Ricky Bobby

I'm not a plumber so not sure how my guy is planning the install, he will definitely let me know what the most effective/cost effective option is. My water definitely can get HOT like unbearable can't get in the bathtub hot so I will def dial it down some (don't want to break windows lol).

Thanks for the help guys. I was wondering what lasted more, Buttery or Americana! My father in law still has a huge amount of Americana (full sized tub) that he bought last year at the Detailers Domain Adams clinic (Ashley, Adam, and a few other of the crew were there, was great to meet them!) in NJ, so what I'm going to do is throw a coat of that on top, I'll probably buy my own tub in my next order (or maybe an Americana mini), but I think that is the effect I'll be going for, Americana on top of Liquid Sealant, durability and depth/gloss! I may be the only guy here but I'm not big on glazing at all haha.

I don't think any of us have "Hot water" hose bibs, i.e. water straight out of the boiler, there is probably a mixing valve in between the feed line and the spigot which makes it warm, not hot, but is adjustable. I may be in the minority bc I have a tankless boiler, but I have my plumber coming in spring to do the replacement of my 2 spigots on the house (1 is in backyard, the other is next to driveway and is my washing spitgot) so he is most likely running me a warm water feed so I can wash when the temps are colder out with ease.

I used this technique for years on my cars as I really enjoy a quick hand waxing in the summertime to give some added shine. I do not use glazes as they don't last long enough for me. I don't currently use Liquid Paint Sealant although I use a well known liquid sealant from another company which I am quite happy with, I usually get a solid 6 months of protection if not more, the shine is excellent, especially with the gloss boost I get from my Detail spray drying agent However, sometimes I'd like to "throw a quick coat on" on a nice Sunday in the spring/summer, and wondered what would be good as a "topper" on top of something similar to Liquid Paint Sealant? I mean, I've done two coats of sealant in the past, and by that point you literally throw a sock on my hood and it just slides right off LOL. Would Buttery Wax give me the "Sunday Waxing Satisfaction", add a bit of shine and depth to my Topaz Blue (think a bright navy blue metallic) X5 with a liquid sealant underneath? I considered Americana but pure carnaubas do not last for me, I get maybe about 30-45 days before I feel like it "needs another coat". Is Buttery Wax longer lasting than Americana, or do they have the same surface life? Educate me a bit here, if Buttery Wax is expected to last 2 months in the sun then I would plan on using it as a topper every couple months during the warmer parts of the year, same with Americana, etc. I'm not overkill like the guy with the Jeep above who put 2 coats of liquid sealant, a quick sealant coat, 2 coats of buttery wax and a coat of Americana in a month LOL.

I'm sure some older, not well maintained ones or ones that run way too much 2 cycle oil might, but I've been using this particular model RedMax for 10 years now, used to use them when I was in the business, then when I bought my house last year I bought a brand new one for my property. Doesn't shoot any oil mist, spit, nothing. I blow leaves, dirt, grass off of myself after working outside, no problems there either, so I'd say it gets the "stamp of approval". You should have seen my wife's face the first time I told her "I was washing her car and cleaning the engine" and then 30 minutes later she hears the blower going, she runs out like "I thought you were cleaning my car not cutting the grass!" If you look at the hole on the rear of the red piece that looks like a square, that covers the exhaust for the carb/engine, I'd assume if any oil was being "spit" it would be out of there. But as long as you're mixed a proper 50:1 mix I don't think you would actually blow out oil, unless you purposely increased the mixture or were so far off that the engine couldn't combust the fuel/oil mix in the tank and blew out the excess unburnt oil. Then we'd be talking major issues on a $500 piece of equipment LOL

Been using these items the past few years and wouldn't dream of replacing with anything else, Waterless Wash I started using about 2 years ago as well as Undercarriage spray, other than that I've been using everything else for about 3-4 years: -Detail Spray -Great White -Super VRT -Car Shampoo -APC -Glass Cleaner -Undercarriage spray -Professional wash pads -Carpet & Upholstery Cleaner -(just added) Rinseless Wash No lie Mook Adam's 110% guarantee is huge, and to be honest not something i'd probably ever have to use as I know everything is quality and I don't think i'd ever be "let down" with the results. Like I said I am thoroughly pleased with the products on my shelf now that currently do my interior, when I run out of the 3 bottles I have now on the shelf, I will most likely give TID, L&I cleaner, and L&I conditioner a whirl, and i'm sure I wont be disappointed. I was just suggesting a trial interior sizes as its a low cost option for me to compare what I use now (would LOVE to do a 50/50 on one side vs. the other to show what I use now vs. how Adam's comes out!). Believe it or not there are those in the minority on here like me who may not use every single product Adam's has, but I love what the company does and i'm willing to give a try to almost anything, as long as I have a use for it. And there are staples like Waterless, Glass Cleaner, Detail Spray, Car Shampoo, the washing pads (I own a Merino wool mitt too), All Purpose Cleaner, Super VRT, and Undercarriage spray which will never leave my garage shelf and will always be in constant use, and I'd never look to replace with another brand's product.

The bundles is a good idea for gifts, looking forward to the new system. One thing I've been wondering, where did all the travel sizes go, did you guys used to have more of them? I for one would like travel sized Detail Spray/Glass Cleaner/Waterless in the trunk/glovebox for any incidental bird droppings, bug guts, etc, instead of filling up a whole 16 oz and leaving it in the car all year. As well, for someone like me who currently uses another brands interior products for leather conditioning, leather/plastic/vinyl cleaning and leather/plastic/vinyl interior protectant (can I say it is 1Z einzett?) and have yet to try Adams, although I am thoroughly pleased with the 1Z stuff I use now, i'm always willing to give Adam's stuff a shot and a side by side comparo to see if I would switch. For example a trial sized "interior" kit of Leather/Interior Conditioner, Leather/Interior Cleaner, Total Interior Detailer, heck even C&U cleaner (which I already use and love) might be a good addition for someone who is looking to try the products out, but not sure if they want to invest in the full sized bottles. I'd give Adams Leather conditioner, cleaner, and total interior detailer a try to see how they stack up against what I already use, if they were available in travel size bottles, should be able to do both cars with that. If it comes out better looking than when I'm done with the products I use now, I'd definitely move up to the 16 oz bottles regularly.

Man you guys really debate on here lol. If you're claying and going straight to sealant (say in the case of a winter prep where you're not looking to polish until spring) why not just use Waterless Wash as a claying lubricant instead of V2 Detail spray? Waterless wash has the cleaners that you want to keep the surface fresh but not the protection adding ability of V2 Detail Spray that "might" make your sealant not bond as well since its a wax enhancer as well now (something I have absolutely no problem with BTW, original Detail spray in itself just used as a drying agent extended the life of my coat of sealant significantly last year, can't wait to get a new gallon refill when i'm done with my V1) And for those of you saying WW is being phased out, you can make a new gallon of WW with 8 oz of Rinseless and a gallon of distilled water. If I were claying and laying a coat of wax/sealant on for winter and doing nothing else, I'd clay with Waterless, make sure surface is clean and ready to roll, and lay down my sealant. Done.

I guess that would work, or you could always do a wipe down in a separate bucket with some water + APC and a couple cheapo sponges/rags to do the fender wells and tires, and then just do the wheels with whatever's left (after a pre-soak) of the rinseless solution and a MF towel, then dry as normal and allow the tires/fenders to air dry as normal. I'm hypothesizing this all as if i'm doing this in my garage in the middle of winter, and want to do a complete job.

I use this as my Master Blaster. 65 cc, 3.9 hp, 236 mph. Doubles as a finisher for my landscaping duties of my 2 acres that I cut with my 52" Scag walk behind mower every week. Go around the cars once with that, and its off to the Detail spray and drying towel! Also works great on the engine bay, after I rinse off all APC I step on a small ladder and shoot the air down to blast out the standing water in the engine bay

I'm the same as you with about 1/5 the collection, lol! The cheapos get thrown out much more frequently after doing dry APC wipe downs of tires, etc, grimy engine gunk, etc. Usually my decent (I'll call them mid-grade) microfibers see a few months of use and a few washes, after wiping down door jambs, etc and doing polishing of my exhaust tips they tend to start to show the stains, even after a good MF detergent wash in hot water. Once they are still showing stains but can clean up nicely, I "retire them" to the house under the kitchen sink, for use in dusting, cleaning the double hung windows (with Adam's Glass Cleaner of course, I buy by the gallon), where they will see a few more months/year of use or more, the house is much easier on the towels for the rest of their life, just dusting and cleaning windows, bathtubs basically. Once a few towels get "retired" indoors I tend to almost buy more new towels than I retired, so my garage MF collection grows slightly, but it grows nonetheless. I was in a huge plush towel kick earlier this year so I got about 15 of them, but I find that I only use the really plush towels for removing wax and polish residues. I enjoy the double sided low-nap/fluffy nap towels (think Adams metal towels) for most duties, and I have a ton of 2-sided low nap towels that work great for interior wipe downs with Detailer and dashboard wiping, as well as glass cleaning. One can never have too many microfibers, I usually store about 3-4 in the trunk of mine and my wifes car along with a small travel size detail spray and glass cleaner, just in case of Bird droppings or bug splatters on a summer day! (my wife thinks i'm nuts)

The hex grip applicators sure are nice to hold and apply, and I have 2 of them, but I also have 6 MF applicators which I not only use for waxing (and they are better than hex grips IMO to do wheel sealants!), but I also use them for my leather conditioning, and sometimes use one for applying SVRT to trim!

Nice work on BSM, man, your hood looks great. I find that BMW paints take better to foam pads than MF pads in my experience on my X5. The new Adams correcting polish really looks promising, if I didn't have a brand new bottle of Menzerna FG400 I'd definitely get some, with only 2 cars and my motorcycle in the house I don't go through as much corrections to warrant another compound!

Microfiber foam pads need more frequent cleaning as the fibers get gummed up fairly quickly. After every other 2 x 2 section I find myself needing to brush out the pads, if you have an air compressor in the garage a few sprays with the blow gun in the pad works even better to fluff them back up and get the spent polish out! Foam pads are a little more forgiving in my experience and just using something like Adam's pad brush to clean them out every panel or so makes them work easier. Then again, I always use 2 pads of each color when polishing or correcting, so by the time i'm halfway done with the car I put a fresh clean pad on anyway. And FWIW I've not used Adam's microfiber pads but I have used 2 other popular MF cutting pads in my arsenal and I will say that they tend to not be as durable as the foam pads, after a few corrections the MF material starts to delaminate from the foam pad from the heat and pressure of correcting, now obviously using adams vented backing plates helps but i'm just sharing my experience. I have not had a foam pad that I could not clean, brush out etc and not have it back to 100%, whereas the MF pads I've used after about 2-3 cars or so they are starting to show the edges of the material separating from the backing of the pad. Again, just my experience, I have not read too much on the long term use of the Adams MF pads as they just came out this year, but I hope they improved upon the "other" popular MF pads out there. If so, I'll gladly get a set when mine wear out!

with such a nice shiny new Audi I'd suggest calling your plumber and installing a hot water feed to your hose spigot, he's coming to do mine soon, gonna be the best "car cleaning" investment I could make for the winter, hot soapy wash buckets, hot rinses, mmmmmmmm. A little bit of extra calcium on the driveway when finished should keep any icing at bay. If you're not into doing that, I'd make sure to find a nice coin op to be able to power spray all the salt and gunk off the vehicle before pulling into the garage and going to town with the Rinseless wash. DEFINITELY a nice decon session with a clar bar is a must before anything else. You can probably get a used PC or Griots orbital for cheap used if you wanted as well. Are you getting the rotary fixed (you mentioned it was broken) or are you getting a new one? Adams has a nice 15% off sale if you wanted a new Flex or Cyclo (XMAS), treat your ride right and save your hands from hand polishing lol! Great idea on the gallon of Detail spray, I go through almost a gallon a year myself!

Amen, the "Cheapo specials" will always be needed, couldn't justify using a 9 dollar towel to wipe down a dirty *** door jamb. I have almost 2 of those Home Depot 21 gallon totes filled up with MF towels, between all my polishing, all purpose, drying, and cheapo towels. I have 5 drying towels, and probably 30-35 other microfibers. its a bit of a problem I have lol.

No matter how many times I clean the gray floor mats in my wife's Rav4, they still don't look new (and I use Adams C&U Cleaner), its an amazing product but the deep heavy stains on the gray are the worst. Even Gray all-weather/weathertech mats get stained. I bought her a set of Toyota All weather mats for 80 bucks, they are black but they don't look out of place. Would much rather APCthem and use some protectant on them every time I do the interior, then use a whole 16 oz bottle of Adams Carpet cleaner, 4 microfibers to sop up grime, and 20 minutes brushing them. Not to mention I have to vacuum the dog hair from the mats first, as he only goes in my wifes car (white hairs on my black interior = no bueno). I still keep my Carpet cleaner in use underneath and to the sides of the mats keeping those areas clean and such, but it doesn't drive me as crazy to use a ton of Adam's carpet cleaner and still be left with "off-gray" mats

Hmmmm, wonder if this happens if you are mixing WW gallons with the Rinseless using the 8 oz : 1 gallon dilution? I happen to like the pretty blue color in the Waterless bottles I, for one bought the product in order to give myself the option to use on an occasional winter basis where maybe I don't have a "filthy" car but I do want to be able to get the film, salt dust, etc off and leave a smooth, clean surface. And I also bought it to do double duty to mix myself a new gallon of Waterless Wash (obviously that I am mixing with a gallon of distilled). Haven't used it in a rinseless wash scenario in the garage yet but I will be soon, it was warm enough on Sunday to get to the coin-op and do a proper 2 "adam's style" bucket wash on my wifes car, so I did that. Now my X5 is so filthy from driving through the last snowstorm yesterday I really want to get back there and do a 2 bucket on mine. What i'm wondering is what you do with the wheel wells, tires, etc with the rinseless product? Since we are talking in a rinseless scenario that you'd be in your garage doing this, its not like you are spraying your wheel wells/tires etc with APC and then cleaning them off with a wipedown of Rinseless solution, or are you? I wouldn't really trust my good microfibers to "winter time" wheel wells anyway, just was wondering! Or are we satisfied on just spraying down our wheel wells with a rinse, pressure hose, etc and knocking the crud off, then going home to mix up a bucket of Rinseless and do the rest of a proper cleaning?