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FINALLY got to wash my car for the first time!

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Old 04-07-2006 | 04:56 PM
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Your calipers or your rotor hubs?

HolyCross05, I think I'm going to take your idea and see if I can get a performance shop to do mine.

jisoo26 - excellent job - double congrats on fighting the Pacific NW weather and winning out. I lived around Portland three years and never washed a car once (of course, I didn't have a car I cared about so much as my RX-8 ).
It's her calipers, the new '06 models have them already painted (metallic silver is what I saw on a phantom blue). Dunno about the rotors, I didn't look that closely.

Thanks, it's all about timing with the Portland weather here. As soon as the sun came out I leapt into my driveway and did the whole job like a 1-man NASCAR pit crew...man I was tired. Trying to do everything quickly but carefully really sucks lol. It'll be easier this weekend though, it's sunny and 70 degrees today!! *w00t*
Old 04-07-2006 | 05:56 PM
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Looks great. Good pick that Zaino stuff! BTW, try Z-8 Grand Finale Spray. I know, I know, EXPENSIVE. But I think it better than the Z-6.
Old 04-08-2006 | 12:55 AM
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Originally Posted by jisoo26


2. Washed car with Dawn dishsoap and water






Notes:
i would not use dawn dishsoap to wash your car. it will strip any wax the car has on it and make the car look dull much faster than it should.....

dawn is just too harsh. (i used to own a detail shop)...
Old 04-08-2006 | 01:43 AM
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i would not use dawn dishsoap to wash your car. it will strip any wax the car has on it and make the car look dull much faster than it should.....

dawn is just too harsh. (i used to own a detail shop)...
Actually that was the intent. Check out www.zainostore.com . When applying zaino wax for the first time you need to strip any previous wax jobs off using liquid dishsoap. After that you can just use car wash soap (like Zaino's Z-7 soap). The Zaino wax is much better than anything else I've ever used
Old 04-08-2006 | 09:16 AM
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Originally Posted by NGTMRE
i would not use dawn dishsoap to wash your car. it will strip any wax the car has on it and make the car look dull much faster than it should.....

dawn is just too harsh. (i used to own a detail shop)...
Ya, you definetely need to check out the Zaino website. They go over 283721 times about how it is damaging more than once to do it, but just for one occasion it is fine.
Old 04-08-2006 | 11:35 AM
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...After that you can just use car wash soap (like Zaino's Z-7 soap). The Zaino wax is much better than anything else I've ever used
Definitely true about the Dawn for the first time. Makes it sqeuaky clean for that first Zaino coat. BTW, I tried Zaino's car wash. Expensive stuff and didnt really see much of a difference from the Meguiars Deep Crystal Car Wash. Cant beat it for the chronic car washer like myself.

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