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Take a look at "HELP: Faint scratches all over my Cerbies body!!!!!!" under this Gassing heading. I usually use Autoglym which is very good but after reading some of the comments and looking at their web site it does sound like great stuff. Could think of worse Christmas pressies too!!
I currently use Zymol. It is very expensive but very good. The only thing you have to be aware of is the hard work you have to do initially. Ideally you put on about 10 applications gradually building up the wax. This way you reach max protection.
goto www.zymol.co.uk
I even phoned them and discussed using it on my TVR. They can suggested exactly which products to use.
It is not a quick way of cleaning your car but the very deep shine especially on darker colours is EXCELLENT and well worth it.
It even smells interesting (chocolate milk shake, and the wax smells of banana)
have fun
goto www.zymol.co.uk
I even phoned them and discussed using it on my TVR. They can suggested exactly which products to use.
It is not a quick way of cleaning your car but the very deep shine especially on darker colours is EXCELLENT and well worth it.
It even smells interesting (chocolate milk shake, and the wax smells of banana)
have fun
I've posted enough on the other thread, but I'll swear by this stuff.
If you're ready to put the initial effort in then you can't go wrong with it. If spending a couple of days initially cleaning, polishing and waxing the car to start is too much and you'd rather do a quick wipe-over polish (a la Autoglym) then maybe you'll get fed up with it, but the results it gives are well worth the extra effort.
I think any TVR deserves it!
-andy-
If you're ready to put the initial effort in then you can't go wrong with it. If spending a couple of days initially cleaning, polishing and waxing the car to start is too much and you'd rather do a quick wipe-over polish (a la Autoglym) then maybe you'll get fed up with it, but the results it gives are well worth the extra effort.
I think any TVR deserves it!
-andy-
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I currently use Zymol. It is very expensive but very good. The only thing you have to be aware of is the hard work you have to do initially. Ideally you put on about 10 applications gradually building up the wax. This way you reach max protection.
goto www.zymol.co.uk
I even phoned them and discussed using it on my TVR. They can suggested exactly which products to use.
It is not a quick way of cleaning your car but the very deep shine especially on darker colours is EXCELLENT and well worth it.
It even smells interesting (chocolate milk shake, and the wax smells of banana)
have fun
What products DID they recomend then? R...
Ted trialled Zymol some time back:
www.pistonheads.com/features/zymol.htm
Anyone ever tried it on _really_ badly faded paint? i.e. would it help my '89 VW Golf shopping car, originally red now sort of dusty pink after years of being parked outside under the M25 acid rain cloud?
AdrianR
www.pistonheads.com/features/zymol.htm
Anyone ever tried it on _really_ badly faded paint? i.e. would it help my '89 VW Golf shopping car, originally red now sort of dusty pink after years of being parked outside under the M25 acid rain cloud?
AdrianR
Just took a look at their web site thinking I might treat myself 
Now there's polish and there's polish but hang on £1,299.00 for a tub of wax 
OK so it might come in a presentation box and be re-fillable but that's taking the piss big time isn't it !?!?! 
Not sure I can bring myself to spend money with a company that is so far up itself that it even thinks about trying to justify a tub of wax costing over a grand! 
R...
Now there's polish and there's polish but hang on £1,299.00 for a tub of wax OK so it might come in a presentation box and be re-fillable but that's taking the piss big time isn't it !?!?! Not sure I can bring myself to spend money with a company that is so far up itself that it even thinks about trying to justify a tub of wax costing over a grand! R...
RichB.. i guess its for the "money-no-object" crew...
Its like speaker cable thats thousands of pounds a metre. I guess if you're going to spend 10's of thousands on a Tag McClaren Hi-Fi, you'd rather use that stuff than the 50p a metre stuff.
Guess likewise, if you spend 160k on your Diablo or whatever, then another 1k for lifetime refillable wax is all just a drop in the ocean.
-andy-
Its like speaker cable thats thousands of pounds a metre. I guess if you're going to spend 10's of thousands on a Tag McClaren Hi-Fi, you'd rather use that stuff than the 50p a metre stuff.
Guess likewise, if you spend 160k on your Diablo or whatever, then another 1k for lifetime refillable wax is all just a drop in the ocean.
-andy-
I don't ...
Maybe for that ever-lasting concours finish, yes! But, I find that the wax is still working after at least 2 months on my daily driver (25k miles per year).
I wax about once every three months.
But I must admit, I tend to do the whole sequence again. Clean, polish, wax...
-andy-
Maybe for that ever-lasting concours finish, yes! But, I find that the wax is still working after at least 2 months on my daily driver (25k miles per year).
I wax about once every three months.
But I must admit, I tend to do the whole sequence again. Clean, polish, wax...
-andy-
Try www.waxwizard.co.uk they sell very good wax at much lower cost than Zymol.
Oh yes, forgot about this.
I seem to remember being told that Waxwizard stuff is almost identical. Apparently the guy who owns the company used to work for Zymol.
Hell, half the names of the products are the same!! (Carbon/Creme wax etc..)
I'm sticking with the "original" though But Waxwizard might be worth a try.
-andy-
Edited by sixspeed on Thursday 13th December 13:20
Edited by sixspeed on Thursday 13th December 13:21
I seem to remember being told that Waxwizard stuff is almost identical. Apparently the guy who owns the company used to work for Zymol.
Hell, half the names of the products are the same!! (Carbon/Creme wax etc..)
I'm sticking with the "original" though
But Waxwizard might be worth a try. -andy-
Edited by sixspeed on Thursday 13th December 13:20
Edited by sixspeed on Thursday 13th December 13:21
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