Recent content by ironlung

, Just used Merlin's mix, not as a drying aid but a QD over the whole car, WOW, this stuff is no joke and lives up to thy hype!

Any mitt recommendations, or are these mostly equal?

I'm going to give the drying aid a shot next time I wash, coming up on winter so not sure if how many washes I'll get in soon. Heard N-914 was a awesome product, Merlin's Magic Elixir sounds pretty fantastic to me so going to give this a go first.

You make a good point about the drying aid messing with the drying towels ability to soak up water. Since I have a good drying towel I'm not going to mess with the aid, but I did get some ECH2O and am going to mix with reload for a QD. I may experiment with it but I just did a wash today using...

Thanks, with the chemical decon, what sealant do you like, I have reload, heard good things about Angel cosmic spritz... For the drying aid, ONR or wolfgang rinseless diluted to QD wouldn't be safe as well or is this a totally different chemical makeup than E3H20 or Elixir? So just rinsing...

Thanks for the tips and the education! So like you said a drying agent isn't needed and may mask the properties. Chemical decon like a Iron-X after fully washed, dryed exec? One more question on the foam and right to contact wash... wouldn't applying the first pre-wash foam have contaminants...

Question, if I did an initial PW rinse, then foam and moved right into a contact wash, wouldn't this potentially rub in some of the residue? Would it make more sense to foam dry, rinse, foam, then contact wash? If I used a 303 touch less sealant as a drying agent, would this do any harm or be...

Good idea with washing the wheels first. Also, leaving the foam on and starting the wash. Would you recommend separate products, one for foam and the other (carpro reset) for washing? I know this sounds bad, but the detailer that applied my coating didn't give me the name of the product. He...

SWETM, makes sense how you described, I have two wash mitts and the shine and buff waterless wash towels that would probably work well doing it this way. For your prewash, do you use a foam cannon as well? Curious how you wash in colder weather? So you would dilute Carpro EcH2O or get McKees 37...

I recently had my car ceramic coated, new to the detailing game but have a lot of MF's and a lot of products, many probably redundant, could use some advice or recommendations on my routine, especially drying agents and how-to. Washing (two-bucket) Rinse > Foam Cannon w/ chem guys honeydew...