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  1. dwaleke

    Work in progress, but love the metallic

    Looks nice! My wife has the same taste. She had a Subaru with the Crystal White Pearl and now she has a Tesla with Pearl White. The Subaru paint was beautiful. The Tesla white does not pop nearly as much.
  2. dwaleke

    BLACKFIRE One Step - I'm a Believer!

    I have M799 and hybrid detailer. I would avoid sun with both of them. Yes M799 is a more concentrated version of the detailer. Mix M799 1:3 to roughly make the detailer.
  3. dwaleke

    Shiny water based tire dressing

    Dripped some on my concrete driveway two years ago. Seems to function as a concrete sealer. Every rain it shows it's still going strong like the first day. Too bad it doesn't work on tires with that kind of durability.
  4. dwaleke

    Pressure Washer Recommendations

    I have both a great powerful gas power washer I use for pretty much everything you need a power washer for. I also bought a cheap Ryobi electric from HD with adapters for my nice hoses, guns, etc. For washing a car you do not need much pressure unless maybe you are rinsing down off-road...
  5. dwaleke

    Meguiars ultimate snow foam!

    Good catch. The shape of the bottle makes it appear to be gallon size. 32oz bottles are rarely shaped that way.
  6. dwaleke

    3D Bead It Up

    I used it as a follow up to 3D's Ceramic coating. Very easy to apply. IMO it adds gloss and slickness and is a great compliment to the ceramic coating. It does not mask the hydrophobic properties of the coating like some products do. I probably wouldn't use it as a standalone product but...
  7. dwaleke

    First large order, any input?

    Speed is a good product but the protection in an AIO is nothing to get excited about. It's in there to be a time saver. Since this is your car and it seems you have no problem putting in the time I would not use an AIO and get a dedicated protection product. Jescar Power Lock Plus (I think it...
  8. dwaleke

    First large order, any input?

    Hmm.. Very odd that Autogeek does not have Perfecting Cream. I thought they carried all the BOSS creams. 3D ONE is not a gimmick. If anything (to me) it is more like a medium cut polish that can finish like a finish polish just by changing the pads. So I see it more like Griot's Correcting...
  9. dwaleke

    First large order, any input?

    Buff and Shine Uro-tec are good pads too. The 6" pad has a 5" backing which is what you want. If you are going with the BOSS creams I'd get Fast Correcting Cream and Perfecting Cream first as the two you'll use most for your 2 step corrections. Then you can add Correcting Cream for your...
  10. dwaleke

    Graphene Coating From Gtechniq?

    I will look for it but it's not a great reference (Pan the salesman). Later today when I'm in front of my computer I'll link some videos that discuss why graphene as implemented today is not really doing anything in these products. They don't know how to get the graphene to do what some of...
  11. dwaleke

    Graphene Coating From Gtechniq?

    No because nothing I've read or seen has encouraged me to do so. It has done the opposite. Good products are released every year but just because someone puts the word graphene on the package doesn't automatically make it a good product. That's hype. Like I said there are some good...
  12. dwaleke

    Graphene Coating From Gtechniq?

    Graphene is mostly hype at this point. Products that advertise graphene may be good but it's not necessarily because they have graphene in them. Get a product that has a good reputation regardless of whether it has graphene or not.
  13. dwaleke

    Newbie - Start Me On The Right Path

    Dawn can leave a residue on the paint. It has caused issues for some in the past. If you polish or panel wipe after it's likely not a problem.
  14. dwaleke

    Turtle Wax GRAPHENE Flex Wax

    Some of those products that passed the torture tests with flying colors wear off the car in the same 4-6 weeks of mother nature abrasion as the ones that get wiped out right away. Unless you are putting those chemicals from torture tests on your car frequently you have to look at them with a...
  15. dwaleke

    Optimum Hyper Polish and Pads

    What machine polisher do you have? The machine in many cases will dictate the type of pads that are optimal for it. Then you just pick the aggressiveness from that line of pads.
  16. dwaleke

    Major letdown

    They will ship your other items if you ask. They are pretty good about that. I agree though that you shouldn't have to ask. It should just happen.
  17. dwaleke

    Major letdown

    This happens on almost all of my orders. In fact it just happened for an order I placed on the sister site. Time for some upgrades to the e-commerce platform. It's really not acceptable to not know at time of order if items are in stock. Getting it wrong should be a rare occurrence and not...
  18. dwaleke

    De Lamination or Scuff Marks?

    Scuff marks without any doubt. I mean look at the evidence. Driver clearly drives on curbs based on the amount of damage on that rim.
  19. dwaleke

    Meguiars ultimate fast finish before qwik wax

    If you are going to use multiple protection products you typically put the more durable one on first. So your plan to use Fast Finish first is consistent with that. If you are going to clay the car I would do a light polish afterward. Clay can (and almost always does) mar the surface. I...
  20. dwaleke

    Carpro Essense Plus

    This stuff is bottled in someone's kitchen in Korea so it's possible they change the formula from time to time. They do small runs at a time. The guy flys this stuff over in his luggage. I had a bottle when it first came out in 2015 (IIRC) that I thought worked well although I don't think it...
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