Adam's Polishes
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Hey everyone... been awhile since my last post... been absolutely slammed with new business (good problem to have right) and the holidays, as great as they are, seemed to just eat up every minute of free time I had.
This was the weekend... the TBSS had been neglected long enough. I had been so busy with customers cars, my regular job, my 15mnth. old son, and general stuff around the holidays that I had barely washed it... it had been since before Halloween that it had seen a good thorough cleaning. I also haven't taken any good pics since installing the Belltech drop springs and my new tinted IPCW LED tails + 3rd brake light.
I started Saturday morning, completely detailed the interior, conditioned the leather, shampood/extracted the carpets, cleaned and dressed the plastics. I also knocked out the undercarrige, engine bay, wheels (resealed with REJEX) and tires on Saturday as well.
Yesterday (Sunday) started the big project... cleaning and buffing the paint. It wasn't in bad shape, but it did have a fair amount of swirling from some rush washes I had done.
Started with the Hydorfoamer foam gun and some optimum car wash at full strength & the 4th largest metering nozel. 2 buckets of clean water each with a grit gaurd I did a complete scrub down using a brand new sheep skin mit, rinsing the it in each bucket after every panel to be doubly sure not to contaminate the paint.
After drying with brand new WWMF towels and QD spray I attacked the paint with DER Tuff Stuff on a white durfoam pad. No need to clay as the paint wasn't that rough, but I wanted to prep.
Followed that up with multiple passes of Adams Fine Machine Polish on the white durafoam pad. Started at 4000opm, but wasn't seeing the results I wanted so bumped up to 5000opm and worked each panel until I was completely satisfied.
I followed that up with Adams Machine Superwax on the gray durafoam pad at 3000opm. I hand buffed it off with an Adams super plush mf polishing cloth.
The glass was pretty spotted so I used vinegar to get some of the more stubborn spots off, cleaned again with Invisible Glass, and topped off with Adams Brilliant Spray Glaze.
Enough talk... heres the results
This was the weekend... the TBSS had been neglected long enough. I had been so busy with customers cars, my regular job, my 15mnth. old son, and general stuff around the holidays that I had barely washed it... it had been since before Halloween that it had seen a good thorough cleaning. I also haven't taken any good pics since installing the Belltech drop springs and my new tinted IPCW LED tails + 3rd brake light.
I started Saturday morning, completely detailed the interior, conditioned the leather, shampood/extracted the carpets, cleaned and dressed the plastics. I also knocked out the undercarrige, engine bay, wheels (resealed with REJEX) and tires on Saturday as well.
Yesterday (Sunday) started the big project... cleaning and buffing the paint. It wasn't in bad shape, but it did have a fair amount of swirling from some rush washes I had done.
Started with the Hydorfoamer foam gun and some optimum car wash at full strength & the 4th largest metering nozel. 2 buckets of clean water each with a grit gaurd I did a complete scrub down using a brand new sheep skin mit, rinsing the it in each bucket after every panel to be doubly sure not to contaminate the paint.
After drying with brand new WWMF towels and QD spray I attacked the paint with DER Tuff Stuff on a white durfoam pad. No need to clay as the paint wasn't that rough, but I wanted to prep.
Followed that up with multiple passes of Adams Fine Machine Polish on the white durafoam pad. Started at 4000opm, but wasn't seeing the results I wanted so bumped up to 5000opm and worked each panel until I was completely satisfied.
I followed that up with Adams Machine Superwax on the gray durafoam pad at 3000opm. I hand buffed it off with an Adams super plush mf polishing cloth.
The glass was pretty spotted so I used vinegar to get some of the more stubborn spots off, cleaned again with Invisible Glass, and topped off with Adams Brilliant Spray Glaze.
Enough talk... heres the results
Your pictures have got me hankering to try Machine Super Wax again... I wasn't blown away with it the first time, BUT my cars are silver.... It looks great on the JSB and your TBSS.
