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Venom93corba

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Well I'm getting ready to place my first order and I'm starting from scratch. I guess my first question is how many mf towels do I order? When you fully detail a car how many do you go through for the whole process? Secondly DA pads. Same thing how many? If your applying a coat of wax do you use one pad to apply the whole coat? Sorry for the newb questions I just want to make sure I do it write.
 
Microfiber Towels

Washing - 1-2 Mitts/Pads
Drying - 2
Assorted Buffing - I'd say at least 3 min

DA Pads
2 of each
Personally 2 Compounding/Polishing Microfiber Pads works
Or 2 sets of Flat/Hydrotech Pads will work

Just one foam applicator for each product, I like the CCS Foam Pads.

If you're doing a 2 Bucket Wash method make sure you have both, grit guards, etc..

What are you currently looking at product wise if I may ask?
 
Your write was right. Welcome btw

I think you need to ask yourself... What do you want exactly? And how much is your budget. Is it going to be just your car? Or are planning on starting up a business?
 
This is just for a personal black vehicle (Escalade) that I plan on keeping it looking amazing. My budget is $600-$700 and I plan on devoting 5 hrs a week to it.
 
Venom93corba said:
This is just for a personal black vehicle (Escalade) that I plan on keeping it looking amazing. My budget is $600-$700 and I plan on devoting 5 hrs a week to it.
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After your first detail you won't be needing to spend 5hrs a week on it, I don't know why you would unless dirt bombs explode on your car. :).
 
I on average use about 20-30 MF towels on a detail. Once they become spoiled I don't use them again, When doing ONR (optimum no rinse) and APC (all purpose cleaner) i ended up using about 30 or 40 towels. This is doing everything mind you, jambs,interior,exterior,tires,wheels, but I never can have enough MF (micro fiber towels.)
 
I spent $300 and that got me a machine including kit. I would recommend buying more MF towels. I would say 10 for a quick car wash. But since your detailing a big car. Maybe 15-20? (Just to be safe, this is just to start btw)

Then go to Costco and get yourself some cheaper MF towels for door jam, engine bays etc...

5 hours might be the first job on your car. However with proper care, the time you spend on your car will be dramatically reduced.

The most I worry about is dust and random bird poops since I came to AG
 
T3 AutoDetails said:
I on average use about 20-30 MF towels on a detail. Once they become spoiled I don't use them again, When doing ONR (optimum no rinse) and APC (all purpose cleaner) i ended up using about 30 or 40 towels. This is doing everything mind you, jambs,interior,exterior,tires,wheels, but I never can have enough MF (micro fiber towels.)
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What do you mean by spoiled?
 
$600 budget should be more than enough. I started detailing my car with only ~$400. Make sure you get enough pads depending on the size of your car. MF towels are not that expensive compare to pads, get more so that you don't have to reuse the dirty towels while you are detailing. It would be good to start with Meguiars MF cutting and polishing pads for paint corrections. I am not an expert and this is just my experience when I first started.
 
T3 AutoDetails said:
When I notice a towel getting too dirty, I don't keep using it I just grab another one instead of rubbing more dirt into a clean area.
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Same here just have never heard the term "spoiled" being used before.

I do spoild my MF towel though lol 😄
 
Well I say $6-700 because I want to get that Blackfire Black Ice Whiplash kit, PC DA polisher and a boat load of mf towels and pads (and other stuff).
 
Venom93corba said:
Well I say $6-700 because I want to get that Blackfire Black Ice Whiplash kit, PC DA polisher and a boat load of mf towels and pads (and other stuff).
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Your just spoiling yourself. Lol 👍

Get as much advise as you can here then call Auto Geek and speak to a representative.
 
Venom93corba said:
Well I say $6-700 because I want to get that Blackfire Black Ice Whiplash kit, PC DA polisher and a boat load of mf towels and pads (and other stuff).
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If you are looking into spending that much. If I was you, I would go with something higher than a PC. Just saying but it is your choice in the end.
 
hernandez.art13 said:
Same here just have never heard the term "spoiled" being used before.

I do spoild my MF towel though lol 😄
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"spoiled" or "soiled" same difference.

I guess that would be common sense. Then again sense is not common these days..
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Yea it would be, But MF towels are very expensive for any kind of quality, most people who don't do this for a living cant afford to drop a good chunk of change on some towels so they try and use it for longer than you should because its all they have until they build their arsenal up a little more. We are all guilty of it, I know I was about a year and a half ago I would try and pull a whole car (not literally) out of a single towel.

Today I have enough towels/ towels for specific tasks (interior/exterior/drying/wheels etc that I no longer need to do that.
 
My teacher asked the class. "If I gave you $100 dollars what would you do with it?"

A bunch of students started saying they would buy a brand new car, house, pay off their loans...

I raised my hand and said, "I would put gas in the car and a quick dinner"

The teacher said "Good answer"
 
hernandez.art13 said:
My teacher asked the class. "If I gave you $100 dollars what would you do with it?"

A bunch of students started saying they would buy a brand new car, house, pay off their loans...

I raised my hand and said, "I would put gas in the car and a quick dinner"

The teacher said "Good answer"
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Huh..?
 
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