I waxed my car for the first time today! It was a ton of work but it really paid off.
I used Mother's California Gold.

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clean dude, clean

 

oooooooo shiny very nice, although it looks like there are some water dropplets still left on there.. QUICK. to the chamois mobile[sm=gears.gif]

 

Actually, the EXACT second that I finished waxing, it started to rain. It absolutely poured for about 20 minutes and then the sun came out at which point I decided to snag some shots of the car before the rain started again. Here's another:

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why can't my car shine like that

nice mazda3 let me recommend this forum for your mazda

 

if you want your car to shine nice, use the ice wax stuff, its in canadian tire.

 

I've used the turtle wax ice, but this is when my car was shining at it's most (after a couple of hours polishing and waxing)






Looks like the previous owner did not take good care of the paint
sorry for the huge pic

 

I looked into that Mazda forum that you linked to. It's pretty quiet over there...