What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

Got out the Meg’s D101 APC diluted to 4:1 and some brushes. I pre soaked all the gaps, cracked, joints, badges and anything rubber in a mist of water and then cleaned them with a brush and the apc. Rinsed as I went. When finished with that and cleaning all the glaze...im assuming...residue out of spot inside the door jams and seams I decided to clean the engine bay of all its oily dealership crap. Took a lot longer and bigger pita that I thought it’d be but it’s done. Then washed with 3D Super Pre Soak.

I sniffed it quite a few times and couldn’t tell what it was but it’s something citrus. I did 2 oz per 5 gallons and that was overkill for sure. Holy suds Batman. I did .5 oz in the IK foam9 and it did great no issues. Soo was super slick and lots of foam if that your thing. Also scrubbed tires 3 times with D143 at 1:1 and the foam was white but tires dried brown like they were. Need to get rid of this stuff it’s not that great. Dried everything using pfms and Beadmaker as a drying aid. 303 sealant was unaffected the super presoak and it was got was apc at 4:1 and the presoak was foamed and sat for 5-10 min and then washed. Stuff holds up. Def needs a quick clay and then see what the polish combo will be for this paint.


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So for Father's Day I got an Amazon gift card and decided to buy Gyeon leather coat, picked it up my brother in laws house as he's a Prime member, today I applied it to my seats, steering wheel and shiftknob. When applying it to my seats I could "see it doing something", sorry it's the best way I can describe it, really enjoyed using it and will continue to in the future, might give away one of my other leather products, its THAT good!

While I was down there, and with the daughter napping and the wife catching up on 90 Day Fiance (she enjoys watching it alone as I can't bite my tongue) I decided to do a simple foam, dwell, rinse and dry using the IK Foam 9 w/ 1 oz of AutoBrite MagiFoam, another winner in my collection. Before that I did a P&S Brake Buster wheel cleaning using the IK 1.5, no agitation as its "supposed" to rain tomorrow, whatever, I'm down here in the garage washing the car with "Get the Led out" playlist rockin' (Great White covering "No Quarter" right now) Going to add a very light coat of 303 Tire Balm and hit the shower

Btw, a "before and after' of the exhaust install from yesterday from a tips standpoint
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Klasse Act said:
So for Father's Day I got an Amazon gift card and decided to buy Gyeon leather coat, picked it up my brother in laws house as he's a Prime member, today I applied it to my seats, steering wheel and shiftknob. When applying it to my seats I could "see it doing something", sorry it's the best way I can describe it, really enjoyed using it and will continue to in the future, might give away one of my other leather products, its THAT good!

While I was down there, and with the daughter napping and the wife catching up on 90 Day Fiance (she enjoys watching it alone as I can't bite my tongue) I decided to do a simple foam, dwell, rinse and dry using the IK Foam 9 w/ 1 oz of AutoBrite MagiFoam, another winner in my collection. Before that I did a P&S Brake Buster wheel cleaning using the IK 1.5, no agitation as its "supposed" to rain tomorrow, whatever, I'm down here in the garage washing the car with "Get the Led out" playlist rockin' (Great White covering "No Quarter" right now) Going to add a very light coat of 303 Tire Balm and hit the shower

Btw, a "before and after' of the exhaust install from yesterday from a tips standpoint
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Leather coat is EXCELLENT. Huge fan myself. Super easy to use, has solid durability, leather looks and feels good. Even had a nice scent. Also it's what 12 bucks? So it's super cheap too.

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Cleaned and vacuumed out the Wife's Focus in preparation for our vacation trip July 4th week. All that I can say is we have less food in our refrigerator, than what I found in that car.
Ugh. I need a shower.

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Cut the grass today and while I was outside I decided to go into the garage and give the interior a quick little maintenance cleaning. My car is very well maintained and I'm the only one in the car 99% of the time so didn't need much. Quick vacuum, light wipe down of the seats and interior plastics using N 914 at WW dilution. First time using it on interior and it's just as good there as it is on the exterior.

And me being me I couldn't help but do a quick WW of the paint too. Car wasn't dirty, I wouldn't even call it dusty but oh well I did it anyways. (Takes no time.)

For those of you on the fence about WW or are like how I used to be and absolutely hated it you really need to try McKees 37 N-914. It is unbelievably good, cleans great, wipes off with no effort and leaves nothing behind. Also with the dilution ratios being strong it cost pennies to mix up a 32oz bottle of it. 1/4 oz of product in a 32oz bottle. It's amazing.

Also don't judge me with the picture. The drivers side mat isn't dirty it's just worn.
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Wetsanded and polished out the wife's headlights. 2013 Nissan Sentra. They were just starting to cloud up.

Applied 2 coats of 2K clear coat when done.
 
Paul A. said:
Wetsanded and polished out the wife's headlights. 2013 Nissan Sentra. They were just starting to cloud up.

Applied 2 coats of 2K clear coat when done.
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Nice. Accumulating "wife points" is KEY.

Listen up all you "would-be grooms". This is important.
 
Washed, applied Eraser and then applied the Kamikaze coating Zipang, followed by Miyabi then a final coat of Zipang. Well, almost done. Only got to apply the last coat to half the car. Weather permitting will finish up in am. Goofed up the hood, thinking will/may redo later.
 
At a local car show Saturday evening... guy there was selling his own detailing products.

Ended up talking to him (out of curiosity).
Turns out he's a chemical engineer and seem pretty knowledgeable.

He ended up giving me samples of some of his products to test out.
I'm going to give them a shot when I get a chance and see how they work... no harm since the samples were free.

Once I use them I'll let you all know how they performed :xyxthumbs:
 
So we had 2 massive downpours here today, one my car sat in and the other I had to drive in the tail end of it, roads wet. I decided to do a Griot's Garage Brillant Shine rinseless wash to it, so I mixed things up and got after it. I first pre-treated the wheelwells with 303 degreaser, hit the tires with 303 Tire and Rubber cleaner and foamed the rims down with P&S Brake Buster and let them dwell, then scrubbed with Mother's tire brush and Speed Master, rinsed down, onto the wash.

Upon spraying down each section I noticed the paint had no visible dirt on it, but I pre-treated like normal and began the wash. The only visible dirt i saw was when i wiped up under the side skirts, that Brand "LM" Sio2 spray is really awesome but you know what, i was curious as to how it played with others, time to join the cult, urrrrrr, bandwagon and apply some Turtle Wax Ice Seal and Shine to the paint and glass. I can report it played very well with Brand "LM" Sio2 spray sealant. I just did 2 sprays per section, wiped in and flipped the towel over and it just disappeared, crazy! I did use a couple towels because the car wasn't completely dry as I just did that Griot's Garage Brillant Shine rinseless wash, didn't have my Master Blaster down here with me, oh well, I have plenty of towels for this. I'm extremely impressed with this product, need to get some more, especially at the closeout price but if not, oh well, I'll just wait till its re-released again down the road at a higher price and new name (I'm subscribing to someone's notion posted here somewhere)

I even applied some to my cellphone screen, its SUPER slick, fingers are just sliding all over the place! Well now it's time for a shower and bed

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Filled my D143 bottle up at 2:1. Filled my D101 at 8:1 give or take. Filled a bottle with the P&S bug off. Didn’t realize but you can dilute up to 10:1. I think I went 3:1. We shall see how it is vs McKees. May have a ccsb chevy2500 and a Toyota mini van this weekend if all works out


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Finally got to wash my Kia cee'd SW. My injuries and I don't have good standing with each other LOL. Last wash was little over 3 months ago. Crap it's a long time and when washed the road salt was very much present on the roads and takes a time for it to be cleaned up from them. Don't remember if I applyied Carpro Hydro2 lite at the last wash or the wash before that. Either way the car has have a great self cleaning ability from the Hydro2 lite. But now the road film was very much visible when looked at it and the dirt on the trim showed those streaking dirt from them.

A picture from the morning yesterday and the silver metallic paint is great to hide how dirty it is LOL. The summer wheels was put on a week ago. So they where preped and sealed before putting them on. Tire coating and one wheel sealant on the barrels and Polish Angel Supersport Wheel Coating on the wheel faces.

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Started with the stronger prewash foam and PW clean rinsing it off. The protection showed some failure on some surfaces and needed to be refreshed as I thought it would be. And the biggest difference is that I didn't have the useally build up of tar spots that I useally have. Hmm impresive and also a positive experience.

A bucket wash with multible mf wash mitts and pads. Blowed off most of the water with the leafblower and dried with a PFM style drying towel.

Then after a while I was trying a more concentrated and more protection in it of my favorite topper. Ohh man did you feel it was a more heavy amount of the Si+ technology in it. The application was very dragging and hard to get worked in. But the last buff up to get any high spots wipe off was as slick as useally. May not be on for so long as I look for being able to polish and protect in the near future. Will be interesting to see how the next wash goes.

The finished results.

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When I have just taken out and set up for the wash. A very good friend of mine came by. And she was very kind to help out with the wash and the final buff off of the LSP. It goes much faster when you are 2 to wash. And as a thank you I refilled the foamcannon and she gave her DD a foam bath. Just a quick touchless wash as it was in need of a decon wash badly. And the time was not there to do a whole decon wash. But she was offered to have any products I have and use on her DD when we can do the whole car.

My good friend in action with the foamcannon and a prewash foam. Around 1:4 in the foamcannon bottle and then the 3 setting on the chemical mix setting on the foamcannon where 1 is the least and 10 the max chemical output setting. Pretty awesome foam and she had a blast foaming and clean rinse it off with the PW LOL. She liked how it works even in the sun with foaming and the longer dwell time you get from it.

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I did a bunch of polishing today and had a bucket of McKees 37 Coating Prep Wash mixed up from earlier. I decided to throw the pads into the bucket to let them soak while I worked on the rest of the car. I have to say, it worked really well. By the time I was ready to clean the pads they were super pliable.
 
After a week of heat and rain, the FNW was in full effect!

The last time I cleaned the car was last weekend, then applied TW Ice Seal and Shine to it (more on that later) This entire week has been hot, humid and bad rains but the rains have happened when the car was parked outside, but it was lookin' pretty gritty, let's get to it!

I started off by pre-treating the wheelwells with 303 degreaser and then turning my attention to the tires and wheels. I've already stated this but my new "Go to" is P&S Brake Buster diluted 5:1 in my IK 1.5 and if you haven't tried this product yet....DO SO! I sprayed the tires and wheels, including barrels and maybe used a 1/4 of my 1.5 container to do all 4 hoops. I scrubbed around the lugs, Mother's tire and wheel brush for the tires and Speed Master for the spokes and barrels. The cleaning ability of this product, used this way, is INCREDIBLE! Once they were all rinsed down it was time to wash the car.

For the car wash I decided a foam/dwell/rinse was all that was needed. Tonights soap was Hydrosilex Silica soap, it's been a while and I really like this product. I ended up using half of my tank of cleaning solution. I let it dwell pretty long and then rinsed off and then....the magic showed itself! The magic I speak of is the beading of TW Ice Seal & Shine, I N C R E D I B L E Yeah I know it's only a weak old but the way it was beading though, the hood had beads so small you could barely see them! Being an excessive individual (also trying to use up some of my stock) I wanted to give a little "kick", not that it needed it but while the car was wet I misted on some Auto Fanatic 007 Gloss Enhancer (similar to Beadmaker) Haven't used this since last year and it POPS, expect even more POP after it cures, now I might have to take it to cars and coffee on Sunday, even though we're not allowed into THIS particular C&C

I dried the car with the Sucker and finished up with a pair of Griot's Garage PFM's, alot was asked of these towels tonight! I haven't applied a tire dressing, that comes tomorrow and will be Gyeon Tire.

In closing I can't endorse P&S Brake Buster enough and it doesn't matter if you use it straight or @5:1 in the IK Foamer, THIS product just flat out works

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I washed my HHR Thursday with the old school Blackfire Rinseless I bought for 4 bucks from AG a while back. Topped it with some McKees 37 Fast Wax on one side,and DG rinseless as a QD in the other on the top surfaces. Gonna see who holds up better!

I had saved some leftovers McKees rinse free wash and wax to use on the HHR. It's a beater so I just used the leftover solution from my two vehicles that don't really get dirty. I didn't get to use it though.

We had a mouse chew up our central air wiring on the inside and out. In a comedy of errors,we got the mouse to come out of the pipe that carries the drain and wiring from the inside unit out to the condesner,but he ran back in before we could dispose of him. Those little suckers can squeeze through the tiniest of holes. We set out traps,and hadn't seen anymore of the mouse.

I was running a little late to work Thursday morning. I went into the garage to put my work boots on,and I heard splashing noises. I knew it was coming from the bucket of McKees 37 rinseless wash. I cautiously walked over to the bucket,and saw a mouse/rat swimming in and desperately trying to get out of the bucket. I knew it was going to be one of those days.... I felt sorry for the little guy. My wife and I are tender-hearted towards animals. The poor thing looked pitiful.

I had to wake my wife up and tell her to put the garage door down as soon as I went outside so I could pour Mickey out without him running back in. As soon as I did,he was gone. Next time he won't be so lucky even though I felt sorry for him! I lost 4 gallons of McKees also. And yes,work was crazy that day!
 
Klasse Act said:
After a week of heat and rain, the FNW was in full effect!

The last time I cleaned the car was last weekend, then applied TW Ice Seal and Shine to it (more on that later) This entire week has been hot, humid and bad rains but the rains have happened when the car was parked outside, but it was lookin' pretty gritty, let's get to it!

I started off by pre-treating the wheelwells with 303 degreaser and then turning my attention to the tires and wheels. I've already stated this but my new "Go to" is P&S Brake Buster diluted 5:1 in my IK 1.5 and if you haven't tried this product yet....DO SO! I sprayed the tires and wheels, including barrels and maybe used a 1/4 of my 1.5 container to do all 4 hoops. I scrubbed around the lugs, Mother's tire and wheel brush for the tires and Speed Master for the spokes and barrels. The cleaning ability of this product, used this way, is INCREDIBLE! Once they were all rinsed down it was time to wash the car.

For the car wash I decided a foam/dwell/rinse was all that was needed. Tonights soap was Hydrosilex Silica soap, it's been a while and I really like this product. I ended up using half of my tank of cleaning solution. I let it dwell pretty long and then rinsed off and then....the magic showed itself! The magic I speak of is the beading of TW Ice Seal & Shine, I N C R E D I B L E Yeah I know it's only a weak old but the way it was beading though, the hood had beads so small you could barely see them! Being an excessive individual (also trying to use up some of my stock) I wanted to give a little "kick", not that it needed it but while the car was wet I misted on some Auto Fanatic 007 Gloss Enhancer (similar to Beadmaker) Haven't used this since last year and it POPS, expect even more POP after it cures, now I might have to take it to cars and coffee on Sunday, even though we're not allowed into THIS particular C&C

I dried the car with the Sucker and finished up with a pair of Griot's Garage PFM's, alot was asked of these towels tonight! I haven't applied a tire dressing, that comes tomorrow and will be Gyeon Tire.

In closing I can't endorse P&S Brake Buster enough and it doesn't matter if you use it straight or @5:1 in the IK Foamer, THIS product just flat out works

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Do you like it as well as the AF wheel cleaner?




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Do you like it as well as the AF wheel cleaner?




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As a maintenance wash yes because it's less expensive, FAR LESS! P&S Brake Buster is $20.00 a gallon whereas Auto-Fanatic foaming wheel cleaner is $50.00 a quart, I use both in my IK 1.5. The thing is I haven't used Brake Buster at a stronger ratio yet for "no touch" cleaning. With Auto-Fanatic foaming wheel cleaner you pour out 12 oz from your gallon of distilled and top off with AF foaming wheel cleaner and when used at this ratio, it's awesome, really works!

Now I was listening to The Rag Company's live podcast on Thursday and they actually spoke about Auto-Fanatic foaming wheel cleaner vs. P&S Brake Buster and they said to try a 20 oz ratio per gallon, so I'm going to try that actually very soon and see how it goes. If it works I've learned a valuable lesson, I mean money is money and $20 for 128 oounces compared to $50 for 32 ounces is "a something". I mean the Auto-Fanatic foaming wheel cleaner is made to be safe for the user as well as the metal parts around it and P&S Brake Buster has the rust inhibitors in it and they do work, very minimal rusting on the rotors and I swear my unpainted calipers look better even since using this product!

I guess I should've did a review thread for this, maybe when I do the 20 ounce ratio for P&S Brake Buster, stay "tuned"

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So I just went downstairs to try yet another new tire dressing. You might be asking "what is it" and all I can say it's from a local mfg who make one of the best interior protectants, along with other GREAT products for all your detailing needs!

I've had this product for a couple weeks now and my contact told me to apply it, I was also told how NOT to apply it. Being the person I am I had to experience the "how to NOT" apply it first and that's spraying it directly into your applicator and swiping. Now initially I did it like this and I thought it looked great and went off to bed but in the morning I had barely a satin finish.

So about a half an hour ago I applied it the way I was told to....by spraying it directly onto the tire and letting it dry on it's own. I have to be honest, I haven't applied a product to a tire like this since God knows when. I know this, if it works it's going to be great for those with knobby tires and/or alot of sidewall. With modern tires, with lower profile tires, your going to get some on the edge of your rims, so you'll need to wipe it off, luckily its water-based and silicone free. This product is labeled as High Gloss, just an FYI. I took it upon myself to spray some up in the wheelwells as well.

Below is a pic of the tire after initial application and then one after I did a 4 tires and wells (there's a pic for yah Paul)

Oh and btw I'll post another pic once the product has fully dried so we can ALL see how it looks and you can decide if you like the looks or not.
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AllenK said:
I lost 4 gallons of McKees also. And yes,work was crazy that day!
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Is that a thing people do, mix up rinseless wash and keep it around for days? It doesn't go flat like regular soap?
 
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