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It's a daily driver, so I was driving it every day!! :) So your plan is to do the detail every weekend, and driving the car during the week. My approach was to detail a panel (sometimes two) each evening after coming home from work in my daily driver. Since the panel is going to get clayed...

I stopped using Armor-All almost 30 years ago. That's before the Internet, usenet, forums, groups, etc. which is to say I wasn't influenced by anyone. Solely based on my own experience. I initially liked it for the "wow" factor it brought to dull surfaces. My enthusiasm for it waned after a...

That's how I've done it the past year. I find it refreshing to do my daily driver 1 or 2 panels at a time!! It took me over a week to complete, but the biggest difference is that I'm "fresh" when I start each panel, both mentally and physically. In fact, I looked forward each evening (with...

Paddle shifters only if it's a DSG (dual clutch trans). Otherwise, stick!!

:eek: Holy cow, that's about double the manufacturer's specs on mine!! Not until I got a torque wrench did I realize I tended to over-tighten, and that's not jumping on or kicking at it either.

^^^ This.

I think people call it GDWM for "Garry Dean Wash Method". And "all those years ago" is roughly only 2 years ago, (correct me if I'm wrong). However, I remember seeing posts by other people from before 2012 describing this exact same method. The difference: they never put their name on it...

spazzz beat me to it. I've noticed what expdetailing is trying to describe myself. And usually (in my case) the lighting was low, like in a garage in the evening with only a couple of incandescent bulbs. But looking at the panel at an angle, it's obvious the product is still there and that...

Day 43 (6 weeks): This cellphone shot was taken on my dirty van & tires before an ONR wash today. The previous wash was 6 days ago, with a couple of rainy days in there so the sheen was a little off in this photo. I've since ONR'ed it but could not take a photo (daylight was gone). Trust me...

I have 3 coats on mine. If I remember right, it was around 45°F in my garage, well below manufacturer instructions. After 15 minutes, it was still wet (I touched it.) I ended up waiting an hour in between the first 2 coats, and then it was too late in the evening, I ended up putting the 3rd...

:iagree: I just finished an ONR wash on my van this afternoon. There's many variations on the rinseless method. You don't have to use so many towels as cardaddy said - I believe he's referring to what many call GDWM (I don't believe GD invented it, but that's a topic for another thread!)...

Let's go Giants!!!! Ooops, where are they? Alrighty then, Hawks and Colts. :)

You need these in your dryer:

Curious why you only give it 7.5/10 and saying it doesn't deep clean. Did your drying towels still come out soiled somehow?

My MF towels which have been in the dryer probably more times than some of my shirts look like your orange towel, if not fluffier.

If it's the dryer, it's YOUR dryer. No issues here either. All my MF towels go through the dryer (and I've gone through two dryers since I started detailing.) I still have my original orders of AG towels (guzzlers, cobras, etc.) from years ago, still going strong - coming out fluffy and soft...

You got that right!! Everytime I see my tires all dark and black with a semi-sheen and here we are in the middle of winter, I smile a little inside.

:iagree: That's the surest way to tell. Even when paint is dirty, swirl marks can be visible, so I would add that even if you inspected after washing/drying but you didn't inspect before washing, you can't be 100% sure that you inflicted them yourself - could have been there before you even...