My fondness, ahem, for Zymol, Elys, goes back to my days in the last decade building prototype show cars for the likes of Ford and Mazda.
You get a perfectly-painted and -rubbed out car sitting under show-type lighting (a lot of point light sources located above the vehicle) and every little halo in a perfectly-detailed paint job jumps out at you.
I began using a wax called Medallion by Meguiar's, on my deep blue British Luxury Car, because it was then a water-based liquid wax that went on like a dream and buffed to a fare-thee-well, leaving the deep blue violet paint looking like it had never dried. I mean, WET.
Then one day I popped open a new bottle and it smelled like solvent--they'd changed the formula. I searched a bit and found Klassé, which filled the bill but was hard to find. Finally, I got a sample of Zymol and tried it out on my red Sunbeam. Amazing stuff. The literature said it could be "built up" in several coats, whih is not possible with solvent-thinned liquids, as they strip previous coats when new coats are applied.
Again, my preference, that's all. Others have tried it and think it's a good way to shine up their instruments.
Jim Tatum sent me these photos of his Carl Wilson, done with Scratch-X and Zymol, a couple of days ago, and this is what I call drop-dead beautiful, incomparable gloss:
“I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did.”
― Kurt Vonnegut
So don't use the squeezins full-strength without first mixing in the solvent that the factory uses: Hydrous Oxide....
