Mercedes-Benz NXT Generation Garage Day

[Mike Phillips]

Today at Meguiar's we are proud to host a NXT Garage Day for Merecedes-Benz owners.

[breastroker]

Mike,
Thank you for a great clinic. Please let Mr. Meguiar know that all of us came away from the clinic very pleased with the knowledge gained. The goody bag was impressive, I will be using the NXT tomorrow.

My 2003 C230K Coupe in Orion blue is the first car shown on the photo you posted. It has been 7 months since I clayed the car and put Brand G "Best of Show" on it. It looked great for a while, so I know how good it can be and will be able to evaluate the NXT system. Since it is pretty new I will again clay the car, I still have some band G "Speed Shine" I can use up lubricating the clay.

I bought the Meguiar Porter Cable dual action polisher. Jose was a great help to all of us getting the extra stuff. I will use up the gallon of Final Detailer in about a year. I have been going through the Quick Detailer a bottle a month:p

You mentioned several online websites, can you PM me their URLs? I want to see your articles on detailing.

[Cannoli]

Mille Grazie!

Mike you did a great job today!

All facets of the day was fantastic, from the pastries, presentation, pizza and product demos ... hey, the 4 Ps!

Thank you and the Meguiar family for wonderful time ... I can't wait to use more of the Meguiar's products on all of the cars! I sure will be telling all my friends to use Meguiar's products from now on - bar none!

[Cannoli]

Thanks for the tip Tim ... and I wonder who can be the friendly Moderator? Hmmm .....

[breastroker]

Mike,
I have been going through the Mini clinic you did. I thought the 83 was for problem paint or older paint. What you did the the black car was amazing.

But when I saw you doing the same to a new mini I guess I missed the boat. I was thinking just clay on a relative swirl free paint job was enough. I guess a quart of 83 on Monday will need to be ordered. I still have to re-wax my 300SEL 6.3. so I can use the 83 on that older paint too.

You got a photo of someone sitting on the ground. I prefer a
2 1/2 gallon bucket turned upside down. They even make padded seats for the buckets. A little comfort when you get old. Congradulations on your birthday next week.

[Josh Keaton]

I had a great time at today's clinic. I couldn't stop raving about the products and was extremely pleased with the performance of the clay, and the NXT wax. My paint feels showroom smooth and looks great. I was also very impressed with the gift bag, and will be ordering some Final Detail as well as a Porter Cable (which I shoud have bought today).

Mike, your presentation was great, and you were a ton of help. Thanks so much for putting these events on!

Also, it was great to see everyone I already knew, and to meet those that I didn't. :0)

[Glen]

Mike,
It was great meeting you today and learning about the NXT product line. I can't wait to try out all the products and find out what I like...and use it often!

Thanks again,
Glen

[Mark Cummins]

Sat Clinic

Mike,

Just Wanted To Thank MEGUIARS and You for the Class. Mike spent as much time as needed with each student in the class.
Lots of Info and a Great Day For the Class ,Nice and Warm!
The NXT Products Work great! It Really brings the paint up a level. It was great to see some old friends and meet some New MB Owners that are into Detailing there cars.

Looks like I Will be Going back to Meguiars...NXT!!

I Like the Meguiars store open to Buy Items during the class!
Great Idea!!
When you Demo the products... you can Buy them on the spot!

[Mike Phillips]

Hey everyone,

It's a little after 7:00pm here at Meguiar's in Irvine and the last car just left. I had a just as much fun as everyone else and I would like to say thank you to everyone who came!

Before I go, here's a picture of the last Mercedes-Benz we buffed out today. This car's finish was in pretty bad shape and could have used a full-on buff out. But because I was fairly busy with some of the other cars, the owner of this car did everything himself!

First he clayed the car using Meguiar's aggressive D-6200 clay bar, (the finish had a lot of bonded contaminants), then he applied Meguiar's new ColorX, using the G-100 Porter Cable Dual Action Polisher with a W-7006 foam cutting pad.

Here's a picture,



I'll be posting pictures of the event over the next two days, so come back often.

Mike

[Glen]

Wow! It looks great...what a huge improvement! Great job, guys!

[Cannoli]

OMG!

WOW! That can't be the same SL that I saw today! No WAY! It was soooo tired looking (the paint, that is).

F'ng AMAZING!

[JCE]

Mike:

Thanks for all the useful info! I didn't think anything would replace the 9/7/20/gold class treatment, but it sure looks like the NXT product is worth trying. Thanks also to Meguiar's for hosting this great training class.

John

[Dom]

Mike,

Thank you so much for todays clinic. I learned alot of new tips for prepping the car paint. The first demo you did on that black car was absolutely amazing!!! Also, thanks for the goody bag. I had tons to do today, but still managed some time to try out the NXT on my daily driver, a 1991 Alfa Romeo 164S. I posted a review on Autopia.org. Overall, I give it a thumbs up!!

As we discussed earlier, I would love to set up a clinic for the Ferrari Driving Club here in so cal. Shoot me an e-mail with some of your available dates.

Thanks,
Dom

[breastroker]

Mike,
I will be getting some #83 for my older MB 300SEL 6.3, but looking at the http://www.showcargarage.com website people are using NXT with #81 a lot. I looked all through the Meguiars website looking for #81 and could not find it. Tim mentioned using #80 Speed Glaze on on newer vehicles.

My Coupe has Orion Blue metallic paint (code 345), the main reason I bought it. What do you think I should use?
Tim said "#83 DACP + #82 Swirl Free Polish + #81 Hand Polish(or #7) + #20 Polymer + #26 as a topper. "

How does this sound?
#83 DACP + #82 Swirl Free Polish + #81 Hand Polish + two coats of NXT Tech wax and a coat of NXT Spray wax?

I did not know the clinic would go so long today, I would have done my car if I had known. Getting expert advice right away would have been better than asking advice over the internet

[Sportline93]

Thankyou so much mike for the very informative clinic and all the great goodies:p Thanks for helping my poor car out. the bodyshop really brutalized it. I look forward to your next clinic and using the new NXT product line