What did you do today, in regards to detailing?

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That Martini label indicated either Asti Spumanti or vermouth.

Ahhhh, well for me it has more to do with Martini Racing livery

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[Big Dave]

Ahhhh, well for me it has more to do with Martini Racing livery

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Gotta love the racing livery.

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[Klasse Act]

Gotta love the racing livery.

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Forgive me Dave but what's the yellow w/red stripes represent

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[Big Dave]

Forgive me Dave but what's the yellow w/red stripes represent

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Thought it best to show it in all its glory. Coincidentally, the same car that my neighbour has in his garage.

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Thought it best to show it in all its glory. Coincidentally, the same car that my neighbour has in his garage.

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Hey...that's the year I was born

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[Big Dave]

Hey...that's the year I was born

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Best year ever!


Me too.

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It was grunt work day

Tires and wheel arches



It ended up turning into mad scientist hour searching for something to deep clean the arches



Dawn Powerwash was the clear winner to get red dirt and road grime that Superclean didn’t begin to touch

Tire finally clean using the Dawn Power Wash as well

Brake Buster 3 times gave me clean sudsy foam so you would think the tire was clean

I rinsed it off and hit it with the Dawn just to see and it was gray/brown guck again but just one round of Dawn got it clean

In my world and my conditions Brake Buster is a joke, regardless of strength or application process

It’s only value to me is cleaning very lightly dusty wheels and diluted car soap is just as good

YMMV



First coat of CG VRP (don’t judge me, I’m working on using it up)



Lessons learned

1. I still hate Brake Buster
2. Dawn Powerwash outcleans Super Clean every day of the week on anything I have tried it on
3. CG VRP is a PITA
4. I hate tires and arches almost as much as glass

Have a nice weekend


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Dawn Powerwash is good stuff, works well for stripping waxes/sealants too. Loach (WaxMode on youtube), has a good video on it:

[chilly]

Dawn Powerwash is good stuff, works well for stripping waxes/sealants too. Loach (WaxMode on youtube), has a good video on it:

Yup, it will take that stuff off right now

It’s the only thing that will get the red dirt out of my tonneau cover

Lots of uses


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[Odrapnew]

Just did a quick spray down at the coin op on my Edge.
Might do a rinseless wash later, but not sure if I want to spend the time since we're supposed to get snow tomorrow and Tuesday.

No picture, but it looks the same as I posted previously in this thread somewhere.

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So today was the day for the ES to get washed and it was 34 degrees @9 a.m.! It was also THEE day to try out my brand new IK Foam Pro 12 foamer with mini air compressor "hack"...let's go

I get to the quarter wash and pull off to the side and start with TWHS Hyper Foam Tire & Wheel cleaner, this product continues to impress me on VERY dirty tires and wheels (it's also available in a gallon size). Once I was done with all 4 it was time for the pre-wash

The IK was filled with 4 oz of Bilt-Hamber Touchless and 1.5 gallons of distilled water. While I was cleaning the tires & wheels I attached the mini air compressor and set it to 60 psi, so it was done before I was done I turn the mini air compressor back on and start to foam the ES and it did a great job and it maintained the psi needed to go all around the ES, included the tires and wheels again, the wheelwells and under the car a little bit too. I emptied the entire contents of the IK, yeah I got a little carried away BUT the car was a mess

Next up was to pull it in the wash bay and rinse everything away and pull it out. Now I will say with the ratio I had in the IK the Bilt-Hamber Touchless got everything clean except the very most bottom of the ES, remember this is a pre-wash with me guessing the ratio but that's ok because I planned on doing a WW at home afterwards anyways

Upon getting home there was NO DOUBT a contact wash was needed because the water dried on the paint and came out of everywhere, plus I felt like there was "maybe" a film because I didn't rinse it enough, here's where flooding the car can be better

I get home and grab 6 plush, edgeless "Jack" towels and my 1000 ML Kwazer filled w/ N914, along with a Gauntlet towel and knock out the WW. This was easy since 95% of the ES was clean, the dirt came from those very bottom panels and under them. I wiped down the jams and even my d/s WeatherTech Liner so it was perfect once again

Next were the tires and wheels to even them out and the N914 took care of that, even sprayed some up in the wheelwells too. Now that they were clean I added some TWHS graphene spray tire dressing to the Blizzaks and wiped down the wheel faces with Adam's CS3 graphene

I finished the car by wiping it down with a coat of Adam's CS3 graphene, everything came out great, that stuff just works I decided on these 2 graphene infused products because there's been talk of doubt about graphene in another thread, so I thought I'd grab them, thank you guys

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