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I learned a few tricks today that I thought I'd share.
1) I saw this on another forum and adapted it for my use. The original article talked about the proper way to rinse and dry. It said to use high flow, low pressure water to sheet water off of the car. I use the Mr. Clean Auto cleaner which provides filtered water (mineral free) so technically you can let it dry on the car without fear of spots, but here was the cool thing. After sheeting the water off, or in my case rinsing with the filtered water, I just walked around the car a few times and 'blotted' the remaining wet spots with a WW towel. It worked out very very well. No streaks, no spots, just a nice black finish. Took little effort, little time, and I felt good that there was little chance I'd be drying any hidden dirt into the finish.
2) I don't know why it happened, perhaps because it was the first time I used NXT outside the garage and had to deal with wind. When I started to remove the NXT it had a gummy consistency to it. After applying NXT I cleaned my interior which took about 30 minutes so I'm sure the NXT had ample time to dry. During removal, I switched from a TC towel to MF towel thinking the nap in the TC was folding over and not removing the wax, but the MF did little better. So I got another MF towl and some Meg's NXT QD. I folded both QD towels into quarters and layed one on top of the other. I very lightly spritzed the surface I was removing NXT from and removed the QD/NXT with one side of the MF towels. After removing the QD and wax, I flipped my MF sandwich over and used the dry side to buff. After the wet side got a little damp with QD, I found myself going to the bottle less frequently. Doing it this way let me keep one towel dry for buffing and one hand free for spraying QD on the panel. I didn't have to worry about fumbling around with towels or dropping one on the driveway.
1) I saw this on another forum and adapted it for my use. The original article talked about the proper way to rinse and dry. It said to use high flow, low pressure water to sheet water off of the car. I use the Mr. Clean Auto cleaner which provides filtered water (mineral free) so technically you can let it dry on the car without fear of spots, but here was the cool thing. After sheeting the water off, or in my case rinsing with the filtered water, I just walked around the car a few times and 'blotted' the remaining wet spots with a WW towel. It worked out very very well. No streaks, no spots, just a nice black finish. Took little effort, little time, and I felt good that there was little chance I'd be drying any hidden dirt into the finish.
2) I don't know why it happened, perhaps because it was the first time I used NXT outside the garage and had to deal with wind. When I started to remove the NXT it had a gummy consistency to it. After applying NXT I cleaned my interior which took about 30 minutes so I'm sure the NXT had ample time to dry. During removal, I switched from a TC towel to MF towel thinking the nap in the TC was folding over and not removing the wax, but the MF did little better. So I got another MF towl and some Meg's NXT QD. I folded both QD towels into quarters and layed one on top of the other. I very lightly spritzed the surface I was removing NXT from and removed the QD/NXT with one side of the MF towels. After removing the QD and wax, I flipped my MF sandwich over and used the dry side to buff. After the wet side got a little damp with QD, I found myself going to the bottle less frequently. Doing it this way let me keep one towel dry for buffing and one hand free for spraying QD on the panel. I didn't have to worry about fumbling around with towels or dropping one on the driveway.
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