Found this post over at the Dodge Dakota board. Anybody ever heard of this? Whats the MING story?
quote:Has anyone compared a zanio products finish with a finish applied by a company called MING. I live in the midwest and this company states it will remove high spots, I assume like a clay bar, and apply a finish that will last for approx 3 years. I am not extremely happy with the finish on my red/silver 01 QC. I have used Meguires but I believe there is a better shine out there. The MING job is 200.00 but before I get serious about it I would like some testimonials from other truck owners. Any experience?
Posted by DaddySS (Member # 848) on :
Never heard of it. Posted by 97 SS LT1 (Member # 136) on :
Ming, wasn't he an Emperor on Flash Gordon. Posted by poSSum (Member # 119) on :
They've been around here for 20+ years. The basic consumer job is nothing more than a power polishing with abrasive compounds and a coat of some sort of wax or polish.
At its best, I've know folks to use them to do the power polishing part of a "color sand". The car was polished in about 4 steps of increasingly finer compound that did a pretty good job. Then they provided a bottle of what I believe was called "bullshine" basically a non-abrasive liquid wax that I'd compare to today's detail sprays. Fine for a show car that doesn't get exposed to the elements.
I had their consumer job done after a repaint on my '78 Z28 ... 20 years ago, and would never go there again. Nothing can protect a vehicle exposed to the elements for 2 years.
If a vehicle is in rough shape, find a detail shop that will clean and polish it .. then look after regular polishing and detailing yourself.
Personally, I've bought the high end Porter-Cable Random Orbit Polisher, and am going to play with the color sand and polishing, on the beat-up '96 Sonoma first, then, if I'm happy with results I'll graduate to the Envoy and the SS.
[ 28 October 2001: Message edited by: poSSum ]
Posted by LAST SS (Member # 1223) on :
Used to be a couple of MING shops up here in WA state. They went out of business YEARS ago. I used to work in a body shop, and the body men would cringe when ever a MING treated car had to be repaired. Some kind of silicone finish that was hard to remove. I had a neighbor that had a 79 Vette treated. It was a very smooth, nice finish though.
Posted by Sideshow (Member # 1231) on :
I went to MING and got their Mirror Finish on my 97 Black WS6 shortly after bringing it home off the lot. Seemed to be pretty good at getting water to bead up. I had it redone each spring and that seemed to help as well. The biggest thing I noticed was this summer when I found out about Zaino. When I clayed the car it really didn't pick up much. Apparently for a car that was three years old the finish was still pretty clean and smooth.
Posted by Mark F98-0050 (Member # 317) on :
