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mathews31 got a reaction from falcaineer in Winter Washing - Help!
I am by no means knowledgeable in the Rinseless wash process but isn't that too much grime on the car?
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mathews31 reacted to 8675309'SS in Winter Washing - Help!
@WMUCarGuy you definitely want to spray that bad boy before you perform a rinseless. The weather here just sucks right now. Not much you can do without some heat. Over here we might get a day above freezing in about a week. So maybe you'll have one too.
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mathews31 got a reaction from 8675309'SS in Winter Washing - Help!
I am by no means knowledgeable in the Rinseless wash process but isn't that too much grime on the car?
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mathews31 reacted to Rich in Exterior detail.
Boy, you just screwed yourself. You now have a full time job for your sister. That's what happens when you do a good job. Nice save buddy.
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mathews31 reacted to WMUCarGuy in Winter Washing - Help!
Right now, we have an arctic blast coming through Michigan and the temperatures haven't been above freezing for the last 10 days and it's looking like it will probably be another week or so before it breaks.
As such, you can't really wash your car since spraying it down with water when it's 10 degrees out will just result in everything freezing.
My Focus ST is now completely filthy, but I don't know if there's much I can do until the cold breaks. Do you guys have any suggestions on what to do when it's too cold to wash your car outside (and don't have access to a heated garage)?
I feel horrible, I never let my cars get like this, but unless I had a heated wash bay to use, I'm not sure what other options I have....
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mathews31 got a reaction from Nickfire20 in The Official "Pay It Forward" Thread
Thanks for the gifts take your time
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mathews31 reacted to Hupp2it in Master Blaster > Rain
Thought I'd share a habit of mine that y'all may appreciate / laugh at. I have a blue 2016 Vette that I lovingly care for, but drive every day. This means sometimes it gets, brace yourselves, rained upon well, I bought a master blaster earlier in the year and one time after driving the car home in the rain looked at the master blaster on the wall, and back at my wet car sitting in the garage and had a thought. Couldn't I just blow all that nasty rain water off? I mean it is ceramic coated so the rain and road dirt has been just sheeting off anyway. Well, yep sure can, and it works pretty darn well... assuming it was raining steadily. Blows all that dirty rain water right off. Lots of folks ask about the effectiveness of the paint coating and the usefulness of the master blaster. For me this exemplifies both.
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mathews31 reacted to alexA5 in FOAM PARTY
Just tried out the Ultra Foam for the first time. And man I wasn’t disappointed. Twice as much foam then usual and only used maybe 3 oz. here’s a pic I took. If you guys have any cool foam pictures you want to post go for it!
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mathews31 reacted to falcaineer in What did you do today?
Hoping those were green to begin with, Eric!
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mathews31 reacted to ZMAN024 in YouTube Interest
I think it would be great to post a video showing how crazy the warehouse gets during a Mystery Box / Bucket sale event, and how hard everyone works to fill the orders. That may help curtail some of the constant complaining on the forum !
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mathews31 reacted to alexA5 in New suggestions
I’m thinking Adam’s valve stem covers. With the Adam logo on them. Maybe some detail spray candles or waterless wash or tire shine. Anyone else have any ideas for some items.
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mathews31 got a reaction from falcaineer in The "Don't Do's of Detailing" Thread
I've never taken my license plates off now I'm scared how it looks back there.
Don't bring your wash pad too close to your car emblems
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mathews31 reacted to TheWolf in Single soft towel question
No, the Single Soft Towel is not two towels sewn together, it is a single layer of plushy goodness!
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mathews31 reacted to falcaineer in Another new one
I think our Aussie members qualify most for being "way down here"....but we'll still welcome you, Jimmy!
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mathews31 reacted to Mariner in Adam's Windshield Washer Fluid?
Mine gets filled for free during my Toyota maintenance intervals. I’m curious as to how it’s boosted... what does that even mean?
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mathews31 reacted to b_pappy in Adam's Foam Gun (the less expensive one)
Glad you got it resolved, and Lukas is a great guy.
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mathews31 got a reaction from b_pappy in Adam's Foam Gun (the less expensive one)
SO just an update to anyone reading this, I called my dealer Lukas at Detail Giant in Deer Park, NY, and he took care of it with no issues. He contacted me and said he'd call his person on the other end, after a week or so he contacted me saying he had it. Mind you I could've picked it up and saved him shipping, but he insisted to send it to me to save me the time and gas. So if you're in NY and need a dealer DETAIL GIANT is the man. Thanks Lukas
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mathews31 got a reaction from mc2hill in Adam's Foam Gun (the less expensive one)
SO just an update to anyone reading this, I called my dealer Lukas at Detail Giant in Deer Park, NY, and he took care of it with no issues. He contacted me and said he'd call his person on the other end, after a week or so he contacted me saying he had it. Mind you I could've picked it up and saved him shipping, but he insisted to send it to me to save me the time and gas. So if you're in NY and need a dealer DETAIL GIANT is the man. Thanks Lukas
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mathews31 reacted to Hamilton Detail in Car seat detailing
So to make a long story short, a friend of mine posted on Facebook that she really needed her son’s car seat detailed and wanted to know if anyone could do that. So being the Adam’s fanatic that I am, I said that I could do it.
I did it and and the results were just awesome. Now I have several people in my area asking me to detail their car seat. Who knew that this could be a thing?
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mathews31 reacted to falcaineer in Thank a Veteran Today
From someone currently serving to all who have, are, and someday will, Thank You! I salute you.
What is a Veteran?
Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye.
Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg - or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity.
Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem.
You can't tell a vet just by looking.
He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.
He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the 38th parallel.
They are the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.
He is the POW who went away one person and came back another - or didn't come back AT ALL.
He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat - but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no-account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.
He is the parade - riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.
He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.
He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb Of The Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.
He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket - palsied now and aggravatingly slow - who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.
He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being - a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.
He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.
So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say Thank You. That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.
Two little words that mean a lot, "THANK YOU".
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protestor to burn the flag."
Father Denis Edward O'Brien/USMC
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mathews31 reacted to Nickfire20 in HELP!
Buff? Sounds sketchy. He needs to polish. And not add wax til, the spots are gone. Wax will do nothing with these spots.
I had a Chevy body shop wax and buff my brand new tahoe to remove swirl marks....yup still have those swirl marks!
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mathews31 got a reaction from shane@detailedreflections in HELP!
You can try a water spot remover, I don't have any experiences with those, also you can try revive hand polish that might work as well without the need for "trust" lol
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mathews31 got a reaction from GiggleMon in Forum Upgrade
Sounds like it's going to be great...maybe they can make me a founding member cause technically it's a new design