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Old Mar 14, 2003 | 12:49 PM
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Too cold for detailing?

How cold is too cold to do a full springtime re-Zaino (Dawn, clay, Z1/Z5/Z2/Z6)?

My car is aching to be clayed after this past winter. I got all my products together but I think it's still too cold (my garage is unheated, and frankly, too small to do any work in). My driveway is partially shaded with tall trees.

Thermometer says 41ºF, forecast says that's the high and it'll go down from here on out. It's partly sunny now.

I'd love to clean the car this afternoon, but I don't think anything will dry in time before I use it again this evening. I won't have any time this weekend, so it looks like next weekend.

Bah, humbug. I guess I'm just ranting because I know the answer to my question already.
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Old Mar 14, 2003 | 02:05 PM
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i've done it around 40 degrees and have had no problems

of course, my fingers were basically shot, but hey, love hurts, right???
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Old Mar 14, 2003 | 03:01 PM
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Buy one of THESE.
I washed and waxed mine when it was 6-DEGREES out a few weeks ago.
It was close to 70 inside the garage and I was sweating with just pants and a T-shirt on.

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Old Mar 14, 2003 | 03:29 PM
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40 degrees with heavy wind is about all I can take.
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Old Mar 14, 2003 | 05:30 PM
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I was thinking more about the time for the Zaino to dry, not my fingers. I'm still working on my bottle of Z1 and have not brought myself into this century with ZFX yet.

The space heater is a good idea, but my garage is actually too small to do any work in. It's a one-car jobby, and there's some excess crap in there that takes up some of the would-be work space.

It became a moot point anyway, I ended up going out for a few hours in the afternoon and wouldn't have had time for the full job.
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Old Mar 14, 2003 | 05:54 PM
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Mantis......come up to Chicago in January.....WUSS:P
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Old Mar 15, 2003 | 11:55 AM
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It's gonna be in the high 50s/low 60s here until Wednesday (according to weather.com at least), and i'm gonna break out the Zaino shortly.
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