ForceofWill Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Doing a rinseless on the truck and my 2 yr old thought itd be a great idea to help Dad by "wash wash" with a fresh towel out of the bucket on the sandy salty driveway lol. -1 Towel in garbage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc2hill Posted April 11, 2015 Share Posted April 11, 2015 Doing a rinseless on the truck and my 2 yr old thought itd be a great idea to help Dad by "wash wash" with a fresh towel out of the bucket on the sandy salty driveway lol. -1 Towel in garbage. Yikes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWolf Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Plasti-dipped the saddles for the floor jacks so they don't scratch the truck frame. Dipped them four times, allowing half a day to cure between coats, since it went on really thick. Also hung them upside down so it would be thicker on the edges that touch the truck. Captain Slow, LFairbanks and mc2hill 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenWS6 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Plasti-dipped the saddles for the floor jacks so they don't scratch the truck frame. Dipped them four times, allowing half a day to cure between coats, since it went on really thick. Also hung them upside down so it would be thicker on the edges that touch the truck. Man. I need to do this to mine. I've been using a old rag for now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWolf Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Man. I need to do this to mine. I've been using a old rag for now. I did the saddles and the feet on the jack stands last year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenWS6 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Nice. Looks like they are holding up well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sac Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Started full correction on my moms 2013 Jeep Cherokee. This thing is tricky to work on, so many tight areas & the clear coat is tough as nails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Wife and I picked this up this weekend. Used 2012 Volvo C60 that had just 16,000 miles on it. Great car, love driving it. LFairbanks 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick72 Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Nice ! How does the paint look? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chas Posted April 13, 2015 Share Posted April 13, 2015 Nice ! How does the paint look? Looks typical of dealer washes. Good amount of swirling, but nothing appears deep. It's going under the detailing knife in the next week or two to get a full correction. Rick72 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted April 15, 2015 Share Posted April 15, 2015 (edited) Never have seen the temperature drop like it did today. Literally stopped and made a delivery, and the temperature was about 65 like it had been all day. Drove around the corner to my next stop and got out. It was freezing. Customer later on told me that he watched the temperature drop 25 degrees in 5 minutes. And it started snowing. Edited April 15, 2015 by LFairbanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Slow Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Today while wiping the Dart down with detail spray: Wife: Did you wash your car today? Captain Slow: Mmmmhmmmm. Wife: What, did it have a speck of dust on it? Captain Slow: Yeah...and? Wife: You have a problem. Captain Slow: What? (Looks at car thinking he may have missed a spot.) Where? (Looks even harder, gets low to look even closer, face almost on paint) Wife: You have a sickness. Captain Slow: No. I feel fine, it's probably just allergies. Wife: (Looks at Captain Slow, looks at incredibly clean and shiny Dart, shakes her head and walks back in house.) Captain Slow: (Shrugs shoulders and continues to look for missed spot.) mc2hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 (edited) Today while wiping the Dart down with detail spray: Wife: Did you wash your car today? Captain Slow: Mmmmhmmmm. Wife: What, did it have a speck of dust on it? Captain Slow: Yeah...and? Wife: You have a problem. Captain Slow: What? (Looks at car thinking he may have missed a spot.) Where? (Looks even harder, gets low to look even closer, face almost on paint) Wife: You have a sickness. Captain Slow: No. I feel fine, it's probably just allergies. Wife: (Looks at Captain Slow, looks at incredibly clean and shiny Dart, shakes her head and walks back in house.) Captain Slow: (Shrugs shoulders and continues to look for missed spot.) Her next comment will be, "your going to wash the paint off that car",....lol As for my day, got up early and gave the truck a bath. Windstorm from hell on Tuesday and it started raining. So a muddy rain. Then it started snowing. So needless to say it was a disaster. Tried the HGG and loved it. About as easy as it comes. Patching a good size hole in sheetrock that required it being cut out and replaced. Kinda dumb what caused it. Kids. Making him pay for it. Told him he was lucky Dad is able to fix it. First experience with hot mud and found it pretty easy to use and makes short work out of a mud and tape job. Edited April 19, 2015 by LFairbanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Guz Posted April 19, 2015 Share Posted April 19, 2015 Finally got my new set of wheels. No more black wheels. SYMAWD, Captain Slow and Mongosg8 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc2hill Posted April 26, 2015 Share Posted April 26, 2015 I attended the Goodguys Florida Nationals. We took the 1912 American Race Car, and it was very well received! There were tons of great looking cars and trucks (sorry my camera is not working so no pictures), but I did get to meet the owner of this fantastic, award winning Nova:: The car is even better in person, with tons of custom touches. Here is a link to a write up with lots more pictures - http://www.chevyhardcore.com/features/car-features/steve-tornaris-miranda-built-1967-nova-street-machine-of-the-year/ Mongosg8 and LFairbanks 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 (edited) Went to lunch with my wife and then went and saw this. Interesting, but I have seen better done by Cirque Du Soleil. If you hadn't ever seen one, one would think that it was great. But I know there are better performances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLRZs78vqCQ Edited April 27, 2015 by LFairbanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j-r35 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Finally decided to try out the rinse less wash w/the original blue edgeless towels they released with. So quick run down, used 4 towels for the rinse less, must say this works real well. Ended up claying, sealing, vrt the tires, and laying down some americana afterwards. moparbrian and PT3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenWS6 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 Looking good J. I had a black GTR pass me tonight on my way home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue17CamaroZL1 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I was at a Colorado meet up in CT over the weekend when one of the youngsters was listening in on a conversation I was having about Adams products when he asked, "is there a difference between polish and wax" So instead of getting down on him like most people would, I told him I would show him the difference. Luckily for me there was this nice and swirly red Colorado hood I was able to give a slight demonstration for. This picture was taken after the demonstration but next to where I did the demo so you can still see the swirls: After: moparbrian 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForceofWill Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 (edited) Decided to spring clean the motorcycle leathers today. Leather cleaner to start and then go to the cart in the garage and grab an applicator from yesterday with Leather conditioner on it and the orange bottle off the cart. Get done with the jacket and the leather couch I'm sitting on and I'm "man, this doesn't seem to be working well and whys it so chalky?" Look at bottle.......... Paint correcting Polish SIGH....... Reclean and grab the correct orange bottle lol. At least my couch gloves and jacket are swirl free. Edited May 1, 2015 by ForceofWill Captain Slow 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moparbrian Posted May 1, 2015 Share Posted May 1, 2015 Today and this weekend... Working overtime to pay for the Adams products, polisher and wall mount vacuum for my garage. It will be a few weeks before I get to play with the stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LFairbanks Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 (edited) Had dinner at Jimbo's Pit BBQ. The wife approved and enjoyed it. Thanks mc2hill for the recommend. Edited May 3, 2015 by LFairbanks Mongosg8 and mc2hill 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenWS6 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 (edited) These are the beads from the rain after my last wash and dry with HGG. This is a pic from today all dirty after the little bit of rain we had this week. But still looking good. The VRT still looks great on the tires and so does everything underneath I sprayed with undercarriage detailer. Edited May 3, 2015 by FrozenWS6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWolf Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 Replaced the resin in the DI filters. Spent an hour with the clay bar getting road paint off the wheel wells. Got most of it off, except on the textured plastic, will have to use a solvent tomorrow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenWS6 Posted May 3, 2015 Share Posted May 3, 2015 (edited) Had some time to kill while it was still nice out so I decided to do some cleaning. APC with a toothbrush followed up with VRT. Before. After The difference is amazing. Edited May 3, 2015 by FrozenWS6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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