DaveVY

Congrats on a first class problem!! I would first figure out what you are not good at doing or do not enjoy doing... then find help that is good at that function. One good person in an area that isn't your strength can make all the difference in the world for your stress levels. Based on the little bit you shared it sounds like you could use help with the administration; ordering, inventory management, picking/packing job orders for installation, scheduling, etc.

There is something(s) on the left side in a bag, black in color, just past the wheel brushes... is the new wheel woolies? (or whatever we are going to call them)

We don't just need a small group of guys and a good location... I think we would need to help Adam's find a healthy mix of 2500+ customers in Florida in order to make this a reality... It sure would be nice to have a location with year round detailing weather, faster shipping to the southeast and seeing more Adam's shine on the roads!

This will be quite the job! Mike said he has thousands of them... eek!! Wonder if alcohol on the Flex/PC with the new gray pad would help you cover the large areas and remove the polish from these crows feet? Sorry Mike, wish you were over this way and we could work to find a solution!

We are not doing anything as big or intensive as most of you are doing here... I just installed this little piece to reduce the cabin wind in my wife's convertible and make it more enjoyable for her! It works GREAT! At 45-55mph with the windows down the cabin is fairly calm and we can easily carry on a conversation now or hear the radio without blasting it. Even at 75mph we can still have a conversation (but have to talk a little louder) and no longer feel fatigued from the constant wind buffeting like we used to feel. The wind can be felt blowing in under the wind restrictor (over the "waterfall") by our elbows but no longer is "pounding" our heads and ears. We love it! Took an hour and a half to watch the video, do the install and clean up. This model does NOT have the lighting, so I didn't have time invested in doing electrical work. And it can stay installed all the time, doesn't need to be taken off when the top is put up (like the typical windscreen products require)! The rear view mirror view is shown below, it doesn't cause much obstruction, just a line across the middle of the mirror and the "Corvette" lettering can barely be seen at the bottom of the mirror.

I've seen a little of this in other colors... no answers from me yet.

And I haven't even tried it yet! Looking forward to ordering this on my next restocking order in May!

Awesome!! Happy to see Adam's growing!

IMO it is a sad state of automotive design when the body designs are so like each other (bland) that we need to wear labels to let others know what we are driving. Though I haven't debadged our cars I have almost always admired the cars that are debadged (except for some that were just plain ugly, like Rich said). When debadged it seems to me that you can see the car and body lines for what they really are without having some pre-conceived idea based on who made it or what model it is.

Was so happy when GM stopped putting those ugly chicklets on the vehicles!

Great write up! Looks so much better!! Have removed dealer emblems and stickers over the years but never the mfg crap. Looking forward to trying this soon!

Like someone else said, wash them out well. You could use the fire hose nozzle and just keep rinsing them well and agitating them with the carpet brush or you can take them to the car wash and use the pressure wash, no soap! You shouldn't need the CUC to remove the excess deposits you have in the rugs. If I recall correctly, the CUC is a sodium based cleaner and right now you have lots of sodium based chemicals in that rug. Just use water to dissolve and flush away the excess deposits. Then use your shop vac to help dry them out. Based on my experience that should remove most, if not all, of what I see in the pics.

The videos that the Adam's team put together are great! I found that brushing doesn't really have a long term effect in keeping the pads fibers fluffy. What has helped me the most is the process I use to dry the pads. After completing the process that is in the video posted above I do the following: 1) walk away from the clean cars at least 25 ft 2) fold the pad over and grip one end tightly 3) repeatedly fling it down towards the ground in a "golf-like" swing - keep doing this until you don't see any water coming out 4) reverse the fold on the pad and grip the other end 5) repeat the flinging process 6) unfold the pad and then lightly use your fingers to fluff up the still moist fibers 7) hold the pad by one corner in one hand, grab an adjacent corner with the other hand, and with just one hand moving, vigorously wiggle that one hand back and forth a couple inches - the entire pad will shake and the fibers will release more water and the fibers fluff Someday I may do a video of this. I have been using the same pads for well over 80 washes and still think they look pretty darn good.

That is a lot of washing! Currently I just spot-treat the towels with APC right after using them and then let them dry. Then once there are enough towels to make a decent sized load they are washed (one to three weeks). We wash them in a front loader on normal wash settings with a fragrance/dye free detergent. Then dry in the dryer (partially) then hang dry. Simple and effective. The towels are not perfect but think they are pretty good. Look forward to using the new Microfiber Revitalizer & Brightener as a spot-treat and maybe an occasional pre-soak.

Chris, thanks for your post. Based on your feedback I edited my orig post.

It did!! Unfortunately we didn't make effort to keep moving the pattern of where the water was going... much of it went into the street.

Thanks Mike!!

From what we saw in our testing on Sunday I think this may be solved by this fix also. Of course what Mike did in taking it apart is probably the best way to deal with this. At least one of the nozzles that we were testing had the issue you describe of not shutting off completely. Will let Mike chime in and see if his dis-assembly fix also resolved the issue of the leaking.

In the past there have been some posts about the fire hose nozzle and it turning off on its own. With the help of my Adam's dealer we have worked on this and finally found what we believe to be the issue and tried a resolution which really worked almost too well! As a little background: I have a nozzle that works fine! My neighbor bought one after seeing mine but his nozzle has the issue of changing patterns and even turning off on its own. The interesting thing is that we isolated the issue to the nozzle, pressure and volume are factors in how dramatic the issue is but the issue we determined to be in the nozzle. Using the same hose we can just switch nozzles and one is a problem and one is fine. Our dealer in Orlando, Mike, has been awesome in working with us in trying to resolve this. (Mike immediately offered to swap nozzles out or give different product or give 110% money back! - But my neighbor had nozzle envy and wanted a working nozzle, not one of the other options ). Mike drove over to Tampa today with three new nozzles (AWESOME service). All three new nozzles exhibited the same auto shutoff behavior as my neighbors nozzle. There were slight differences in how fast they shutoff but they all still shutoff on their own. So we now have 4 nozzles that exhibit this behavior (not including Mike's personal nozzle and the one that he bought for his Mom). At this point we were wondering if my nozzle that didn't turn off on its own was the "defective" nozzle. It must have been a funny sight for the neighbors... 4 grown guys out in the front yard for an hour trying different nozzles and shooting water across the yard all intently focused on the nozzles, looking, twisting, listening, even video taping nozzle behavior... :-D Solution: It seems to be an issue with some grease/lubricant in the nozzles. With my neighbor's nozzle we took it off, dumped out the water, shutoff the nozzle, filled it with 100% APC and shook it, then while capping each end with my hands rotated the nozzle back and forth to work the APC into the threads. Flushed it out and now it was too tight and dry feeling. So we put some 50% SVRT in it and repeated the process to rejuvenate any rubber seals inside. That helped some. Tried a couple other things inside but ended up with WD-40 seeming to work well to add an appropriate amount of lubrication where the nozzle wouldn't spin shut but would stay at the desired setting. EDIT: Based on feedback from Chris (LFairbanks) it seems WD-40 isn't the best solution. The best solution would be to take the nozzle apart as Mike did in the post below and be sure plumbers grease is applied to just the o-ring. So in the end, it was just over lubricated and needs a different lubricant. Mike went home and took his nozzle apart ... he said he will be adding to this thread to shed further light on this nozzle. In the end... my neighbor is very happy with a working fire hose nozzle!! If I were to try this again... I would use something less aggressive than 100% APC.

Generally I separate all the colors, but have been known to wash the waterless wash towels with the great whites. I always wash the black towels separate. And I always wash the glass towels separate, usually end up washing the glass towels by hand in the sink. Had too much problem with the glass towels picking up lint (from either the washer or dryer) that would then get deposited on the windshield so I have reverted to usually washing those by hand.

This is one favorite from a few months back...

I only have 4 Great Whites so I have to wash towels every four car washes...this works out to washing once a week or every two weeks, depending on how many of our three cars I wash and if I do any cars for other people. (I find I only need one great white on a car or large SUV after first blowing it off to remove excess water). I always spot treat the towels with APC and then let them dry (so no mildew or mold grows) and they get washed in the next wash load - which could be as much as two weeks away. My towels may not be the pure white color anymore but they work great!

Congrats!!