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Sorry you guys missed it...it did drop with the Black Friday Sale,  I just researched it for like 20min,  haha

News to me too! 

Congrats on 20 years!  It was so nice to see where you started and how you've grown so much!  Your mother almost made me tear up!  Glad to see Ashley and hear she is doing so well and hear what her take away was from working with Adam.  I also noticed that there wasn't anyone that mention that the reason Adam's was so successful was because of the products he created.  He thanked so many people for the success of the company that it shows if you don't have good people around you, it doesn't matter how good the items your selling you won't have what's important!!  
 
I wish you all the best at Adam's Polishes and hope for 100 more years!!
 
please come back to Detailer's Domain!!  

Congrats to the whole Adams team! You guys do some great work.  
 Quick story..few years ago i was looking for new car care products.   I had not heard of Adams and specifically decided against Adams because i didnt like the old style car on its label...fast forward a year or so later and now its the bottles (and product inside) that keeps me coming back!  Love the bottle designs!
 The market team and design team are unreal! You guys get me every time! I have a large wall full of the Limited bottles.  I have only missed one in the past 2+ years (CO bottle). 
 Keep up the hard work! Congrats!

Hi Justin, our normal pink Detail Spray has polymers that will not harm a ceramic coating, but I tend to use Ceramic Boost, CS3, Ceramic Waterless, or Waterless Wash on my coated vehicle.
 
With this new formula, it does have silicone wax and carnauba wax additives in it, so it wouldn't be my recommended choice for a coated vehicle, since you would be mixing two different product family types.

Oh, and I forgot to mention one very cool thing:
 
Free gift with every 20th Anniversary Detail Spray purchase! No, I'm not saying what it is 🙂

I have so many great memories with Adam's Polishes it would take forever to list them all here, but here's a few that stand out in my mind right now:
 
- Being introduced to the brand back in 2007 with my very first use of Leather Conditioner on my GTO seats. I was simply amazed, and then quickly started buying up everything I could at Grabiak Chevrolet!
- Helping out at Detail Clinics and Shows with Adam, Dave @BRZN, Chris @Chris@Adams, Rich @Rich, Brother Greg, and so many others (I'm sorry if I'm leaving you out!) 
- After a few years of helping, to then have Adam offer to fly me out to Colorado for a weekend for a job interview - my job interview consisted of working the GoodGuys Loveland Show with him, getting to drive a brand-new beautiful blue C7 Stingray to the show for us to detail (with Adam joking that I lost the job since the Vette may or may not have had better launch control than his SRT8 Jeep!), and staying at his house with his family for the weekend to talk about life, detailing, and anything else we could think of..that's just how true of a person he is, and I am extremely proud to be a part of his vision.
- Flying out to Scottsdale to attend my first ever Barrett-Jackson Event and filming the Volume 10 Video Series at a beautiful house that we rented for the week - it was the perfect backdrop and I can't even count how many customers asked throughout the years if it was Adam's house - it was not! I will never forget Adam telling @Calvin A and I that we had 60 minutes to polish out the remainder of the black CTS-V so that we could do some drone shots with it...every 2-3 minutes he would walk by and smile and say "Are you done yet!?!"
- Many nights at the cabin in Carlisle with Adam, Dave, Holly, Nicole, Bob, Kyle N, Travis, Paul, and others sitting at the river after a long days work and enjoying some campfire and good stories.
- Many long days and nights working with @Joe@Adams on dozens and dozens of projects throughout the years, barely meeting deadlines but still having fun in the process!
- Surviving Black Friday and Cyber Monday phone calls each year - losing my voice twice on Cyber Monday from taking so many calls!
- A big downpour at Scottsdale Barrett-Jackson where Sydney assembled the entire Adam's A Team of 15+ people and dried a car every 60 seconds or so from 11PM - 1AM as they drove off of the auction block and back into their tent location! I think we used at least 50 Great White Drying Towels, wringing them out too (Ultra Plush didn't exist yet!)
- More recently, getting to meet so many amazing students and hear their stories at our new Shine Academy Classes since November of last year.
- Successfully completing my biggest and most difficult task with the company thus far this January - being responsible for scheduling all of the over 435 vehicles that we detailed in some manner at the Barrett-Jackson auction...from talking to the owners, taking payments, and figuring out where to fit them in on the schedule. It was one of the most stressful but most rewarding things I've ever done with the company, and I can't wait to do it again next year!

Congrats to the whole Adams team! You guys do some great work.  
 Quick story..few years ago i was looking for new car care products.   I had not heard of Adams and specifically decided against Adams because i didnt like the old style car on its label...fast forward a year or so later and now its the bottles (and product inside) that keeps me coming back!  Love the bottle designs!
 The market team and design team are unreal! You guys get me every time! I have a large wall full of the Limited bottles.  I have only missed one in the past 2+ years (CO bottle). 
 Keep up the hard work! Congrats!

We're introducing a new video series today, One Take Tuesday, where we discuss detailing tips, all in one take - no camera cuts or multiple angles - just a very honest and transparent way to provide some knowledge!
 
This week focuses on Compounding and Polishing, and you can watch the video below. Make sure to follow our YouTube channel if you have not already. We hope you like it!
 
 

Or save the search and click on the link above?! 

Surface Prep will degrade if not remove your Paint Sealant, Glaze and Buttery Wax. So unless you just want CS3 as your protection layer, I wouldn't recommend it.
 
 
While yes, he "can," I don't know that he really wants to? I may be missing something, though...
 
But yes, CSC before CS3. The former is a coating and needs bare paint. The latter is a maintenance product, very much like Ceramic Waterless, and would interfere with the CSC's ability to bond to the paint.

You sure can..but give yourself a break! Let the Cadi be for  a few weeks!! 
Then strip wash...i would think you would want CSC before the CS3. 

Great day for a wash... I really love how the Midnight Detail spray finishes with so much gloss✨✨✨

Here's an article that should answer all your questions!
 
 

Your beard quit growing Chris?  And I think you can own this emoji now, not just me! Kind of looks like you!    😄

Our trusty drill took care of it...see picture below 😉


 
And here are more shots from our creative team. I wish I could've made it out to the re-opening party tonight!


 

 

 

 
They were able to keep most of the sticker wall with the redesign:
 

 

 

 

 

Sounds like a great plan. Cant wait to see the results! 

So here it is...after going to ACI and playing with films, this is the plan. 
 
The color is Matte Sunset Shift from Avery Dennison. It’s an orange that shifts to almost a gold at one end, and red at the other depending on viewing angle. This will save the jams and sills from being attention. Since the film is matte, it will bring out the contours of the body quite a bit. 


 
The image is under fluorescent lights. Outside it comes to life. 
 
We are going to do gloss black on the roof, a posts and mirrors. We are also adding the lower accents of what would be the Lotus Black Pack. So the lower splitter, the lower rockers. You can see what the black pack is on this image. 
 

 
The calipers will be done in some color on the film spectrum. They are going to be painted and have black lettering. The wheels will be powder coated gloss black and I’ll have new gloss black lug nuts. 
 
All emblems will be replaced with black ones of the same. The hood emblem and wheel center caps will be black/silver logos.
 
To top it off, it will get a Viny/PPF specific coating from another manufacturer. Two layers on all matte film. A single layer and a gloss layer on the gloss films. And lastly wheels and calipers coated in a single layer (maybe two depending on time). 
 
Just have to wait for the NYC auto show and my car is first scheduled when they come back from that!
 
 

Just an update...going down to ACI tomorrow to check out some films. I have a few ideas rolling in my head. I just need to see what they look like on the car and what I can see myself living with. 
 
Ordering the black badging and emblems this coming week. The appointment is technically the end of April, but they may get me in earlier so I want to have things ready to go. 
 
By the time the wheels are powdercoated, calipers painted and car wrapped it’s a big project. Then when we get it back it needs a coat or two of ceramic on it to really top it off. 
 
I’ll post progress pics as I get them when it happens and I’ll document the ceramic process for the forums!  Possibly shoot a nice video reveal when it’s done...

What I do, if I get dust from setting in the garage I use DS, If I get road dust from driving I use WW to be safe.

Yeah, I have no illusions of permanent clearcoat damage I won't be able to get out.
 
 
Yup. I'm using both the Swirl Killer and the MINI. I did wax it by hand and it gave it a nice glossy shine, but obviously that isn't going to coat the paint and its imperfections evenly and that might be part of where I'm going wrong in trying to smooth it all out.

Come back to NJ and Detailers Domain!

Guess I'm the wrong guy to answer this one!  I've never used any of that gym equipment in my life!  And it shows!  

Sounds like a multi part metal flake. Some paints use a base color. Then clear coat. Then metal flake (or metallic). Then more clear coat. 
 
You might have found a layer of metal flake. We did a custom painted Indian motorcycles. 
 
Ask me how I found out about that???  Went through and created what looked like an oil spot in the paint. Ended up getting it resprayed by the artist on my dime. 
 
You live and learn. 

I attend many high end car shows with my Mustangs and although the parts aren't Adams, all the detailing is ! I get so many compliments on the paint of both cars, the 07 stang was at a show in Boston and I had the head judge ask me if the paint was factory done, I told him absolutely it was, he asked because 5 other judges looked at it and they said it wasn't !!  
Lovin the shine !!