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Mmmm, carnauba -updated with pics-

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It's time to give Barney the ultimate carnauba treatment.

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24 hours later, I applied a second layer of Zaino (Z-5).

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Another 24 hours passed and I applied Pinnacle Souveran on half of the car.
In person, one could easily see the line running across from hood to roof to trunk. You still can sort of see it in the last picture. This shows how pictures don't do justice to the real thing. In real life, the black from Pinnacle is much deeper and wet looking than the one from Zaino.


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Another couple of days and I have the entire car with 2 layers of Pinnacle over 2 layers of Zaino.


To further my point that picture can't capture the real thing, I played with the last picture by changing contrast and brightness.
I can basically make it look anyway I want... :angel:

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post-processing the pics kinda negates their value, doesn't it?

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atyclb said:
post-processing the pics kinda negates their value, doesn't it?

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My point is exactly that pictures have no value at all for wax show off purposes. :p
However, I tried to do it fair and square and somewhat scientifically.
All picture were taken at around the same time of the day (~6pm).
All picture were taken with the AUTO setting in the camera.
All pictures were converted to jpg and resized in software and post processed with the Auto option in the software.
The last one was the only one manually processed, for artistic effect.
The actual look is somewhere in between the last 2 pictures.
Artslinger said:
Looks very nice Alex. :thumbup:

Pinnacle Souveran $60 / P21S $30
Here's a better one:

P21S Concours Look Carnauba Wax: $30.
S100 Carnauba Wax: $15.

Same exact stuff, and S100 is easily available at any Harley Davidson shop.
DDB said:
Here's a better one:

P21S Concours Look Carnauba Wax: $30.
S100 Carnauba Wax: $15.

Same exact stuff, and S100 is easily available at any Harley Davidson shop.
Right have been trying to find exactlty what the differance betwwen the P21S and the S100 is. Anyone have a informed answer on this. I'm kind of far away from a Harley shop so the gas and drive wouldn't be worth the 15 dollars savings.

CMA does sell the stuff online.

http://www.properautocare.com/s1carpaswax.html
Artslinger said:
Right have been trying to find exactlty what the differance betwwen the P21S and the S100 is. Anyone have a informed answer on this. I'm kind of far away from a Harley shop so the gas and drive wouldn't be worth the 15 dollars savings.

CMA does sell the stuff online.

http://www.properautocare.com/s1carpaswax.html
I've done a lot of Internet research on this issue, and have found no conclusive evidence that they are or are not the same product. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence from folks who have used both products which suggests that the products are indeed identical.

Perhaps a phone call to P21S could clear up the issue, but I've been too lazy to do that.

~ DDB
DDB said:
I've done a lot of Internet research on this issue, and have found no conclusive evidence that they are or are not the same product. There is plenty of anecdotal evidence from folks who have used both products which suggests that the products are indeed identical.

Perhaps a phone call to P21S could clear up the issue, but I've been too lazy to do that.

~ DDB
A 15 dollar difference in price is strange. Either there is a difference or they are seriously ripping off people who buy their wax marketed to car owners.
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