16 Jul 12 16:55, Mark Hofmann wrote to Roy Witt:   
      
      
      
    RW>> Too much work for me...I drive it in, they wash it the old fashioned   
    RW>> way, then I drive it off and that's that. I leave them $7+tip for   
    RW>> their effort.   
      
    MH> Until recently, I really wasn't very good about washing my car.  I   
    MH> used to say the layer of crud on it was helping preserve the paint.   
      
   Just the opposite from my perspective. That dirt will crud up the paint,   
   requiring a cleaner to make it shine again. The Z has been in the garage   
   gathering dust. I use a 'California Duster' to keep most of it off, but   
   the last wax job has accumulated dust to the extent that it now clings to   
   the paint and the duster can't remove it. Time for a good 'hand wash' and   
   wax...Since it has been sitting outside in the Texas sunshine since   
   January, that will make the cleaning job that much harder. Even the   
   touchless car wash couldn't cut it.   
      
    MH> The past few years, I have actually waxed my car twice.  Being that   
    MH> my car is 10 years old, I have waxed it a total of (2) times.   
      
   8^) When I bought the Z in 2001, it got a wash job every week. A wax job   
   about once a month. At the time, I used Mother's Wax and a Mother's   
   Showcar spray to keep it shiney...that's all gone now, but I still have   
   the Mother's...   
      
    MH> I use that Nu-Finish stuff (you can get it at Walmart).  It works   
    MH> fantastic.   
      
   Yuc! I used that on my Silverado and thought it sucked, big time.   
   Fortunately, that was over a year ago and it is gone now. I threw the   
   Nu-Finish bottle in the trash after using it the first and last time.   
      
    MH> What I really like about it is the fact that it is said to   
    MH> be a "Once a year car polish".  It does last a good long time.  I   
    MH> would say more like 3/4 of a year long, however.   
      
   If you got any on your black bumper parts, you can tell when that stuff is   
   gone just by looking. If the stain it leaves is gone, the likelyhood of   
   what you applied to the paint will be too. At least Mother's can be washed   
   off if you scrub long and hard enough. Not so with Nu-Finish.   
      
    MH> There were people at my work that actually thought I bought a new car   
    MH> when they saw it shining for the first time.   
      
   There has to be a touchless car wash in your area. Run it through once a   
   week and it'll stay that way, for a while.   
      
      
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