I brought it up on one thread about rejex but most seem not to care or notice a difference. I have an **** eye and definately do. However if you only want to wax your car 3-4x's a year, rejex/zaino etc are for you. I switch around products frequently and like to try any and everything (hitting week 3 that i've been waiting for my Rejex I ordered on the 10th!!!! the idiot keeps sending it to the wrong address!). On cars that are garage kept and not daily driven I usually use a carnuba like P21S/S100. Cars that are usually kept outside and driven daily I use polymer/synthetic. The melting point on most carnubas is around 180 degrees while w/ synthetics it can be 400+.


I definately feel carnubas bring more life to paint, ever seen silver pop out and jump at you? A good carnuba will do this. I feel synthetics like zaino/rejex(still haven't used) give to much of a mirrored effect w/o giving it clsoe to the depth of a carnuba.


There are pro's and con's to both. If you like to take pride in your car care and don't mind spending an extra 20-30 minutes a month to throw another coat on then carnubas are great.


I also find NXT Tech Wax as a happy medium between the two even though it is a synthetic/polymer it really seems to liven up paint, but doesn't last FOREVER like some other products.

 

trojan and steve, I don't see the autodry really being of much use, it takes me roughly 15 minutes to wash my car and drying is a sinch. On a properly wax'd car if you take off your nozzle and simply just run the water over the panels it will all SHEET completely off leaving very little to dry.


I wash 2 cars every sunday morning and it takes me roughly 45 minutes.


some people definately like it as can be seen here:

http://www.autopia.org/forums/showth...=Clean+Autodry


but most every report I've read about it on NUMEROUS websites gives me the feeling people buy it, use it once and throw it away as they aren't happy w/ it.

here is a great discussion about it

http://www.autopia.org/forums/showth...=Clean+Autodry

 

and the PERFECT DRYING METHOD!


http://www.autopia.org/forums/showth...&threadid=5120

 

I, much like Steve, am more lazy than I am ****. For example, I have been known to leave little bits of dried wax on the rubber weatherstripping. Many of my **** friends notice the little white flecks within seconds of seeing my car, and I never noticed them.

You see, I have a very forgiving paint color: arctic silver. It only takes a few minutes to wash a silver car to get it to look 90% perfect. That extra 10% to achieve perfection will take a couple extra hours. Since I'm not entering any concours soon, I'm pleased with my 90%.

With respect to the Mr. Clean - it works GREAT for my car, but I washed my moms black s-class with the Mr. Clean and I admit that it was a nightmare - I had to go over it with a spray-n-wipe type of cleaner after.

 

when you went over with the cleaner did you pick up any black film?


I'm by no means **** and leave dried wax on my rubber (not customers though). I'm just curious how long it takes you to use the autodry? Because i don't see it being faster then the 15-20 it takes to wash and dry a car regularly.

 

Scott, I must not be the speed demon car washer that you are, because I take a minimum of 30 minutes to wash & dry my car by hand (longer when you consider setup & breakdown).

I can 'Mr. Clean' my car in half that time...maybe less. In addition to the time savings, I also enjoy the labor savings of not having to contort my body in order to dry those hard to reach places like the middle of the roof. Finally, I save both effort and money in not having to purchase & launder drying rags.

I understand that a proper car afficionado or concours-goer would NEVER use Mr. Clean except maybe on a daily driver...but I don't fit into that category.

Oh, and no I did not pick up any unusual film or debris when I spray-n-wiped the black car.

 

YOu should look into that Perfect drying thread I posted up. Give it a shot once and let me know how it goes.