What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

[DFB]

Maintenance wash for old blue this morning.



Tyres - P&S Undressed
Wheels - Carpro Reset via the foam cannon
Rotors - BH Atom Mac

Washing - Carpro Reset and a TRC Cyclone Ultra
Drying Aid - ADS Adapt
Engine Bay - Carpro ECH20
Glass - Invisible Glass
Interior - ONR

Wheel & Tyres - ADS Amplify, OG Tyre Dressing

While most know ADS for Amplify, Adapt is a bit of sleeper in my opinion. It may not be as fool proof as Amplify, but it's not far behind, and to me, Adapt feels a little slicker. And as the name suggests, Adapt can "adapt" to multiple roles. In today's case, I used it as a drying aid and to wipe down the door jambs, but it can be used on glass, the engine bay, wheels, exhaust tips, trim...................................



All clean, the old girl swapped places with the Mustang and then covered up for another day.

 

[Big DaveBig Dave is verified member.]

Those orange Carpro finger mitt applicators are brilliant. I really like them for applying leather conditioner.

I used mine for applying NV Jet on the roof of the FJ, I used the Meguiar's version to apply the Dodo Juice Hybrid Wax on the silver paint, it's slightly smaller so I could only get 3 fingers into it, the Carpro one is definitely better.

 

[PouncingPanzer]

Have you looked at Armour Detail Supply Ghost? It's a sealant they claim but it is working well and lasting. I think there's a few users here that can chime in. I apply this quarterly and then can drop any shine products on top in future washes.

Detailing tires now has the sealant base + toppers!

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There are a lot of posts on this forum regarding it. Certainly going to add it to the potential candidate list!

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[PouncingPanzer]

This is Optimum Opti-Bond Tire Gel and the Opti-Coat version, both tend to separate after sitting for a while.

Yes mine started to separate after only a year maybe less. In a basement, cool and dry. It did get slimy after that happened and harder to work into tire it seems, even if you shake the hell out of it first. I'm disappointed in the product overall. Seems to have gone bad very soon for a container as large as it is.

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[PouncingPanzer]

Had the misfortune of choosing the hottest day of the year so far to Decon polish and coat my gti. Did this at my friends house as he has a metal garage he’s willing to let me leave it in while it cures. Down side is no shade for the wash. Wash and decon was a juggling act of not letting things dry. It was supposed to be cloudy but wasn’t.

I used ads decon soap, gtechnic iron remover, and a griots synthetic clay lubed with Koch chemie gsf

The metal garage is basically an oven. Was 90 outside and probably 105 inside. So I’d polish 2 panels and retreat to the ac took me a long timr. Thankfully it started to rain as I was finishing up


Polished with Koch chemie micro cut and a rupes yellow pad on my 5.5 inch and a micro cut pad on my 3 inch,

I also polished the windshield sunroof and rear glas and coated it with griots new glass coating.

The griots was easy no issues with high spots

Then j started on csl. It seemed easy at first but gave me some serious issues on gloss black and my vw logo it looked like sweat beads but they would NOT wipe away. This was after less than a minute. Thankfully most of the paint escaped this. Though I think one area needs to be examined much more closely in the sun.

I think the issue was the humidity it was 90% which was probably not ideal but I only have the space for the weekend.

I got done with csl and got exo applied to the hood and had to call it. Around ‘Midnight and I was going to make mistakes if I kept
Going. Hopefully applying the exo tomorrow won’t yield massively different results

And this is why I want an interior wash bay so badly when I finally bulldoze my existing structure and make a new one. Three car garage with one bay that can be sectioned off with a dividing curtain and completely water proof where it needs to be. Ugh....if only. Sorry you had that struggle. The dwell time mentioned on any product, I've learned, had to have been determined inside a closed structure with no wind or sun whatsoever. Products like Iron-x and most APCs even have it cut it two by simply being outdoors.

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[Klasse Act]

Full day today, 74 degrees and getting muggy...that was @5:15 a.m. when I took the TAOS for it's touch-free wash. When I got home I wiped it down with Adam's WW, everything but the roof as it had water spots, this Adam's WW knocked them out, also had to wipedown the tires and wheels, the roof will get addressed next 2BM wash

Next was the EN and get this...NO SAP MIST, OMG I was so happy! I decided to clean the tires & wheels, grabbed Griot's Garage Wheel Cleaner and Gyeon Tire Cleaner, plus my usual brushes...done

Originally I wasn't going to wash it since there was no sap mist but well, you guys know me, I had to do something! That something was a simple foam/dwell/rinse and I used the limited edition Christmas carwash soap from Adam's (a buddy always gives me something from them) I used 2 oz in my Griot's Garage foam gun, let dwell and rinsed. The beading was on point, I then used free flowing water to knock down the beads

For the drying aid this morning I used Dr. Beasley's Paint Hero. Now I used it to try and finish it off because I always forget about it, it never really grabbed me. In addition to that it's kinda pricy, about $28.00 for what I believe is an 8 oz bottle, must be that Chicago city tax (they're also a Chicago based company). I will say the product is thick, so a little does go a looong way, 1 spray into my Gauntlet towel for say 1/2 the hood did the trick but does require a towel flip & buff. Afterwards it's very glossy and smooth, maybe I should reconsider my opinion here and/or try another one of their products

Now I'm done, for now, but after doing the above my t-shirt was soaked with sweat! I took a shower, made breakfast and will head out soon to my daughters ice skating practice where I can chill...that is until I drive about an hour and a half away to do a mini exterior detail on a buddy's classic car to get it ready for consignment. The car you ask, well, it's a Bristol...stay "tuned" for a seperate thread on it later. Oh yeah and btw, did I mention the high temp for today here in Chicagoland...NINETY SIX DEGREES

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[Klasse Act]

There are a lot of posts on this forum regarding it. Certainly going to add it to the potential candidate list!

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I 100% guarantee you that you'll love ADS Ghost and on your GT500 it will last an entire season! There's no goofy excessive tire scrubbing and rinsing needed, just clean them real good of old dressings and dirt, maybe mineral spirits if it's not just bare rubber afterwards (if using mineral spirits I'd re-wash the tires to remove that chemical after taste) I should mention too that ADS Tire Cleaner is right there with Adam's tire and wheel cleaner for cleaning your tires, the brown forms almost instantly with ADS Tire Cleaner, once my little bit of other tire cleaner is done I'll be 100% ADS Tire Cleaner

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