What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

04lss said:
Side note how do you decide when to swap to a new drying towel during drying? Never had a car big enough to need it
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As far as this question: I’ve been using the Large SpeedMaster Notorious Dry Towel for quite a while now. It’s my main drying towel for getting the job Done. I can’t say enough good things about it. There’s no vehicle it can’t handle on its own except for maybe a 40’ RV.lol. [and maybe it can, I haven’t tried]

When it comes to all other drying towels I own, I bring 2 to the vehicle. I toss 1 on the hood and start with the other and eventually I have to reach for that 2nd towel because the 1st one becomes soaked.

I usually give the glass a quick pass with the 1st towels final wipe just to get the initial water off before switching to the 2nd dry towel and finish drying the vehicle, then the last step includes using the blower alongside that 2nd towel.
 
I did a test pass on the rear deck over lunch. Found that M302 was a little underwhelming in terms of cut. I tried sonax perfect finish and it seemed to work well with a yellow foam pad. The bottle is old (2 years) but it seemed to work fine. Any reason I shouldnt use it?
 
I have a bottle of Perfect Finish that is now older than 2 years, in fact all my polishes are older as well. They all perform to my eye just as well as when they were new. Any degridation is not visible to the finished paint. If it is it's so insignifigant nobody is going know any difference. I say use the PF.
 
04lss said:
I did a test pass on the rear deck over lunch. Found that M302 was a little underwhelming in terms of cut. I tried sonax perfect finish and it seemed to work well with a yellow foam pad. The bottle is old (2 years) but it seemed to work fine. Any reason I shouldnt use it?
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2yrs. isn’t old for a compound/polish.

I have some compound/polish that’s about 12yrs. old on my shelf and I wouldn’t hesitate to use it. Just give it a good shake and that 12yr. old compound should work just fine.
 
Eldorado2k said:
As far as this question: I’ve been using the Large SpeedMaster Notorious Dry Towel for quite a while now. It’s my main drying towel for getting the job Done. I can’t say enough good things about it. There’s no vehicle it can’t handle on its own except for maybe a 40’ RV.lol. [and maybe it can, I haven’t tried]

When it comes to all other drying towels I own, I bring 2 to the vehicle. I toss 1 on the hood and start with the other and eventually I have to reach for that 2nd towel because the 1st one becomes soaked.

I usually give the glass a quick pass with the 1st towels final wipe just to get the initial water off before switching to the 2nd dry towel and finish drying the vehicle, then the last step includes using the blower alongside that 2nd towel.
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What I am realizing is that I leave a very light haze on the car and combined with the drying aid, it creates light streaking. I am going to have to adjust my methods. My water is softened and has high PPM, so I dont want to try using a blower for final dry
 
Brrr said:
I like it. Easy on easy off! I've got just enough left to do the mustang. Gonna have to re-up from my supplier.
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Let me know and I'll send you another bottle, I've got a couple made up but I think I'm out of KSG, so can't make up more until I get another bottle

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04lss said:
What I am realizing is that I leave a very light haze on the car and combined with the drying aid, it creates light streaking. I am going to have to adjust my methods. My water is softened and has high PPM, so I dont want to try using a blower for final dry
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Just to clarify, I don’t use the handheld blower for any actual drying. I simply use the blower as the last step, along with a towel to pat dry any drips that blow out of the mirrors & emblems etc.

If anything, the blower maybe dries the wheels & tires, but I don’t use it to dry any panels. It’s 99% towel dry for me.

And as far as “drying aids”… I don’t use em. Don’t need em. My drying aid is my towel. Lol.

It doesn’t need an “aid” + those drying aids only wind up ruining the towels ability to dry on its own.

That’s why I’m very satisfied that my Notorious Dry Towel has lasted so long. It’s maybe 2yrs. old now and still works like new. Totally worth what I paid for it.
 
Klasse Act said:
Let me know and I'll send you another bottle, I've got a couple made up but I think I'm out of KSG, so can't make up more until I get another bottle

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I'll wait until I get another truck before I send for more. I don't know how many washes I have in me for awhile.

I did the thing I absolutely hate. I dressed the tires.. but here's Frankenshine going strong on day2 after a rain storm.

 
Brrr said:
I'll wait until I get another truck before I send for more. I don't know how many washes I have in me for awhile.

I did the thing I absolutely hate. I dressed the tires.. but here's Frankenshine going strong on day2 after a rain storm.

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Why don't you dress the tires

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Brrr said:
I have always hated dressed tires. Where i grew up, our tire dressing was mud and if it was a clean tire then you weren't with us lol it's stupid I know but that's ingrained in my head
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I occasionally dress the tyres on the FJ, but nothing too fancy (glossy), and never when I'm taking it for a service, the place I go specialises in 4x4s, so you get real funny looks if you come in with shiny tyres.

Also, if I have mud on the tyres, I sometimes leave it on there longer than I should, I do like the look of a muddy tyre.
 
Big Dave said:
I occasionally dress the tyres on the FJ, but nothing too fancy (glossy), and never when I'm taking it for a service, the place I go specialises in 4x4s, so you get real funny looks if you come in with shiny tyres.

Also, if I have mud on the tyres, I sometimes leave it on there longer than I should, I do like the look of a muddy tyre.
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as a kid i would take a favorite matchbox pickup truck and go play in the dirt, get the tires all muddy, slinging mud all over the truck body like i was mudd bogging. Then clean the tires sidwalls. The look of it brought me joy. Sounds dumb now as an adult haha
 
Brrr said:
I have always hated dressed tires. Where i grew up, our tire dressing was mud and if it was a clean tire then you weren't with us lol it's stupid I know but that's ingrained in my head
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You've evolved

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So I took the EN through the touch-free wash this morning. Once off of work I did my grocery shopping and while pulling into the garage a lawn worker was blowing stuff all over the place (not sure why because it hasn't grown yet) and some of the clippings got all over the EN

Once I put the groceries away I grabbed my mini Master Blaster and blew off the car and wiped it down with DIY Detail Envie and the more I use it the more I like it (I feel ashamed if I'm being honest)

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Realized I ordered the wrong Gyeon detailer. I got the non ceramic. Ill give it a try regardless. Planning to start the Polish / coat process on the atlass friday
 
After the touch-free wash I topped off tank. So the weather will suck this weekend, thunderstorms tomorrow and mid 50's, snow Sunday and Monday...nothing measurable but it was 72 last Monday
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Klasse Act said:
After the touch-free wash I topped off tank. So the weather will suck this weekend, thunderstorms tomorrow and mid 50's, snow Sunday and Monday...nothing measurable but it was 72 last Monday
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I like the reflections. For a few seconds I thought you were showing us an EN in a different colour.
 
Decon washed, clayed and polished the atlas today. At least polished 95%. Either the car had way more swirls than I thought or my griots synthetic clay really did a lot of marring.
I used what was left of my gyeon bathe in a fresh bucket for lubrication for the clay. I also foamed the panels.
I used sonax perfect finish with a rupes yellow wool pad on my cordless rupes. I used a yellow foam on my Griots 3 inch. The rupes cordless stalled often but that’s where the 3 inch came in.

Tomorrow I am going to rinse less wash the car panel prep and then apply phobic. I also need to remove the dealer sticker.

I am excited to try phobic. I am a little upset that the ads beads I applied is still on the trim, so hopefully a panel prep will adequately prep the trim for phobic. I will post photos once it’s all done
 
Klasse Act said:
So I took the EN through the touch-free wash this morning. Once off of work I did my grocery shopping and while pulling into the garage a lawn worker was blowing stuff all over the place (not sure why because it hasn't grown yet) and some of the clippings got all over the EN

Once I put the groceries away I grabbed my mini Master Blaster and blew off the car and wiped it down with DIY Detail Envie and the more I use it the more I like it (I feel ashamed if I'm being honest)

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You’re making me want to try it now >:(
 
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