Meguiars #7 show car glaze

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moss

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What do you guys think of this product? I just bought a bottle and I'm wondering how I should apply this. I'm thinking of doing the following today...

Wash + Clay

Spot treat all swirl patches with optimum polish and finish the rest with Meguiars #7

Four Star UPP

Pinnacle Signature Series carnauba wax

what do you guys think?

Thanks!
 
moss said:
What do you guys think of this product? I just bought a bottle and I'm wondering how I should apply this. I'm thinking of doing the following today...

Wash + Clay

Spot treat all swirl patches with optimum polish and finish the rest with Meguiars #7

Four Star UPP

Pinnacle Signature Series carnauba wax

what do you guys think?

Thanks!
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Personal opinion, take it back and get your money back.
The UPP will probably have bonding issues with Meg's #7. #7 is loaded with fillers.
FWIW, I have had difficulty using #7. It was such a pain to remove that I have given away two almost full bottles. Lots of people use it, but I didn't have much luck.

Charles
 
i didn't think that #7 had fillers in it? you can always still see the swirls on my truck after using it. i really like the look it gave me, and i didn't have any problems with removing it.
 
I have used it many times on my black car and it was awesome. I didn't find it hard to take off at all. I applied on a cool surface in my garage and let it dry to a haze and it came of easey. I find it does a great job.
 
jimbo_01 said:
i didn't think that #7 had fillers in it? you can always still see the swirls on my truck after using it. i really like the look it gave me, and i didn't have any problems with removing it.
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The Meguiar's professional line catalog lists #7 as being paint shop safe/paintable so you are probably right which makes me wrong. I thought I had read that it was a product high on oil content and fillers. Evidently not.

Charles
 
USA88GT said:
I have used it many times on my black car and it was awesome. I didn't find it hard to take off at all. I applied on a cool surface in my garage and let it dry to a haze and it came of easey. I find it does a great job.
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It was like removing adhesive residue for me. Applied thin and according to the directions on the bottle. Tried it two times, had the same luck, gave the bottle away. Read about how I must not have been using it correctly and bought another bottle. Tried it two times again, same results as before, gave it away again.
It did look great, but it was much more difficult for me to use than many other products that I felt looked just as good.
The only other product I had any problem removing in recent years was Collinite paste. The #7 and the Collinite were both difficult for me. The Collinite was given away, too.

Charles
 
moss said:
thanks... i will return it then
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Hey Moss:
Based on what some others have said, you might want to ignore my advice and give the #7 a try. Evidently, I don't know how to use it properly. :redface:

Charles
 
I have used the #7 with decent results. I have a nighthawk black pearl vehicle and with a combination of other waxes and polishes it seemed to do well immediately after using it the luster was increased. With addition of a sealant and a topper it seemed to be a component of the great end product however with just the #7 and a sealant i am not so sure it would have looked as good. Obdviously most will not use it by itself as it offers no protection for the paint, but used as part of a minimal regimine it might not garner the desired result. However your regimine looks thorough enough to get good results from it. You might want to optimum polish the whole vehicle then glaze the whole vehicle. I'd say give it a try to see what it does on your paint.
 
At least I now know where I read about the oils and possible problems when using #7 prior to a saealant.
Do a search on "Meguiar's #7" and you will find a number of threads about the product.
The common things seem to be; great looks, sometimes hard to remove, greasy, smears, streaks. That kind of echoes my results.
To all you that have mastered #7, congratulations, but there's too many easy to use products to go through that aggravation again.
I'd still take it back.:)
Charles
 
Everywhere people say that the oils in glazes affect the bonding and durability of sealants. If you don't end up returning it, you could probably use it on top of the UPP, before the Signature.

Charles--I think that the whole body shop/paintable thing just means it doesn't have silicone in it, it could still have other oils and fillers, right?
 
Sherman8r44 said:
Charles--I think that the whole body shop/paintable thing just means it doesn't have silicone in it, it could still have other oils and fillers, right?
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That could well be, but if it has oils/fillers, it really surprises me that it is listed as bodyshop/paintable.
To me, body shop safe means no silicones or oils that can be transmitted through the air to panels that are to be painted. Fisheyes anyone?
To me, paintable would mean I could paint over it with no worries.
That just doesn't seem to fit #7's image in my mind.
Anyway, I didn't have any luck with it and it is just another of the many products I have used and passed on. It must have something going for it, though. It's been around forever.

Charles
 
Yes it has Lots of oils, but no silicone. I does ok but to make things easier you might consider 81. #7 I believe is for SS paints while 81 is more for BC/CC but will work for it to. Personally I wouldnt bother using it.
 
moss said:
thanks... i will return it then
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Give it a try. I use #7 with good results and prefer to use it when I have I have time and do a whole detail.

Besides, if you don't like any Meg's product, call their customer service and they will do right by you. I have never heard of anyone really having problems with their service.
 
I'm a big Meguiar's fan and found #7 hard to get good results. I poked around on their forum for a while and realized that technique has everything to do with a proper application.

Basically they tell us that the product skins over (kind of like pudding) and re-liquifies as you work it with a microfiber, then re-skins, etc. The best results seem to result from applying to your entire vehicle and then initially going over it with a microfiber to get most of the haze off without trying to make each panel or portion perfect. Then go over the car in the same panel order a second and then finally a third time with a microfiber. It really makes a difference and the results are worth the extra effort.

I've also used their Deep Crystal Step #2 polish and found that it is more forgiving - really a wipe-on / wipe-off product. Not as wet as #7 in my opinion.
 
# 7 was the first glaze I ever used.I had to really work at it to get good/great looking results. Since then I've learned to go over it twice with a microfiber instead of staying in one section and going wild with the buffing action.# 7 does produce results but there is /are easier products to work with.
 
#7 is VERY easy to use if you remove it properly. And it looks amazing. The trick is to apply it to the whole car (THIN!). Let it dry for about ten minutes. Now go over the car with an MF, just wiping it. Don't buff it off... you don't need to get it all off. Just the top layer of excess. After you wipe one layer off, wait another ten minutes. Do the same thing. Now wait another ten minutes, and wipe the rest off. Comes off very easily using this method, and looks VERY good.
 
danwatt said:
#7 is VERY easy to use if you remove it properly. And it looks amazing. The trick is to apply it to the whole car (THIN!). Let it dry for about ten minutes. Now go over the car with an MF, just wiping it. Don't buff it off... you don't need to get it all off. Just the top layer of excess. After you wipe one layer off, wait another ten minutes. Do the same thing. Now wait another ten minutes, and wipe the rest off. Comes off very easily using this method, and looks VERY good.
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As long as you are happy with it, that's all that really matters.
A product that you apply, wait 10 minutes and wipe off, wait 10 minutes and wipe off, wait 10 minutes and wipe off again doesn't exactly fit my definition of VERY easy to use. :)
Like I said earlier, it must have something going for it since a lot of people use it.
Like Rabbi said, you can find lots of products that do the job much easier.

Charles
 
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