Zaino CS or Griots Paint Sealant? & is washing chassis with highpower hose okay?

[Pohaku]

I don't think that any wax or sealant will help with chips or dings. That's impact damage. You need something more substantial like paint protection film, deflector or a bra to address that.

[bighouse]

And do you need a paint protection film protection film to protect the protection film???

[alohabailey]

Originally Posted by PriusRos

Out of curiosity -- what color do you have? I had a Gen II in Silver and felt that the paint was terribly thin. Within a few months of buying the car, after a long road trip, my hood and bumper were covered in dings -- even though I had used Zaino to seal it before embarking on the trip.

I have black!! You could probably scratch your name into the paint with a fingernail!!!
I love the black but you can see every speck of dust.


Definitely have to wash the chassis- our Nissan sentra was 9 years old and the entire muffler rusted out because of the salt. We never washed that car. Luckily we were able to get rid of it before we had to spend money to replace the muffler.

[pri-serious]

I highly recommend Zaino. I've put on 4 coats of z-2 a week ago. Today while driving on the freeway, going 70 mph, I saw 1 bugs sliding off of my window, I couldn't believe what I saw, I thought it was a leaf or something and just when I was thinking how impossible it was, another bug slide right off again..it was amazing.

Yeah, I put zaino on all my windows except the 2 front side passenger windows because they have the water repellent coating on. Originally I used rainx on the windows. But that thing is just a pain to use. I could not buff off the hazy and streaky stuff, so I removed it with bar keepers friends and decided to give zaino a try.