Surf City Garage

[meissen]

Has anyone tried their products? I went into the O'Reilly auto store at 23 and Gratiot to buy some detailing supplies to use at the new house and saw they had their products on a display. Looked like they had some good stuff and they were reasonably priced so I picked up the auto wash and their Sealer & Glaze System.

I washed the car last night - it has carnauba wax in it so I did notice a bit of a residue in some areas but I bet the detail spray after it would take care of the residue.

Planning on doing the Sealer & Glaze on Memorial Day.

Anyway - anyone heard or used their products before?
http://www.surfcitygarage.com/detail...product_id=211


A few reviews/opinions I found on Autopia:
http://www.autopia.org/forum/car-det...-garage-2.html

[93formulalt1]

I don't know if you saw this or not, but there was a comparison test done over on FirebirdNation.com, and an off-the-shelf product beat out Zaino and 2 other products in the tests. . . Here's the link:

http://www.firebirdnation.com/forums...ic=198021&st=0

It's a decent read, the guy did a really good job using quantitative data rather than opinions. I thought it was pretty cool, and the results were kind of interesting.

EDIT: The comparison was just for Wax products, though. I just remember you used to be a Zaino nut, so I thought I'd mention it.

[meissen]

Quite the contrary - I never was really sold on Zaino.

[Fbomb]

I was wondering about this stuff. Saw it on the racks at work and just kinda shrugged it off as some kind of sales ploy. I'll stick to Mother's/Meguiars.

[meissen]

I don't know if you saw this or not, but there was a comparison test done over on FirebirdNation.com, and an off-the-shelf product beat out Zaino and 2 other products in the tests. . . Here's the link:

http://www.firebirdnation.com/forums...ic=198021&st=0

It's a decent read, the guy did a really good job using quantitative data rather than opinions. I thought it was pretty cool, and the results were kind of interesting.

EDIT: The comparison was just for Wax products, though. I just remember you used to be a Zaino nut, so I thought I'd mention it.

Wow! That was pretty sweet to read that - thanks for sharing Nick. I knew right from the beginning that Zone 1 was Meguiars NXT 2.0. Best wax for the price. It's amazing how Meguiar's NXT compared to Zaino - they were on the same playing level yet the NXT is 100000000000x times easier [just apply the NXT compared to apply Z#, then spray with Z#, then apply the other Z#, blah blah blah) to apply and a ton cheaper.