carbon Carnauba
3.15%
Zymol Concours Carnauba
1.43%
Zymol Titanium Carnauba
1.29%
All Of the Zaino Wax
18.19%
others that I may have miss
14.04%
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Which waxes,polishes do you use and why?

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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 08:45 PM
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I use Mothers California. I just love there products
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Old Mar 16, 2008 | 09:05 PM
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i use Pinnacle XMT 360 and meguiars NXT 2.0. I got the Meguiars 1-3 step cleaner, polishers too and mothers Caribbeans wax
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Old Mar 17, 2008 | 08:08 AM
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Wow, this is a busy thread! LOL

As you can probably guess, I am Bias when it comes to this topic. Everything that you all have mentioned is great! Finding a product that works for you and you only is the key.

Before I got started with my product line, almost a year ago, I was detailing cars full time. Mainly mobile, unless the vehicle needed some serious work on the paint surface. At that point I would work on them under some halogens and florescents at my home. During that time I would bounce back and forth between most of the brands mentioned. As I found many of them nice to you use, nothing met my needs and reqiuirments that I was looking for.

Then I started experimenting.....mixing products together, not the smartest thing to do, trying to come up with a different way to apply them and so on.

To make a long story short....I was at a car show demonstarting my detail tips to a few people and, one of the Viper club members came over and started asking me chemical questions. At the time I only knew what I read and have experimented on my own. We swaped info and he got me in contact with a very good chemist! From that point on, I have taken the pros and cons from all of the products I have used/tried and made them better. Of course, that is my opinion. Only the people that use my stuff can make that decision on there own.

For the record, I respect every manufacturer out there who established themselves the way I am trying to. It doesn't matter who it is, if it works for you then they accomplished what they set out to do! If you just like something.....then try another brand like mine. You just might amaze yourself!

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Old Mar 19, 2008 | 08:13 PM
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Originally Posted by 21ce
i really like NXT but this time i tried the 3m about a week ago....so far so good.... just gotta learn to clean that wheel well

Use my Dirt Paint Undercarriage dressing. You will not believe the results AND it does last through rain conditions!
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Old Mar 28, 2008 | 05:08 PM
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Trying P21s-100 carnouba wax after I use the Ultima Paint Guard Plus sealant. Will let you know how it turns out in a few weeks...new to detailing and will lose my virginity next weekend after my detailing supplies arrive!!! Wish me luck (I am going to need it - my wife got the bill and now I am living in the doghouse...lol).
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Old Mar 28, 2008 | 05:09 PM
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Trying P21s-100 carnouba wax after I use the Ultima Paint Guard Plus sealant. Will let you know how it turns out in a few weeks...new to detailing and will lose my virginity next weekend after my detailing supplies arrive!!! Wish me luck (I am going to need it - my wife got the bill and now I am living in the doghouse...lol).
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Old Apr 20, 2008 | 09:49 PM
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NUfinish is for me. And it was recommended to me by a buddy that works in a body shop. He told me that its the biggest bang for the buck.







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Old Apr 20, 2008 | 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Karyl
NUfinish is for me. And it was recommended to me by a buddy that works in a body shop. He told me that its the biggest bang for the buck.



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I've always felt it gave great protection. Really good on a white vehicle.
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Old May 10, 2008 | 10:40 PM
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Not on the list but recently I tried Adam's Buttery Wax and it's pretty amazing. Prior to that I've been using NXT 2.0.
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Old May 11, 2008 | 08:19 PM
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how long do you guys think that new spray on wipe off nano wax they are selling protects the paint??
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Old May 13, 2008 | 05:03 AM
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Originally Posted by mellofelow
Not on the list but recently I tried Adam's Buttery Wax and it's pretty amazing. Prior to that I've been using NXT 2.0.
Adam's Buttery Wax is simply "white labelled" Chemical Guys Butter Wet Wax. Great wax but not in the same league as Chemical Guys Pete's 53. Simply the finest wax I have ever used.
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Old May 15, 2008 | 10:10 PM
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Klasse SG but after be buffed with 3M's Ultafina (rotary). Pearl white seems to look real wet after SG.



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Old May 16, 2008 | 08:32 AM
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I personally have had great luck with Zymol products and especially the $13 bottle of cleaner wax. It works well for the interior wood consol that scratches easily. I love this product. Zymol carbon is much better, but it is over double the price and a little trickier to remove.
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Old Jun 18, 2008 | 11:46 PM
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For polishes,

Menzerna Intensive Polish PO83
Menzerna Nano Polish 106FF
Menzerna Final Polish II

Simply the best for paint correction! IMHO

For waxes,

Meguiar's NXT 2.0
Zaino (Coming soon)

For dark cars, wetness simply makes that much of a difference
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Old Dec 31, 2008 | 12:05 PM
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I won't use anything else but Zaino anymore. Tried all sorts of stuff, but Zaino is by far the easiest use, it shines better than other waxes I've tried, even in lighter colour cars. I thought I'd but before-after pictures to clear up the difference:

before Zaino:

after Zaino:
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