Ok, little bit of back story first. I'm the proud owner of a beautiful Berlina with a ton of swirls/hazing from being an untalented wash and wax junkie. My +1 knows that I'm always drooling over the PC and constantly staring at Zaino products. Well, she pulled the trigger for me, and dropped 2 boxes in my living room today! the first is a brand new PC 7424 with 4 black pads, 4 green pads, 4 blue pads, and two orange pads. The other box was a great big collection of Zaino products!! (isn't she great?) I've got the Z5, Z2, a couple clay bars, the Z6 gloss enhancer, the ZFX accelerator, and that nifty bucket.
So here's where the questions start. What exactly is the difference between Z5 and Z2? They seem like they're trying to accomplish the same thing.
I've read some contradicting posts about using a PC with the zaino products, but I'm going to give it a run anyway. But I'm curious what color pads I need to be using to apply this stuff. It seems pretty unanimous that removing the product is best done with a microfiber cloth, so that's probably the method I'll be going with there.
If all goes well tomorrow, I'll be the newest badged berlina!!
Thanks already for all of the inspiration, as you guys have some beautifully detailed and polished cars!

 

nice +1 !!
and that's a good package -

z2 is the protectant and the one that you will use the most. its been awhile since i have used z5, but its more of a swirl filler than anything -

btw, appling and removing by machine is a good way to get "machine feel"- most important is to apply extremely light. best application is so light that you can barely see any product -

 

Well, if the z5 is the swirl filler, I'll be using that one first for sure! Little update on all this, as I was at the store picking up a few last minute items, someone was nice enough to leave me with a giant door ding right on my driver's door! I'm so mad I could scream. I'm going to have to look at that thing every day.
Which pads are going to be the best to apply and remove this stuff?

 

what brand pads are you using?

 

They're detailers domain pads. They say directly on the back of the pads
*edit* after a little research into the pads, they're Uber pads