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I still have a sealed bottle of HD Speed. Maybe it will be worth more now :)

I use it barely wet with water but spray the glass with CarPro Clarify. Works fine. Then dry the glass with a squeegee.

It’s nice to have but not a must. I like it for touch less washes where I foam the car with bilt hamber and rinse, without touching anything. Without CR I’d not risk it due to water spotting. Replacing the resin every year kinda sucks but if you did the math to see how much regular washes at...

2 or 3 years it’s time to re-do. Quick polish and apply fresh coating.

In this case you’d benefit from bypassing the softener as your city water has lower TDS.

Test the TDS of your water before and after softener. The lower TDS you feed the CR, the longer the resin will last. But having CR before softener makes no sense as DI water doesn’t need to be softened and if you do, you’ll introduce solids that remained in the resin after a backwash.

I’ve never been able to blend it well, always had to polish and coat the entire panel again to achieve satisfactory results.

BTW, I've applied SiC 4 hours after UK when I thought it was like Gliss and it worked fine as well. No ill effects like they say you can see if you take over an hour for the UK's 2nd coat.

Same time as between the UK coats. 1 hour after your last UK go ahead with SiC.

Meguiar's #39 was great but they no longer make that. McKee's 37 has a product for that that works fine. Also a regular rubber eraser can be quite useful.

I much prefer flat pads. My CCS is my least favorite pad. It just seems to hold product in the dimples and after a few sessions it gets hotter than flat pads. Lake Country Thin Pros and Rupes yellow are my favorite.

If you do it right after polishing that is a possibility. That's why many like to wait a few hours and I opt to wait overnight. That gives the SiO2 in it time to cure and then Eraser just removes any leftover oils which may not be a lot if you polished with a machine.

I like to polish with Essence and then give it overnight to cure, then in the morning wipe with Eraser and coat. I don’t know if that’s the right way but it is a way that has worked well for me.

Agreed. I’ve never used mine plugged in, the battery lasts all day with my usage so I just charge overnight regardless of how much is left.

Are you sure you’re looking at the battery indicator and not the brightness indicator on the back?