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Kat

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  1. This is almost straight off the camera. Only post editing was for cropping only.
  2. I have a rotary with 11" pads for the really screwed up cars that people bring me. I just started to learn the Cyclo in the past week or so.. The concencus seems to go with the Cyclo. It does a great job for getting rid off swirls and light scratches.
  3. Cool, I'm not to far from the end if 476. I work not to far from there either
  4. Thanks guys! It's always nice detailing something nice. The Accord is awesome. Rides nice, runs low 14s stock. Crap, that means I have to do more work to the GTO. Haha Next up is a 2012 V6 Camaro this weekend. Tho I think I'm breaking out the rotary buffer for that one. The previous owner looks like they only ran it through car washes. :/.
  5. Between today and over the weekend I had chance to correct two cars. My girlfriends 2013 Accord and my brothers 2014 SS I started out by just doing a normal wash, claying with the soapy water, and rinse. After all that was done, I broke out my new Cyclo and some Paint Correcting polish with the microfiber pads on the Accord. It had some decent straches from over the winter. Around here in Philly we had our second worst winter ever so the snow brush was used quite a bit. Ah well such is life. Once the paint was up to my statisfaction I went on with the white pad and some Revive to clean the paint and give it a lil shine. For the people who say that you don't need to do that step. I don't agree. It totally added depth and clarity to the paint. Once that was done, I put a coat of Liquid Paint Sealant on the car, with using the Cyclo and grey pads. After that was wiped off, I put on a coat of Brilliant Glaze by hand. Then a nice coat of the Patriot. The only difference in the process between the Accord and the Camaro, I used the Orange foam pad for the Paint Correcting step. Thats it. The Camaro's swirls weren't as bad as the Accord. Anyways, on to the Pics. Don't mind them to much, I just got a new lens for my camera as I was detailing the Camaro today. Incase anyone is wondering, the pics were taken with a D600 and a 24mm-70mm F2.8 shot in RAW and edited in Lightroom 5. And the rest of the pics.. http://s292.photobucket.com/user/kat136913/library/adams%20detailing%20stuff
  6. I just received my order do Patriot today and there wasn't a number on the box either. Then again it's that time of the year and I'm sure that they are swamped with orders. I have to say, Patriot is the best wax that I've ever used on a car.. That's over the 23 years I've been detailing for with trying all kinds of stuff
  7. I friggin love Maui.. I was in Lahina for about a week at the end of the summer. Enjoy!
  8. Went to work and hung that forward avoinics pod, outline in red on a Canadian Chinook helicopter.
  9. Nice car! My girlfriend has the EX-L V6 same color too.
  10. Well I know Im new to the forums and stuff. I've been reading here for quite a bit tho. Gotta say great place. So anyways.. I've been involved with two new car purchases this year. One for my girlfriend and one with my brother. The GF got a 2013 Accord with the V6 and nav. My brother just picked up his 2014 1SS Camaro Blue Ray Metallic with white stripes. Both times I told the dealer not to worry about cleaning the car up and I'll do it.But they did anyways. Grr. Mostly cause I'm pretty anal about cars. My GTO is like a sheet of glass again and I like to try to keep my cars that way. Well when the gf took the delivery of the Accord I couldn't wait to get it home.Because of the splotches in the paint in certian light (yes I pointed it out to the salesman haha), swrils and just some lack luster shine to the new paint. Then with my brothers SS, the swril marks out the a**, the salesman cleaning the car with window cleaner and paper towels (I told him just to effing stop...) dirty inteior and a few small scratches. I don't have any of the Adam's paint correcting stuff, but I am very avid user of the 3M product line and my rotoray buffer.. lol I have been now for the past 15 years or so and for the "top coat" as I call, I used Zaino all the time after the correcting was done.. Ok you're wondering how the eff does this go along with the Adam's stuff.. Welp here we go, Back in Feb of this year, my GTO was hit on the drivers side while it was parked. Ok no big deal just take it to the body shop and have it fixed....... Which turned into repainting most of the car except the roof trunk and spoiler... haha Opps. (Don't worry I had them repainted that stuff also so the car is all one color now) I was thinking that while the car was apart I might look into what new car care products there are out there and came across the Adams stuff over on ls1gto.com.. Hrm I thought to myself and looked into for a bit.. Then after that didnt put much thought into till my gf got her Accord. Which just happened to be around the time my GTO was getting repainted finally. I went to check on the GTO's progress and they had what I wanted repainted... Then I looked at the roof of it and noticed how Zaino looked friggin awesome when applied correctly, it just didn't do anything to the paint. Like it didnt keeping it from aging... If that makes sense. Right then I new it was time for a change again. It was 15 years since I've used something new to me anways. That is when I looked back into the Adams stuff. Went online and bought the detail kit in a bucket with the Americana. When I got , the order in, I couldn't wait to get to cleaning up the GF's car. Holy s*** I was impressed.. The Accord had the "pop" that the car should of had when it left the dealer. Everything went on smoothly, the clay bar got all the rail dust off the car, the glaze made it look like sheet of glass and a nice wet look to the paint. Samething with the brothers car. He coulding beleive today just the difference the glaze did to the shine and wet look to the paint of his SS. Thats how I new I made the right choice in switch over to mostly all Adams stuff.. *whew* rant over. lol
  11. 120. For that?!? Crap I tell people 250 to start and we go from there. Mostly because, one, usually busy with my own life to stop and do that, two, if they say ok, then they know what is all involved and understand that your time is worth something.
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