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Camaro's have used base/clear since the mid-80's.

I use APC, rinse until clear, and spin on the PC in a bucket. If your clothes dryer has a shoe drying platform, you can speed the drying process a bit by putting the pads on the platform and running the dryer for about 10-15 minutes. I was doing this today and I could have a dirty pad cleaned and ready to go again in under 20 minutes.

I ordered APW, 1 gal DS, and 1 gal APC about 10 minutes ago. I've only been aware of the existence of Adam's for a few weeks now and I'm completely hooked. I did a full interior detail on the wife's 06 Pacifica last weekend and I'm blown away by how good it looks. I've only had a chance to do a test on the hood of my kid's Civic with my new PC thus far, but I've never,ever gotten results like this and I'm pretty picky when it comes to polishing and waxing. I'm going out to wash the Pacifica in a few minutes. Clay barring starts tonight and the weekend is pretty much set aside for a full exterior detail. Film at 11....

It was VERY tasty!! I cut up a whole onion to put on it and that takes it to another dimension. The only problem is that the water in the onion makes a flood when you cut it. I had to put it back in the oven after I sliced it to cook the water off. I had my daughter document the whole process while I was making it. I'll post up pics tonight.

Mmmmmmm .......... I smell it cooking now. Should be ready in about 20 minutes!

Oh, BTW -- this is making my butt look big. I blame you!

I just tried my PC and Adam's SHR/FMP/MSW for the first time last night on my son's 10 y.o. Civic (aka the practice vehicle). The clear on the hood looked like the surface of the moon up close during my "before" inspection. I started out with the PC set to 5 using minimal pressure and didn't see any change after two passes with SHR. I then watched Adam's video and tried it again with fairly heavy pressure and moving more slowly (about 1/2 as fast) and saw a considerable improvement. After two passes of SHR and one pass of FMP, most of the scratches and some of the smaller pits were removed but there was some inconsistency in the quality of my final finish across the hood. Overall, it looks 1000% better, but this got me thinking about how I can obtain better consistency. Junkman is absolutely correct that by leaning on the PC until it doesn't rotate cuts down on the amount of work the machine can do. We then do the work instead of the machine. The product needs to be subjected to a certain amount of shear for a given surface to polish effectively. The shear is a combination of motion and pressure. When we lean on the buffer, we add a bunch of pressure but cut the motion in half. If we apply minimal pressure, we get the full effect of the mechanical action of the PC but we will need to make more passes over the area vs. using high pressure to properly break down the product. It seems to me that I probably didn't see the results I wanted with minimal pressure due to moving the PC a bit too fast and not fully breaking down the product. Further, I think that the variation in results I saw across the hood was in large part due to variation in the amount of pressure I was applying to the buffer. I think I would see better consistency with minimum pressure because I remove the prime source of pressure variation (the buffer operator) from the equation. I have only completed the hood thus far. I will try minimum pressure on the roof and compare the results.

Nope, nothing better! In fact, it's better than several types of fresh cooked pizzas, IMHO. I'm going to post the Dagwood (with proper credit and your permission, of course) on another car forum I frequent that has a bunch of chow hound members. They tend to have a "top this" mentality -- I want to see what they do with the Dagwood!

My 16 y.o. son and I did a Dagwood Pizza last Saturday evening using a Digiorno 3 meat rising crust as the base. Boy, was that ever tasty! My wife and 14 y.o. daughter had the left overs the next day and liked it so much that we are making another for dinner tonight. I am going to make one change to the recipe, however. I'm going to cut up an onion and throw that on there as well. Thanks, Junkman! You're my heeeeero!

Our lab/Walker Hound (coon dog) mix chewed on the front and rear bumpers of my 3 week old car back when she was a puppy. She also ate the corners off the coffee table, several towels, and too many rolls of toilet paper to count. Fortunately they grow out of that stage ... She's dumber than a box of rocks but she's a great dog now at 7 1/2 years. She's my buddy.

Yep -- I use turtle wax on the corvette. However, as I get older it's getting much harder to squeeze the wax out of the turtle plus the shell tends to leave swirl marks. :lol: Kidding aside, the thing I like most about this forum is that you don't see all the internet know-it-alls, "my way or the highway" types, and silly flame wars like you see at CF and many others.

Welcome, Kris! This place is a gold mine of information. I've learned a ton here. G8 owner here too.

Gerry -- here are a few shots taken in 2005. I don't have anything more recent as it has been sitting covered since then waiting for a heart transplant. That procedure should be completed this summer if I ever get off my lazy butt...

OK ....... Today's project was to wash the wife's Pacifica (in the background of the above picture) and start cleaning up the wheels. I do wash the wheels whenever I wash the car but the oxidation and baked in brake dust was getting pretty bad. Before: After almost 3 hours with clay (one wheel done): I did add some small scratches to the wheels that I need to polish out, but they look a thousand times better than before. I'll probably take the wheels off the car to do the other 3. BTW -- I know the tires look like crap. I've got some VRT on order ...

Yes, I do have hard water.

Thanks for the responses. Frank -- Thanks for the tip on tree pollen. The car had only a light coating of tree pollen since I washed it yesterday. I misted the car lightly with detail spray and it came off readily. I did it about 11 AM before the sun got too hot. I never had used detail spray for anything other than claying previously but I am now totally sold on wiping the car down with it. The car looks fabulous and I haven't clayed or waxed it yet. I'm really anxious for my PC to show up this week so I can get rid of the swirls the dealer put in and get a good coat of wax on it. I had the car parked in the shade prior to the wash so the surface was cool. I have to wash in the sun because the trees I have are particularly "dirty" at this time of year.

I did my first wash yesterday with Adam's wash pad, car wash, detail spray, and MF towel using the wash and dry techniques from the videos. I ran into an issue when I went to dry the car. I did a rinse without a sprayer to get the water to sheet, sprayed detail spray, then dried with the MF towel. The car was in the sun and the temp was about 80 degrees with a moderate breeze. Total time elapsed between the detail spray and towel dry was about 90 seconds at most (turn off hose, run into garage to get towel), but I had severe streaking and residue on the finish. The panels were starting to dry but there was still water on the car. It was bad enough that I had to re-rinse the car. What did I do wrong? Any suggestions to avoid this happening in the future? Also, about how much detail spray should I use before drying? The wind was blowing so some of it was blowing away but I used about 1/4 of a bottle on a Pontiac G8 to get what I thought was good coverage. Is this too much? I will be doing a wipe down with detail spray today because of tree pollen. Any suggestions on how much to use? I'm going to try a very fine mist and see how that works. I want to use enough to get it right but at my current rate of usage I'll go through a whole bottle to do 2-3 cars. BTW -- the MF drying towel is incredible! I've never dried with microfiber before and it's like a Hoover for water. Thanks in advance for your help.

I just got a tracking number. The goodies should be here Friday.

Here are a couple of pictures. 1989 Corvette -- Taken about 2 years ago on the day I pulled the motor. It has 51,000 miles, and I'm the original owner. I'm almost finished building a 500 HP 383 for it. Hopefully it will be back on the road this summer. Right now it's covered with a 6 mil sheet of plastic and has a bunch of cardboard boxes stacked on the hood. 2009 Pontiac G8 GT -- Took delivery 2/27/09. It looks pretty good in the picture, but the dealer prep was horrible. It has holograms and small scratches all over it and it desperately needs to be clayed. I don't have any pictures of the Pacifica, but you can see its partial reflection in the above picture. I'll get before and after pics when I start detailing.

Gotta love Inferno! Our Pacifica is that color. I wish GM had offered their version of that color on the G8, then I would have three cars in that color. LOL!

Thanks! I'm really curious to see what Adam's does on our cars. The Pacifica and G8 have really high levels of metalflake so I bet they will look incredible. I'm working on a new engine for the Corvette so hopefully it will see the sun later this summer for the first time in nearly 4 years. It definitely will need the full finish treatment after sitting for so long.

Hi! I'm new to the forum and Adam's polishes. I took the plunge today and ordered a bunch of Adam's products, including the detail kit with a PC buffer, clay, wash kit, and MF towels/applicators. I was at one time a detail fanatic, but I had fallen off the detailing wagon, so to speak, for the last several years. I was thinking that I needed to get some wax on the wife's car and the G8 when I realized that we have owned her vehicle a little over 3 years and I've never waxed it! I started going through my products in the garage to see if I needed to get any supplies and I quickly found that all my products were several years old at a minimum and all my buffer bonnets were trash. I then tried to find foam bonnets to fit my old B&D 9" buffer only to find that no one seems to carry them any more. I had always used Meguair's products and gotten good results, but after reading on several forums I frequend about the results people are getting with Adam's products I decided to give them a try. I watched several of the detailing videos and realized that my technique of the last 20 years could definitely stand some improvement. I decided at that point to get rid of all my old stuff and also upgrade to a PC buffer. I had always gotten good shine and smoothness, but I always seemed to struggle with swirl marks. I'm excited to give the new buffer a try with the Adam's products and a revised technique.