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Glaze. They can be used for wax as well, but I prefer to use a red hand hex grip for waxing.

Yeah, but I'm used to it!    
 
On the way back I hit a toll and the attendant takes my money and says to me; "hammer it, let's see what it can do!"  
 
My wife just rolled her eyes and hung on! 

I personally like the blue and red Americana apps, especially for glaze and Americana. Not like you need to apply a lot of pressure for either of those products anyway, so the softness is nice and comfortable in the hand.

I've always had a lot of luck by spraying the area with APC and then scrubbing with 0000 steel wool. It may take several passes if the tips are that bad but it will eventually work. After that I finish it off with metal polish. Good luck!!

You expect every company to tell you when they're changing a product or stop selling it while reformulating it? I'm pretty sure there are many products you have used from many companies where you weren't even aware something was changed. As for the comment about the sales, this post is about saving customers from buying PFP if it's unnecessary...which would hurt sales even more. 
I agree there are products on the market that cut better, but if you like PCP why wouldn't you buy it anymore?
 
As for the Cyclo, sure, it's not as powerful as other machines out there. However, everyone has a choice as to what machine they want to use. If you don't want to buy a Cyclo, don't, buy whatever machine works for you. They advocate the Cyclo because it's made in the USA and is a good primary machine for a novice or for a profesional's secondary machine. As for the machine I believe you're referring to, I don't believe it was from profits, it was due to the fact that the company started producing their product in a different country.

If they're tinted, don't do it. If they aren't tinted, I see no issue.

Try revive on a black pad to see if it'll remove the haze since you have it already. If not, then you'll want to get a finishing polish.

I might have a few products I could part with. I'll look later today and post back up here if there's anything.

If someone says the did 2 passes of PCP and 2 passes of PFP, that means they did: PCP, PCP, PFP, PFP.
 
As for removing the polish residue before moving to the next step, that's purely personal preference. I prefer to remove the polish first before moving onto the next step to make sure I'm satisfied with the results and don't need to do another pass of that step before moving on.

That's common as you suck the product out.  Just crack it open and let the air inside.  The gallon containers would suck the red plugs when shipping from high alt to low and ran a risk of leaking out.  
 
I'm lost here...  Why do we need the red plugs after receiving the containers?  I have gallons upon gallons sitting in my basement with no red plugs in them and nary an issue.  When I buy bulk liquid products at the store they don't come with red plugs, but instead a metal foil seal.  
 
It always amazes me how much people truly hate change just to hate it.  

You expect every company to tell you when they're changing a product or stop selling it while reformulating it? I'm pretty sure there are many products you have used from many companies where you weren't even aware something was changed. As for the comment about the sales, this post is about saving customers from buying PFP if it's unnecessary...which would hurt sales even more. 
I agree there are products on the market that cut better, but if you like PCP why wouldn't you buy it anymore?
 
As for the Cyclo, sure, it's not as powerful as other machines out there. However, everyone has a choice as to what machine they want to use. If you don't want to buy a Cyclo, don't, buy whatever machine works for you. They advocate the Cyclo because it's made in the USA and is a good primary machine for a novice or for a profesional's secondary machine. As for the machine I believe you're referring to, I don't believe it was from profits, it was due to the fact that the company started producing their product in a different country.

You expect every company to tell you when they're changing a product or stop selling it while reformulating it? I'm pretty sure there are many products you have used from many companies where you weren't even aware something was changed. As for the comment about the sales, this post is about saving customers from buying PFP if it's unnecessary...which would hurt sales even more. 
I agree there are products on the market that cut better, but if you like PCP why wouldn't you buy it anymore?
 
As for the Cyclo, sure, it's not as powerful as other machines out there. However, everyone has a choice as to what machine they want to use. If you don't want to buy a Cyclo, don't, buy whatever machine works for you. They advocate the Cyclo because it's made in the USA and is a good primary machine for a novice or for a profesional's secondary machine. As for the machine I believe you're referring to, I don't believe it was from profits, it was due to the fact that the company started producing their product in a different country.

You expect every company to tell you when they're changing a product or stop selling it while reformulating it? I'm pretty sure there are many products you have used from many companies where you weren't even aware something was changed. As for the comment about the sales, this post is about saving customers from buying PFP if it's unnecessary...which would hurt sales even more. 
I agree there are products on the market that cut better, but if you like PCP why wouldn't you buy it anymore?
 
As for the Cyclo, sure, it's not as powerful as other machines out there. However, everyone has a choice as to what machine they want to use. If you don't want to buy a Cyclo, don't, buy whatever machine works for you. They advocate the Cyclo because it's made in the USA and is a good primary machine for a novice or for a profesional's secondary machine. As for the machine I believe you're referring to, I don't believe it was from profits, it was due to the fact that the company started producing their product in a different country.

Huh. I wasn't aware there was a "proper" way to place a sprayer on a bottle.
 
I am slightly OCD when it comes to certain things though...I place my sprayer the opposite of Dave, so that the sprayer is lined up with the center of the text on the label.

Cant wait for the east coast place to start shipping. My delivery times just went up by a couple days since no more Colorado shipping.

Just want to thank Ben who went above and beyond the 110% guarantee! I sent an email this afternoon informing the Adam's team that all 3 of my APC bottles became defective (2 having cracks at the bottom and one having the neck broken and disintegrating). I had asked if they would just replace the 3 bottles with a Kwazar bottle, but much to my surprise I get an email showing that they are sending me a .5L Kwazar and 2 FULL bottles of APC, not just empty replacement bottles! This is one big reason why I love this company and will continue to buy their products! Again, thank you Ben and everyone at Adam's for the exceptional service!

My Dads wagon, he's nice enough to let me borrow it sometimes!
 

 

Depending on how long they've been on there, they could require some elbow grease while claying. If repeated claying doesn't remove them, they might be etched, which could be reduced/corrected with machine polishing.

1991 Camaro Z28. Bought used in 2007.
 
1998 Camaro SS. Bought used in 2009.
 
2005 Colorado. Bought used from my grandma after my grandpa passed in 2010.
 
I've also "used" a 2002 Durango R/T and a 1988 Fiero GT as my own vehicles (Fiero was my step-dads before I bought my '91 and the Durango was my dads (after buying it from my step-dad) that I drove in the winter)

Hello everyone,
 
I wanted to finally post the writeup on the 1940 Ford Coupe that was brought to us about a month and a half ago.  The story of this amazing car is pretty incredible.  Enjoy the story and the pictures to go along with it.
 

 
The customer pictured above brought his 1940 Ford into us to see if there was anything we could do for him.  He told us that the car had survived a fire inside of a garage that had been struck by lighting.  He two other cars in the garage and they didn't make it.  This Ford is a car that he has put a lot of work into and was crushed that it was threatened by the fire.
 

 
The car was covered but the night before the lighting strike the gentleman went into the garage, opened the trunk to air it out and left the cover pulled back towards the middle of the car.  This caused the distinct char line on the back of the car pictured above.  Now, as you can see the car looks destroyed and let me tell you, if I had a link for you to be able to click and smell your nose hairs would burn from the terrible smoke smell.
 

 
After a little bit of discussion we gladly accepted the the car and drove it over to wash in our washing area.  The gentleman drove off with high hopes but still pretty bummed with the current state of his precious car.
 
While I took advantage of snapping photos of before and after, I didn't get much of the process.  But, I did get a lot of video footage of the revitalize/detail process which I'm editing into a short video that I took a break from to deliver this write up.  So I will post a response to this topic with the finished video link.  The video has Adam working a lot on the car and a few of our other team members.
 

 
So, as you can see the '40 Ford turned out perfect!  A lot of the char and smell came off after a two bucket wash.  The interesting thing was Adam added about six ounces of Rinseless Wash to the normal two bucket wash.  It helped with lubricity and smell.
 
The big job and the thing that took up most of the char and smoke damage was the Clay Bar.  Adam and two of our other team members clayed the car twice for good measure.  They clayed everything excluding the rubber.  It was amazing how the clay grabbed all the nastiness right off the paint.
 

 
After claying the whole car the men started to polish the paint of the car.  Using our two stage polishing system they started with the Cyclo Polisher paired with the Orange Microfiber Pads and the Paint Correcting Polish.  That did some great work but they then moved on to the White Microfiber Pads and the Paint Finishing Polish.  You all should have seen the pads.  They were very wasted from the smoke damage on the paint.
 
Next the fellas moved on to the Orange Foam Pads and the Paint Correcting Polish still with the Cyclo Polisher.  They were near perfect and finally finished the job with the White Foam Pads and the Paint Finishing Polish.  This made the paint look perfect.  Not only did the two step polishing system take away all the smoke damage it also fixed all the swirl marks in the paint. After polishing the paint the fellas put a nice coat of Brilliant Glaze on the paint and sealed it with our amazing Americana Paste Wax.  The metallic look in the paint was sparkling like new!
 
After the polishing of the paint, Adam and our other team members moved on to the chrome accents.  They used our two stage metal polish system using our Metal Polish 1 and Metal Polish 2.  While working on the chrome accents Adam, being the detailer he is, didn't want to miss the engine.  So as the two guys finished the accents Adam moved on to the engine using All Purpose Cleaner to take off all the nastiness and then they all went at it with the metal polish system.  The engine looked amazing after the detail as you can see from above.
 

 
As you can see here our customer came back to pick up his beautiful classic and was very surprised how the Ford came back to life.  You could see the instant gratification he was feeling and even gave Adam a hug in appreciation.  It was amazing how our product took to the fire damaged coupe.  I have to say as the guy taking pictures and video I was very amazed how well the car came out and am very impressed with the result.  
 
I hoped you enjoyed this story and write up.  Please stay tuned for the video on this classic due to the candid nature of the video and how much fun the guys were having detailing this car.  Thank you for your time.
 
Joe Trigeiro
joe@adamspolishes.com
Cinematographer/Photographer
Creative Design

Looks good.
 
And it's about freaking time for a dedicated bug and tar remover! I've only been wanting you guys to produce one for the past 3 years! Now, when will it be available? Lol.

Nice!
 
The revive in that order isn't beneficial, however, if you moved it to after the machine polish before the sealant, that would be beneficial as it's a cleaner polish so it would remove the oils left from the other polishes. I prefer using revive over doing an IPA wipedown like some do. Although, I don't use it everytime.

I don't believe anything from Adams can be used to protect/seal it.
 
As far as cleaning, take soapy water and with a horse hair brush (in other words, the Adams leather brush) massage the top.

Take a cheap towel, spray some APC on it and scrub the tire with the towel.