With LakeZ and the Z32 25th anniversary meet coming up, I thought I should give the 300zx a good polish.

It really needs a respray to be honest as it's stone chipped to buggery. Since I don't have the time for that at the moment a polish will have to do.

 

Fished out all my detailing gear, and set about figuring out which stuff to use this time.

 

 

 

 

Started off with Blizzard snow foam. This came with my Snow Lance, and I'm just using it up before starting on Bubbly Jubbly. It looks good on first application. But it has to be applied neat to get any decent foam, and it breaks down too quickly for my liking.

 

 

The car had been given a full clay only 3 months ago. So a once over with some Tardis was all it took to remove a few contaminants and the previous wax.

That left me with paint that looked like this.

 

 

Started of with a Lake Country Finishing pad and Menzerna 85RE.

Couple of passes with that proved ineffective.

Time to up to Lake Country polishing pad and Menzerna 203S.

This worked well although some RDS remained. I didn't have a harsher pad/polish available so that had to do.

Went over the whole car with 203S and then again with 85RE.

 

Next was Poorboys Black Hole. Amazing stuff. And so easy to apply.

Topped with Poorboys Nattys Liquid Blue

 

 

 

Finished with some Nanolex trim rejuvenator. Amazing stuff

(Half and half pic)

 

 

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Finished!

Looks great mate, now it just needs to be taken out for a spin so it can enjoy this great weather! :thumbup:

Nice colour!

Looks great mate, now it just needs to be taken out for a spin so it can enjoy this great weather! :thumbup:

 

No can do.

Failed it's MOT on Friday. Retest on Wed.

You have it looking great Al and will see it at Coventry mate :thumbup1:

Nice!

Looks good from a distance! The niggles show up when you get close!

Superb!

Looking forward to lake z i have to say should be a cracking weekend.

Nice job.

I've been using the poor boys stuff for about a about a year now, its bloody good stuff. Simon actually commented he couldn't remember it being that shiney, had I had some work done. It hold well as well, ok my car is out of the elements virtually constantly but it has lasted about two months and still has a good deep gloss. When I do leave the car to get rained on it was lasting about a month of damn good beading and lovely shine. Must give it a damn good clean before Coventry, although it does take a beating from the country lanes with stone chips and pot holes, I'm not afraid to use it in anger so it does pick up the scratches. Here's a close up of my paint after a clay bar, then poor boys diamond white followed by poor boys natty wax, stinks of bubble gum afterwards though which is nice.

Looking good Alex....:thumbup: