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LMK and maybe i can make it too.

Thank you all. It is my daily driver. Had it for 15 months and 20k miles.

This GTG happens almost every Saturday at the Burger King, south of Manassas, near the Manassa airport. I usually take 66 to exit 44 then stay on that road, 234, until the exit for 28 south. BK is on your left. Starts to spool up at 4:00.

Every Saturday the local BK has a Car GTG. To prep I DS, BW and BSG the exterior. I used GWC on the wheels and APC on the tires and wells followed by VRT on the tires and IUS on the wells. all the trim got a treatment of VRT and the engine bay was treated to VRT as well as VRT/water spray. Here are a couple of photos. I'm displaying my 2008 and 2009 GM Nationals car show 3rd place trophies as well as the 1/4 mile time slip (13.262 at 106.7) and modification list. I really think if I had started using Adam's before the GM Nationals this year instead of just after, I might have done better in the judging. I can really see the difference.

I saw it on GRRRR8 first then G8Board.

Roger that!

This morning I DS ed it then put a second coat of BW followed by another application a glaze. I also used the VRT for all the trim, tires and underhood pieces. It came out great. I finished up with the undercarrage spay on the fenderwells and loved how it looked. I took a few more photos to show the reflections. It looks fantastic. I went to a car show this afternoon and got a lot of very nice complements ohn how it looks. people were amazed it is 14 months old and a daily driver with 20K+ miles on it. There are still some swirls to address as the light photo shows but it is sooooo much better than before i started. Some swirls still show. The metal flakes in the paint really sparkle! My stash of Adams goodies reflected in my hood.

Thanks. Cool it is!

Does BSG have to go on a cool finish or can it be applied to hot?

Is it OCD if you really, really, just have to do it?

You start with a little rub here a little polish there and you think it will be enough but pretty soon its not and you need more to get the rush so you try a little buffing. The buffing is amazing but quickly, very quickly, it just doesn't take you to the place it used to so you try a few hits of Detail Spray. Just a few pumps, not much....at first. But without a warning, your MF towels are damp and you see streaks before your eyes. Before you can help yourself you work in a little polish. Then you see it, a PC. If only you could have the PC life would be wonderful. Before you can say, "Black Pad", Machine Super Wax become doesn't sparkle in your eye the way it used to. You need more just to feel good again. Buttery Wax, oh Buttery Wax. That will do it but no, without the glaze it just feels empty. You can't bear to drive but, wait, what is that? Americana! Yes, Americana. Surely that will make me feel whole again.

Thanks. I'll double check and see what a second coat does.

Amazing results. Interior looks almost new again (20K on the clock). Color is back to original too. I didn't realize how much it had faded. Great product. Thanks.

Thanks. By Jove, I think i got it!

Does the same hold true for something like a fender line where you transition from vertical to horizontal? It is not 90* but pretty close to it. The horizontal section is only about 1"-1.5" wide between the fender line and the edge at the hood. On the sides, as you move the PC up and down, it is pretty hard to get the top of the fender and not have the PC extend above the fender line a bit. Sorry for the noob questions but I don't want to run the risk of going through the clear coat yet want to maximize the machine coverage and minimize the hand work. Thinking out loud.... If i work each "flat" as its own panel, the "flat" will get a lot more polishing than the areas with the body lines because of trying to not over polish them or overlap them. In thinking about it, it seems that this fact would keep from buffing through the lines. The panel edges are different because they can be at slightly different heights and can have thinner coatings so if I worked them as one big panel, like say between the hood and top of the fender, the edges would get the same number of passes and pressures as the flats and that could be too much. working the panels with body lines in them as individual flats means that the body lines, while getting buffed, would not get near the number of passes and pressures as the flats between body lines. This is why the edges should be masked and most body lines just need care to not treat them as part of the panel. This seem to make sense to me. Is it correct? Am I obsessing?

I have seen that when using the PC it is a good idea to mask off the gaps between panels and panel edges because the clear coat is thinnest there. Having done the entire car once now with an intial work up, I am about to go back and re-do one panel at a time to take it to the next level. G8s have body lines along the sides and hood. Should these be masked off too? Some have bigger angles than others. Are there any rule of thumb guidelines for when to mask and when not? I don't linger over the body lines, working more along the flats and just transitioning over the body lines. Is that OK?

following your lead, i fixed some up too. Thanks for the help.

Thanks and don't worry, you are safe.

Wow. That looks amazing. Thanks. And thanks for the tips. I did the MSW on Saturday and then DS , BW and Glaze on Tuesday.

I learned a lot. One of the main things is YOU NEED A LOT OF ADAM'S MF TOWELS. Clean, clean, clean when it comes to towels. I'm sure that is the reason I had some streaking issues with the DS. I also learned that I need to spend more PC time on the vertical panels. after waxing and glazing and taking photos i can see I did a much better job on the horizontal surfaces. My plan has been to go back, one panel at a time and remove more swilrles and scratches. I'm going to concentrate on the sides. It is sooooooo much better now than before but now I can image how good it could be and it bugs me that it isn't. "Hello, my name is Ed and I'm an Adamholic......" Here are a few more photos;

After doing my first PC series of HSR, FMP and MSW I put one coat of BW and glaze on it last night. I took some photos this morning. I hope you like them.

Freshly washed MF, DS on the towel and no streaking when i wiped the car down tonight. Thanks all for your help.

Thank you. My Judges Kit should be here tomorrow so a wipe down with DS followed with Buttery Wax and Glaze should make it look even better.

Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for posting that. I think I've been through all the videos and instructions and don't remember seeing or hearing anything about that. Do you guys mask the seams between panels with painter's tape? What do you do? Is there some place to learn more?

It was pretty bright, more like the foam color than the SHR but I should look closer. I bet i can find a little in the trunk channel, etc.