At this point, you might want to just skip the Dawn because again, it will remove all that you've done up til now. Wait maybe another year.

Z8 isn't hard. I use it the same way as Z6. HUGE difference though

 

just keep putting more layers of zaino on

 

Well I am up to 6 coats on the paint, and a total of 13(9 out of 13 w/ Z5) on the hood itself - after 3 weeks. Yikes, quite a gloss. I do have some minor swirls on the hood and leading edge of the sunroof. I may have to try ZPC...

 

Looks nice, but your contrast looks turned up! Cheater!!!

 

Ahh yes another Zaino customer for life!!!

I know how you feel. It took me a while to try it but wow... wow.

 

Nope.... it was purposely unedited. Wait the first pix was edited (thumbnail) to shrink it to fit to this site's max size. So in effect, I made the resolution worse!

BTW, I did decide to get a PC 7424. I need it for my other car (wife's Murano), it needs some serious buffing. But, I can't wait to use it to remove some of the swirls and spider webs on my G35.

I just don't know how I got these swirls. Someone mentioned that washing can induce the spider webs. Which I tend to believe, because I always wipe, use the CA duster in a consistent direction - for vertical surfaces it's front to back, horizontal surfaces, it's up and down.

 

that's a really sick shine on a silver car.. incredible.. wanna wax mine? hehe jk i gonna look into zaino i've heard great things about it

 

I picked up the Zaino show car kit and did the following the night I picked up my '05 Coupe:
- washed with Dawn (it was ~40 degrees out and dark - my neighbor's gave me many strange looks)
- clay bar
- Mr. Clean auto dry car wash
- dry with calif. water blade/chamois/100% terry towel (bought a couple brand new and washed and dried to remove lint before use)
- Z-2 w/ ZFX
- Z-8
- Z-5 w/ZFX
- Z-8
- Z-2 w/ ZFX
- Z-8
- Z-5 w/ZFX
- Z-8

The Z-8 between coats really helps with the next coat and the final application leaves a really nice gloss. The finish is so slick, its unreal. All tolds, it was about 4-5 hours work including the tire dressing application, but well worth it.

Results (these were taken in the garage - so not really the best lighting to show the results, but you get the idea):




A day or 2 later - outdoor shot:

 

Car looks good. A little thread hijack?

My question is if you use Z5, why do you use the Z2? I think the Z5Pro looks better all by itself. But, that's just my $.02.

 

I would agree with tod071. I only did the z2, z5,z2 application because that is what Zaino recommended. But after talking with some of the other Zaino users, you can just use z5 alone. I did try it and did not notice any difference. I was trying to remove some very minor swirls, spider webs w/ z5. Just chalk it up on experience or, it depends on the condition of your paint. The zaino system relies on the underlying paint to be issue free - for that matter any other polymer based product. Z5 w/ Z8 is a powerful one/two punch.

p.s. BTW, DirtyWally... good job on the paint. In my opinion, for that next level of detail next time I would hit your tire wells, exterior trim (& engine bay) with a little Z16. It gives your excellent paint work that extra pop. Also the splash guards need to get Z5 and Z8.