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    2016
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    Silverado
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    Chip

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  1. Sorry for not including the color. The 2005 Mini Cooper S that I will be starting with is blue with a white roof. My truck is next and is Chevy blue (metalic blue).
  2. Thank you all for the advice. I have another question now. I know the vehicle has to be clean and dry before any correction. If I follow the daily driver washing video where do I stop? My plan since I will be in full sun is the following: - Rinse thoroughly - Use foam gun (since in full sun) - One bucket daily driver wash - Claybar - Dry with drying towel - no H2O guard yet - correct with correcting polish and PC polisher - use finish polish with PC polisher - use paint sealant with PC polisher The next wash will be using the H2O guard during the drying process Does this sound correct, or is there something else I need to add in order to correct swirls and start a good base protectant? Thanks again everyone for steering this newbie with lots of questions in the right direction.
  3. I also saw a video of the finish polish being used in the full sun with the swirl killer so it made me wonder about the correcting polish. I think the finish polish is okay to use in the sun because it is a soft polish and wouldn't create as much heat as the correcting polish that is more abrasive. Is that correct or am I way off the rocker? Disclaimer: I consider myself a new new newbie so please don't take my thoughts as anything more than a thought until a experienced person or pro tells me it is right or corrects me.
  4. I have been looking at the Adams products to pick out what products I need for what I am trying to accomplish. I have been watching the videos to learn the proper wash techniques, how to use the polishers and compounds, polishes, sealants and what not. I have picked out the wash kit I want (the daily driver wash kit and added the foam gun since I am in the sun). I picked out the porter cable polisher and the Adams complete polish and pad combo to get rid of some light scratches and swirls. I think I am on the right track for the product I want and think the only thing left is the area I will be polishing my truck. I don't have a garage to pull my truck in so it will be in full sun. What do I need to do in order to use the correcting polish and finish polish with the PC and corresponding pads in the full sun or can I even use them in the full sun? I have read about heat burning through from the polishers and even hear it in the videos about heat build up so I imagine being in the sun will only increase the risk of burning through. Again, I am so new that this is just my thought and is why I am reaching out to the pros here.
  5. I have been looking through the videos and have a few requests. I would like to see a how-to video of polishing around door handles and other trim so not to damage anything by bouncing a orbital polisher off of them. I would also like to see a how-to video on how to polish around some radical height differences, for example on the hood of a 2016 Chevrolet Silverado. The hood of my truck has about a 3 inch difference in height, seeing how to use a orbital buffer on something like this would be very helpful to me. I attached a picture of the hood of the same model truck so you can see what I am talking about.
  6. O yea, I know it wasn't your intent. I may stop by and talk to him and see if he is a member but I know he just had shoulder surgery. Another reason I was so impressed with him, he was polishing my truck the day before he had shoulder surgery and had tons of other things to take care of. It would be neat to run into him on here.
  7. I ran across that forum and read through it briefly but wanted to go back and read it again. I couldn't remember where I saw it though so thanks for adding it here so I can find it.
  8. I don't know if he is a member or not. I certainly wouldn't bash him or his business as he really did go out of the way to try and help me during a time he really didn't have, plus that just isn't who I am. In the end I think he is probably right and it is the cheap after market dealer applied paint protector coming off. He explained the entire car wash to me and how the chemicals they use are a balanced PH in order to clean the car and not to acidic to harm the paint or clear coat and let me go in and look at the brushes to see how soft they are. he takes his Vet in the same car wash and doesn't have a problem but he uses the Adams product in addition to the car wash so the paint is probably protected better. I don't know, it makes sense to me.
  9. Hello everyone. I am just setting up an account so I can post some questions I have about the products and what I should be using for my truck. Although I am getting up in the years with my age, I am about as new as can be to this car care. I have always been one to just save the money and not have anything that really needed any special wash, waxes, polishes, or much less detail sprays, correcting compounds, sealants, long throw random orbital buffers, etc... About the only thing that I have had that got washed and waxed is my Harley Davidson. Of course there is not a lot of paint being that the only painted service is a gas tank and two fenders. Most of the polishing on this is chrome. As for my cars, well they have never been any newer than 12 years old and who cares what they looked like. I mean I got them from an auction before they were scrapped. Flip forward to today when my wife finished school with a medical degree, I finished my second degree, and our family is now a two income family and things seem to have changed. Now I have a metallic blue 2016 Chevrolet Silverado and my wife has a new Land Rover Discovery. Now we have something that I want to keep nice. When I purchased my truck I got the paint protection, I think it was Commodore or something like that. I know it is likely just a gimmic that the dealer makes money on and the product doesn't actually work for anything. I didn't purchase it for the way they say it works, I purchased it because it gave me a warranty on the paint. I didn't buy anything like this for the Discovery as it is a little less at risk of being scratched and is garage kept. I decided that I would take my truck through a car wash real fast since so many people told me how good it was and they have had no problems. I believe this was my first mistake as my truck came out scratched, and I mean scratched. It looked like someone took a wire brush down both sides of the truck. Of course, as we all know, it wasn't the fault of the car wash. There is no way a machine spinning in a circular motion spinning brush like pieces down the side of a vehicle would cause millions of little 3 inch horizontal scratches down it. It must have been a weedeater or something. Okay, I digress. The car wash owner looked at the truck and said there was nothing in the car wash that would cause this. Understand that the owner was very nice and really did try and help. During the conversation the owner told me that it is possible that it was the after market paint protection that the dealer sold me coming off. He offered to buff part of a fender to see if he could get the scratches off. He pulled out his orbital buffer and Adams products that he said he uses on his corvette that he shows. In about 10 minutes, the scratches were gone and the fender was shining like it should. I then went home and got the after market paint care product kit from the dealer and put the paint protection renewer on the truck and the scratches appeared to be gone. Probably not gone, but not really noticeable. I fear the next time I wash the truck the scratches, or swipes of paint protectant coming off, will just appear again. I am impressed on how the products seemed to work on the fender the car wash owner did. I don't want to waist a bunch of money on Adams products that I don't need due to my lack of experience, especially since the cheapo paint protector renew stuff from the dealer seemed to mask the scratches. I would rather spend the money on the correct Adams product the first time. Sorry for the length of the post, but there is the story of how I got here any why I am in search of the correct product to use.
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