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[dlc95]

Beautiful post, Joe!

From day one of my d/a polishing days, I've been using a dedicated pad cleaner. Whenever I tried anything else, even my APC, I never got the same results. The pad cleaner worked like a charm every time.

Same with water temperature. In the first year of serious d/a polishing I'd spray with pad cleaner, agitate with brush, and rinse with hot water. I switched to cool water because I felt that the heat was too much for the foam. It was just an OCD thing I suppose. I do use warm water when cleaning my sealant pads.

[Klasse Act]

Joe, thank you for this very detailed write up! I've been cleaning my pads wrong forever!! I use Dawn to clean them as well as hot water, when I'm at my buddy's shop especially. Now there's times I've taken them into the show with me and used body wash and stepped on them to get the soap and product out. I guess I never really gave it much thought but I will be now!

Thanks again 👍👍

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[Joe@NextLevelDetail]

Joe, thank you for this very detailed write up! I've been cleaning my pads wrong forever!! I use Dawn to clean them as well as hot water, when I'm at my buddy's shop especially. Now there's times I've taken them into the show with me and used body wash and stepped on them to get the soap and product out. I guess I never really gave it much thought but I will be now!

Thanks again 👍👍

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Lmao, don't feel bad Klasse! I just recently was schooled my self and used some pretty dumb chemicals and methods to get them what I thought was "clean"

The best part was I thought I was being smart about the process *face palm*

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[Joe@NextLevelDetail]

Beautiful post, Joe!

From day one of my d/a polishing days, I've been using a dedicated pad cleaner. Whenever I tried anything else, even my APC, I never got the same results. The pad cleaner worked like a charm every time.

Same with water temperature. In the first year of serious d/a polishing I'd spray with pad cleaner, agitate with brush, and rinse with hot water. I switched to cool water because I felt that the heat was too much for the foam. It was just an OCD thing I suppose. I do use warm water when cleaning my sealant pads.

Of course you did! You are the pad king.

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[DaveT435]

Great information, thank you for sharing. I started using pad cleaners very early on. I also started using a dedicated microfiber cleaner for microfiber towels. Someone posted recently not to use the dedicated microfiber detergent every time. If you have a chance to talk to this chemist again I would be interested in hearing his/her thoughts on microfiber detergent.

[LittleKing24]

Great review and write-up Joe!

Color looks exactly like the XMT polishing pad cleaner. If this works as well as that then we have a winner!

The McKees pad cleaner, IMO, works better than the XMT pad cleaner did. It's more foamy and the chemical smell isn't as harsh.


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[Sicoupe]

Thanks for taking the time to do this review, very helpful my friend.

Kyle

[fightnews]

they should make the pad cleaner in gallon size. the pad conditioner works good too.

[Eldorado2k]

they should make the pad cleaner in gallon size. the pad conditioner works good too.

They do.

http://www.autogeek.net/xmt-pad-cleaner-128.html


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[RaydiantDetail]

Thanks Joe! Great information on pad cleaning. Ive been using the mckees 37 pad cleaner with great results. I also picked up the LC pad washer last year and use it on big jobs with the pad restorer powder and it makes quick work of cleaning the pads.



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