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The comments about the garage from @Richand @Bigdave_185reminded me that I had not updated this thread in a while. Activity has certainly been ongoing with the pieces slowly coming together between trips to Upstate NY, Wisconsin and multiple runs to Florida. The walls and ceiling are all installed and primed, the lights are wired and I'm almost set to install the ceiling fans. Son-in-law #1 and I are going to make custom trim since he has a router table. The first picture is with all the lights on, which I do not expect to be doing very often, but there are not dark areas of the garage. The second two picture show that I've actually started putting up some of the essential items and have started moving some of my Adam's products in. The last picture shows the ceiling as a work in progress. A few more nice weekends and I should have the painting done, trim up and be ready install the cabinets and such. Then all that is left is the floors in both garages and all the accessories and tools can start moving in. As for when the lift will go in, that is just a question of when everything else gets done.

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Welcome to the Forum Dave. I was all excited when I saw the Red Truck since I've owned a red vehicle or two. I do concur with Rich, that any and all sharing of pictures is appreciated. and enjoyed.

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For the outer sections of the wheel, I would put one of the wax products on it regardless of what I had for protection on the wheel itself.. I found that Buttery wax worked well after I lubed the chain for ease of application and removal. This would catch anything that would sling off the chain and the wax prevented the lube from bonding to the wheel. The wax and lube was easy to remove from the wheel by using waterless wash and a throwaway towel and if that didn't do it, then Surface Prep or diluted isopropyl alcohol would.

RT or 303 according to the type of fabric are both in my arsenal. The pictures of the Mustang that I posted when I reconditioned the top of that were amazing and the top went from gray to black. What the ceramic spray coating does well is repelling water, it beads and the water rolls right off. It does add some gloss and lasts about 2 years according to whether it is always outside or in a garage. For a true garage queen or show car, I doubt I'd do anything to the top except keep it clean and conditioned, but for daily drivers, the ceramic spay coating works very well the on top and tonneau covers.

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Hi Matthew, While I have not used the Advanced Graphene Coating on a convertible top or tonneau cover, I have used the Ceramic Spray and Graphene Spray coatings on both. The results have been very good and the longevity is excellent. There are threads from me on the Mustang, F-150 and my Colorado that show the results. As for the application, make sure the top or cover is clean and completely dry. Do a small section at a time applying the coating with a Gray Microfiber Applicator. I go over the section using two patterns, north-south, east-west to make sure everything gets covered. This is where it gets to be a bit of a challenge and that is seeing it rainbow or flash, so you need to pay attention and look from multiple angles. Once it flashes, then I used a borderless gray towel and vigorously go over the section. Then start by putting the coating on the next section. Don't try to go to fast or do too big of a section and be careful not to get the coating on anything other the top or cover itself. Blue painters tape works well to protect the rear window on the top.

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Hi Jack, While I have not tried the Original CS3 on Patriots yet, I have used it many times on Americana and it is excellent. The nice thing about CS3 is that it pretty much replaces Waterless Wash and Detail spray which results in one less bottle to carry on road trips. The one thing that I have found is that a little is all you need, if you put on too much it makes it harder to clean off and get streak free. I will recommend doing a test spot to see how it affects Patriots and to see how it looks on your car.

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The progress so far does look good.

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Hi Jeff, I do hope that you find the Swirl Killer as much of an upgrade as I did when my very old polisher died a couple of years ago and I purchased the 15mm and shortly thereafter the 12mm. I never had any complaints about my old polisher, but that was only because I didn't know what I was missing compared to the Swirl Killer. The speed in which I could do a vehicle was cut by about 15% just because I didn't have to stop as often due to the heat on the old polisher. The other thing that I noticed was that my arms didn't feel like jelly after a couple hours of use with the old one. Best of luck with the new toy and the 30% off is an excellent deal also.

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Hi Henry, I have used a technique very similar to this video with VRT. Just put it on real light and even it out.

As a Veteran myself, this is a really nice thing for Adam's to do and I thank the Adam's team for doing this for the Veterans.. I wish I was closer and could attend myself.