Mirror Glaze 7

[Murr1525]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

Generally speaking, if the wax is wearing off a car, has surface contaminants, etc, the QD will be harder to use.

[billster50]

Re: First time user of M7

When was it smearing?



Glaze is just oils, so certainly will wash off. The wax or sealant 'seals' it in. However, it is still just covering. Would need a proper cleaner to remove the swirls.



Yeah, whenever you like.

The buffing removed alot of the swirls, done with a Dewalt Rotary with a soft foam pad and 1500 compound, I don't own a DA buffer so have no experience using one which is why I farmed that job out. I may buy a DA and start the process of learning, I'm sort of on the fence as to how picky I want to get. 99% of the population would look at my car and think it is near perfect where I see all the minor imperfections that come with owning a used black car. It has already come a long way since I took possession, it really is a joy using product that works.

My shop used Quik Detailer for years, never had the smearing problem that I encountered. I was using it after the car was washed and dried, mainly as a quick wipe down to give that just waxed look. It just smeared and did not wipe off cleanly, I have no idea why. Going forward, any touch ups will be done with glaze.

[Murr1525]

Re: First time user of M7

Quik Detailer was smearing and not working very well, will not use it on black going forward for touch ups.

When was it smearing?

I could see the car was needing something like glaze so here I am with M7. I guess my question is how often? I think I had washed the car approximately 5 times since the brick/buff/glaze/sealant/wax before I decided to take action on the M7 glaze. Surface was looking "milky" or a bit opaque in certain light. Glaze appears to have evened out the finish. What I noticed from my days in Recon was that glaze, whichever product you use, does not last very long and does wash out.

Glaze is just oils, so certainly will wash off. The wax or sealant 'seals' it in. However, it is still just covering. Would need a proper cleaner to remove the swirls.

So how often should I glaze or is it a YMMV situation? Car is a daily driver 6 mos out of the year.

Yeah, whenever you like.

[billster50]

First time user of M7

this evening I glazed my black Mazda with the M7, in the garage with flourescent light. It seemed to conceal or remove some water spots that were beginning to show up. I suspect that it did a little of both but I'm fairly happy with the results, we shall see in daylight tomorrow. Going to follow up with Gold Class wax tomorrow.

I was painting a room earlier and ran out of energy to wax. A quick history of the car: bought used in April this year, paint was really swirled bad from the PO. Clay bricked followed by buffed out and glazed by a friend that used to work for me(I managed a Recon Dept for a Dealership) followed by a paint sealant and then Gold Class wax. Quik Detailer was smearing and not working very well, will not use it on black going forward for touch ups. I could see the car was needing something like glaze so here I am with M7. I guess my question is how often? I think I had washed the car approximately 5 times since the brick/buff/glaze/sealant/wax before I decided to take action on the M7 glaze. Surface was looking "milky" or a bit opaque in certain light. Glaze appears to have evened out the finish. What I noticed from my days in Recon was that glaze, whichever product you use, does not last very long and does wash out. So how often should I glaze or is it a YMMV situation? Car is a daily driver 6 mos out of the year.

[Alfisti]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

There is at least one pretty high end boutique sealant maker who refers to their products as "polish" when just about everyone else would class them as sealants.

Did you say Zaino?

[Mike Phillips]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

In the 1960 Corvette DVD I did apply a thin coat and then immediately went to work wiping it off.

Also note that the paint had just been completely polished to perfection and was a single stage, so it was easy to apply #7 to it and easy with good technique to remove it.

If you have years of experience applying and wiping products like #7 on and off a car then the whole car approach is a walk in the park, if you're new to detailing, then definitely stick to the panel-by-panel approach.

That car still runs around SoCal, you might even see it show up on a TNOG

[mb911]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

would using colorX after m07 be pointless since it might clean off the oils from the m07?

Yes, in my opinion. Color X has decent cleaning abilities, so it would certainly be removing M07.

[chris328]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

would using colorX after m07 be pointless since it might clean off the oils from the m07?

[Mary S]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

I believe NuFinish also calls their LSP "The Once aYear Car Polish."

I was in my local Walmart the other day and noticed that too. In fact, they have the paste form "polish," the spray form "polish" and another product that had the word polish in it that I finally deduced after looking at the label was their form of the spray quick detailer.

[Garage Troll]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

I believe NuFinish also calls their LSP "The Once aYear Car Polish."

As for LSP combinations I enjoy NXT 2.0 followed by M16, although I am all ears for other suggestions.

As for #7, I used it on my Dad's Forester a couple of weeks ago and it literally made the paint glow. I know it usually makes more of a difference on a single stage paint, but it was absolutely astonishing!

[Mary S]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

I was just looking at the bottle of 07. If it were sitting by itself with a bunch of other consumer items, I can see why you might look at it and think it was a wax or sealant, because of the photograph of the red shiny car that some of the other Mirror Glaze line waxes and sealants have, like 21 and 26. The look of the shiny car in the picture on the label might lead you to think it was a wax, and the way it goes on, it feels a bit similar to a wax. So I guess the mistake could be made.

[Michael Stoops]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

I don't know what it is about 07 that makes people think it is a wax, but I have seen people do product comparisons with Meguiar's and a competitor's wax twice, once on Youtube and one a rather scientific study looking at microscratches on the paint.

Kinda blows a comparison to bits when they're comparing different types of products, huh?

I know it is called a polish, but I am not aware of waxes or sealants being called polishes on product labels, even though some people may refer to waxes as polishes.

There is at least one pretty high end boutique sealant maker who refers to their products as "polish" when just about everyone else would class them as sealants.

[maximus20895]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

Maybe because it's oily? I don't know either. ODD.

[Mary S]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

I don't know what it is about 07 that makes people think it is a wax, but I have seen people do product comparisons with Meguiar's and a competitor's wax twice, once on Youtube and one a rather scientific study looking at microscratches on the paint.

I know it is called a polish, but I am not aware of waxes or sealants being called polishes on product labels, even though some people may refer to waxes as polishes.

[searle]

Re: Mirror Glaze 7

M07 is not a wax and you do NOT let it dry. Wipe M07 on, slightly work it (to ensure even coverage), then immediately wipe off. If you make the mistake of letting it dry, you usually need to apply a very little bit more (to soften what is there) and then wipe.

And, since M07 is an oil to nuture paint, it does nothing for plastic like light-covers.

Best to not use the over-worked term "polish" (used by different companies to mean very different things: cleaners, glazes, waxes, etc). Think of M07 as a "glaze"/"oil", and other products as "cleaners" or "waxes" (although some A.I.O. products can be all 3 or some sub-combination)