DETAILING Q&A: Cleaning a Jeep Rubicon 4xe while Answering Your Questions

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to get another Q&A Thursday here at the Rag Company YouTube

channel, and that's us.

We're the panel today, not only am I your host, Dane Henned.

I've got a Gabe on my left.

Thanks for having me.

Welcome, and I've got a Sydney on my right.

For the audio listeners.

I've used a lot of words.

I've used, I know all the audio listeners.

I did just wave at the camera, but I've used a lot of words today.

So let's go.

Oh, you're a little fried.

Yeah, we've done actually six lives part of this.

Yeah.

And last but certainly not least, our Detailer of the Day, Delaney, welcome to the program.

Hey guys, thanks for having me.

Of course.

Now, before we move on and do a little housekeeping and all that stuff, Delaney,

can you tell us what your plan is?

I mean, this is your Jeep Wrangler, am I correct?

Yes.

So today we have my Jeep.

We're going to wash it, do a full foam wash, but it has to go to the dealership tomorrow.

So I told my mom, I was like, we got to get it clean.

I don't want them to take it through that terrible car wash.

Oh, shoot.

Yeah, we've got quite the diverse lineup.

I'm very excited about it.

I haven't used a lot of the products.

So I'm going to go start with Koch Green Star as a pre-treatment.

Do that across the whole car.

It is so dirty.

So this will be really awesome.

And I'm going to use that as kind of a trick, speed up the process.

You know, it's my mind of my mom's favorite thing.

What can we do to make things easier?

So we're going to do that.

And then next in the lineup, we have a car candy product, Chocolate Thunder for the wheels.

Believe it or not, I haven't really used much car candy, so I'm very excited to try this.

And then to go with the foam wash, we're going to use Armor Decon Soap.

And then pair it with the GFX also from Koch.

It's going to be super good.

Excellent.

It smells so good.

And then for the most exciting part, I'm going to do a quick glass coating on my car.

Winshield's already coated, but just kind of needs a new refresh.

So we're going to do rehab.

This machine, not really sure what it is, but we're going to try it out.

And then the Armor Detail Glass Coating.

And then we'll finish it up, make it look nice.

Delaney, I love it.

I appreciate the honesty.

I love the brutal honesty.

Yes.

That's what people tune in here for.

I feel like Delaney is the perfect person to test anything,

because she'll give it a brutal honesty test.

So ask me anything.

I'm going to give an honest review.

You can just go.

I don't know where she gets that from, but it's a little bit extra.

It's a real mystery.

She's a little extra.

Yeah.

No, love that.

So yeah, we welcome your feedback and yeah, questions for Delaney.

Direct them over to the Jeep there.

Pop them in the chat.

We will throw them her way.

So she will get alerted when you guys ask direct questions about the detail here.

Heck yeah.

Otherwise, you're welcome to ask us detailing technique questions, product questions.

We'll do our best to answer.

Of course, there's always those ones that might trip us up, but thanks to these two,

I think we have a pretty good coverage of experience with various product lines.

So anyway, Delaney, feel free to get started, start doing your thing,

and we'll start tackling some of these comments and questions,

unless one of you two has anything you'd like to talk to the audience about here first.

I do just want to share a fun fact.

I do want to share a fun fact, because after we were here last Thursday on Friday,

I think it's okay to say this.

We had a TRC family Christmas party, right?

We always go play fun and have games and stuff.

We go to a place here called Wahoos, which is a family fun.

Yeah, like a family fun center.

They have games and stuff.

And so we always go bowling.

And I think this is really a fun fact is that Delaney like got the highest score in bowling

that she's ever had.

And she tied with none other than Jeffrey Hennan for the top spot.

So they tied for first place.

So since she's here today, I do want to point that out,

because I thought that was pretty cool.

I think we probably had like, you know...

It was 135?

I think it was 136.

136.

Yeah, he tied at 136, yeah.

And it literally came down to the last frame.

Jeff was only behind by three.

And so he had gotten a strike, so he got three balls that frame.

And he had, I think it was like seven pins left up,

and he just could only knock down three to tie her.

And he tried his hardest, but he literally only got three pins.

And so they tied.

To be fair, Delaney almost had a turkey, but her lane was having issues.

So that kind of messed things up.

Yeah.

Anyway, it was very impressive.

So worth mentioning.

That was fun.

The only thing I've got to add for house cleaning is TRCMA guys, March 30th through April 2nd.

I know it sounds crazy, but January is already

halfway gone, and we've got, what, two and a half months left, and we're there.

Yeah, it's going to be here before you know it.

So make sure you guys put that on your calendars, TRCMA, 2026.

All right.

Delaney noted.

All right, guys.

Well, I've already got a bevy of good comments, questions.

Obviously, we got a lot of lollas and stuff here.

People are excited that it's not just Sydney, but also Delaney.

So they're happy to shout out.

But yeah, Delaney, go ahead, get started over there,

and I'll keep these comments coming.

And we'll let you know if something gets directed your way.

Erica, DIY, good day, TRC team.

Hope you're staying warm.

Love to see your daughter share your passion with you.

Detailing is the only chore my son will voluntarily do with me.

So I appreciate those moments.

Yeah, yeah, it's pretty fun.

So Delaney has been always stuck to me, you know, so she started detailing when she was like 10.

But it was about not until just this last year that Tristan, who's now 17, started helping me.

But now Tristan will come out and help me, and he does a great job.

But Delaney's been, she's been doing it forever.

Like, more than, well, almost half your life.

No, more than half your life.

Yeah, way more than half.

Because you're 20, right?

Yeah, she's, shoot, yeah.

She's been at it for a minute.

She's been doing it for half her life.

So yeah, fair statement.

She was aborted to it, molded by it.

Yes.

She's been molded by it.

All right.

Next up, we got Dan Pfeiffer here.

Sid, what's he saying?

Good afternoon, and we're up from freezing cold Minnesota, USA.

It's about minus 20 actual temp here.

That sounds awful.

So detailing is on hold right now, even with a heated garage.

But happy Friday Eve TRC.

They're about to get east coast and midwest, and even the south,

they're all about to get hit with a big snowstorm.

I hope that's wrong.

I always like when they really hype those storms up,

and then they're always wrong.

So I really am hoping they're wrong,

because there's some big stuff going on next week,

and I don't want it to interfere with that.

Well, you know, you could always send the snow this way.

I'd be happy to take some.

We need snow on the behalf.

Not until I leave.

OK, wait till Sydney leaves.

I have to fly out at like 4 AM on Tuesday.

So you guys can have it after I've gone,

but I've got to get out of here for you.

I want to dump the snow.

Actually, you know what?

I hope that it snows so much, and it's extremely cold.

The day Anthony gets off the airplane.

Who?

That to me is a warm welcome.

A nice warm welcome from Boise, Idaho.

We missed you, Anthony.

That's what it would be.

Idaho missed you.

That's what the weather will say.

All right.

So next up here, thank you, Dan.

I've also got Eric DIY saying, what, Gabe?

You can read it, you know?

No, no.

Oh, you read it first?

Oh, OK.

I want to hear the throwback.

I'm planning my second shot at coding this weekend.

Got balls of CSL, phobic, and pan eight year.

Nobody will touch that question right now,

as so an easier one circles, cross, hatch, other.

Does it really matter?

And I'm going to take this based off of what I learned from Sid,

is box method.

But prior to that, you basically draw your line

at a diagonal and you go across.

But every coding is different.

So read the instructions because applying stout

is different from applying phobic or applying armor, right?

Yeah.

So just just double check.

Yeah.

I'm more of a straight line person myself.

And me too.

And exactly like Gabe said, you got to, you know,

I know like phobic, you could probably get away

with doing circles, but stout you would not enjoy.

So follow the manufacturer's recommendations.

But generally speaking, I'm a straight line person,

no matter what.

Yeah.

Straight shooter.

All right.

Then we got Hydra detailing here, saying,

hi TRC family, hope you're all doing well.

Quick question.

Who still uses Christmas scented soap

even when Christmas is over?

We do.

For sure.

There's never a bad time to use.

Delaney?

What?

She's letting.

She's letting her green star percolate.

Aren't you using GFX today?

Yes.

Nice.

And Christmas is over.

In January.

Yeah, that counts.

It was green.

It was nice.

So how does that green start treating you?

I think it's good.

It actually smells really good, one thing I noticed.

And it looks great.

I'm really excited to see how it comes off

from the pressure washer.

I'm excited to see how well it actually cleans

those tires and stuff.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's good to break in stuff down.

Yeah, they were really brown, really dirty.

So it's going to be good.

Sweet.

Excellent.

All right.

Next up.

So yeah, Hydra, you are not alone.

Yeah, we love the Christmas long shot.

Yeah.

All right.

Michael DeBlau, Sydney, please read this one.

Good afternoon or evening, TRC and chat room.

Detail question.

I just installed ADS glass coating,

and I was wondering if an IPA 1 to 10 diluted,

which I clean my windows with, could degrade the coating.

Typically, the answer is going to be no,

because that is what is great about coatings

is they're meant to be chemically impervious.

So no, you should be absolutely fine.

All right.

And actually, I'm really glad you asked a question

about ADS glass, because that is the coating

that's going to be going on this week today.

Yes, on this.

I don't know if you just saw it in the thumbnail

and you've made a comment or what that was,

but thank you for helping that out.

And for those who are curious, yes,

you will get to see the application.

Oh, Joey, he goes through it.

Good afternoon, you beautiful souls.

Good afternoon there, Joey Balinski.

Hello, hello.

All right.

Next up, I've got angry monkey detailing,

saying, hi, all.

Have an auction purchased car

for a used car dealer on Saturday.

It's 10 degrees Fahrenheit in New York.

Lucky doing inside his garage.

Okay.

So you're doing the detail in his garage.

At least there's some semblance of temperature control.

I know it's going to be colder in there probably anyway,

but still beats doing it outside.

I wonder, so angry monkey detailing, how is this?

Do you typically do auction cars?

Because that's what I detail.

And oh my gosh, they are just hammered

or the paint is super dry or it's just, yeah, it's a mess.

So, yeah, I don't know.

I guess that's my question to you.

How hammered is the car and how often do you do auction cars?

Also, you know, me being a car guy,

I want to know what car was purchased at the auction.

Yeah, kind of car.

It's probably like a Nissan or a model or something like that.

Hopefully it's something a little more exciting.

Silly Goose 757.

Sunny and 83 here in Tallahassee

is looking for good detailing this weekend.

After a few weeks off, greetings to all.

Greetings to you, silly goose.

That sounds great.

I think I've got you.

I believe that's Megan.

So shout out Megan.

All right.

Now, I've got Joey here saying,

I have a low rider detail this weekend

and the interior carpet is shagged.

I like that.

Would you treat this any different with the three step system?

Extract after hairbrush so it doesn't get dreadlocks?

Sydney, please take it away.

I guess it would depend on is the carpet really dirty?

I mean, if it was really dirty,

I think you will end up having to extract.

But if it's just a spot clean,

you should be great with just the three step system for sure.

Yeah.

I try to never use the extractor,

but if it's actually dirty, you may need to.

Yeah.

Just read just wants to know if he's detailing Austin Powers' cars.

Austin Powers.

Oh, goodness.

Nice.

Can you imagine?

Nice.

Okay.

Then we got David Boyce.

Wow.

With a very polite good afternoon to everyone.

All right.

Nothing too crazy in that first comment.

Honestly, David, I expect more from you.

That's not a bad thing, though.

You've been chill.

David, what Dana is saying is bring the heat.

You know, David Boyce has his own way

of just making things way more exciting.

So, David, sometimes it's okay.

You can let loose a little.

It's all right.

We got Christian GTCS.

What's he saying, Sidney?

Well, it says, when will P&S develop

a competitive glass coating like many others already have?

Stout is absolutely incredible,

but something like that for glass would seal the deal.

I totally agree.

Unfortunately, I no longer have the inside track

on P&S and developing products.

So, I don't know the answer to that,

but I'm right there with you.

I totally agree.

Yeah.

You can base stuff off of prior knowledge,

but now you're in a different boat.

I will say there was no prior talk of it.

So, I mean, I wanted one,

but it was not kind of, you know,

towards the top of the list.

So, that's fair.

Delaney, how are the wheels looking after that?

So excited about this product, actually.

I feel like I'm going to use it on everything.

I could see the dirt coming off of the wheel,

which I don't think I've used a lot of pretreatments before,

so I don't know what to compare it to.

But I have never seen that before,

and they look amazing already.

Did I tell you Gabe is so happy right now?

I know.

And inside, I'm jumping up and down.

But I wanted, I told Delaney,

I want your honest opinion about GreenStar

as a pretreatment,

because honestly, I've used it a ton on the paint,

but just recently I've been utilizing it

more on the wheels and tires.

And don't get me wrong,

you're still going to pull a lot of blooming off the tires

when you go through the wheel and tire cleaner,

but the thing is, is it cleans off a ton.

Oh, a ton.

Just as a pretreatment,

and you're not as dirty going into the actual wheel

and tire cleaner.

So, that's mostly what I was wondering on that.

Exactly, yeah.

And I think this is a really good car for me to test this on,

because I don't think I've washed my car

in probably two months, honestly, like Thanksgiving.

And so, the wheels are way worse than they normally are,

or the tires.

And I think you oughta take in a lot of effort

to get all that dirt off

and get them back to being black, which is what I like.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

No, it's looking very good.

You can always count a green star for that,

so happy to see.

Yeah.

All right, next up, I've got Kristin GTCS

following up Gabe.

Go ahead and take this one.

Maybe if P&S gets a leather vinyl and plastic coning

for interiors would be amazing too.

Yeah, but the thing is, is P&S has a lot of good interior.

I mean, granted, there are short term dressings.

I was just gonna say, more along the lines of dress.

They're awesome.

As you guys know, my favorite is natural finish for interior.

I use leather treatment quite a bit on my Land Cruiser

and as Toyotas get older and age,

their leather gets a little bit more stiffer.

So, I don't know.

I don't, yeah.

I don't know.

And the other thing too is, and I don't know

what your opinions are, but leather coatings

or coatings on the interior, for me, they haven't excited me

to the point where I think that it's a game changer

and it's a need.

So, I don't know.

I think that's where Dave and I were at too,

is it just didn't really resonate with us

or really make a whole lot of sense.

I do know that prior to me leaving,

we did play with several of them.

And I've been kind of exploring it in my own business.

I'm still not totally sold.

And so, it's just not something that I go crazy after,

but we were looking at it.

Yeah.

Just outside looking in at it.

It always felt to me like when it comes to the coatings

for interiors and stuff.

I mean, we get it.

The exterior is as subjective to all kinds of elements.

You know, weather hits them, road stuff hits them,

you get the grime, you get road paint,

all this random stuff that finds its way under your surfaces.

But with the interior, nothing on a vehicle

gets more physical abrasion than your interior surfaces.

It's the stuff you're touching, you're sitting on it,

you're scooting on it, you're just like rubbing the steering wheel.

Whatever you're doing, it's causing physical abrasion

in a way that doesn't actually happen as often on an exterior vehicle.

I think the area too, Dane, to think about,

the area that's the most important on the interior

as far as maintaining or having more slickness versus abrasion

is your bolster getting in and out.

Specifically the driver's seat,

because you have a driver for every car.

But even on the passenger seat, those areas,

I do think if you had a way to keep that where it's more slick,

but it also comes down to how often are you keeping your car clean

and maintaining it, because I maintain mine every week.

Even if I don't wash the exterior, I do wipe down on the seats

and I do put some leather treatment on there

and it does help aid that potential abrasion

that I would otherwise be facing if I wasn't maintaining it.

So I don't know.

And the other thing that I real just real quick that I'll add

that as a detailer, the part that I really struggle with those

is the longevity and standing behind it.

It's just not, I haven't found a product that I would feel comfortable

charging the prices that we're supposed to charge

and standing behind it for my customer.

So that is why I haven't gone crazy over it is I,

because it's such a random durability thing,

I would have a hard time selling it

and having the customer expect for it to last a certain amount of time.

I would maybe use it on my own vehicle,

but it's just, it's a hard sell for me.

Well, and it's the same question when people ask,

how long does the coating get a last, right?

When if you talk interior coating,

it all depends on the person and the vehicle

and what is the vehicle used for.

If it's a soccer mom car,

yeah, the coatings get away out really fast

versus if it's a URI or a museum piece,

you know, something that very rarely has somebody slip in

or out of the driver's seat

and once in a while to move it around like a curated place.

Like Anthony Xevo, right?

Yeah, basically museum piece.

No, that's an excellent point.

And that's why I said, you know,

the thing about how much, you know,

just physical agitation happens there.

It's really hard to measure against that no matter how good it is.

I know somebody will claim, oh, snake oil, whatever,

because somebody will claim a certain time frame.

You just don't know.

Well, you can do your best to guess.

I think that's kind of what Sid was saying, too,

is that's what's really tough is we are here to voice

a point of reason to help you guys basically get your car clean

and looking good.

And we need to be able to stand behind it.

Yeah.

And that's where the interior, it's a little bit tougher.

I don't know.

Yeah.

All right.

Different.

I've got Sheepstar here making sure we all know

that Sheepstar is checking in.

Nice.

What up, Sheepstar.

Happy to have you here, sir.

And Mike G detailing, what is G saying, Gabe?

Hey guys, hope all of you are doing well

listening in the background at work.

That's awesome, man.

Well, let's check in with Delaney.

Delaney, how's the chocolate thunder going?

I already know we're not going to ask specifically

how she feels about that IK sprayer,

because I can already tell.

So how do you feel about the chocolate thunder?

It's good.

I like it.

It seems very smooth, very easy.

And my wheels definitely look a lot cleaner.

Yeah, we're not going to talk about the IK sprayer.

I do think I would rather just

do the regular trigger sprayer, essentially.

She's not a fan of IK sprayers.

She doesn't like the pumping.

So just use the IK trigger sprayer in that case.

Yeah, I mean, they're better than your average trigger sprayer.

But I think it's good, and I think the combo

of the Green Star and the chocolate thunder

are working really well together.

Cool.

I'm excited to see how those tires look when they're dry.

I know.

Right next up, I've got Christian GTCS saying,

any update on P&S's version of the Coach Kemi S003 foam

sealant for the Canon?

So basically, you're wondering P&S making a product somewhere

along the lines of a foam sealant for a Vogue Canon.

Yeah, I know it was on the goal board,

and I don't know anything past that.

OK, yeah.

So once again, do you not have the inside track on that?

I will say, Christian, if you want more answers about that,

you should probably tune into TRCMA 2026, March 30 through April 2.

That is effectively the inside track now.

That's going to be where you find out all the fun treats.

You can ask Bob and Dave themselves.

The first time they revealed.

All right.

Next up, I've got Angry Monkey detailing.

Let's see what he's saying.

What's he saying?

I'm going to have you read this.

Oh, gosh.

OK, he said P&S should create a Sydney Bray Gwyn double teal

diamond series starting with release.

You earned it.

That's your baby.

How do we get that to happen?

Full send us next.

Well, unfortunately, I'm not sure if you've heard the news.

But I'm feeling like a lot of people miss the announcement.

Miss the memo.

I'm no longer at P&S.

Mike's over here.

No longer at P&S.

So that probably won't happen.

I fully agree with you, though.

I do love release.

It is my baby.

That is definitely one product that I will never stop using.

It's absolutely incredible.

And I am proud of the work that I did there.

So I appreciate your comment.

But those will have to stay at P&S.

And I will.

They'll stay at P&S.

But I do like that.

I do like the double teal.

Yeah, double diamond because I'm not, you know, maybe you can take

that to your new place.

Yeah.

You know what I'm saying?

Yeah.

Just see if anybody wants to create me anything teal.

I will sign up listening.

Brian, 5037.

Hey, guys, isn't a glass cleaner just a degreaser?

What if you use APC to clean windows?

Oh, I would not do that, Brian.

Yeah, it would smear.

Do that.

Yeah, it would smear.

Yeah.

No, absolutely.

Glass cleaner is not a degreaser.

Yeah.

Using an APC on tinted windows, too.

Yeah.

No, the thing is there's surfactants, which is like soap in APC.

And that's going to create a whole smeary mess all over your glass.

And it may or may not ruin it.

So I would not do that.

Just stick with glass cleaner.

Yeah, I know.

I know with glass cleaners, they tend to skew more towards the alcohol,

solvent, deep side of things, because the point is they have a flash off.

Yeah.

If you don't have that happening with your glass cleaner, then it's a different kind of.

Pick a different glass cleaner.

Yeah, your glass cleaner is likely to flash off or as an APC.

If you let it dry, it's going to be streaky and extremely flotchy.

Yes, it's not good.

Don't don't do that.

Yeah.

I would say now here's the caveat.

Here's the caveat.

Pilot is kind of in the interior realm that you can use on the windows.

And I know DJ and Bradley, they're going to roll their eyes and say,

it's not a glass cleaner, it's interior.

But it does work on the glass for cleaning.

All right.

It does.

But I'm going to go with just stick with the glass cleaner, guys.

Just stick with the glass.

Glass cleaner is like the cheapest chemical out there.

Sydney is just stick with the glass cleaner.

Her niche is the glass.

That is Sydney's whole thing.

So glass.

So I could see that she was she's yeah.

Don't mess around with glass when she's watching.

Yeah, she was kind of rolling her eyes a little bit there when I pulled in the idea of pilot.

She's like, why would you say so?

She's going to come over and correct you.

I know.

At CO detailing says both of my sons have jeeps.

A jeep's trim fades so bad it does.

Oh my goodness.

You know what you need?

You need armor detail trim plus.

It's absolutely like literally like I'll probably die on that hill with trim.

That is an amazing product.

You know one thing is some of the trim just depending on what you use.

Trim plus goes a long way.

It lasts a long time too.

So yeah, give that a try.

Yeah.

And I've been super happy with that product.

All right.

Then I've got Hydra here saying till which pH do the normal IK foamers and multifomers go

compared to the alkaline?

I see green star.

You know, I don't know the official answer on here, but I put everything in my normal ones.

Yeah.

And they're fine.

I mean, I think where the problem probably comes in is maybe like on full on acids,

which I don't use.

So I mean, I think that that would be the only reason I would ever move to buy the other one is

if I was using acid, but I don't use IK.

And I also wouldn't be spraying in an aerated thing if I was using acid either.

But I use all of the other degreaser and stuff in my normal ones.

And I think the probably the key there is that you're not supposed to store your chemicals in

your IK sprayer.

So ideally, no.

Although the bottles are resilient.

Yeah.

The point of not storing them has to do with the seals.

But before, Gabe, before you go on, this is the point of having those lids that we worked

so hard and so long.

I swear we spent the better part of like five years begging them to make lids for the bottle.

So you could store them safely.

You just put the lid on the actual IK bottle, which is extremely durable.

But that way it's not putting pressure against your seals and all the bad stuff that you don't

want to have happen.

Yeah, for sure.

No, I think you hear exactly what I was going to say.

It's just how you store your stuff.

Yeah.

And just to be clear, hydra is referring to the normal black IK,

foamers versus the navy.

They're like a navy blue.

Yeah.

So that's what hydra is referring to.

But yeah.

All right.

Next up, I've got.

Shout out to the curveball for wheels.

Oh, yeah.

We got some love for that.

Oh, no.

Somebody, uh, let's see.

Wondering if Delaney doesn't like PNS.

What are you talking about?

No, no, we've got lots of good PNS products in the lineup today.

Huge PNS fan.

I'm going to be using dynamic, full send, rehab, all the good ones.

Bam.

She's got a mix.

No, we still love PNS.

Like we still, I mean, Delaney was raised on PNS.

Sounds like all of my kids know.

But no, we're not going to stop using a product.

No, they, they already fixed you in that household for us.

ML608 says, obviously, anytime you show a Jeep,

we need to know tire and wheel size.

And if there's a lift.

Oh, Delaney might know this.

Yes.

So they're just the same tires that came on it when I bought it.

So 35 inch, I don't remember the brand right now.

BFG.

Oh, BFG.

Yeah.

So good.

And then I should know that.

That's such a fail.

But I think they are KOGs.

Yeah.

There are BFGs.

And then I have fuel wheels that I put on aftermarket.

Do you know the size?

Um, I think 17 inch.

I think there's 17.

Sounds right.

Yeah.

There is no lift because it is the root of the con.

But there's an offset.

The wheels had an offset.

Yeah.

So the wheels, it did change the look of it.

Yeah.

For sure.

But she, she, Delaney bought those wheels.

Cash money herself.

Heck yeah.

After she bought the car.

So yeah.

Yep.

She did that after.

Delaney, very nice.

Do you want to know what I ask my Jeep friends instead of,

if they have tire size or wheel size or lifts?

What?

Do you ask?

I ask them, do you have AAA?

Oh.

I thought you were going to say,

do you have a check engine light on?

I thought that's what you were going to ask.

Oh, I mean.

But this is, this is Toyota guy humor.

To be fair though, that Jeep that we detailed,

what was it, three weeks ago?

Oh yeah, I had to check engine light on.

That one had a check engine light.

And we had to tell the owner, hey,

before we wash this, you do know you have a check engine light.

Because I did that.

And I confirmed.

And they said they were aware.

Sorry, Delaney.

And it was a bad joke.

Bad joke, bad joke there.

It's a good joke.

Anthony is not here to hear it.

It's no boy.

It's a little sensitive.

You know, this is the hybrid edition, right?

So the Forexies have a, or the Ford Byteys.

They have a bit of a reputation right now for.

Yeah.

They've been in the news a little bit.

Catch on fire.

I'm not totally wrong then by making the joke.

But no, but so what I was going to say though,

is you would know, because fun fact on the Forexies,

when the check engine light comes on,

the whole car shuts down.

That's not great.

It does not move if the check light is on.

Okay.

I just, in defense of plug-in hybrids,

I really like a plug-in hybrid.

And there's not enough like truck plug-in hybrids.

I know they're working like range extended EVs.

You're telling me, if you take this car to Moab,

this Jeep, sorry, to Moab,

and you get a check engine light out in the middle of nowhere,

you're, you're dead.

You're dead.

Yep.

Well, I mean, there's different degrees here.

Check engine light for like, you know,

okay, but the check engine light came on one time

and it was dead.

But I will say this is like the coolest car though.

Like it is.

So like the torque and stuff,

like she could race a 392 Wrangler.

Yeah.

So the torque and stuff,

like it is a very cool Jeep and we love it.

And it's quiet.

It's super quiet.

Like we absolutely love it.

She loves it.

It's, it's, I got to drive it when she was gone in Mexico,

but it is a very nice Jeep.

It just is in the news for some, you know.

Less and stellar.

Just disregard, just disregard the news stories.

It's got some drama around it, but you know.

They're working through the drama, right?

Tesla's explode to you guys all the time.

The commentary of the guests on this program,

do not reflect those of the RAG company.

So if you have feelings hurt, please direct them elsewhere.

Okay.

Moving along with theragcompany.com.

Hello from Morocco says bad RFR.

And you know what?

I appreciate that.

We've got a viewer in Morocco.

That is awesome.

That is pretty dang cool.

Thank you for checking in.

Okay.

CO detailing.

I'm glad to hear Ryan got his channel back.

I did not know that.

Thanks for sharing.

Heck yeah.

So cool.

No, that, for those who missed it,

things did not go well for Ryan over to find detailing.

Briefly channel kind of got hijacked or something there.

And then, well, now it's back in the right hands.

Fortunately.

That's crazy.

Yeah.

So great.

All right.

David Boyce, Sydney, please.

My goodness.

Delaney's hair has gotten so long.

Move over, Dan.

You've got hair competition.

Looking good.

I wasn't trying to give me.

Ah, thank you, David Boyce.

David, I'll take that one.

I've got short hair.

I've got actually hot hair.

Her hair is really long.

Her hair is very long.

It looks crazy long today.

Thanks.

It looks great.

She's on a new healthy hair journey

and it's working quite well.

Nice.

Yeah.

I like it.

Cool.

Next up, we've got Christian GTCS.

What's he saying, Gabe?

Does P&S have a water spot remover?

That could be sprayed on and agitated

for those hard to reach spots on glass.

By the cow where it meets glass

or where glass meets rubber door sills,

grill crevices.

So is he referring to the glass specifically

or are you talking a general water spot remover?

So I'll kind of take this one.

It's two parts.

So the answer to your question,

do they have a water spot remover

that can be sprayed on?

Yes, it's called water spot remover.

It is hard to get because you actually have

to pick it up at a distributor.

It cannot be shipped.

So therefore it's not sold on Amazon

and not sold on most websites.

See, I was going to say, I had never tried that.

Hardcore stuff.

It's actually really good.

The problem is it's very hard to get.

Now.

Is there a reason why?

Because it can't be shipped.

It's not safe to be, what is it, air shipped?

So it has to be ground.

So you can't ship it off websites and stuff.

See, that alone tells people they're like,

oh, that's a good stuff.

Well, even when they hear you,

you can catch them for like concerns.

It's great.

It's just hard to get.

So the thing is, but then to answer

the second part of the question

is could you use it on the glass?

I would never spray this water spot remover on glass.

Actually, I wouldn't spray any water spot remover on glass.

And so because the problem is

where you say hard to reach,

that tells me you may not be able to get it, you know.

Wiped off.

Why can't I think of the word?

Well, they won't be able to neutralize it

after they spray it.

Neutralize.

That's the word that's not coming.

You wouldn't be able to neutralize it good enough.

So I'm kind of more of a fan on the glass

of using like a gel based water spot remover

because they're not quite as strong.

And then you have a little bit more time to work.

Like that's the biggest thing.

It sounds like here's going to be working time,

but it's, I wouldn't spray on anything

with anything hard to reach area.

That makes me nervous.

Well, and I'm always just

feeling sort of smiling as she's filming.

You know, I was a little concerned.

What?

My kids get deprived.

They don't get to foam at home, so they love it.

I'm looking over there.

Your mom's explaining the water spot remover

and you're smiling like almost to the point where you're laughing.

Because I don't know if you can see this wall,

but I have foam everywhere on this TV.

It's all good.

Yeah, it's kind of out of control,

but I'm getting there.

Sorry for the mess.

I don't know.

It's all good.

That goes there for us, the wash bay.

That's so funny.

Okay, good.

No, my point when it came to water spot removers on glass

was going to be about safety glass

and how it responds when you go like a deeply acidic,

or even a high alkaline type, you know, products on there.

It's just not good to let that stuff sit on automotive glass.

Water spot remover, that's gel-like.

Like Sid was talking about, MDR is pretty gel-like.

So MDR you could probably use.

MDR is a lot more, let's say, calm than a lot of these

water spot removers.

And not a lot of the gel-based ones are calmer.

That's why I always do gel.

Some people might argue, oh, it didn't work for me,

or whatever, it's like more gentle.

I'm assuming it's more gentle.

So you would just polish it out.

I do, yeah.

Yeah, that's what I, we did.

In fact, if you guys haven't seen this last week,

we dropped a fire truck wash that we did.

We didn't go in depth, but that fire truck had a lot of water

spotting on the front windshield.

And guess what we used, Sidney?

Clarity cream?

Clarity cream.

Yep, so Clarity cream, I think with a,

I think we used either the blueberry, the maroon,

foam edge guard pad on a three inch,

and that was, that did the trick.

Nice.

All right, then I've got sheep star here.

Oh, that guy.

Oh boy.

Of course, with a real question.

Super duper important question.

If you could only eat one of these for the rest of your life,

what would it be, steak or ribs?

That's a hard question, but I'm going to go with steak

because I think I'm going to get hungry on just ribs.

But I love ribs.

So I love ribs.

I love ribs, but I also don't like being hungry.

You know what's crazy that sheep starts asking this question?

I've been craving Texas Roadhouse baby back ribs.

So I'm going to go baby back ribs.

Yeah.

Well, I would maybe have to go with ribs

just so I could get the Texas Roadhouse.

The reason, and the other thing too, guys,

you can really change the flavor.

You could do baby back, you could do sriracha,

you could do honey ribs.

I mean, ribs, you could really change it up.

Delaney tiebreaker.

What's your vote?

Ribs or steak for the rest of your life?

Oh, neither.

Yeah, that's a good choice though.

I was coming.

She doesn't eat a whole lot of beef.

Chicken.

Way to be a rebel.

Okay.

Moving along here.

Joe Kultras.

Joe Kultras saying,

can't wait to see the Raven in action saw Sydney's reveal.

Well, look at that.

They know the name.

Okay, so Sid, can you tell us a little bit

about this here, Raven?

Okay, we'll tell you about it,

but I could very much get in trouble for this.

Oh, no.

Well, if you're going to get in trouble,

maybe we'll just do it.

No, it's fine, because I mean,

I already put out that video, right?

Oh, okay.

And so...

Whatever you said in the video is okay to say.

Yeah, so obviously I...

And I mean, they knew I was putting out the video.

I checked first.

So just for anybody out there,

like I did not, because I, you know,

run a lot of surprise product reveals

and I'm very like, do not say anything.

And so it was kind of funny that in the video,

I was like, oh, I'm probably going to get in trouble for this.

But after I made the video,

I did send it to Barry Thiel and say, can I put this out?

So just like Disclaimer,

I would not have put that video out had he said no.

So, you know, I made the video for him,

and then I said, can I put this out?

And he said, of course.

So Delaney will be like secretly using it over there today,

but so it's just a three inch tool from Barjack,

which Barjack is kind of a new brand on the scene.

And so Keith, you know, good friend, Keith the Plusy,

is obviously, you know, joined forces with them.

I think his title is President, I'm not sure.

But anyway, so I did the video and it's called the Raven.

It's their three inch battery operated tool.

It's super awesome.

Great. Yeah.

I'm excited to see it in action, but, you know,

there's a lot of three inch tools out on the market now.

And so fact, we compared that with Lucas's

because he bought one from find detail.

Yeah. Yeah.

And so a lot of them,

I feel like a lot of them are on the same platform now.

I really do.

You know, but there's a couple of machines

that are in the $800, $900 range.

And then there's a couple that are in the $350 to $450 range.

And I think that's really going to be the sweet spot.

Yeah.

And so, you know, given what you get for that money now,

it's actually kind of exciting to see.

And I love that they're so quiet.

And obviously selfishly here, we learned at TRCMA last year,

we have one, another brand that having the quiet polisher

makes all the difference when you're on live camera

or on any video.

Yeah.

It's a difference in whether we actually use it here on camera.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

That's why it's so cool with it.

Yeah. So I'm super excited about it.

But I love that it's all black.

Like I love the all black aesthetic.

I don't like bright colors.

And, you know, like we're all weird about our color ways.

And rubberization and contrast with the hard plastics that molding

that is built in.

It's pretty nice.

Yeah. So I'm pretty excited about it.

I love the name.

I love everything about it.

So I'm excited to see Delaney use it.

But yeah, so we'll be released next week at MTE.

Obviously, I put the video out last night.

And, you know, I don't think they mind the pre-chatter about it.

No. No, not at all.

Developing a little interest ahead of time.

Yeah. But I thought I should say that I would not have put that video out

without them approving of it.

So yeah.

I don't want anybody to think that I'm a polo.

It's info that was going to come out anyway.

It's just you got a little head start.

Yeah.

I mean, I didn't want to be a jerk, but when they saw the video,

they were like, yeah, go ahead and put that out.

All right.

Now, there is Ryan right there.

Yes, it is coming quick, Ryan.

We are definitely excited.

There's going to be a lot of brands.

We've got some new brands coming this year.

And there's a lot of cool product drops

happening that we are in the know-how

as we start working out logistics with these brands.

So you're definitely going to want to watch it.

And I think Ryan is coming out again.

I hope so.

Let's hope so.

Yeah.

All right.

We got Joey here.

Joey is saying, when will we have

Graham Basseter of the year 2025 news

asking for 18 friends?

What are the odds of that?

Well, Joey, as well, I know a little bit

because I got to make the graphic for him.

So once I make that graphic, you already know who it is.

It'll come out.

Wow, Joey.

I may or may not know a little bit more than I'm letting on here.

Joey, you may not know what we already know.

But the point is expect to see that probably near

the latter part of next week.

Very cool.

Oh, yeah.

All right.

Next up, we've got Silly Goose.

What's the brand distribution of Breguin

shops chemicals these days?

All right.

I want to know what's in the garage.

Man, I really, honestly, I have a nice mix

of everything now, which I really love.

Obviously, for a long time, it was primarily P&S.

But probably a year and a half ago,

I started kind of adding in some other stuff.

So I have multiple cabinets that have other brands.

Obviously, I think everybody knows,

I'm a huge fan of armor detail.

Love those chemicals.

I was very late to the bandwagon on Coche.

But I do have several now that I really love.

Obviously, Green Star.

Love that.

And so I do love Coche.

But then I obviously joined forces with Carcandy.

And I'm super excited about that.

We've got some big news coming out at MTE next week.

And so honestly, I have a little bit of everything.

But yeah, I think it's a way to go.

I think there was a comment.

Someone said, it was one of these Q&As about how

you have so many chemicals on your table and stuff.

But the thing is, is I think it's good

to have a kind of a combination.

There's not one brand out there that I'm like,

every single time I'm washing is just the one brand.

I'm always picking and choosing from different chemical lines.

And then the other thing too is always trying out new.

You can become complacent on how you do your processes.

But for me, I like to learn.

And I like to figure out what's out there.

What's the next best.

And sometimes you're just feeling different.

And I think that that's what I've learned

by incorporating some other brands is that different cars,

different materials respond different.

And also a lot of, for me, is driven by smells.

Like what kind of sense am I in the mood for today?

Am I feeling more fruity?

Am I feeling more musky?

Like that kind of drives it too.

But even just like Delaney said that,

and I think that it's very fair to say that

each chemical company has its strong suit.

I don't know of any chemical company where

every single product is the best in that space.

I just don't think that that will ever be reality.

And just like Delaney said, she used Green Star

and then the Chocolate Thunder.

And she said, she said it like these two

are going really well together.

And I've noticed that through getting to play

with so many different brands is that

it's okay to mix brands.

Like I remember 10 years ago, some of the marketing was like,

oh, you have to use our brand of everything.

Like you have to use the soap.

You have to use the, and it was like, that's ridiculous.

And then it comes, the other questions too are like,

what, what soaps are the best or what's right?

And the thing is, is it just depends on the application.

It depends on the vehicle you're working on.

It depends on the paint.

There's just so many variables that make it very hard to be,

you know, subjected to one specific brand

or one specific chemical or soap

and indicating that that one specific chemical is the best.

When in reality, you're going to change it up.

That's what, you're going to adjust to the environment

you're detailing it.

Now, you're absolutely 1000% correct on that.

But what I will say is a slight caveat

is when it comes to those companies

who did like swear up and oh, you got to use all our products.

It was, sometimes it was sold as a, you can use

and they'd like suggest the products,

but they wouldn't like say you had to.

But there were other companies

where say like their main product line was coatings.

And they had specific prep that you needed to use.

And the coatings I do kind of buy off on a little bit.

A lot of people, you find this at least as a company,

like in handling, you know, customer complaints of,

oh, I applied this coding and it didn't stick.

And they go, what was your prep process?

And they explain, well, I used a homemade, you know,

IPA or I did this kind of thing.

And it's like, I understand people's

totally wanting to do that

because they want to save a buck on those and they go,

why am I going to spend money on their fancy prep

when I could just do the same thing myself?

No, the coatings I do.

There's, there's some weird chemistry out there

when it comes to the coatings and how they adhere

where using their prep literally is like the way

to make it stick and work.

Otherwise, you kind of just put yourself S-O-L.

But for your basic maintenance wash process.

So, and all that kind of stuff.

Yeah, absolutely.

But you're, you're spot on, Dane.

I just wanted to throw that out there

because I know some people are going to start like screaming.

No, I was going to mention that.

Wait, but I was told and it's like, yeah, you're not wrong.

With coatings, you're definitely.

And the thing is, is it doesn't mean

that the other prep won't work,

but it means that when we go through the testing

and we're certifying it, we know what prep we're using

and that's the only thing we can speak to.

So that is why manufacturers say you have to use our prep

because that's the only thing that we can,

we know for sure that it did a good enough job

for that specific product.

And so absolutely on coatings,

you do want to use the manufacturer's coating prep

because that's what it's been tested with.

And when it comes to like proficiency

in chemical production,

usually even the worst chemicals these days

that are coming out from like lines.

So you're like, oh, all this stuff's like a heavy hitter

and then get to this one where you're like, it was all right.

It's usually never terrible,

but you can feel almost like the compliance nature of it

where you're like, okay,

they didn't really try as hard with this one

or it's like you can feel with a lineup

where the passion is where it's like,

okay, if it's a smaller brand

and there's a focus on specific kinds of things.

Whereas they go, well, I had to make this

because everybody expects me to have a line

that includes something like this.

You can just kind of feel that and suss that out.

So anybody who claims to have like an entire line

where every single product is equally amazing,

it's just not realistic.

I understand people have their favorites

and it can differ,

but I just think as a human looking at it,

you're always going to find stuff

that works for you better than others

in the lineup and it's okay to mix stuff.

Yep, totally agree.

All right, moving along here,

I just always love that commentary

because it is a big debate.

Christian, what is the strongest car wash up for the foam?

So are we talking what is the foamiest of foam?

He wants it in a foam cannon.

The strongest, does he mean like the most stripping?

What does he mean by strongest?

Christian, can you kind of...

Do you mean the most foamy?

Do you mean the...

Elaborate on that one.

I would suspect he's looking for the most thick lather foam.

Let's answer based on that.

And if he says otherwise, then we can...

Yeah, and I think that's subject too.

Like, what's your dilution?

Yeah, you can make any soap be...

I think Pearl will be amazingly thick.

When people are like, oh, it's kind of watery.

10-0-1 is my go-to typically with soap.

I think they're all good.

I did de-con wash today on the Land Cruiser

and that one was really foamy

and GSF is also really foamy.

So, and those...

That's a hard one.

That's a tough one.

Yeah, I couldn't give you a straight one

on that one, Christian, to be honest.

There's a lot of great films out there, man.

Yeah, you're going to get a lot of subjectivity there.

CEO detailing.

Okay, we're back to Ribs.

Sheepstar detail.

Ribs are like Rensseless.

Steak is like filet.

One may be good, but it's not nearly as good as the other.

Fair enough.

All right, Adam Giesman films here.

Good afternoon, TRC crew.

Good afternoon.

Right back at you, dude.

All right, so I've got Christian also following up here,

saying from Long Island, New York,

got lots of salt and junk.

Want something to clean and also have use cases

for stripping old waxes off for paint prep before coating.

All right, you guys are full prepped with that.

Gosh, well, I'm going to say start with that green start

for the salt and junk, for sure.

And then prep before coating, I mean, you're going to have to polish.

I will never say that you don't need to polish before coating.

So, and the polish is what's going to take off the waxes and stuff.

There's no way that you could measure with using something

like GreenStar or any kind of APC degreaser.

There's no way that you could measure that you got that surface

100% clean.

You just can't.

And anytime you coat, you want to really reset the surface.

So I would do GreenStar for sure on my initial wash.

To get the salt and junk for sure.

I would utilize Actifoam,

because Actifoam is going to really break down any of the quick

detailers or any stuff like that.

Then like Sidney said, I would go through,

I would polish it, panel prep it,

and then go into your coating process.

If you want to ensure that your surface is clean as possible,

and somewhere in between too, we forgot to mention,

is you probably want to also do a quick spray of iron

and get any iron contaminants off

and clay it while you're at it.

Because honestly, if you're going to coat your paint,

you want your paint to be super clean and looking good.

Well, and I do see that debate come up a lot with the people.

This is kind of a thing a few years ago,

where people were like, you have to polish before you coat.

And I absolutely agree that for the eye of a detailer,

there's no way you're going to want to coat over something

that's all scratched and scuffed up,

even if it does fill in most of the spots.

But the consideration that you point out there,

where it's like you have absolutely no way of measuring

or being sure that everything that was on the surface

has truly gone unless you physically abrade it.

I think there's a strong point to be made there.

Now, I get why some people feel like, I can coat over this thing,

and for the customer's needs, if that's what they truly want,

and you've discussed that with them,

and their expectations are here, then OK, I can understand that.

It may not be the way I would want to do it,

but I understand if you have a relationship with the customer,

you know that they understand what they're going to be getting

isn't perfect, and perfect is relative, too.

But anyway, you get the point.

Yeah, it's a very minimum setting expectations.

Make sure you properly do a chemical decontamination

at the very minimum, but yeah.

All right, next up, I've got Brian here again.

How do I get debris out of my silver radiator fins

behind the grill?

Ooh, I hit it.

Some birds enter in sex, and stuff is sitting on it.

OK, it's not just one bird.

You hit multiple birds.

I hit some birds.

What's going on here, you guys?

And stuff is sitting on it.

What's going on, pal?

That's above my pay grade.

Why did you not clean the radiator fins?

Are you chasing after these birds on purpose?

What's going on?

OK, Brian, are you using any type of degreaser,

or all-purpose APC on it at all?

Kind of give us some feedback there.

Give us a little bit more insight.

I need a grin grill.

And did you drive through a chicken coop?

I think.

OK, so I'm thinking Mike, you can see.

All I can say is a long bristle brush.

Yeah, so you're like, I'm assuming you can see

through his grill, and you can see his radiator fins.

I would not do a bristle brush.

I don't know.

I think that you risk.

I think you're pushing the debris into the.

I think you're on the risk of damaging some of,

like, your radiator fins.

Or you're pushing the debris inside the radiator.

I would do an APC and pre-spray it,

and I would gently rinse it as if I'm washing an engine bay.

That's what I would do at the most, Brian.

Otherwise, I've never.

I don't know, yeah.

Yeah, I mean, high pressure water is going to jam it in there.

I think with the use of air, you might be able to.

I don't know, Delaney.

Just playing around.

She's like, oh, gosh.

I feel like this is some type of craft project

when I was 10 years old, and I'm making a huge mess.

That's OK.

It's fun though, but I'm like, wow, this is crazy.

The soap keeps pushing.

And the high angle, sometimes when you see that camera high angle,

you can see what's left on the roof, which is handy.

Because there's a bit there.

I know, yeah.

I keep going around, and it just keeps moving it around.

So I think I'm just going to give up on that and dry it.

Fair enough.

There's a step still over in the back corner.

Yeah, there's one right here.

And there's one.

Yeah, just use that.

Then push it to the back.

Yeah, and if that's not tall enough,

we got an even taller one over here.

Just be careful, because that thing on the Swiss tracks

will slide.

Yes, so be very, very, very careful.

OK.

Did we just set up the same thing?

We set that in unison, jinx, jinx.

Oh, gotcha.

All right, so moving along here, all right.

Holy smokes.

How about our back of these comments?

Stuck to the gate behind the desk.

Bring out the dead jokes.

Thank you, silly goose.

I am stoked to be here.

Oh my gosh, what happened?

What's happening, Delaney?

I hit the pressure washer on the top, but we're good.

Oh, you're fine.

Nothing, nothing serious.

That's no one saw it.

No one saw it.

OK, good.

It's just our one-of-one prototype pressure washer system.

You don't have to worry about nothing, nothing too fragile.

We're good.

On we go.

Oh, Stane, don't make her feel bad.

I'm kidding.

OK, Jill Koldras here.

Have to ask, will the new TRC stubby gun,

one foam cannon all be ready soon?

Well, Joe, tune in to TRCMA March 30th through April 2nd.

Yeah, I'm just going to stick with that phrase.

Yeah.

Cool.

All right.

And then I've got Christian up again saying,

stout coating, you wipe off immediately.

It's better that way because it speeds up the coating process

easier to wipe off.

I agree.

Yeah.

During the testing process, I wasn't sure if I liked

how quick you had to wipe it off,

but then when I would time myself,

I realized that I was actually done about 15 minutes quicker.

Panel at a time, literally apply why move on.

Apply why move on.

It's and the stout coating is genuinely stout.

I've had it on my wife's fans since when did it come out 2023?

It came out at CEMA 24.

So when we, I think we had a test batch prior to.

So summer of 24, we applied it on the van.

And oh my gosh, it is still extremely hydrophobic.

Oh, it's crazy.

And I don't do a lot as far as the maintenance,

but to be quite honest,

I don't do a lot as far as washing it,

more so than what I should.

And it looks like we lost our TV.

Oh, we came back up.

This is a little HDMI issue.

No, it's stout is genuinely stout as far as the coating goes.

Okay.

Then I've got David Boyce here.

Does Delaney or Gabe have a favorite APC

and favorite tire dressing?

It says APV, but I think he meant APC.

So APC, I think it's hard to say.

It's again, that's very subjective.

My two favorites that I've been using a lot in rotation

is clean by armor as well as green star as far as my APCs.

And then my favorite tire dressing,

which I found out that I was doing it all wrong

at the very beginning is actually ghost.

I'm really into ghost,

but I'm into ghost for a long term.

You got to eulex your tires.

And then the one by Koch, which is, what is it?

It's, oh man, I'm blanking.

Like the PSS?

It's not PSS.

I do love using PSS.

It's actually from the pro-sumer line.

Oh.

Okay.

The blue bottles.

It actually works pretty dang good.

So those have been the two that I've been playing around with.

But again, keep in mind, I'm rotating

and I'm always trying stuff out.

Those are the two I'm just using at the moment

and testing out.

Delaney, how about you?

APC and what's your favorite APC

and your favorite tire dressing?

APC right now.

Today's your lucky day.

I'm going to go with Gabe.

So, thank you.

And then tire dressing.

I really like full send, especially for my car.

I just like being able to put something on

and leave it and then come back and brush it in

and have a really nice finish.

That or wipe and shine.

It's always good for like the rest of the cars

with just normal tires.

Because my mom's car looks really good.

Yeah, nice.

Yeah, I do agree.

Full send and natural finish.

I do like the self-leveling ones.

Natural finish is another really good one.

I know.

Follow-up question from David for both of you,

which is what in your opinion makes a good interior detailer?

Okay. Do you want to go first, Delaney?

Yeah.

Go for it.

Well, I'm going to go with my favorite one is Express from P&S.

What I like about that, though,

is that I'm not going to use the right terms here,

but it's kind of bubbly and I can see,

like when I start to clean,

I can see where I have cleaned

because of the way it foams up.

And that's what I personally like.

Yeah, and I like that in like wheel cleaner too,

because you can kind of tell where you've been going,

what's clean, and you can tell a difference.

So that would be my favorite part of an interior detailer.

Yeah, I have to agree with you.

Express is kind of the sledgehammer for me.

And the reason why I like Express

is it is versatile for all surfaces.

And that's the key thing.

So if I don't have the opportunity

or the time to do a full carpet system,

Express is kind of a just quick grab scrub

and then wipe away and it does a trick.

And the other thing too is,

it's a good like fresh smelling interior cleaner,

but it's not overbearing.

If that makes sense, it just smells clean.

So yeah, I agree with you right there with you, Delaney.

There you go.

All right.

Next up, Christian is saying,

what coating is on that Wrangler?

Is there a coating on that Wrangler?

Yes, definitely.

I've had a few different coatings,

but most recently is stout.

Really like it.

Awesome.

In this drying towel, it's really good.

She's the pink M22.

When I handed it to her,

she goes, this is never going to dry my car.

And I just said, yes, it will.

Just dry it.

That's what you said, Delaney.

That towel.

Yeah, she's never used that towel.

You literally said that?

Oh yeah, I said, wait, I might need two.

There's no way.

Okay, gotcha, gotcha.

And I kind of just breezed by and I said,

you'll be fine.

She's never used that towel before.

See, this is what I love about Delaney

is she's brutally honest.

I love it.

No way.

Yeah, but I do really like it.

It's making this process,

this drying process really quick.

No streaks or anything.

It's not really huge too.

Yeah, yeah.

Normally I do feel like sometimes

I'm spreading water around and this is good.

Oh boy.

All right, moving along here.

Kristen also wants to know,

is the plastic trim on that Wrangler coated as well?

Heck yes.

Yes, it is.

No surface left untouched.

No.

Well, except for the glass,

but that's what you're doing today.

Yes.

The glass was coated.

It's just been about 19 months or so.

What was on it before?

Just view.

View?

Yeah, so since we've had some bad weather and stuff and

she's unfortunately been parking outside

the last couple of weeks, but it's just time

for a little refresh.

So I thought, why not?

Cool.

Have her do it.

And change it up.

Yeah.

Yeah, and try armor.

Before we get started,

because when she gets to it,

she's never done a glass coating.

So my hope here was to see how easy it is.

And so I kind of gave her the rundown,

but we're going to see how she does,

but she's never done a glass coating.

She's done paint coating lots,

but I've never had to do the glass.

Start on the passenger side.

Oh.

Well, that was a real vote of confidence for me,

but again.

Delaney, I'm not saying start on it

because I don't believe in.

See, I screwed up one time.

It was actually with phobic when we first tested it out

on Josh Petro's truck, and I did it on the driver's side.

Ask me if I ever hear that.

Yeah.

From him.

I'm going to get that.

He says he thinks about me every time he drives,

and I'm just like, we'll just pause it out.

Look at the tint on her windshield.

She can't see her front windshield anyway.

Oh, yeah, that's fair.

Done deal.

Yeah, that's fair.

Don't ask me to drive at night.

It's not safe.

You can't see anybody, and nobody can see you either.

Exactly.

Yeah, completely blacked out.

All right, moving along here.

I've got RC saying hello, everyone.

I was curious why Delaney is mixing armor detail with GFX

instead of just using Coach Demi active foam

for a stronger pre-wash.

Good point, but I think today and having me here

is all about experimenting and trying new things.

I agree.

So I think that's why we're mixing them.

Like we were talking about earlier,

you don't have to stick to a certain line.

I feel like it's totally OK if you mix them.

And especially for me, I'm into the adventure today.

Yeah, and I will also say a lot of people,

if they don't already own Coach Demi active foam,

a quick solution that a lot of people do

is mixing GSF with Green Star.

And they can get a very similar effect.

OK.

It's not exactly the same, but functionally,

it's very similar.

So if you're looking for something to do like that,

you certainly can.

But effectively, what we did here is the same deal.

It's just you changed out the soap for a different soap.

The other thing, too, is that I mean,

when you're talking active foam compared to Green Star,

Green Star to me, it does more as far as breaking things down

on the initial.

And I mean, you saw what it did to the tires.

When she spread it, there was a lot of blooming

coming out of the tires.

Yeah.

That's that to me is different than active foam.

So it's a different process versus going straight

into active foam.

Yeah.

So right.

Well, that brings us to our halfway point here

during this Q&A, but don't go too far

because we just got a few quick messages

from our friends around the industry.

And then it's right back to answering

more of your questions right here at the Q&A.

Sweet.

See you soon.

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to the second half,

where two thirds of us made it to the table in time.

Welcome, welcome.

And I hope you're having a wonderful afternoon, evening,

or morning wherever you are in the world,

because we know we do have a global audience.

And that was just enough time to pad it for Gabe

to get back to his seat.

I'm here.

Excellent.

I'm here.

My bad.

Once again, I'm your host, Dan Hennan.

To my left, Gabe Garcia.

What's up, guys?

To my right, Sydney Bray Gwynne.

How's it going?

And way over there, doing all the detailing today,

Delaney Gwynne.

Thank you very much for that.

I was expecting some kind of a call and response,

but it's OK.

We'll check in with you in a little bit

to see if the detailing is going.

Yeah, we were talking product with you, Delaney,

but for the people who are just like popping in

and don't know any of what's going on right now,

can you kind of fill us in what the plan was today

and where you're at in your process

and what you plan to do?

Yes.

So today we have my Jeep in here.

It hadn't been washed for about two months, so super dirty.

So we went in with a pretreatment with Green Star.

If you missed it, I highly recommend.

I love it.

It's great.

All right, then I tried a new product

from Carcandy Chocolate Lunder on my wheels.

Really liked it.

It was very nice.

Smells great.

And then I did a foam wash with armor decon soap

and then Coast GFX for the contact wash.

That went really well.

It's looking great.

My tires are back to being black, which is awesome.

And now I'm just finishing up drying a little bit.

And then we're going to get into the armor glass

coating on my windshield.

So we're going to polish this new polisher and rehab.

And then we'll finish it up and put tire shot

and everything and make it look ready to go.

That's awesome, Delaney.

Appreciate your input.

You are doing an excellent job over there.

And for those who are wondering,

that is the Raven polisher, which Sydney was kind of talking

about a little bit earlier.

So you'll get a chance to see that in action.

I'm curious to hear how loud it is.

Me too.

Me too, because you know.

On camera.

Yeah, because you know what the other thing too

is that Keith DiPlessie is Delaney's favorite person

in the industry.

And she definitely like hardcore tells him exactly

what she's thinking.

Yeah.

So if there is anything wrong with that polisher,

you will hear about it.

She gave him a hard time about his truck the last time I heard.

Wow.

That's yeah.

You know what?

That's between you guys.

All right.

Next up, let's get the comments flowing again.

We got silly goose to start us off.

That's Megan, I believe.

I remember taking the shag carpet in the den as a kid.

That was a good chore for a five-year-old Megan,

maybe J Balinsky, Cabara one, rake and or kid.

Oh, like cleaning?

Yeah, cleaning shag carpet.

Oh man.

You know what I think is interesting though,

and Gabe, maybe you see this, but do you know if you ever

get those like older Chevy's and stuff with the long carpet?

How come it's never dirty?

I don't.

It gets hidden in it probably.

But it's like so.

It's buried so deep.

I don't know.

But I'm always like, I get them.

And I'm like, man, they need to make carpet like this again

because there was never stains on those carpets.

Like the blue.

But the thing is, is back in the day

when they had those types of carpeting,

they had bold colors.

They had like a till.

They had a navy blue.

They had a, wow, green.

Depends on how far back you were.

I just never gotten one of those where the carpet was actually dirty.

It's always the short pile and the lighter color.

So it's like when people think, oh, I'm going to go,

I've got a car with tan interior.

I cringe at the thought of tan interior.

I also think maybe we didn't eat in the car as kids.

You think so?

Yeah.

I mean, I don't remember like eating on the go as much.

You know, maybe there wasn't as much.

I don't know.

Just because there's not like a straight fry down there,

doesn't mean there's a bunch of like salt dust like everywhere

all over the place.

But it gets buried in there.

But even, I think the thing is too, it's not just food,

even your normal foot traffic.

I mean, I think that depending on the color

and even maybe the length, it just, it kind of hides.

Yeah.

I don't know.

No, very fair.

I like my 64th Thunderbird that had the blue carpet.

And despite how much the car had been through and everything,

it lived a life and then some, it was old.

It just, the carpet looked good.

As soon as you just went over it with a little brush,

you're like, oh, wow, that just woke right up.

I think even the materials that they used back in the day

were probably more resistant.

Because even our old Land Cruiser, it's the same thing.

The seats, they're virtually white, right?

And their cloth.

And my kids, they climb up into their car seats

and they do all sorts of stuff and no issues.

Yeah.

So I don't know.

Something planned off.

So lessons?

Question mark?

Yeah.

Modern cars?

Dang.

Maybe.

Um, definitely not committing to it.

Yes or no answer on that.

Jay Balinsky, bottle of green star in Delaney's stocking

next year?

Yeah, quite possibly.

But not in a multi-pro IK.

Yeah, not.

I did see, I'm sure it's coming up here in the chat.

Everybody was like, just get Delaney an e-foamer.

Like just let her do that.

Which I know there's some responses there.

Never use one of those.

It's the one that we have with the battery that,

like, refills itself.

Oh, yeah.

OK.

I know what you're talking about.

Yeah.

Bad RFR says, good evening everyone from Morocco.

Do you prefer turtile wax products or Koschemi more?

I prefer Koschemi.

Kosch.

And the reason why is, Kosch has a wide variety of products.

I mean, they have so many different soaps.

They have solvent based.

They have APCs.

They have, they've got the whole gamut.

And oftentimes I'm reaching for a Kosch product

to mitigate or figure out whatever it is

that I'm tackling that day for detail.

So, yeah.

Coach for the win for me.

Now, Bad, I saw you didn't ask this question several times

in the chat.

So I wanted to make sure you were aware we did get to it.

But I, because I imagine Bad is pretty new to this

and isn't familiar.

We do sell Koschemi here at our store at the RAG Company.

Just so you're aware there may be a little bias there.

However, I will say everybody at this table,

everybody in this room has used a turtile wax product

at some point in their lives.

I want to say historically, they may have gotten

kind of a rougher rap historically.

But recently, they've definitely stepped up their game

in a lot of major ways.

I would say like the hybrid stuff, the things that came out

with very, very good products.

So I don't want to diminish that at all.

Turtile wax is a fantastic brand, right?

And I guess, so yeah, you're asking us a question

between turtile wax and Kosch.

The initial thought process is Kosch.

But the reason why is just the versatility.

It's not because we have it.

It's because over long periods of time of testing,

they're a brand that kind of covers the whole gamut

of both your maintenance washes to your in-depth,

deep clean to your coatings and stuff like that.

They've done a fantastic job.

Now, what I will say is this, and this kind of goes back

to the conversation that we had at the beginning of the Q&A,

is when you're doing your detailing process,

and this is something I say on a lot of our lives

that Cindy and I do, is pick the product that fits

your process the best.

If it's a turtile wax product, awesome, do it.

If it's an armor product, do it.

If it's a Kosch product, fantastic.

The key thing that I really want to emphasize

is you don't have to go based off of one chemical brand.

You can intermix, and that's OK.

Now, just to reiterate, based, Dane mentioned this,

is if you are probably looking in the terms of a coating,

definitely read manufacturing based off

of what they suggest for application,

because coatings is a little bit of a different story.

I'm talking, again, just for your maintenance washes

or your de-con washes.

It's OK to intermix.

All right, next up here, I've got Eric.

What's he saying, Sid?

I got a bottle of Reflect in my mystery box.

Probably nothing I would have ever bought myself.

Wow, I am addicted now.

Great stuff.

Love the mystery boxes.

I know, I do.

I love when we can surprise someone with something like that.

Yeah, and I think that that's kind of fun.

And there was a lot of products like that,

you know, Reflect release was one where, you know,

you do sit there and you say,

do I need this product or do I want it?

I think that need, maybe not.

But once you have it, you probably always need it.

But it's definitely a want, but it's great.

It's so, so good.

It's just you don't know what you're missing

until you've tried it.

Reflect, Defender was like that for me.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, Defender, you could definitely make an argument

that everybody needs a ceramic sealant.

But when you go, do I need a ceramic sealant for my windows?

But then you use it and it's like incredible.

It's so easy.

Yeah, and release was the same way.

It's absolutely incredible.

So yeah, very cool.

I will point out we're about to see some polishing.

Oh, sweet.

Delaney on the windshield.

Like pull it once and then when you pull it,

the next time it will start going.

Oh, the trigger?

Yeah.

Okay.

It's a double.

Oh, wow.

The first time it wants to make sure you knew

you meant to pull the trigger.

So if it's been off for a while,

then you have to push it twice.

Smart electronics.

I like that.

It's a safety feature.

Holy smoke.

That was going to say, I'm impressed with how quiet that is.

And it sounds super smooth, right?

And we've gotten spoiled by a lot of recent

polishers being quieter and smoother.

But I would say this is way up there in terms of the sound.

That is extremely quiet.

Holy mackerel.

We're easy to talk over.

Like you could totally talk or talk to somebody,

teach somebody, whatever you need to do.

I can hear you very clearly without any issues.

I don't know what it's going to sound like to the audience

at home because she does have a mic like right on her.

But at the same time from over here, it seems like.

But I would say from what it sounds like on the mic,

it kind of sounds exactly like what we're hearing, right?

I'm trying to compare that to the RBL in my mind,

like as far as how quiet it is.

I think it's a little bit quieter.

I think it's quieter.

The other cool thing is imagine doing headlights and stuff

with this.

Oh, that would be amazing.

Yeah, it would be really nice.

And especially when you're teaching people,

you're not having to go, yeah, so this is how you do it.

Does it feel pretty well balanced?

Yeah.

Because that is kind of different.

This one has that T-style battery.

So I think that that gives it a little bit better

balance than the just straight battery.

Yes.

It feels very light.

Those lines you're putting down, those are very, very nice.

Are those actually good?

I was kind of worried.

No, totally.

Maybe not the last pass was the straightest on the bottom.

But the rest were pretty freaking good.

Let's make it the end.

But yeah.

I'm wondering, is there like a hold to the trigger?

Or do you have to?

There's not a trigger lock.

No.

Okay.

That would be my one.

Yeah.

Point maybe.

Oh, fair point.

But yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, I think that's good for any polisher.

Because if you are trying to move a machine and move it around

and move your body, it is kind of hard.

I feel like to keep like, since it is kind of small,

just your one finger.

But I'm also like, I have really small hands.

So I don't know.

I actually really like that battery.

So you can stand it up.

Yeah.

That's cool.

It looks more like a power drill almost when you set it up like that.

Or like an electric tooth broken mesh kind of deal.

Yeah.

And it's very easy to use with one hand,

which I feel like is nice.

Because sometimes like, I don't know,

sometimes you have to polish the roof or kind of like hard.

So I don't know.

And I think this would be really good for that.

It's like a Milwaukee M-22 battery.

Yeah.

For people who are wondering about frame of reference

for how quiet or smooth it sounds.

I haven't felt it, so I can't speak to it.

But I've used a Merca polisher before,

which everybody knows is like the gold standard for how smooth

fluid and quiet, you know, smaller polisher like that can be.

And I would say this is one of the closest I've heard

in terms of volume level to that.

Because I've sat about this far away from somebody using a Merca

and it's not dissimilar.

It's really close.

Sure.

So yeah.

No, this is impressing me just from the sound alone.

Yeah.

Pretty cool.

All right.

OK.

Moving along here.

I know it sounds like I'm talking.

We don't sell it.

I'm just speaking purely off of the dome here.

But anyway.

But anyway, why was Kane?

He's checking in.

All right.

Thank you, Kane.

Happy to see you here.

And once again, remind you, it was great to see you at SEMA.

All right.

Next up, I've got Joe Kultras with another comment.

He's been repeating this quite a bit.

So I want to make sure we get to it.

Good afternoon.

Two questions.

Can't wait to see the video of this new Raven and his TRC

set for the new equipment to come out.

The gun, the wand, phone cannon, et cetera.

Show.

So this is what I'm going to say.

So here's the video of the Raven in action.

Yeah, you're literally getting it live.

That's nice.

As far as the wand, obviously we've been testing it.

It's, we've been utilizing it for every single live.

So I'm sure you've seen it plenty.

Those are the test ones and stuff.

Stay tuned for TRC META 2026, March 30 through April 2,

where you will get to see firsthand all of this

and to get all of your questions answered.

Cool.

Yeah.

And the more I'm listening to it here, I will say the one sound,

maybe it's just because my ears are really sensitive to higher frequencies,

I'm getting like a higher frequency sound than I would from like America.

That's like the one distinct thing I'll say is that it's quiet.

It's really quiet.

It's the closest I've heard in terms of volume to America,

but the Merca doesn't have that same high frequency ring

that I'm catching just in my ear.

And maybe it's my earpiece or something, but I'm just getting a hint.

I don't hear a ring.

I'm just trying to be like super realistic about how I'm hearing it.

It could be picking up at the kids.

Yeah, because if you-

He said he thinks it's picking up in the microphone.

I have my volume turned down in my ear, so I was hearing it just from over here.

But yeah, no, I'm just really sensitive to super high frequency,

so I was just getting a hint of it.

But yeah, no, that is very, very quiet.

Yeah.

Very cool.

Okay.

Next up, I've got Armor Detail Supply.

What do you know?

Oh, look at that.

Look at that.

Hey, guys.

Glad I was able to make this live.

I'm assuming that's Bradley.

Bradley?

Yeah.

Welcome, welcome.

Happy to have you here.

And-

Love that guy.

Look forward to seeing what you guys think of Delaney's application of the glass cover here,

Bradley.

Yeah, stick around.

No pressure, Delaney.

You got him watching.

Yes.

Well, it's going well, so I'm not even nervous.

It's going great.

Yeah.

Next up, I got Hydra here.

What's in the sprayer for the wheels?

So obviously this was asked quite a while ago, as a matter of fact, an hour ago.

Delaney, would you like to answer that?

What was in the sprayer for the wheels?

Yes.

Hold on.

Sprayer for the wheels was car candy, chocolate thunder, and an IK sprayer.

It was very easy to use.

It was good.

Bam.

Heck yeah.

There you go, Hydra.

All right.

And we've got some love for Reflect here.

Yeah.

Then we've got Christian saying, had no idea you left P&S, so we need to help answer that.

And liking Reflect a lot.

And next up, we've got Christian with an interior coating comment.

Go ahead, Gabe.

Interior coating for me would be for my Mustang that barely gets driven.

My other cars, I prefer natural fish, where I can more often maintain.

That is fair.

OK.

That is fair.

And I think that's kind of what I was saying.

It's like I would be more inclined to use interior coatings on my own personal cars

than I would offering that service in my detail shop.

I agree.

That's got to be the realest way.

Because yeah, it's a difficulty of offering a service to a customer.

And how much or how little you promise, you don't know what they're going to do with it.

Yeah.

You want to be able to answer the questions straight as much as possible.

Like, hey, this is how long it's going to last.

And yeah, but your own vehicle to test and try.

Heck yeah.

That is the right way.

Obviously, big thing is those bolsters.

I can't emphasize it enough.

If you want your seeds to last, especially if they're leather, get your bolsters protected.

Yeah.

Now real quick, since she's doing the wipe off, I think we should address.

There probably is a little bit of an elephant in the room,

is why is she not using Clarity Cream?

Yes.

So what we have found when we talk about products working together,

we have found that for whatever reason, the armor glass coating does not work with Clarity Cream.

We have kind of narrowed it down to that we're thinking that it's probably the very small

amount of ammonia that exists in Clarity Cream.

But the two currently do not work together.

I do know that PNS is working on that formula to try to make it work together.

Because obviously they like to play fairly with everyone and they love armor detail as well.

And so they are working on it.

But right now we do not advise using Clarity Cream if using armor glass.

So especially in this case where Delaney does not have any water spots or any

contamination on the windshield that needs to be removed,

doing a quick buzz with something like rehab is going to be absolutely fine.

Now my assumption is if you had water spots, you could probably hit it with Clarity Cream

and then come back and hit it with a polish and then apply.

Yeah, that's what I would do.

And then just like double panel prep.

And really we should point out that it's not every time, it's pretty random.

But just to make sure that that doesn't happen to you,

because you don't realize it until the coating is on.

And what happens is you get the coating wiped off and it looks fine.

And there's some type of chemical reaction that happens and it hazes up.

So you don't know until it's too late.

And so but it happens enough to be concerned where we advise you not to do it.

But of course it doesn't ruin anything.

But you could just easily polish the coating back off and start over.

But so we do just right now advise against it.

But it was just on random cars and was happening to random people.

And so we just...

Better safe than sorry.

Yeah, that's fair.

Yeah, good to know.

If you're going to go to all the trouble to setting something up,

you want to give it the best chance you can.

All right, next up.

I've got Angry Monkey detailing filling us in a little bit about that auction car.

Hi, about once a month.

Usually big blobs of hard tree sips.

And the auction car is a Honda Pilot.

Don't know the year.

Thank you for all the help over the years.

You bet, dude.

I'm happy to help.

Auction cars are seriously so hit or miss.

You never know if you're going to get one.

I had a Volvo XC90 and it was beautiful.

First gen, second gen.

Second gen.

And the weirdest thing was I detailed it.

I'd closed the door.

I'd opened up the door and it looked as if I hadn't vacuumed it.

Oh, no.

I'm like, what is going on?

Just revealed.

So I vacuumed it.

Oh my gosh.

I cleaned that area.

I closed the door again.

Same thing.

And I kept going back and forth.

And it was tripping me up.

And finally, I kept the door open and I just smacked the panel.

And sand kept coming out of the panel of the car.

Oh, gosh.

And I'm like, where has this car been?

And then the same thing.

I think it was a second row seat.

I folded it up so I could get underneath.

And then I put it back down.

It did the exact same thing.

It didn't even look as if I touched the carpet.

I was like, what in the heck?

Where was this car?

All that sand.

Either somebody drove a little too deep in the water

and it let some sediment come in and then it settled.

Like with auction cars, you really don't know that history.

And just because you live in a certain area

where you think that cars are good.

No.

The auction cars could be from anywhere in the country, possibly the world.

And that's why I asked is you never know what you're going to get.

It's like, yeah, you never know what you're going to get.

Real crapshoot.

That's why I asked.

Yeah.

So yeah, shout out Angry Monkey detailing for doing the hard work there.

All right.

Charlton Experience.

What company makes a pole brush with the same material

as detailing brushes for the badges?

So thinking along the lines of like a detail factory,

really fine detail brush, but on a whole.

I don't know.

It's interesting.

I have not seen that.

I'm wondering if you've either seen that and it was a fluke,

maybe like one of those things that pop up on TikTok from time to time or.

I think my question would be is where would you be doing that

kind of detailing from that far away?

Right.

Yeah.

Like that's the kind of detailing you want to be close to because otherwise.

I get they probably want to look at it as a safety thing.

Yeah.

But yeah, I wonder is Charlton, can you give us and I guess explain to us

what it's being used for?

I guess give us the scenario a little bit more in depth.

I'm curious on that one.

I mean, what would you considering you're using something you're trying

to get as soft as possible?

Yeah.

What would be the benefit of a really soft brush versus just using like the

mid on a stick?

Like is that by not having bristles?

Are you somehow losing something?

I'm just curious what you're trying to achieve here.

Yeah.

All right.

Anyway, please.

This is turning out really nice on camera.

I know.

She looks like a great job, Delaney.

Delaney, you're a pro.

What do you what do you think?

I love it.

It's very easy.

You could tell Bradley directly.

He's watching.

Yeah.

He's watching you.

Bradley, good job.

Love for Bradley.

Yeah.

The wipe off is super easy, which I feel like is normally.

Yeah.

Concern for, you know, but it was super quick and I'm done.

I think it looks pretty good.

It looks great.

You did a fantastic job.

Any spots we're seeing or anything?

Just that spot on the roof there where it needs to be dried.

On the passenger side.

On the passenger side front.

Yeah.

Yeah, but it's wet.

Yeah, you're good.

It's just water.

Yeah.

Going back.

All right.

Yeah, I love it.

It's great, Delaney.

Super cool.

Excellent.

Devon dad.

Evening.

I use brake buster for the most can be used in the

foamers and foam cannons.

What would be a great alternative, which is just as versatile.

I think Cindy has the answer to this because Delaney used it today.

So, I mean, chocolate thunder.

Obviously, big fan.

You can pick it up on Amazon and I obviously am a huge fan of brake buster.

Like I will never say that brake buster doesn't work.

I I've been using brake buster forever.

I love it.

But I do kind of feel like I've been really happy with chocolate thunder.

Yeah, I do feel like it's just as it as a loan.

Like I think we all know that brake buster I usually used crystal wash

or you could use like an iron mover underneath it.

Yeah.

But I feel like I don't need anything extra with chocolate thunder.

So I've been really enjoying it.

Yeah.

So as an alternative, it's a great alternative.

I'm not going to tell you to throw away your brake buster or say it doesn't work.

It's great.

But if you want to try something different that is in that same class family,

I would I would try out chocolate or yeah, chocolate thunder.

And to throw into a mix is the third option too that I really like is tire cleaner by ADS.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

So if you want to give that a try, so tire cleaner by ADS or chocolate thunder by carcandy.

Yeah.

And to that point about products, I'm just saying this is somebody who's like the normie

perspective.

You'll see these comments.

And I can't tell if they're like people who actually think this anymore.

If they're just trying to get a rise out of you is like a creator.

You'll see these people who see you came out with a video with like a new product or something

to go, oh, what?

So I have to throw away my stuff that you told me to get a year ago.

And it's like, no, no.

When we said that was good, it's still good.

That's not an issue.

If you find something new that happens to do a little bit more or an equal job

from another vendor or something like that, you can be open to all those things.

There's not a zero-sung game being played here where just because we like one thing

and we said a different thing two years ago doesn't mean that thing two years ago was

suddenly bad.

It was always good.

And what are you doing over there?

Sorry.

I know.

It's like, why does she look like she's doing something wrong?

She's speaking up out of the card and she's like, huh?

Oh, she found something.

I am.

This is what I've been.

Gabe has sent me on a secret mission again to use Co.

Shnano Magic Plastcare, which he just put this on his Land Cruiser a few hours ago.

I even showed it to her.

That's why I was late.

Oh, yes.

That's what we were doing.

Can you go one step even further?

Can you test that with a curveball?

That's one thing I haven't tried.

So try both applications.

Yes.

There's a curveball in the cart.

I don't know if it's.

Or the top drawer over there has a whole bunch of curveballs.

OK.

So one or the other.

So I haven't tried it with the curveball.

But I think there was a question earlier in the Q&A about one of your favorite tire dressings.

This one, surprisingly, I really like it because it gives a just gives a nice natural matte,

you know, natural tire, brand new tire look.

So I told Delaney, I was like, hey, just try this out and tell me what.

And she's going to give me her honest feedback on this one.

Yes.

So are we thinking curveball like soft bristles or more like the soft bristles?

I don't know.

Do the curveball or screwball.

Try the towel first and then do the curveball.

So try one tire with that and then try another one with the curveball.

And then give us your honest feedback.

OK.

Sounds good.

Tell us what you think.

Got it.

On it.

Next up here, I've got Edgar Guerrero.

What's he saying?

Sit.

Wow.

Well, what would you suggest for cleaning bird bombs from a relatively clean car?

Rinsless or waterless wash?

Thanks.

So I guess it depends on if the car's coated or not.

Oh, yeah.

If it's coated, it should just rinse off during your rinse process.

If it's not coated, I'm going to honestly go with something like Green Star.

Because here's what you want to do.

You want to break up.

I mean, birds' stomachs are very acidic.

So you kind of want to break that gunk up before trying to rinse it or wash it.

So for me, I'm probably going to use like an APC Green Star or something like that

to really break it off.

If you're on the go and you don't have that ability, I do always carry

waterless wash with me in my car, specifically for bird bombs,

because I like to get them off there before they've baked in.

So really, I think probably the best message here is use something versus just spraying it.

Right.

So if you only have waterless, great.

Rinsless is going to be OK.

You know, it's really meant to more like encapsulate dirt and things like that.

But I mean, for bird droppings, I'm more of like, I'm going to get something.

Get it on right away.

Like adapt.

You don't want to wait around.

No, no.

Yeah.

All right.

Next up here, I've got Joe Coltrus, who also repeated this one quite a bit.

He was looking to get some input.

But yes, good afternoon or good video yesterday.

I'm Bailey of the New Raven.

Yes, you did mention that.

Thank you.

Can't wait to see it in action.

That's great.

Yeah.

I'm wondering what to use for my F-250 undercarriage to really get all the grime out.

Should I use MS?

So I think probably whatever product you use here is maybe not as important as just using a degreaser.

You know, and there's a lot of good ones out there.

You know, we all have our favorites.

I think there's a lot of good ones out there.

But I think the key to doing an undercarriage is I use the IK foamers.

You can use a small one.

I prefer the big one, the 12 for this case.

And I will foam the entire undercarriage with a good degreaser, fairly high dilution,

so that I'm really getting that degreaser up in there.

I mean, that stuff is like not what we see in, you know, everyday life.

And so I foam it with an IK12 and I let it dwell for a good five minutes.

I mean, quite a while.

And then I use the attachment to the pressure washer that is specifically meant for undercarriages.

I just don't think you can get rinsed as effective as when you use one of those.

So and you can get them on Amazon for cheap like 20 bucks.

So I like the I like the pressure.

I saw Matt try doing a undercarriage cleaner, but he looked up his foam cannon prior to

and it worked okay.

Not the world's greatest, but I think something like that would be sick.

I think here's my feeling because Gabe, we've done this a lot on our Amazon lives the last

couple of weeks.

We have really on my car and on Dane's flex.

We really saw the difference between using a pre spray and a decon soap.

The decon soaps, no matter which one they are, they cannot handle the level that a pre spray can.

I mean, we have seen that with our own eyes.

The decon soaps have their place and they're for a purpose.

But when you have something that is stuck on and ground in,

I mean, you do have to use something heavy.

And so for undercarriages, I'm still going to I mean, I get the foaming and how convenient

that would be, but I'm still on the, you got to use a decrysler.

The pre, I would say this from, especially in the winter months, I really cannot emphasize

the importance of a pre clean process.

Add that to your mix.

So the two things that I've changed up in the few years is I used to do a two-bucket method wash,

right?

I would go two-bucket method to ensure that the paint was as clean as possible.

Now what I do, and some might say this is overboard, that's fine.

But my paint looks good at the end, so I don't really care.

I do a pre spray with green star rinse.

Then what I do is I do a pre, I call it a dwell wash, which is what Delaney did today.

So you pre spray, you let it dwell and you let the soap break down any of the leftover

contamination that you may have missed or you didn't spray with the green star.

Then you do a rinse and then you go back and you hit it with your actual soap.

There I can feel confident even doing it with a one-bucket method because at that point I've

already gotten the contaminants off the surfaces that I needed and I'm

feel comfortable putting a wash media to the paint surface without scratching it.

Yeah, yeah.

So, but yeah, to your point, I agree wholeheartedly.

Just to get a degreaser and spray that prior to just soap.

Yeah.

Now before I, oh go ahead.

What I was going to ask really quick, I was going to ask do a quick check-in on Delaney.

That's what I was going to say before we move on to the next question.

Let's see what Delaney thinks.

I want to know what her thoughts are.

One, okay, I have two questions for you Delaney.

I feel like a viewer asking questions.

One, what do you think of it?

Two, what's better, just using a basic towel or a, or the curve ball is still for the win

with that product specifically.

Okay, yeah.

So we'll start with the first one.

How do I like it?

Is that what it was?

So it's good.

I think it has a lot of good purposes.

One being for me, I wash my car usually pretty often and so when I'm using like dynamic and

full send every week, every two weeks, it's hard to get off because my car isn't getting dirty enough.

And then sometimes it slings because my tires are too clean, whatever.

So I think this is a good alternative where it just is blackening the tires,

but it's not super messy.

It's pretty easy application.

So I like it for those reasons.

The back tire looks really good.

It looks better than this one.

Really?

So I'm figuring out what's going on.

Yeah.

So on this front tire, I started with the curve ball, which I think the curve ball is a little

bit easier.

It feels more familiar.

I haven't really put tire dressing on with a towel before.

For application, right?

For application, yeah.

Okay.

Um, but the towel is doing better.

Okay.

Because it is actually making it stay instead of the curve ball.

I don't know if it's like taking more out or and I also don't know if it's my tires are super dry.

I think.

Not sure.

I think part of it is the plastic.

It's plastic, right?

Is that what it is?

So it, it is, it's not as thick.

Like the Scott, yeah, it's not as thick.

So what happens is my, when I tested it, it, I found that it went into the pores of the curve ball

a little bit more so versus putting it on the towel or even an applicator sponge where it would,

where it would sit.

And I found that it was, it was better with a towel as well.

That's why I was asking Delaney to try both because I wanted to see what your thoughts were on that.

I think that it's a good product.

I think that if you are somebody who likes maybe a shinier or more, you know,

it pops a little bit more, this is probably not the product for you.

But it's not a glaze donut.

Yeah.

But if you like just, just natural.

The brand new tire look.

Yeah, brand new tire look.

So yeah, no, I love, I love the fact that you try that.

And where I could see myself using it is in between washes.

So maybe like once a month where they just kind of need a little something,

but not a full tire shine, which I feel personally happens a lot to me.

Or maybe even like a car wash or like cars you're washing super frequently

when you don't want a heavy tire shine.

I think this would be really good.

But I think for today my tires are really dry that I think maybe like something like dynamic

would be good to get it back up to normal and then fit this into the schedule.

That's pretty interesting.

That's interesting.

I like that perspective.

That's awesome, Delaney.

Thank you.

Of course.

Next up, we've got Christian GTCS saying since you left P&S,

you should go to the RAG company and start your TRC line of detailing products.

They'd make the best products.

Exactly what you need.

Nothing you don't.

Oh man.

Because if we don't have enough...

Probably Christian, probably.

Yeah.

Yeah, poor poor poor Sid.

She came over today and it was like non, we've been non-stop.

Honestly, since nine o'clock this morning.

No, it's a good turnout.

And Sid's got a good thing going over at Carcandy now.

So that's definitely where you should be checking things out from Sid.

All right.

Next up, we've got Zecure.

What's he saying, Ken?

After a year on a five-year ceramic coating, is it a good idea to polish?

Well, a couple of questions.

Is your coating still hydrophobic and is it still adding protection?

How's your paint?

I don't know.

There's different variables.

I guess I look at mine with a couple of things.

If I'm noticing some mooring in my paint or I'm noticing that the coating may have not even,

after trying to rejuvenate it, it's still looking flat.

Those are the instances where I decide, okay, it's time to reset it.

Yeah.

What I'll say is, like Gabe was saying, if you feel like you've got scratching and

mooring and stuff, but if you're not wanting to compromise the coating,

then I wouldn't use anything more than a therapy.

If you move up into hyperpolish or rehab, you are taking off enough of the polish to remove

the portion of the coating that is what makes us feel like we have a coating.

So the hydrophobics, the gloss, all of that only goes so far down in that coating.

So when your coating is flat, it doesn't mean that your car is not protected anymore, actually.

We feel like we need to redo them because we like all the fun benefits of the coating,

the gloss, the hydrophobics, all of that.

So if you use rehab a year after on that five-year coating,

you are going to not feel like the coating's there anymore,

even though you're not taking it all the way off.

And so what you need to be prepared for if you use a real polish is putting on another

topper, whether it be a three-year or putting on another layer of the five-year.

You know, you could probably get away with doing that and putting on,

you know, say Defender, one-year ceramic topper.

But just keep in mind, if you use a very aggressive polish,

you are going to be removing the parts of the coating that make you like it.

So just keep that in mind.

You certainly probably could go over it with therapy if you just had general car wash marring.

You might be able to get away with just going off with a black or a white pad and therapy

and then topping it with Defender.

But anything heavier than that, you are removing quite a bit of the coating.

You're just turning like a little clay seal on top.

I'm psycho.

If I see marring in my paint, I'm like, okay, it's time to go to town.

Let's do this.

Yeah.

Let's let's get this reset.

Yeah.

But yeah, I totally agree.

Yeah.

Just chase it down to the bone, that poor bear metal.

All right, next up, we've got Silly Goose.

Gabe, is Pilot your favorite interior cleaner?

Pilot is definitely up there as far as one of my favorite interior cleaners.

I would say, yeah, Pilot and Express are my go-to.

My two go-tos.

And then I utilize the carpet system as needed, essentially is what it comes down to.

But yeah, I love Pilot.

And I love Pilot because if I accidentally get it on the windows, I know Bradley.

I know Sydney.

I get it.

It's not a glass.

What are you doing?

It's not a glass cleaner.

But you know what?

I think the answer is does it wipe off glass?

Yeah, does it wipe off glass?

Yes.

It cleans the glass.

Okay, all right.

I still think you're not wrong.

I will die on this hill.

He wants to clean those windows.

I do.

All right, David Boyce.

Sydney, what's he saying?

Sydney, back to the subject of 3D, vegetable keychains and teal bobblehead dolls of Dane

and Anthony would sell like hotcakes.

They probably would.

You know, I have been printing teal highland cows.

I wish I was joking.

I love highland cows, so I am all for this.

But I can't believe nobody has mentioned my IK holder.

That's what I was going to ask.

Did you not imagine?

Like they caught the raven, but not the IK holder?

The IK holder?

Okay, the IK holder is back to the bone.

It literally holds the multi-prose.

So I mean, everybody and their mother has a solve for hanging the-

Your cover's slipping off.

My cover's slipping off.

Everybody and their mother has a solve for hanging the TR trigger spray, right?

Everybody.

But Sydney's new one with the multi-prose.

I mean, they're, it's really sweet.

Because, and I had so many messages about it because they take up,

if you try to put them in a cabinet, they take up so much room.

Mine sit on the floor.

So annoying because I have four of them.

Or they just, they're in random areas on your counter space.

And we all have plenty of wall space.

So I printed these, and I don't remember the gentleman's name.

It's D2 something.

But anyway, I bought them on Etsy, the file.

Yeah, the file.

And then I printed them in teal to match my garage.

And they get the IK's up off the ground.

And it's the best thing ever.

Beautiful.

Best thing ever.

Yeah.

I'm going to print some for the studio.

I just forgot.

Love that.

Yeah.

They're pretty awesome.

Now Eric, what's Eric saying Gabe?

My trim plus is arriving tomorrow.

Excited to try on the Escalade running boards.

Hammered by the Florida UV.

I tell you what Eric, the trim plus is the B's knees.

We, I think, we haven't, we didn't do it this week,

but I want to say the last three weeks,

we've been doing some sort of video or trim plus restoration.

I mean, it was like up the wazoo and no regrets

because that stuff is fantastic.

And it's also great for jeeps because I know jeeps have weird plastics.

Watch the last couple of Q&As and you'll see trim plus put to

excellent work on a CRV and a Jeep Wrangler.

So good.

All right.

Next up, I've got Jimbo.

I love that curveball brush so much.

That's so awesome.

The curveball is so great, but I still stand by the screw ball

is the tire dressing applicator.

Sid finds it a little screwy to go with the curveball sometimes.

Now for those who get confused, the curveball in the screw ball.

Soft, hard, which one's which?

Borah's hair, Borah's hair for screw ball.

The screw ball is for the curveball.

And the screw ball is only all black.

It's black candle, black bristles.

Now for me, the screw ball, I would be because of the density of the bristles,

I would be afraid to use that on very many parts of the car.

You know, obviously plastic, fender wells, all that you could use.

But when I found it out for tire dressing, oh my gosh.

And you know, people were like, oh, it's such an expensive brush to use for tire dressing.

People will last the rest of my life.

And it's so good that I don't care how much it is.

This is one thing I will really say.

Detail factory in general, their brushes are so high quality

with the rubberization and hard plastics that they're built out of.

If you look at the price and freak out with the price of a curveball

or the screw ball and you're like, what in the heck, this is expensive for a brush.

That brush will last a long time.

Honestly, a long time, I think my entire set of detail factory brushes,

I have had now for four years, five years, and they still look brand new.

And I use them every, I detail one to two cars a week and they still work just fine.

So I cannot emphasize, you're not like, if you invest in a good brush,

detail factories got you covered.

And for people who have a brain like mine that gets confused on the screw ball

and the curveball a little bit, I just think curves are smooth and screws are sharp.

There you go.

So that's how I remember that.

He gets a little screwy, you know what I'm saying?

Now the curveball is a wheel cleaning brush, though, is like money.

Love it.

FCN or 6844.

Hi, everyone.

What pH neutral soap do you guys recommend for a foam sprayer?

Well, you could go GSF.

You could go shampoo plus.

You could go GFX.

You could go Pearl.

What else, guys?

Am I missing anything at the moment?

On top of the head, there you go.

I mean, those are, those are some options.

You could do a G wash by G Technic.

That's another awesome pH neutral soap.

All those soaps right there, fantastic.

Or you could even change it up if you want to do a soap that's got a little bit of,

I don't know, gives you a little bit of slickness.

You could go Radiance by PNS.

I almost forgot for a second there.

So yeah, no, those are some options for you.

You could even do, I believe, optimum car wash soap.

It's also pH neutral.

Yes, actually, yes, it is.

Yeah.

And that one was always super foamy as well.

All of those are fantastic options, genuinely.

Yeah.

All right.

Next, I've got CEO detailing.

Please get Delaney in a battery eye case sprayer.

You probably have 10,000 in the warehouse.

I think Delaney is good.

We have one.

She's, she's.

Yeah.

We have one.

That's okay.

All right.

Delaney likes just the bait.

I'm assuming, so I'm assuming you are all for just a trigger sprayer and you're happy.

Yeah.

Totally content.

She's never liked IKs, to be honest, from the very beginning.

She's never liked IKs.

She doesn't even like the 12 that you fill up with the pressure or, you know, the,

why am I losing my mind today?

I know, I am too.

Oh, with the Schrader belt.

She still doesn't even like that.

But here's my, if we're going to be honest, here's my issue with the battery IK.

Oh no.

So you turn it on, you charge it.

You turn it on, it fills up itself, it works fine.

You have to remember to turn it off.

Yeah.

Or the next time you go to work.

It's going to cycle.

It's dead.

No, no, no.

If you leave the battery engaged, it just dies.

Really?

Yeah.

And so then it's always dead when I go to use it.

That's an electronics concern.

And it's partially user error, but I can't, right, but it is a little bit user error,

but I cannot remember to turn it off.

So I wish that it had like a switch, like my curling iron, that like if after 30 minutes,

if I didn't touch it, if it would just shut its own battery, like all about it then.

But that's my issue with it.

David Boyce.

My check engine light has been on since 2021.

2008 Acura TL Type-S drives like butter.

OMG, David.

I did not know you had that.

Is it manual?

No, I love the Acura TL Type-S of that generation.

But pre-Beak, I really don't like that Acura Chrome-Beak that they put on everything right around 2008-09.

If it's from the 2005-2008 range, it's good.

My parents had a 2006 Acura TL, and that car drove so awesome.

I just think they're great looking.

They're just really sharp lines, and they rival BMW, in my opinion.

Well, obviously BMW's rear-wheel bias, but I'm not going to go into all the details there.

But anyway, SH all-wheel drive, very solid, and has some version of torque vectoring.

But the ingenuity of the Acura, far more superior, am I right, Dane?

What's that?

What?

Anyway.

Okay, moving along here.

Let's go.

Oh, all right.

We've got our friend Air First popping in from his castle to say hi.

Nice.

Good evening from Mount.

I'm not even going to attempt to pronounce that.

Chao-een.

Common.

Yeah, good luck.

All right.

And let's see.

We've got Love for the TL.

They also have an 08 Type-S 6-speed.

Great car, David.

Used to have one.

Gosh, it can't be an Acura.

Well, you can.

But I will say, as far as that generation Acura TLs, they are the best of the TL, for sure.

Hello from Nova Scotia.

I just used P&S Swift for the first time, and it is really good product.

I love Swift.

Delaney is not a Swift fan.

Not a Swift fan.

She's a natural finish type.

Ah, yes.

You and me both.

But yeah, I love Swift.

You and me both.

Delaney does not like Swift.

Delaney and I are in the same camp.

Yeah.

Now, for those who are curious, why one versus the other?

What do you like about one versus the other?

So my thing is if you're already going to go through the trouble of having to fit Swift

in everywhere, make sure it blends in.

Since it does have a little bit of a shine, protectant, I find it hard to have it apply

easily and get in the cracks, where I may as well just clean it and then end with a really

good finish with natural finish.

Instead of like, I feel like I'm chasing myself.

Now, I will say I'm becoming more of a Swift fan, but on certain vehicles.

And that's also one of my other points is I like to just be able, I don't want to

have to play a guessing game.

I just want to go and do it.

But like Swift on my car and my type of plastic, amazing.

But when I am doing like a detail or something, I may as well just clean it.

Nice finish.

I love the smell of natural finish over Swift too, to be honest.

So it does a little bit stronger for me.

But I don't know.

I got DIY with Kane pointing out that Anthony did a great video on a water spot removal comparison

worth to watch.

Yes, Kane, for those who don't know on the Rag Company YouTube channel, they're

kind of old videos at this point, but they're amongst the most popular videos we've ever

done.

Yeah, it was a good video.

You can look them up on the popular videos tab, easy to find.

And you got one on the Forerunner, and then you've got the other one that was on an Elantra.

And both of those videos were excellent demonstrations of different methodology for

water spot removal.

So do check those out if you haven't already.

Even though it's old information, it's still good information.

All right.

Next up here, I've got some love David Boising Raven's Claw.

Then I got fine detailing here wondering, did I just get invited to TRCMA, Gabe?

Ryan, yeah.

Gabe, you're in charge of inviting people along with Troy.

I think you have some authority there.

Yeah.

If you want to, you could.

Here's a deal, Ryan.

If you don't get invited, it's his fault.

No, Ryan, you're absolutely welcome to come, man.

There.

Of course, just don't be upset when I have you wash a bunch of cars.

We would love to have you, Ryan.

We would love to have you.

It was such a fun time last year with Ryan here.

He was great.

Oh my gosh.

Honestly, I got actually big shout out to Ryan because what people at TRCMA do behind

the scenes is so much.

And a big thing about TRCMA, obviously we do Q&A every week and it's a production

getting camera set up and shout out to Nick and Glenn behind the scenes.

But the big thing about TRCMA is it is a full grown production just trying to make everything

flow in the studio.

And Ryan and Carson, those two specifically, Joey and Alex as well, they were constantly

moving tables.

They were moving and grabbing product.

They were washing cars.

So the work needed to be done and they happened to be free and capable.

That's the less glamorous behind the scenes that they really contributed.

So yes, absolutely, Ryan.

Just in case you think you're just going to be able to sit in the corner and watch

everything without actually getting lost.

Just as long as Ryan was working it.

Yeah, I don't think I ever saw him sit down actually last year.

We need to have Mike Mormon on TRCMA.

Well, his name's Matt if you're talking about Matt Mormon.

However, I think that Matt is very fun on TRCMA.

I know he's controversial.

Some people like.

Some people don't like.

But watching him rip his pants last year during a presentation and just rolling with it,

that was one of the more impressive feats I've seen.

We're working to get Matt back to TRCMA.

I don't know if he'll have a presentation or not this year.

I know Anthony meets with him, I think next week.

So I did tell Anthony, hey, tell Matt we would love to have him.

So we'll see.

And Sid, I'm going to have you answer this one.

Who will be at MTE?

I will be.

I will be there.

And gosh, I mean a lot of people.

So who all from TRC is going?

So we know John.

Anthony and John and the Joshes.

And the Joshes.

Okay. The two Joshes.

So from the little break video, right?

Yeah.

So no, it'll be great.

Well, like we'll be there.

I'm so excited.

MTE is going to be really, really good this year.

And there's a lot of new boosts this year.

And I did hear that they completely sold out.

And a fun fact about MTE is for those that don't know,

it's kind of a combo show between Detailers and Painless Dent Repair, PDR.

And this year there will be more Detailers and more Detailing Boots than PDR.

So we finally.

I don't think that's ever happened before.

Nope. This is the first time.

And this is the 25th anniversary.

So for 25 years, Detailers have been behind PDR.

And this is the first year that Detailing is taking an hour.

So yeah, super, super exciting.

I cannot wait to go.

So Jeff, make sure you say hi to everybody there, including Sid here.

All right.

Then I've got Hydra.

Oh, okay.

Is the mitt on the stick with the mitt side on the floor?

It is.

If it was, I'm going to tell you right now.

This floor is the exception to the rule.

Normally you never want to set something on the floor.

However, I will say these tiles specifically are incredible at hiding dirt.

It does not rest on the surface.

It all falls between the products.

For better or for worse, it finds its way down.

But Hydra.

And we do always watch the mitt in between.

Yeah, does it get Hydra?

She's also done.

So like she didn't put it.

She didn't rest on the floor.

When he wrote this was an hour ago.

Yeah, but I watched.

I literally watched Sid, not Sidney, Delaney.

And yeah, I'm just making it real clear for viewers and listeners at home to know that

there's actually some thought and care.

But anyway, it's not just.

Yeah, yeah.

That too.

Whoopsie daisy.

It's okay here.

It's completely okay.

But yeah, you know, just extra, you know, ounce of prevention.

Wash your stuff between takes.

That's cool.

What's the best way to clean Jeep fenders?

I don't know, Delaney.

What do you think?

Fenders like the inside of the fender wells.

So definitely a good pressure washer.

The green star, which is really helpful today.

But then sometimes when they are really dirty,

I feel like one of those long brushes is really helpful.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, from Detail Factory.

I really like those when it's like kind of muddy salt,

that kind of thing.

I didn't use that today, but I would definitely recommend that.

And then just a really good pressure washer and good chemical.

Yeah, excellent advice.

And I know we're kind of getting close to time here,

but I got a few more comments I want to get out there.

So I'm going to be quick with them.

Will Carcandy be coming to the RAG company?

You can actually find it on Amazon.

And we are in charge of those listings on there.

So we are.

So the big thing is we do a lot of, yeah, we do.

Sydney does the Amazon lives.

So every week, Carcandy goes live.

So if you have time, definitely go to Amazon,

go to the Carcandy store, follow.

Hit the follow button that way you get notified.

And you can also do the same for Kosh, for Armor,

for Detail Factory, for Optico.

Who else am I missing?

Solution finish.

Solution.

The RAG company.

Oh gee, I don't know.

Now, last one, I'm going to post up here

just because it's a fun way to end it on here.

DIY with Kane.

Product suggestion.

Introducing Sydney's Reality Check Degreaser.

The only product on the market,

strong enough to cut through months of experience free,

honest, white label marketing hype.

That's pretty good.

Very good.

Yeah, that's a good product idea.

And I think that gets us right to the end of our show.

Before everybody runs away, I want to thank you again, Delaney,

for doing an awesome job on the Jeep over here.

Can you tell us just a little bit more about your process,

everything you did today,

and your thoughts on using the products that you did?

Yes, okay.

So we did a full deep wash detail on the outside of my Jeep.

It looks amazing.

We did a foam wash.

But first, we did start with the green star,

which was my first time using it.

Love it.

Made the wheels and tires look amazing.

And then the foam wash,

decon, and then the GFX from Koch.

Great foaming process.

Went super smooth, especially for the cracks in my Jeep.

Got all that gunk out.

And then did the glass coating, which was so easy.

Definitely like the easiest coating application I've seen.

And then we also used the Raven polisher from Barjack.

Amazing.

Loved it, like we said, was super quiet.

And I think it'd be really good for like a training, teaching,

or even like, I know my mom polishes a lot on the phone,

that kind of thing.

Amazing.

Wow, calm down there.

Wow, wow.

So I think there's a lot of positives to that.

I highly recommend when it comes out at MTE next week.

And yeah, then I just finished it up with some armor,

amplifying all that, door jams, everything.

And it's good as new.

You're awesome, Delaney.

You killed it today.

Great job.

You are awesome, yeah.

All right.

Now, for those of us back here at the desk,

is there anything you want to say

before you head off to MTE next week, Sid?

Not really, just, I mean, if you're coming,

please stop by the car candy booth and come see me.

And I'll be floating around.

I'll be, you know, stopping at the TRC booth,

the Buffinshine booth.

And it's a pretty small, you know, show area.

You get to see everybody.

But yeah, but I mean, it's going to be amazing.

Like, I'm so excited.

And yeah, and then just like Gabe said,

I mean, if you, if you are wondering more about lives,

like we do go live on every channel on Amazon, you know,

so make sure you're following the Amazon channels too,

because we do share weekly tips and tricks and products.

And, you know, we're having a good time with that.

And I know we're putting a lot of effort into that.

So if you want to see more of us.

Yeah, every week.

Follow all the individual channels on Amazon.

Yeah.

And just to kind of give you guys an insight,

we go live every Thursday.

So every Thursday before Q&A,

that's what Sidney and I are working on.

So the lives that you see the last week,

and then they'll reset as we do more new lives.

So definitely check those out.

And sometimes you run promos and stuff like that.

Now with Gabe here, I also want to point out here

at the end of this Q&A that next week,

I will not be able to sit in this chair.

I am going to be home handling a little home renovation project.

However, I put my full faith and trust in Gabe

to run the show next week.

Wow, you're sitting in the center seat.

Yeah, you're going to be in charge next week.

You're doing the iPad and all that stuff.

We should call that like Q&A unhinged.

Because you're going to have a whole new cast.

You're going to have a whole new cast.

Nobody here to hold them back.

Wow, next week.

Anthony and I are both gone.

My co-partner next week, he doesn't know yet,

but it's going to happen.

It's going to be Carson.

So I'm going to have Carson.

You two together?

Oh, boy.

OK, you guys really got to tune in for that.

And the other person I'm thinking of also pulling

into this unhinged podcast is Lucas.

OK.

So we'll apologize for you, Lucas.

And then, I don't know yet,

I still need to pitch the idea to him.

But the other person I had a thought process on was Nate.

OK, well, I'm leaving that whole up to you.

But I don't know, or Delaney.

So I haven't even asked Delaney if she wanted,

but that's another option too.

Delaney could be at the desk,

but that could be a little dangerous.

That would be very unhinged.

Delaney, you're welcome to join.

A very unhinged podcast.

She would fit on it.

Yeah, I love that.

So yeah, seeing that group together,

I think will be great.

I think you guys have a great show

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