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I have Satin Finish wheels on my Charger. I use CS3 on them every few washes. Probably once a month they get spray coated. In Between I use Detail spray. So my technic is I wash the wheels and tires with Wheel and Tire cleaner, the purple stuff works great, once a month I'll use wheel cleaner or Iron remover just to see if there is any brake dust build up. Then I use a leaf blower to dry the tires and wheels. After I finish the rest of the car , jams , detail spray drying agent etc. I'll grab a bucket with a lid and use it as a seat and go around each wheel with either Detail spray or CS3 and give them a coat. It takes about 5 minutes to do all the wheels. I go back around with Tire Dressing I use VRT As I totally enjoy the Satin finish. Once you use this process , your wheels have a heard time keeping brake dust on them. I can wash my wheels most of the time with just a tire bucket filled with Car Shampoo and a Micro fiber towel. The Tires also stay very clean and super easy to clean after you keep up with them. Soap and water and I may or may not re dress them after each wash depending on how they look after I air dry them.

He keep all the cars around the house clean. My Son and I are detail freaks so pastime is detail time. If my Son washes his Audi S4 , he usually turns to his Mom's car when he's done. He really likes the Purple colors and enjoys getting it all shined up. I'm pretty fortunate that way I don't always have to wash it. But if I did, I don't mind I also enjoy spending time in the driveway and garage.

Graphene spray coating from Adam's, 303 and Turtle Wax. The Adam's fell on it's face and it was cured for over 4 hours. I don't know if it should have been cured for 24 hours but it didn't hold up in that test he did. Kinda suprising honestly. The Turtle wax and 303 did just fine and held up very well. It was basically a Turtle Wax new product video and he was testing it again the other 2. I was pretty disappointed that the Adam's Graphene Spray coating wiped out after just 1 chemical test. Something had to be wrong there as I have seen it in Pan's videos hold up very well. Thoughts?

His and Her's LOL.

I decided on a 2020 Charger Scat pack in Pitch Black.

Interesting, we still have about a 3/4 bottle of it since we switched over to Car Shampoo. Do you recommend it over the Car Shampoo? If so we can get a gallon if it as it works great.

Honestly they are all very good. We use Car Shampoo as our normal wash each week and also use it in a foam cannon. I really don't see the need for the other soaps. We have tried all of them and Ultra and Mega Foam is great stuff and seems to work great. But with Car Shampoo it's just a nice long lasting thigh soap that works every time with no complaints. The Wash and Wax works good but we have no desire to add protection in each wash. So this soap for us isn't necessary. We use all ceramics anyway so this has no use. But on a side not for those who are interested in it it works great. Before we went ceramic, we where using this soap with excellent results.

I just gotta say that Cs3 is my favorite overall Detail product ever. I mean it's so useful in so many ways. It's a Waterless wash if you need to do some light cleanup and don't want to do a full wash. It can be used on all surfaces and it's excels at all of them. It can be used as a drying agent every so often. I don't like to use it every week but I totally would. I use it about once or twice a month depending. The water beads stay full strength for such a long time it's not necessary to keep applying. This stuff is excellent as a topper on your coating. I mean it gives one of if not the very best shine I have ever seen. On white paint or Purple it looks crazy amazing.

Looking good

Cool man I'll check that out.

I think H20 is just to thick for that sprayer it comes with. I'll have to grab a 320 and try it out. Where do you buy your sprayers from?

All good my friend. I'm moving all towards a all Adam's Polishes arsenal anyway. I just been over the years trying to navigate all the changes that have happened since I use to be a professional Detailer back in the late 80's early 90's. I use to use Rotary Buffers and just got a D/A Polisher for my Birthday in June. I figured that those 2 products where not water activated as they don't mention any of that in their specs. I usually use Detail spray as my drying agent but I might once in a while hit it with CS3 since this product is so good. I'm gonna pick up a gallon of it.

Excellent information man thanks a lot. So the UV the only difference is the ability to see it with the UV light so you can make sure you coated correctly, I get that. I didn't think the CS3 was a drying agent but that makes sense. I also didn't think the Ceramic Boost was a drying agent but that is also makes some sense. Are they both water active? I know the H20 is and is a sealant with some ceramic prosperities, that product works very well. I also watched the entire video on Adam's Ceramic kit with the prep spray Boost and small bootle of actual Ceramic coating. That is something I may venture into next. I'm probably going to get a 2021 Durango or Jeep Grand Cherokee Hemi Models of course of some level and do a full paint correction and then go for a full coating. I know this is a Adam's forum but I'm sure every single member in here has used other products and compared them to Adam's or uses stuff along side of Adam's stuff. So I don't exactly agree with only talking about Adam's stuff but if that's the rules I'm cool with that.

Hello all, OK I wanted to start a thread talking about all the rage right now in ceramic coating, not the professional coating but all these spray coating that hit the market. The First one I tried from Adams is the H20 guard and gloss. I found it to work amazingly well but didn't like how it sprayed, it was basically to thick. That product probably would have been better as a liquid wax and apply with a pad. Yesterday for a early Fathers day gift my Son got me CS3 16 oz size as I was washing my Durango yesterday and he gave me all my Adams gifts. I got a Shirt Air fresher , hand soap and the CS3. The CS3 I used basically like a detail spray. My Truck is already coated with another manufacturers Spray Ceramic coating. I did a clay bar and polish last weekend and then coated with a spray ceramic coating from Griots Garage. Worked great. The CS3 gave it another level of gloss and the feel of the paint I'll describe it to feel like silk. So basically I went to the Adams website to check out all the ceramic Spray coating and found a few of them. Adam's has their own Ceramic spray coating but also has another one in a UV ceramic spray coating. So basically 4 of them with H20,CS3 UV and the standard ceramic spray coating. I think there was more but I'm already confused on how to proceed. Can someone basically explain all these different spray coatings and what they should be used for? Oh and I saw the Ceramic boost. It's getting a bit much and I want to put together a nice system for my vehicles that I can use. I like to wash all 3 of them each week, like using a spray after a wash to keep it fresh etc. I deeply enjoy detailing my vehicles every weekend as I love a fresh clean vehicle. I have a garage so they stay in very good condition and light dirt and dust is basically what I clean off. Some weekends one of them may only need a waterless wash and from what I learned the CS3 is a great product for that. Thanks in advance as I really want to explore all of Adam's ceramic offerings as this is the new path I'm on as I'm moving away from sealants and waxes.

Thank you.

I so agree, in person it damn near looks like a mirror and usually White doesn't do that.

Hello all, My son for my Birthday got me a Signed by Adam Adam's Polishes sign for the garage. How cool is that? Thanks Adam for signing it, it ROCKS!!!!

Awesome Guys thanks so far.

Hello all, I've been thinking about paint protection after a compound and Polish, beautiful prepped paint and ready to be protected. There are so many options it's ver whelming. You got your usual Carnauba wax, then you have Sealants and now Ceramic waxes coating etc. I know the Coating is the best option and the most expensive but what about all these ceramic spray coatings, waxes vs sealants and carnauba waxes of yesterday ? Can a spray last as long or longer then a properly applied sealant? Is the cost worth it? Maybe cost isn't the biggest deal as some waxes can get pretty expensive. For a daily driver in normal non extreme conditions like rain, some snow in the winter and 80-100 degree summer days with sunshine clouds and rain, what do you think ? Do you think these spray coatings can compete with a good sealant?

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Thanks looks better in person. Looks like someone put a glass surface over the entire truck. H2O is the best.

Everything. I use a foam cannon for washing and use Car Shampoo for most washes except Mega Foam and Wash and wax from time to time. Also have strip wash so there's that. I have always used Microfiber towels and Drying towels to keep the finish like new. I use to detail back in the late 80's and early 90's and Love how good products and technics have got over the years. Back then Terry towels where what we used. It took me awhile to get use to Microfiber. I found it difficult at first. I still at times have issues with Glass cleaning and micro fiber lint. Not often but sometimes these damn towels will just lint bomb glass. I own a Dewalt Rotary Professional 7-9 inch Buffer and I have yet to use it on my Durango 2017 model year with 30k on it.

I'm gonna have to agree. It really makes her POP .

let's just talk about how damn good this product is. This Truck has never seen a Polisher, everything is always done by hand.

This is how they looked after their first coat. I added one more coat after this. This is back in January.