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I am already quite satisfied with what I am achieving with Meguiars Nxt range. Guess what I'll do from here is to keep use meguiars nxt and the seal it with this liquid hardwax. Thanks for all the replies.

Dropped by the dealer for a chat the other day and mentioned how shiny his cars are. The guy is so good that he went round the back and gave me a huge bottle of Autoglym Liquid Hardwax. My dilemma now is that on the bottle - it says "Recommended for trade use only". True enough, I looked up autoglym catalogue and I couldnt see it listed. I dont want to be a fussy prick and return the bottle to him but at the same time I am too chicken to use it. I have used the autoglym resin polish before, works OK but too much hardwork hand polishing it afterwards. Not sure if this liquid hardwax is the same or similar stuff. Any opinion out there?

Volkswagen isofix seat, great seat, other isofix and non isofix belt tends to "twist". Paid more but no more hassle of "untwisting" belt.

I think my real problem now is not really the swirls, it is just that I am far too fussy! Just today, an old gentleman wheeled himself out of his house to say how shiny the car is and haven't seen such a shiny car before. Made my day. I have two meguiars pure wool wash mitt now that I kept clean all the time. The meguiars rx helpline are pretty helpful. Now that I am over the swirl, i have to stop looking for new scratches!

It is shinier than ever now, put some Meguiars Nxt wax on it- meguiars helpline said no problem although my dealer still says plain water and good chamois will do. Still marks like crazy though, just found a few more scratches on the boot lip as someones must have put a boot there to tie their shoe lace or put their shopping on it. As for the swirls, saw George Bush presidential limo on TV just now - and guess what i saw - ..... swirls !!!!

Is the tint after sales or factory?

Going to try that damn thing again tomorrow. I just thought of it as being hesitant, not faulty before I read all these replies.

Thanks a lot Tel, and the autopia handbook is very helpful too- has a lot to go through still. Guess I wont be doing any work tonight then.

Oh s**t, is this true? At one extreme, you have a fussy freak like me and on the hand we have Mr "balls of steel " Javeed who puts his black lexus through the auto carwash. Wow. Tel, any word from your car workshop mate about other products?

have you tried supagard? this the service audi offer your new paint when you buy a car, costs upto £300, but easily bought off of ebay for considerably less and applied yourself What is supagard? keen to try anything. When I called my dealer after the first incident he actually suggest plain water and a good chamois to wipe down. Sounds too easy to me. He said the new paint is also tougher - I haven't called him back yet to say that he is wrong - or Lexus is wrong. But after the wash last night , I took it out for a drive today and boy does it gleam in the sunlight! Just have to learn not to look too close, might not have that chance anymore, have to give the car back to the wife as school reopens tomorrow.

tried mine from day one, my driveway is on a pretty sharp incline. Same problem as yours, it held the car back a bit - or rather just slow it down but it does keep rolling back, albeit slower. Still helpful though while I wait for the garage door to open.

Thanks for all th reply and the dimmer switch for the garage - suggestion of the century dude! I have a black volvo too and honestly it never seems to scratch as easy and yes there are some swirls - Anyway, I washed the 250 again today- with a brand new mitt and guess what, it caught a tiny tarry grit off the car and straight away I got a 30cm scratch on the bumper! I did manage to get most of the scratch out with Meguiars Scratch X. Perhaps I just have to stop being so fussy and look at it up close but really it is heartbreaking to see it not in perfect condition. It looks so beautiful when I first picked it up.

Had the black 250 for almost a month now and washed it twice so far. After first wash, noticed lots of circular swirls immediately, so for second wash, got megiuars Nxt gel wash, Nxt techwax and Meguairs scratch X. Did the car, looks beautiful, so shiny it reflects the clouds in the sky, but when i parked it back in the garage and under fluorescent light those damned swirls are still there!! Should've got silver instead?

Got black, and guess what after one wash by my helpful kids - swirls galore! My fault I know, 1/ dirty chamois 2/ kids enthusiasm. I always wanted argento ice but my wife hated it, and its her car after all. Have to say though, when it's clean, it does looks pretty awesome but very hard to clean especially on a hot summer day like today. Go get whatever colour you like, I am never 100% sure about the colour myself, but the car itself is a pretty special machine. Once inside, even if the colour is puke beige, it is still very special .

totally off the topic here, jamboo where did u get the picture of the 250, looking for a nice one to put on my desktop. back to the topic, my dealer has been pretty good, got us plenty of lexus freebies and not a useless bottle of wine or bouquet of flower in sight.