{"id":421,"date":"2009-01-07T18:50:28","date_gmt":"2009-01-07T23:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/01\/zaino\/"},"modified":"2012-01-08T13:03:02","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T18:03:02","slug":"zaino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/2009\/01\/zaino\/","title":{"rendered":"Zaino"},"content":{"rendered":"

While I was doing research on my car<\/a>, I found out about a type of car polish called Zaino. It sounded interesting and is enormously complicated, which makes it even more appealing. I thought about ordering the starter kit (it’s kind of expensive) back when I wrote about car clay<\/a>, but decided not to since we aren’t allowed to wash our cars and that’s a big part of the process. Then time went by and I felt like I really needed to put some kind of protection on the car so the finish doesn’t go bad like it eventually did on the Honda. I’ve paid to get the car washed a couple of times, but getting it waxed properly is really expensive and doesn’t last anyway.<\/p>\n


\nSo I ordered a kit a week or so ago and got it yesterday. Naturally I couldn’t wait very long to use it, so I took today off from work and started the process. First I read some very lengthy tips<\/a> but that was crucial. The Zaino Store<\/a> also has good tips on how to use each individual product, referred to by their Z numbers.<\/p>\n

There are an enormous number of steps:<\/p>\n

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  1. Wash the car with Dawn to remove dirt and strip any oil or wax already there.<\/li>\n
  2. Towel dry the car.<\/li>\n
  3. Use a clay bar (Z-18) and watered down car wash soap in a spray bottle to remove all the surface particles and give a smooth finish.<\/li>\n
  4. Wash the car again with Zaino car wash (Z-7)<\/li>\n
  5. Towel dry the car.<\/li>\n
  6. Mix the polish (Z-2) with hardening agent (ZFX) and apply as sparingly as possible to car.<\/li>\n
  7. Wait for polish to dry and rub off with a towel.<\/li>\n
  8. Apply a supergloss spray (Z-6) and rub that off with a towel as you go.<\/li>\n
  9. Apply a second coat of polish.<\/li>\n
  10. Wait for polish to dry and wipe off.<\/li>\n
  11. Apply and rub off another coat of supergloss spray.<\/li>\n
  12. Apply a third and final coat of polish.<\/li>\n
  13. Wait for polish to dry and wipe off.<\/li>\n
  14. Apply a third coat of supergloss and wipe it off.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    I didn’t do the last step because it was dark by that time (it took about an hour for the polish to dry each time). And I don’t know how well it worked for the same reason. It takes at least 10 towels (it took two to dry the car each time; the instructions are very particular about the towels and advise cutting the tags off). Instead of using Z-2 polish, I could have used Z-5 polish which is geared more towards filling in light scratches and swirls, but I didn’t notice any of those while washing the car. The idea is that this should last 6 months (with washings in between) and then I can apply a few more coats of polish. I shouldn’t have to do the Dawn wash again and the clay bar shouldn’t be needed very often. I used about 1\/5 of the Z-2 polish, so I could easily do 4 more applications in 2 years before it goes bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    While I was doing research on my car, I found out about a type of car polish called Zaino. It sounded interesting and is enormously complicated, which makes it even more appealing. I thought about ordering the starter kit (it’s kind of expensive) back when I wrote about car clay, but decided not to since … Continue reading “Zaino”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1158,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421\/revisions\/1158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveforks.com\/ted\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}