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No problem.

Yep. From those, the Megs and AF are good for paste/hard waxes. Blackfire and Flexipads are better for sealants & liquid waxes (IMO), but still good for other waxes too.

Personal preference with regards to wax - foam applicators (like the yellow Megs ones), microfibre applicators, finishing pad, fingers, whatever works for you. Personally I like the Dodo Juice Supernatural Finger Mitts. Polish should be applied with the pad with the required level of cut.

You would clay before polishing so getting a pro. detailer to "sort it" should include claying as part of the pre-polish cleanse routine. You certainly wouldn't then clay it again after polishing (well, not for another 6 months or so), and you should be aware that clay can itself mar the paint so it may need polishing again after you've clayed it. You might want to consider a filling glaze in the mean time. If you want to have a crack at it yourself, you can (not necessarily will) get a half decent finish polishing by hand (it certainly won't be perfect though as Ekona mentioned), you could then use a filler heavy glaze to hide the remaining swirls before sealing and/or waxing. Obviously this option is a temporary measure as the swirls will still be there when then glaze wears off.

Glossy!

I somehow managed to miss that picture first time, the car looks well GM. The scenery looks okay too I guess.

Cheers mate.

You're about 77 years too late for that, Will. :scare:

And not that cheap supermarket stuff either, it needs to be purchased exclusively from Shell.

It does look a bit high. It could just be where it's parked, especially as s/he has turned the car around to take photos of the other side rather than just... you know, walking around it. The car doesn't look particularly level in any of the photos... although that could just as easily be the sellers camera skills though (or maybe even just my eyes!).

Congratulations on the new job, Rob, I'm really happy for you mate. Not so sure about the choice of transport though.

That's debatable.

At least I know why golf balls have dimples now.

Well they got that wrong, for a start. An F1 team (from memory it may have been B.A.R.) conducted several tests in their wind tunnel to determine if it was worth retaining a professional detailer to determine that if the paint was perfectly smooth and polished it'd be more or less aerodynamic. It made no measurable difference. If it doesn't make any difference to a car so reliant on aerodynamics, it's going to make even less difference on the road. If I can find the source again I'll post it up.

You just had to say it, didn't you?!

The button operates the headlight washers independently. The windscreen washer will also operate the headlight washers every third time when the headlights are on. Also check the washer bottle level, if it's too low the headlight washers stop drawing fluid before the windscreen washers do.

It's not really a QD though, is it? It's much more a spray wax, regardless of how it's marketed. However, I found it difficult to get streak-free finish with it on the Z without a lot of work. I did find it easier going on harder paint, but even then I wasn't exactly blown away by the finish (compared to what was underneath it). You seem to have got to grips with it a lot better than I have though, your Z looks great there.

Dodo Juice is just as good as it was last time you used it. As always I'll resort to the "it depends what you're after from the wax" as to if there's anything considered to be better. I'm not a fan of Sonax BSD though, I just didn't get on with it on Nissan paint and I didn't think the finish was anything spectacular. The water behaviour was impressive though.

Funny? No. Just wrong.

It's eBay. People will buy a bucket of fog if it's on eBay!

I use a VP Detailing Brush to apply any tyre dressing and I find it doesn't take any longer to apply to Megs (or any other gel type product) doing it this way. And there's no mess at all either. Don't blame me, it's all Downhuman's fault. All of it. ^^ Because of you last time I washed my car I ended up doing half with one product & half with another just to see the difference. Now tell me that's not your fault. Ah, but I only started doing that myself because of the vast array of Waxybox samples I have accrued. Downhuman introduced me to Waxybox, so technically...

Don't blame me, it's all Downhuman's fault. All of it. To the OP; Megs Endurance (not sure why no one's mentioned it yet... ), Blackfire Total Eclipse, Autosmart High Style Swissvax Pneu Glossy (there's two varieties of Pneu, so make sure you get the Glossy one) all give a wet look outright. There are others like Dr Beasley's or EcoTouch amongst others which get glossier when layered too. It's worth noting that some tyres are more receptive to dressings than others - certain tyre brands seem to absorb dressings more than others so it doesn't really matter what you use it's never going to look really glossy.

If I wanted to go fast in a straight line I can think of more appealing than anything with VX in the name, let alone the Z.