Here's a pic of my 2 1/2 week old 6MT/Diamond Graphite/Graphite G35C which I just applied Crystal Guard Quick to yesterday.

I was at the dealer (Ramsey Infiniti in New Jersey) today, having the oil changed (shortly after breakin, at 1400 miles), and it was a beautiful sunny day (finally!). I drove the car to a nearby parking area and took the shot.

My feeling is that the Crystal Guard treatment came out great. It shines like crazy! It was also pretty easy to apply, as the instructions indicate. I did use a bit more than was suggested though, more like 2/3 of a bottle rather than half. Whatever...

One interesting side effect was that the windshield wipers, which had previously been squeaking, stopped doing so afterwards, as I found while I was driving through a rainstorm later on yesterday. Even though I had decided not to put any CG on the windshield (just being cautious - I did on all the other windows), evidently either a small amount of overspray, or more likely the residual CG in the drying towels, was enough to coat the windshield a bit. The squeaking stopped as did the little greyish water mark that had previously been visible where the right wiper stopped its travel on the windshield (making a nearly vertical line in the driver's view). An unexpected benefit. Nice.

Anyway, here it is, the first posted pic of my new baby. I have other pics which I'll post if enough people are curious.

I just love this car...

 

No pic

 

Don't know why the pic upload failed. It's a JPEG, 98K in size. Should be OK right? I'll try it again...

 

Well it's my first attempt at a pic upload and evidently I'm missing something. I wrote the post, went to the "I want to preview my post and/or attach a file" window, pointed the attachment entry box to where the 98K JPEG is on my hard drive, and clicked on "continue". But no pic shows up. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

 

98KB might be the approximate size.... the actual size is probably more than 100K
Right click on your Jpeg pic and select Properties.
It should say exactly how many bytes
For example, i have a pic here...
306 KB (314,245 bytes)
so the approximate size is 306KB but the actual size is 314KB
Yeah, the difference in size is caused by the file system, its just the nature of how things are stored on the drives.

Recommendation: Try to resize your pic a little bit, or just try to save it with a lessor quality jpeg compression.

PM me if you need more help w/ this.

<font color=green>-Rambo</font color=green>
G35c 6MT DG/Willow

 

OK thanks RamboRami. Here's another attempt. The file size says 87K now (crossing fingers)...



67165-G35C DG Crystal Guard.JPG

 

Ok there it is. Looks a bit artifact-y though. Shot it with a good camera at pretty high res...

Hmm...

 

Sorry to be wasting bandwith with my learning process here, but here's the same image reduced.



67177-G35C DG Crystal Guard small.JPG

 

Now it's just smaller, with the same apparent lack of resolution. I'm going to stop wasting everyone's time here until I find out how to do this better. Sorry...

 

Don't worry about it- everyone has to learn somehow.
G

2003.5 Black w/ Willow
Premium / Sport / Aero / Winter / Navi / Tint
Indianapolis, IN

 

hmm....resizing my pics to 800x600 with a 7 or 8 (out of 12) compression quality in Photoshop yields perfect pics for posting on this forum. Works great for me..... checkout the Federov Enzo thread on the Off Topic forum for samples.

<font color=green>-Rambo</font color=green>
G35c 6MT DG/Willow

 

I've been doing this on my PC where I have only rudimentary pix editing software. I'm mainly Mac based where I have Photoishop and all the goodies. I'll try it again there. Thanks again for your help.

 

Try changing you camera setting then to VGA and Normal. Depending on the camera of course.
VGA= Size 640x480
Normal= Resolution