AutowerxDetailing
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- Apr 10, 2012
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I had been using these HD bottles for the past few months and developed a deep rooted hatred for them in the process. It was hard to pass up the $.99 price point when I bought them. At first it was the nozzles that made me want to pull my hair out. Then, as I used them more and more my hatred progressed to the bottles themselves.
"How could you hate a bottle so much?" one might ask. Try using one with clay lubricant and have the nozzle BREAK IN HALF causing you to have to catch it with your other hand before it slammed into the hood... loosing a full clay bar to the ground in the process. So that's what started my hatred, but it only grew from there. Over time the painted sections on the bottle became brittle and started to peel off onto my hands whenever I would touch them. These paint chips would stick to my hands and come off everywhere. On my phone, on my clothes, on my MFs, EVERYWHERE!!!
Enough was enough. It was time to do something drastic...
The enemy:
Horrible quality...
I had some of this stuff lying around going to waste... I figured it should work well enough to dissolve all this cruddy paint off.
I grabbed some cotton pads that I normally use for trim dressing.
After soaking the pads in the Toluol I proceeded to wipe off all the paint and markings from the bottles. I decided to leave the measurement readings since for some reason they did not seem to chip off like the orange paint was.
The paint wiped away very easily. The soft paint was easy to correct, even by hand. lol.
After the pad became filled with removed paint I would change to a new pad. The process went much faster when working with fresh clean pads. Similar to correcting paint.
After: completely stripped.
The Toloul was very strong. By the time I had finished with all the bottles it had worn through all the fingers of my gloves...
All the sprayers were then replaced with high-quality sprayers and each bottle was labeled to reflect it's contents. Money shot:
Thanks for looking!
"How could you hate a bottle so much?" one might ask. Try using one with clay lubricant and have the nozzle BREAK IN HALF causing you to have to catch it with your other hand before it slammed into the hood... loosing a full clay bar to the ground in the process. So that's what started my hatred, but it only grew from there. Over time the painted sections on the bottle became brittle and started to peel off onto my hands whenever I would touch them. These paint chips would stick to my hands and come off everywhere. On my phone, on my clothes, on my MFs, EVERYWHERE!!!
Enough was enough. It was time to do something drastic...
The enemy:
Horrible quality...
I had some of this stuff lying around going to waste... I figured it should work well enough to dissolve all this cruddy paint off.
I grabbed some cotton pads that I normally use for trim dressing.
After soaking the pads in the Toluol I proceeded to wipe off all the paint and markings from the bottles. I decided to leave the measurement readings since for some reason they did not seem to chip off like the orange paint was.
The paint wiped away very easily. The soft paint was easy to correct, even by hand. lol.
After the pad became filled with removed paint I would change to a new pad. The process went much faster when working with fresh clean pads. Similar to correcting paint.
After: completely stripped.
The Toloul was very strong. By the time I had finished with all the bottles it had worn through all the fingers of my gloves...
All the sprayers were then replaced with high-quality sprayers and each bottle was labeled to reflect it's contents. Money shot:
Thanks for looking!
