Well. Day 2 of the Meguirars Hybrid ceramic wax. My hose was finally thawed so broke out the pressure washer, backed the Vette out of the cave and onto the only dry grass spot in my yard and proceeded to wash her. Now to the ceramic wax.... Following the directions religiously (as I tend to do), I pulled the Vette back into the cave so it would be in the shade (as directed), left the car wet (as also directed) and proceeded to apply the new ceramic wax. Sprayed it on as directed on the bottle and also as shown in the Meguirars youtube... Then began drying with a good microfibre. All good so far... didn't take long and the first microfbre was pretty much saturated, soon to the next one... Six microfibres later and I was getting close to having the car dry. But alas, there was still a haze. So on to another dry microfibre to buff to a pristine shine... An hour and four microfibres later, I was still buffing, trying to rid the finish of those irritating smudge spots. Finally I was done.Popped my first beer and sat down to admire my work... Wait... there's a smudge spot... Up out of my chair to buff it out... Wait. there's another one... The hell with this so I backed the car back out into the sunshine so I could take a good look... Damn.... Smudges in lots of places...A new microfibre and buffing again when I realized all I was doing was moving the smudges from one spot to another.... So out came the random orbit power polisher with a buffer pad.... Went over pretty much the whole car again and thought finally.... So back into the cave, popped another beer and sat down... Damn.... there's one i missed... buff buff buff... Power buffing and 12 microfibres and I think I finally have the finish the way I like..Nope...more smudge that I missed...Out comes the Lucas SlickMist and they disappeared a lot easier....Ok...maybe my anality (that may not be a word) is showing, but as some of you may have realized, I like my old girl to be showroom... So standing back admiring my work I came to the realization that my car doesn't look any better than my old standby, the Mequirars Ultimate Hydrophobic synthetic wax, and was one helluvalot more work and more money...hmmmmm.... Yeah it looks good but damn it, I hope the hype about how the dirt just runs off easy as pie is true... At the end of the day, I will try the "spray on pressure wash off and you're done" that they advertise for the after treatments but to be honest, once this bottle is gone, this will be the last time I use this product. If there's any shine difference at all, I can't see it. The Meguiars ultimate and the Lucas slickmist detailer is far easier and gives me just as good a finish and lasts me the whole season... here's a look... Ignore the light differences
This is yesterday before I even washed the car...
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These are after the Meguiars ceramic wax
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This is last years clean with the old standby Mequiars Ultimate....
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