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awesome! you can never have too much of that! i'm sure with an order that large its pretty easy to overlook/double up on some things!!! he pretty much has everything he needs! that is literally everything with Adam's name on it! if anyone else contributes in time, the only thing i can think of not included is the Master Blaster sidekick!

doesnt the ultimate kit come with the shut-off valve?

i would, but PA is a long way from home!

that is AWESOME!!!

NOT 0206 you will have a grumpy lady answer the phone!!! ask me how i know

serving my country is the one thing i regret NOT doing in my life, thus far! before i always said i would've joined if i didn't get accepted to a major university, but i got accepted so i never enlisted. now that i've been out of school for a couple years, sitting in an office, some days busy, some days bored out of my mind. i sometimes reflect on the past and think "what if i would have joined?" now i believe, if the oil industry goes down the toilet and i'm out of a job and cannot find a new one in a timely manner, instead of sitting on my butt in front of the TV mad at the world, i'll join the military. they raised the enlistment age to like 40 or 42 so i got 16-18 years before i can't. i'll donate some for your son. he has been through hell and back, protecting the rest of us from danger.

just got back from a weekend vacation to San Francisco and Napa, Ca i ate the BEST ribeye i've ever had at Buckeye Roadhouse in Sausalito, just north of San Fran. it was fairly priced. we also ate at Scoma's at Fisherman's Wharf one night. they have really good (and expensive) seafood. its was the highest rated seafood restaurant in that area. in Napa, we found a brewhouse called Downtown Joe's that had some great homebrewed beer and really good burgers.

1994 Firebird Formula... totalled within 3 months of ownership!!! 6 months later i bought a 1998 dodge dakota owned that for 7 years, gave it to my little brother and bought my current truck last july. but in may 2009 i ordered my 2010 Camaro 2SS/RS and my daily driver today my wife has a fun story. she drove her mom's 98 civic around before she even had a license, then turned 16 and got a 2000 honda accord, owned it for a year, got tired of it and got a 2007 scion tC and her mom got the accord. then a year later got tired of it and traded it in for a 2008 corolla. then a year later got tired of the payments and traded cars with her mom, so she got the accord back. then 2 years later she got tired of it and convinced me to buy her a 2006 SRX a couple months before we got hitched. then a year later she gets tired of it and we get her a 2011 SRX ... i'm hoping all the amenities in this guy holds her over for about 5 years!!!

why is that? will it harden it up more? today i felt it, it was the consistency of cold, hard butter, but not as hard as the day i bought it. its seen its fair share of hot summer days while i apply it to the cars.

yeah, she didn't like the smell too much while she was cooking dinner! that's why the pics or of it in my garage! smells kind of like citronella when melted

alright here we go... i first cut a small sliver around the perimeter of the tub. here is what it looks like before adding the melted wax: here's the wax before melting it in my wife's Scentsy i left for a quick 15 minute jog around the block and this is what i came back to. half way melted: after another 20 minutes or so, it was completely melted. FYI it melts clear! i poured the melted wax back in the tub, mixed it around, forming some of the solid pieces that softened up from sitting in my warm garage for awhile. i then cut a little bit more around the edges and melted that. after it was melted i poured it in the center, let it solidify to the consistency of the rest of the wax, and then spread all of it around with a small spatula like icing on a cake! here is the end result! i think it worked really good. please note i slowly melted it above a hot halogen light bulb. no open flame and definitely no microwave was used! i think you might get the same, but faster results with a toaster oven set on LOW in a small Pyrex or Corning-Ware dish.

alright, so as long as it's safe to melt! that stinky scentsy of my wife's might come in handy!!! i'll try it out with a small piece tonight and update this later!

i was out late last night buffing out a scuff in the front of my wife's SRX. she claims a blue bucket popped out of nowhere and she hit it... i think she was texting while driving! for the record, i have revived my faith in SHR and RP applied by hand with the hex grip applicators!!! got the scuff out no problemo! (no pics (white car with a white scuff) i could barely see it to begin with! (thats why we drive white cars daily)) anyways, back to my topic at hand... when i went to apply a coat of APW after polishing out the scratch i noticed the wax in my tub was cracking in the middle. it seems over the past year i've owned it, i've worn through the middle and left a lot of wax on the sides of the tub. is there any way to try and "move" some of this wax from the sides, back to the middle safely and fill in those cracks? i'm thinking the best way to do this is melt it somehow and let gravity do the work. what do you guys think??? i'd hate to be wasteful with a premium wax! (i love parentheses)

i man'd up and tried it out last night, washing my wife's SRX. what a complete waste of time and product sending it through the pressure washer! no foam action and the mix setting on the adjustable lance had no pressure to it! i tried adjusting it for more pressure but then no soap was dispensed! the ol' faithful two bucket wash was back to work pretty quick!!!!

alright... here is the detergent bottle: the clear tube goes between the main body of the washer and to the front where there is an adjustable dial: then, from the dial there is another clear tubing that leads to a nipple above the main body of the washer: i'm going to email karcher and ask them if the soap gets pulled before or after the pump because its not in the manual. but looking at it now, it appears like it most likely goes in the high pressure side of the machine.

so your saying the soap dispenser on my washer introduces the soap to the water AFTER the pump? and that i shouldn't worry about the soap gumming up the electric pump?

what dilution ratio have you used that could be a good starting point for me? my washer has an adjustable dial for how much soap gets dispensed, i figured i would start it that on full blast with a good dilution ratio

the end of that cheapo gun from HD won't fit on my karcher trigger. i already have the 2nd Gen Adam's foam gun, but i was thinking i might save a step between the 1st rinse and foaming by having it all in one. i didn't want to run it through and tear up my brand new pressure washer! TG for brass quick-connects!!!!

A LOT of talk about pressure washer foam guns recently lead me to search for anything on using the car shampoo through the actual pressure washer... search found nothing useful well, is it safe to use Car Shampoo in the detergent bottle of a pressure washer? anybody do this regularly? if so, should it be diluted down? 50/50? 75/25? i believe anything in that detergent bottle actually goes through the pumps of the pressure washer. i'm not talking about using a foam gun on the end of the spray gun.

nice! if only a PC kit and a gallon of DS would fit in my mailbox!!!

i still have a bottle of the Clear Polish; hardly ever use it. works good on the vinyl stripes, but BG has proven to be a better solution. i honestly only use it on the headlights and tail lights now, but the SHR, FMP on a focus pad works just as good, and a coat of Americana protects them well.

yeah... i wish! i'm doing the responsible thing and waiting for the check that way i don't spend the money before our vacation!

they hate me too! my wife has a credit card used only for emergencies since before we were married (i still refuse to get one, and she doesn't know how to cut it up)... anyway she used it to book a hotel in Napa Valley labor day weekend, well of course she changed her mind on where she wanted to stay so she got a refund and booked a different place. first place charged her card for one night as a deposit, i paid the balance off to keep it at $0, then she changes her mind and cancels it and books the other place. well the 2nd place doesn't charge the card until we arrive and the 1st place refunded our deposit. so their we sat with about a $500 credit on our credit card and the bank doesn't know how to transfer the credit to our checking account; i have to wait 14 business days for a check in the mail or spend $500 on the card. and all of our accounts and the credit card are through Chase Bank

yeah i think they made a law where that was illegal to pay a debt with a credit card, or pay one credit card with another credit card. kinda like the dummies that call dave ramsey who go to one payday lender to pay another payday lender off, and just keep cycling doing that cuz they can't actually afford to pay them off!

you are correct, everyone buys the same base gasoline, which meets federal standards. BUT every brand does in fact add their own additives to the base gasoline if they want. this is all done either before, during, or after the transport truck pumps it into the station's storage tanks. here's a quote from the link i posted earlier: