What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

Actually I thought no one was having issues with Bead Maker streaking. It's super easy to use and comes off nicely. I sprayed the panels directly, used a large microfiber applicator to spread it nicely everywhere, then wiped with a towel which removed most of it, flipped the towel and did the final wipe. The slickness was a little noticeable then but later it was much, much slicker.
 
So I got to work and checked out the car and a simple wash DID infact wash away and level those high spots/streaks. Funny thing is its colder this morning than it was yesterday, clear skies too.
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Klasse Act said:
I should just spray the product into the mf towel AND THEN wipe it in, hard to change habits I guess. I'll know in about an hour and half how it looks outside, stay "tuned"

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Yes this! Try misting a towel with distilled water before applying the product. You will get a more even application with less product waste. As in the towel doesn’t absorb all the expensive product.
 
BSoares said:
Actually I thought no one was having issues with Bead Maker streaking. It's super easy to use and comes off nicely. I sprayed the panels directly, used a large microfiber applicator to spread it nicely everywhere, then wiped with a towel which removed most of it, flipped the towel and did the final wipe. The slickness was a little noticeable then but later it was much, much slicker.
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I think you are probably right. I was researching another product that I ordered(well, the mix of Reload and Ech2O) and think I got confused, doh! More on that later when it arrives!
 
Klasse Act said:
So I got to work and checked out the car and a simple wash DID infact wash away and level those high spots/streaks. Funny thing is its colder this morning than it was yesterday, clear skies too.
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WOW! Looks outstanding!
 
Sunny but chilly for 2 days so got to get a wash in. Even got to the wheels. Blew dry (leaf blower). Then decided to make some “elixir” but used Clutch instead of reload. Mixed at 1.5 to 2.0 oz Clutch/reload. Read wrong on amount as I was using 16oz bottle. Went on awesome no streaks. Maybe it’s reload that’s streaking in mixture? Anyways gloss was friggin amazing! Of course it rained (Northwest). Anyways Lsp was beading great. What it did improve though was the sheeting. On the way to work beads were just racing off the hood. I was taking bets on which beads would win, place and show. Sorry no pics dry (yesterday)

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I was outside playing with the driver's half of my company car hood, testing some Meguiar's Hybrid Ceramic Wax. Pretty cool stuff. Anyway, OLDER neighbor comes over and tells me he and some of the other guys on the street went to breakfast and Coca Cola is the ticket for "cloudy" headlights. Wow! I educated him a little bit and told him to come over next time his headlights needed fixed properly.

After a drive around the block, all of the water flew off the driver's side and the horrible passenger side looked, well, horrible with no beading or sheeting.

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Detailed wife's friend's car today. Started at 10AM, finished at 7PM.

Before...
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Some goo stuck to paint, would not come out after wash.
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After some buffing, goo gone.
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After...
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Dash board and trim wiped down with 303 Aerospace Protectant.
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Took in a brand new leftover 2017 Focus ST for paint, wheel and glass coatings. Flawless paint thankfully. Dark Grey metallic thus it should look pretty sharp all cleaned and dressed.
 
Got the business license renewed for the year. Booked my very first regular maintenance customer for monthly cleanings. '17 Range Roger Sport, '18 Range Rover Velar, '17 BMW 328 sedan. Woot woot!
 
Stevedotmil said:
Got the business license renewed for the year. Booked my very first regular maintenance customer for monthly cleanings. '17 Range Roger Sport, '18 Range Rover Velar, '17 BMW 328 sedan. Woot woot!
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Congrats!
 
FNW time!

At this point I still have a "new to me" soap to try and that soap is a forum favorite, CG's Honeydew! I put 2 ounces of it in my IK Foam 9 and MY GOD did it foam up, WOW! I sprayed down the wheels twice and on the 2nd shot I used my Speed Master to scrub the wheels good. The smell of this stuff is awesome, really lingers around for a while. After rinsing the car down I reached for Adam's Detail spray (thanks Guz) and sprayed the whole car down and then dried, stuff worked great and left the paint smooth and shiny, thanks again Guz!

It's supposed to be almost 50 tomorrow and we've got a family party to go to later in the afternoon and I'm driving for sure! I even re-adjusted my GoPedal for race and full sensitivity on the way home after work today, I really miss being able to use this mode!

Even though there's no BROWNING what so ever on my tires I'll add a light coat of "something" on there tomorrow, I'll post some pics from a different location, not the same ol' same ol' pics....Zzzzzzz

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So I decided to wash the wife's Mazda 6 this late morning. For the wash I used Kenotek carwash, it's been a while since I used this product. It's a German product and I guess suds aren't a "thing" across the pond, this product doesn't sud up after the initial spraying into the bucket, that's ok, it cleans just the same. Before the 2BM I added 3 ounces of the soap into my IK Foam 9 because I knew about the sudsing thing, guess what, did not sud in my foamer either, just sprayed onto the car, that's ok, it still was a pre-wash, right. After I rinsed off the pre-wash and completed the 2BM I decided to add some protection.

The Guz sent me a couple products from his vast test collection (thanks Guz) and one of these products was V1 of Adam's Guard and Gloss. I've used V2 and really liked it, so I was curious how the original was. Upon initial spray the water didn't run away from the spray, but I moved along. I took my damp, plush mf towel from Adam's and worked it in and buffed with a 16" x 16" Griot's Garage PFM. Once buffed it looked great, really adds gloss and smoothness! Once finished I wiped the battered rims with leftover on the towel and buffed in, swiped the tires dry. Speaking of the tires, how about that TW Endura tire coating

Now that that's done it time to move over to the Abarth and give it a squirt of "something" as we're going out later and it's nice as hell outside!
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Topped off the Abarth with a mix of Armor (4 oz) & Revive (4 oz) from dpc, along with distilled water (2 oz), now it sits for a couple hours before I head out. Btw our parking lot is "sweating" so I'll be crawling through the parking lot, LOL.
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The car is trashed from the drive, its basically two-tone

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I removed my backseat in order to vacuum all the trash left behind my the previous owner..

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It also gave me the opportunity to clean the extreme rear of the seat, which I found out I had missed. It’s 100% clean now.

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Washed wife’s car. Used IK foam 9 with 2 oz of black fire foam soap. Guess I had wrong tube in as it was super runny and didn’t foam well. Soap streaked like crazy and it was cool and no wind out with cloud cover. Not impressed.

Washed with foam soap in the 2bm as well. 2oz there to. Not very foamy.

Rinsed off. Went to blow dry and my leaf blower had something hid where I couldn’t see after I cleaned it and blew crap all over the roof. So rewash.

Dry using Pfms.

My beadmaker didn’t adhere nor did the igl premier i put down 10 days ago so there was zero water behavior except where the black fire sio2 spray sealant was.

So I decided to put that on the whole car. Turns out when it’s maybe 40 in your garage it’s a huge pain to wipe that stuff off used like 20 plus towels to get it to stop streaking and smearing.

Pretty over my detailing experience for the weekend.

Will be buying 2 heaters from grainger on Monday with my company discount and solving this damn problem once and for all.

Might sell all my coatings as this left a super huge sour taste in my mouth.


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Minerigger, temp is pretty important with a product like Premier (have not used mine lef) which is why I'm waiting till spring for proper temps for sure, that stuff isn't cheap!

As far as the soap goes I can tell you that some soaps don't foam at all with the IK Foam 9, I just used one yesterday and it was Kenotek. It seems anything I've used in there that's a Gloss Enhancer doesn't foam. In the case of the Kenotek it was just runny, not clingy one bit, you certainly use enough soap ratio, I assume you didn't fill past that black line with water?

Let's see how those heaters go to help in the streaking department but as far as the IK Foam 9 goes, sounds like the soap and the gray nozzle that it comes with is just fine as it foams but over the video I watched I swapped in the orange tipped nozzle.

Chin up and hold onto those products!

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