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  1. It was many months ago I put this post up, and I still refer back to it today. Now that here in the Chicago area the weather has begun to change, I have some additional questions I was hoping someone could help me out with... 1) If you are washing with deionized water, a foam cannon, a rinse bucket, and wash media. Do you fill the rinse bucket with Deionized water as well? 2) If you were doing a 2-bucket wash with deionized water, would you fill the suds bucket with deionized water? 3) If you are using a 2nd or third bucket for a "wheels" bucket, what do you fill the bucket with? Deionized water & shampoo? Or just Deionized Water? Or just regular water? 4) It was mentioned above that folks use detail spray and a drying towel to clean up water spots (if flow drying) or as a drying agent if not blow drying. My truck has a Modesta coating on it so it was recommended to use waterless wash instead of detail spray. Why is that? Does waterless wash work the same as detail spray? When you use the waterless wash in this fashion, what kind of towel do you use? One of the waffle weave "waterless wash towels" or would you just use the same type of towel (single soft or double soft or maybe even a great white drying towel) that you'd use if you were using detail spray (i.e. you are performing the exact same process as with detail spray...but just using waterless wash instead)? Thanks!
  2. Thanks That helps immensely. Probably a silly question but I had printed out this thread and stuffed it in my detail cart and was referring back to it when I thought to myself "What the hell is Wash Media?". I've had great success with the touch free method you mention, and under the conditions you mention them. Even with a black truck. I think I'm going to go ahead and continue using the suds bucket as well, along with my foam cannon though simply because even when I have nice thick foam...even if I'm working panel by panel, sometimes all that up and down the stepstool to get to the top of the truck, or if I get distracted by something and it takes longer to do a panel, the suds are always "running" so at least with the suds bucket I'm extra safe to have a nice soapy slippery mitt. Thanks again
  3. I was just referring back to this post today and, its probably a silly question, but what does the term "Wash Media" mean in the following sentence? And what is meant by "Rinse Bucket" Is the above statement saying... "Use the foam cannon and your carwash soap with DI water, then do a bucket (or 2 bucket) wash?" I'm just confused by the term "Wash Media" and the term "Rinse bucket for the wash media". Thanks!
  4. Thanks for the help & advice And thanks for the kind welcome. I have alot to learn. Its one thing to purchase the products and tools, another to know how to use them properly and WHEN. The step-by-step information, and under what conditions, and how the master blaster and the de-ionized water changes alot of the procedures and videos I'd previously been using as reference. is what I was hoping to better understand. Thank you so much. Thank you especially to "TheWolf" for that write-up you posted. That must have taken some time to write up and it was really thorough. I'm actually going to print out your post and keep it on my detail cart. That information was exactly what I was looking for...letter for letter. That really helps me to better understand the advantages of the Simple Chuck, my Modesta Coating, and the Master Blaster. Thanks everyone Nickfire20, Yes. My Modesta Installer went over the Do's and Don'ts with me. They also gave me some free sample products by Modesta. One was a bottle of Modesta's Water Spot remover, another was Modesta's version of Detail Spray, and another was a Modesta product that sounded similar to the Adam's Ceramic Boost. I haven't tried any of the Modesta products yet as I really liked the Adams' stuff and, unless absolutely necessary, didn't want to have to order products from a variety of makers. The Adam's website and forums, for a newbie like me, have been a great resource and reference on "how to" and the folks at Adam's have always been VERY helpful in e-mails and such. So I prefer to stick with Adam's if at all possible. As far as product to stay away from, my installers biggest concern on care for the finish was just to avoid brush carwashes (or touchless carwashes with harsh chemicals) and to not get the attitude that the Modesta is some sort of wrap that will protect against everything. He just wanted to let me know that even the Modesta finish itself will show scratches and swirls and that I should avoid screwing with it. Products like waxes and sealants that have their own hydrophobic properties he said I should avoid. Products like Detail Spray he said should be fine.
  5. Hello. You'll have to forgive me as I'm a bit new to the world of detailing. Previously I'd always just gone to the corner car wash or done it myself with a bucket and a rag. I simply didn't know any better. However, with my new black Ford Raptor I really wanted to take good care of it and keep it looking nice. I knew being a big supercrew truck, and black...it would be a challenge. I also had a Modesta coating done to it at a reliable and trusted detail shop. So I purchased a whole bunch of Adam's Products a couple months ago and have been slowly learning the proper ways to use them. I've got the merino wash mitts, wash buckets, soap, detail spray, double-soft towels, great white drying towels, single soft towels...I even have the Master Blaster Revolution for drying...and a whole bunch of other Adam's stuff. I think I have most of everything I might need, and probably a bunch of stuff I won't. However, My water here is ridiculously hard. One of my earlier attempts at washing my truck, even using the products above, was pretty disastrous. My cloud cover dispersed and I ended up in the 2pm sun, with a black soapy truck. By the time I was done it looked worse than when I started and was covered in really hard water spots. I purchased a TDS meter and my water scored about as bad as it could get on the chart. I recently purchased a "Simple Chuck" (CR Spotless) Deionzied water device and between that, my Adam's Foam Cannon, and my pressure washer, it has really solved 99.9% of my problem. On to my question... My question was how and what should my wash/dry "routine" be with the Simple Chuck and how to work the presence of the deionized water into my procedure? At its most basic...my procedure would be: 1) Pre-Rinse with Deionized water & Pressure Washer (I prefer to use Deionized water both for the rinse & the soap itself.) 2) Foam Cannon with Adam's Shampoo. Then let it sit & soak for a few. 3) Rinse with deionized water (At this point, if the truck wasn't that dirty then I can stop the 'washing' stage here and move on to drying. Otherwise, I move on to a 2 bucket wash...) 4) Foam Cannon again with Adam's Shampoo. 5) 2 Bucket Wash (Though I'm moving to the one bucket method using a stack of Merino Mitts) 6) Rinse with Deizonized Water Ok...at this point is where my questions come in and where I'm confused what I should do next... Because its deionized water, should I just skip using the master blaster, great white drying towels, detail spray, or any of that and just let it dry? I tried doing that for my last wash and it worked "pretty good" but I still had some water spots and some runs from the door handles, mirrors, etc. Also, it certainly was very shiney but I noticed it didn't quite have that same level of "shine". Or...should I go ahead and use the master blaster after rinsing and blow all the water off I can? Or....is the correct procedure to spritz each panel with Adam's Detail spray and THEN use the Master Blaster? Or should i use the Master Blaster and THEN detail spray? Should I not be using detail spray at all? If I should use detail spray...should I use it with a great white drying towel or with a double soft towel? As you can see, I'm just not sure whether or not to use (or if I should use, where I should work in) the use of detail spray, the master blaster, or the use of any towels? Or maybe with the deionized water I should be using any of that stuff at all? I've read of folks saying that the detail spray attracts alot of dust so maybe I should be using detail spray at all? What happens if you let the deionized water dry and you DO have some runs or water spots? How do you clean those up? Waterless Wash? I'm also just confused because I'm not sure whether its best to use the foam canon & deionized water and try not to touch the truck at ALL? Or whether I still DO need to touch the truck? Hopefully those questions made sense. Once again, I'm a newbie at this so please forgive if any of those were silly or stupid questions...or if I'm simply doing it wrong. Thanks in advance!
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