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I kike Mc2hill's reccomendation. I think this will get the vast majority of water out of the pad quickly. Thanks!

Can anyone suggest a good way to dry out the Gen 2 pads? I would like to speed up their drying time, currently mine are sitting on a open rack for several days and they are still wet from being washed out. Not sure if these can go in the dryer or anything like that. Thanks

I am no expert, relatively new to detailing but I would think at a minimum I would want to get some protection on that finish with a coat of Buttery Wax. At some point later you may want to clay and do the full routine to it, but if your pressed for time the application of the Buttery Wax will give protection to the finish until you want to do a deeper dive and get more serious with it. Keep in mind I'm just a newb at this.

Yes while I don't have one yet, it's on my list. Though sometimes I will just use a California duster and go over the car. I have found that in general it works pretty good, but if your anal about those tiny scratches, you can not avoid getting them with the duster. Certainly not too bad, but they do accumulate. I've tried a blower to blow the dust off with little success. The best way is to flood water over the car and wash it, but that does take time and isn't practical to do everyday. The way it is now I think most of my neighbors think I'm nuts always tinkering around with the car.

I have to work on getting at least a pic in my avatar. Shood be forthcoming soon.

Thanks C6Bill, I understand your concern having to polish that often. I may be able to go longer, but it depends. I use the vette as my daily driver in the summer months and I work in a warehouse. There are literally hundreds of trucks that drive past my car daily and with that a fair amount of dust and debris that ends up neatly coating the car. As careful as I am invariably I pick up a few minor scratches here and there. After a period of time it accumulates til I get to a point where I would like to polish them out. I am guessing maybe a month or so would be the time span. Up until last summer my only recourse was to use revive polish and buttery wax, which did pretty good. The machine however will be able to do a better job in correcting the defects. Thanks for your reply.

Santa was good to me and brought a Porter Cable and machine polishing kit. One concern however is it possible to do too much polishing to a finish? I understand that the Porter Cable will not burn the finish, but if I machine polish it once a month or so will I eventually wear away the clear coat? On a side note to Adam, Last summer Jason detailed my Vette at Bloomington Gold, did a great job. I just wanted to thank both of you. My Metallic Purple '95 vette never looked so good, as riding off the grounds. I was hooked and had to go the machine route. It was just a matter of time.