Oops! Sorry for putting that out there. Wait. What out there? No one saw
that.
NXT..some sort of "synthetic polymer" blah blah blah something or other..all
I know is it keeps water beading a *lot* longer than waxes I've used in the
past on it (Zymol, Eagle-1, Meguiar's), and it really looks wet when you're
done. The paint on my truck is either beat or cheap, or both; within a wash
(or rain) or two you can see where the stipe used to be all around. At
least I have a nice red stripe to look at, lol. Goes on and off easy too.
I might try carnuba next..I let my buddies who at least used to run a detail
business go to town my truck shortly after I got it (and shortly after they
got their buffer when they got sick of doing everything by hand :-/ ), I've
got tons of swirl marks. Of course now being at college in cramped, high
traffic parking lots the dents and dings are starting to outweigh the swirl
marks in the unattractive department. For my graduation present to myself,
I'm painting the truck! That could be a while though, lol.
Well maybe now that it's getting broken in and it's not perfect anymore, it
might see a little off road action finally..
Travis
'92 Dakota 5.2 4x4
>
>SSSSSHHHHHH!!!! That's a secret! I've been using pencil erasers on trim
>for years. They get all the wax residue or whatever off without a hitch
>but
>over time they abrade the surface away little bits at a time. Of course,
>the best way to prevent getting wax on the trim in the first place is to
>paint it, be more careful, or use better detailing products that don't
>leave
>a residue.
>
>How does that NXT wax work? I've seen it on the shelf but I can't bring
>myself to switch from the P21S Carnuba I've been using for years. As a
>bonus it doesn't leave any residue on your textured trim. Every spring
>I'll
>usually layer about 5 or 6 coats (over as many weeks) over a good cleaner
>wax that's used to strip everything off (I use Klasse all-in-one) and
>that'll take me through until almost the next summer, depending on how
>dirty
>it gets between washings. Also, carnuba is the only wax that will hide
>your
>swirlmarks, and believe me with the dark truck I have, there are plenty of
>swirlmarks, but you don't see them at all because of the high-quality
>carnuba wax. For a quick cleanup, you can get those "quick detailer"
>sprays
>in a carnuba variant as well.
>
>For those who have seen my truck, they can attest to how "pretty" it looks
>when it's clean, so believe me this stuff works. I actually had some
>people
>in my condo complex stop what they were doing and come over from the other
>side of the parking lot just to ask me how I got my truck to look that
>good.
>It's a *LOT* of work, but even dirty, it has more depth to it than some
>people's cars do clean. YMMV.
>
>- --
>- - Josh
>Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L
>Above Statement Not True ^^^^^
>www.omg-stfu.com
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