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If you think you're addicted now, just wait till you put your first coat of brilliant glaze on... you will never look at your car the same way again haha

Yeah that doesn't sound right. No Adams clay I've ever used has been that much of a PITA.

I'd call them and see if they can sort it out for you!

so this doesn't need agitation like the wheels do? I was using this method on my white truck last week, but simply letting it dwell and then hosing it off wasn't enough to remove the particles. 

I ended up re-claying it with the 50/50 mix still on the paint, and then they came off. Hopefully that is an okay thing for my clay bar and paint?

thanks for the video!

Just did this on the 2006 dodge ram recently bought. Mine were bad enough that they needed to be wet sanded first. 

I wet sanded with 3,000 grit sand paper, then did the two step correction that I would normally do on paint. After that, I topped the headlights with two coats of sealant.

It won't be a permanent fix, but they will stay clear for a few months. 

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After Buttery Wax

ford ruby red paint looks so good! one of my favorite colors for sure

Well, heck... I'm even surprised your friend actually washed, clayed and sealed his truck, EVER! Lol. That's amazing for someone willing to not touch it or even run it through an auto wash in 6 months.

 

What gets me even more are the people I know who don't even clean their interiors. Friggin dirt-balls.

See he KNOWS how to do all this stuff, but he is just too damn lazy! haha He does it here and there with his other car, but the truck just doesn't get the same love... 

I was hoping that maybe the sealant would help him since its pretty minimal work, but maybe we're going to have to get him bottle of guard and gloss since thats even LESS work.    

Dylan, feel like doing any worst case scenario testing for guard and gloss? haha

just got a bottle of brilliant glaze that Im excited to try and this made me even more excited. truck looks awesome!

We all have that friend that doesn't take care of their car. The ones that make us OCD perfectionists cringe and wince in pain.

I have one of these friends, and decided to give him a bottle of Liquid paint sealant this past christmas to use on his truck. Its a 2005 dodge ram with black paint, that at the time, was just beginning to show signs of clear coat failure since it has lived, and continues to live, its life out doors.

He washed his truck right after christmas, clayed it, and applied liquid paint sealant to the drivers side of the truck before deciding that this whole detailing thing was just too much work, leaving the rest of the truck unprotected. 

Fast forward to today (june aka six months later) he shows up at my house. His truck hasn't been washed since december when he applied the liquid paint sealant, so I decide to take matters into my own hands and wash the dang thing so I can sleep at night...

THIS my friends, is the ultimate test of Adams Liquid paint sealant. The photos you are about to see are of six month old Adam's liquid paint sealant that was hastily applied, and after application, the vehicle was not washed for SIX MONTHS, and lived the entirety of those six months outdoors. The sealant has seen rain, mud, dust, lots of southern California sun, and a ton of miles since application, but the stuff still beads water. I was completely amazed.

This is the side with NO sealant. (note the water is in a sheet)

Untitled by Andrew Villablanca, on Flickr

Untitled by Andrew Villablanca, on Flickr

This is the side WITH six month old Adams liquid paint sealant: (note the beading)

Untitled by Andrew Villablanca, on Flickr

Untitled by Andrew Villablanca, on Flickr

I use the liquid paint sealant pretty much solely on trucks and SUV's since thats what I have.

It lasts me a good long time, especially since the liquid paint sealant is something that you only apply every few months. 

My last bottle did my long bed f150 3 times, an explorer twice, a dodge ram 2500 once, a corolla once, and a tesla once and I still have a little bit left!  my favorite adam's product by far!

that interior was disgusting!  I did the truck of a family friend who uses it as a work truck for his heavy equipment business, and hadn't cleaned the interior in a year or more.

That was horrible, so I know how much work it is.  Nice job!

I actually have both adams and megs soaps in the garage, and since I was washing a friend's car this weekend, decided to use the megs for the first time in a few months.

I seriously could not believe how much more megs soap I had to use to get close to the amount of foam I get from the blue adam's soap, and despite that, I ran out of water and soap in the bucket. Normally with the Adam's stuff, I have soapy water left over. 

Im not one to jump on a company band wagon, but adams soap is seriously amazing compared to the Megs stuff. 

id be into a leather sent. Anything else is kind of gas station tacky.  I could maybe do a detail spray sent as well...

Awesome truck! I love raptors. (edit: please put a full long travel kit on it  ) 

what exactly might this new mystery coating that you're debating on be? Am I sensing the rumored ceramic type coating getting closer to production?

Awesome work! I love hearing about people that realize trucks need to be cared for too! 

I use the pad to apply the sealant as well, since i feel like the foam applicator seems to swallow most of the sealant instead of putting it on the car... Kind of a bummer since it does a much better job of getting nice thin even coats. 

Thats a great looking truck! Glad someone else on here has a thing for the CTD's! 

I came from megs products like you and I can honestly say you're in for a big surprise with the adam's line.  Its all just so much better than the megs stuff!

I think my personal Adam's favorites are the liquid paint sealant and the interior detailer. both do a kick *** job compared to megs.

Let us know if you have any questions after you watch the videos!

^^^this^^^

I would love some die cut adam's stickers to throw on the cars!

preferably white since its super clean, simple, and minimal.         Any plans to make them?

I'm subscribing to this because I've been curious about the product myself

Andrew your technique, product amount, pad choice, etc is fine.

 

How many RIDS are we talking about per panel?  should be no need to go over the entire truck for just some remaining RIDS with a 4" pad.  I'd just correct the areas that have the most noticeable RIDS, then go over the truck wit the Flex and PF polish and call it a day.

 

If you want to chase perfection and 100% you're going to need to wetsand, hone up your rotary technique, and spend upwards of 40 hours or more chasing it.  I'd just be happy at 90-95% correction, seal it and keep it clean.

Yeah there are just a lot of RIDS per panel. they seem to be just deep enough to not be reachable with a polisher sadly,  Im going to have to settle with what I got out of it, but I just wasn't really sure just how much I could expect it to improve since Ive never done this before.

Also Im sorry guys for the lack of updates and photos! Ive been on the hunt for a daily driver truck for a few months now, and finally bought a 2006 ram 2500 last Wednesday so Its going to need some adam's love as well!

Trying not to get ahead of myself here, but Im looking for some advice on that truck as well.

In the center line of the roof, just in front of and behind the sunroof, the roof has two quarter sized spots where the clear coat has gone cloudy (doesn't look bird poop related). Because of that, Im going to avoid doing paint correction of the roof and just do clay and seal etc.

The paint on this truck is in very good shape otherwise but would definitely benefit from a little correction. As of right now, the clear on the hood is in perfect with no cloudiness, but it has also been exposed to the same things as the roof.

should worry about weakening the hood by doing a mild paint correction since it may be already weakened, but not to the point where it shows?  any thoughts?  

that looks AWESOME! 

The bad spot is just one spot thankfully and isn't representative of the whole. I've admitted defeat with that one haha

as for the rest of the scratches, sadly they are ALL RIDS. It seriously looks like the previous owner used a dirt covered paper towel to wash the truck for 20 years. They were always there, but they are just more noticeable now that Ive gotten rid of all the other swirls. That said, nothing is deep enough to catch my fingernail (save for that one nasty little spot) 

Id really like to hope that there is an error in my technique since going over the truck with a 4in pad wouldn't be a very fun task. 

Here is my technique:

1) Ive been putting two perpendicular squirts of PC polish on the orange pad just shy of edge to edge.

2) I then spread the polish on a 2x2ish section of the paint on setting 1

3) then I bump up to setting 5, and do a horizontal pass, a vertical pass, a horizontal, then a vertical.

4) then I stop, and brush the MF pad out as best I can before repeating. 

yeah i definitely noticed that even totally clean, the microfiber pads take a bit more muscle than the foam.

So I'm seeking some additional council here. 

After doing the entire hood with four passes of the orange MF and then two of the white foam, I am seeing a major major improvement, but it is far from perfect. 

I tried one section where I did four passes of the orange MF and then four of the orange foam and it is noticeably better, but I still have plenty of visible scratches in the paint. 8 passes seems like an awful lot to me though, so Im wondering if anyone else has some advice.

Should I apply more pressure to the machine to cut deeper or am I trying to accomplish something with a machine that only wet sanding can do?

I can take photos if needed

... yep that was the problem. cleaned it and now were all good haha guess the first pad loaded up more than the others since I was using it for more passes. totally a dumb mistake. 

Quick question. Ive been polishing today and keep having an issue. When using the orange microfiber pad, the machine is constantly pushing, pulling, and vibrating more than normal. None the other pads seem to be mis behaving. 

any ideas for why this is happening? It almost seems like the pad is crooked and is throwing the balance of the machine off...

Im also amazed at how long this is taking! four passes each with the orange pads just doesn't cut it for a lot of the scratches!

can't wait to try out the new guard and gloss! stuff looks so easy to use!