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    Re: Tell everyone one of your best detailing secrets!

    Garden Sprayers are superb applicators for APC and undercarriage spray in wheel wells. The wand allows great control.

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    Elbow grease! Nothing beats commitment and hardwork!

    Had great results by hand, expecting to get even better results with the DA when it gets here.

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    Re: Tell everyone one of your best detailing secrets!

    I'm not willing to give up many secrets but I will let go of a couple.

    A 2" Rubber Maid varnish brush makes the best interior dusting brush. Go with Rubber Maid because it's the cheapest and holds it's shape better than any other brush I have tried.

    Rather than using bug and tar removers the best thing to do for bugs is allow your car wash soap to dwell and give it time to soften bugs. A good QD or Rinseless Wash makes for a good alternative to solvent based bug removers. Clay is good also if you plan to apply LSP afterwards.

    A good stiff bug sponge makes a great "poor man's carpet extractor". It agitates the fibers without being harsh like a scrub brush. Works great on fabric too.

    I use the Laitner Wheel Spoke Brush as a leather cleaning wand. Soft enough not to damage the leather, versatile enough to get into all the tight spots.

    One more. Buff with your shirt off to attract maximum attention.
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    Re: Tell everyone one of your best detailing secrets!

    Quote Originally Posted by ArmstrongDetailing View Post
    One more. Buff with your shirt off to attract maximum attention.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MobolWerks View Post
    I wonder just what Texas Pete's could clean??? It certainly could have some cleaning power - internally anyway
    If you have some Texas Pete and a Penny (as in one cent) laying around...try it and see. If you have some nice coins that you want to clean up, this is the trick. Of course, some other tarnished/dirty metals will react much the same way.

    Something for those of you that detail out of a fixed location; Use different colored buckets labeled for your different kinds of Micro Fiber and terry towels. I have 4 buckets that my towels go in - 1 for High Quality MF's that are only used as QD'ers or "buffers" (and the glass cleaners), 1 for wax/polish removal MF's, 1 for general purpose MF's and those that are too dirty to be used elsewhere, and 1 for terry's (all ~200 of them are the same to me.)
    What this achieves is that when you get a bucket full, you can wash your "set" of towels together and not have to worry about the high quality ones getting wax in them, or the wax removal cloth's getting a piece of trash stuck in it from your lower end towels.

    Maybe that's too D.O., but I don't like my microfibers touching each other if they aren't in the same group.

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    Re: Tell everyone one of your best detailing secrets!

    .HARD WORK

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    Quote Originally Posted by DLB View Post
    What this achieves is that when you get a bucket full, you can wash your "set" of towels together and not have to worry about the high quality ones getting wax in them, or the wax removal cloth's getting a piece of trash stuck in it from your lower end towels.

    Maybe that's too D.O., but I don't like my microfibers touching each other if they aren't in the same group.

    DLB
    I thought I was alone on this one! I now have a bunch of general purpose MF towels because my wife decided to wash all MF towels together one day. Some of the towels happened to be some that I used around my garage and had a little grass embedded along with other chemicals and grime! Now I sort them for her when I need them washed.

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    Re: Tell everyone one of your best detailing secrets!

    I typically use Barkeeper's Friend to clean exhaust pipes. It's amazing on stainless steel, but also works well on any metal surface. As always, do a small test area when using it for the first time, but I have never had any issues.

    And Mike: It looks to me like you *do* have a pantry full of peanut butter. ;-P Although that's the low fat stuff, which probably contains less vegetable oil...

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    Re: Tell everyone one of your best detailing secrets!

    Crisco looks even better than wax does on paint work...

    At least that is what Sal Zaino once told me - True story

    In all seriousness: There are no short cuts to perfectly polished paint....
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    Re: Tell everyone one of your best detailing secrets!

    Secret - Autogeek has a lot of good products...
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