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Old 12-29-2000, 08:42 PM
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That Zaino's must be not 2 good, turned the battleship into a jet in the reflection! :-)
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WOW, great picture. But you are speaking a foreign language. You ment Z-A-I-N-O???
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No, your eyes are just too blurry from looking at your Zaino'd TT too long to read it right! :-)
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Default Here's another I ALREADY had taken with the 1st pic, didn't take just for this conversation but....

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/AudiWorldPics/2000/Dcp_0125.jpg"></center><p>as you can see the box on the floor,the recycle bin, lawn chair, tools on the wall, though not as exciting as a jet I'll admit, look just about as good as the jet, along with everything else reflecting like a mirror down the side of the car.
In fact I'd say my baby reflects so well it's hard to tell the door or front fender is really Denim blue! (or are they mirror coated?) Hmmmm......
Old 12-30-2000, 02:56 AM
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Default My bad TTCrazy, I didn't look at the picture full size and thought it was the.....

radar tower from a battleship. The second picture of your car shows off the shine better than the first. I've used zymol in the past and never got a WET look like that. Is it a specific product or the blue liquid wax???? I still think I'll try the zaino though.
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Yep... no more shine than now, and he'd still be working
Old 12-30-2000, 07:07 AM
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No, I just thought it'd be redundant to restate that the reflection's definition is blurry vs Zaino!
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Default Hey RDROCKTT, it was the Zymol Carbon Wax, but the real trick is the towel you use to take off the..

<center><img src="http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/AudiWorldPics/2000/towels.jpg"></center><p>wax. I found (quite by luck and accident I might add, thanks to the guys at a place called Emmons Coachworks in Villa Park, Illinois) that if you use a towel to remove the wax and polish it that they have called (corny) a Miracle Towel you can get off the wax and leave absolutely NO swirl marks in the wax. It is a Polyester towel with a ton of microfibers in it and it feels weird even when you use it. It wants to stick to your hands because of all the "little hooks" in the material. Because of that though it leaves absolutely no dust and it polished my car, at least, with no swirl marks. When I was done I thought I would try to go over the car with some 100% american made cotton "polishing cloths" I bought to polish the finish and, low and behold, in the sun I got nothing but those white swirl looking reflection marks in the wax where I could see I tried to polish it with those cotton towels. But I went back over those spots with the polyester Miracle Towel and it took that right out and everything was just shiny and mirror like again. I'd swear by these things, although I have a blue car. They say in add they have used them on Black cars with no problem. I would say they are right because I do not see any marks of any kind in my paint. I attached a pic of the add from the catalog with those towels. Well good luck if you decide to try the Zainos. I can tell you also that I did do my whole car with the Zymol HD-Cleanse before the wax to take off whatever the dealer had put on it and anything else that was on it. That also works great. It took out those annoying scratches you get in the portion of the paint in the door jam where you lift your feet over the bottom to get in. I used the HD Cleanse and just rubbed that spot a little extra hard and those scratches came right out and are completely gone. Just have to tell all the passengers to lift their feet getting in, ya' know!! One last thing, Zymol makes those almost exact kind of towels and calls them Micro-Wipe Towellettes. According to the owner of this Emmons Coachworks place he told them about this towel and sent them the original sample of his. They checked it out and then, WA-LA, about 2 months later came out with their own product, very similar to his because they liked it so much. But, supposedly, Zymols are supposed to be just a bit thinner, but I haven't tried Zymols towels.
Emmons full address if you want to get the towels is 100 E. Roosevelt Road, Villa Park, Il. 60181. Write them and have them send you a catalog, they have all the fun stuff, but it isn't cheap, you might find it cheaper elsewhere.
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Default There's a good eye doctor down my street here, or maybe you just need to upgrade from EGA to VGA ...

I mean c'mon, take a look at the picture I sent as a response to RRROCKTT "RE: That shine looks nice but..." and look at even how blue the relection of the recycle bin is off of my TT and tell me it gets better than that. It's one thing to reflect a picture of something in your paint, it's quite another to reflect the object in full color that almost looks better than the original color of the object!!!! Just break down and admit it!!
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