Fixing Up a Dirty Honda while Answering Your Questions

Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to get another Q&A here on the Rag Company YouTube channel.

I'm your host, Dane Hennan, and to my left, Anthony Fisher.

Dane, thanks for having me. Happy to be here, and happy Q&A Freakin' Thursday to everybody watching and listening.

It really is. So, without further ado, I want to look over to the wash bay here and introduce today's detailer, Carson Black.

Welcome to the show, Carson. Happy to have you with us.

Hi, thank you so much for having me. The camera hasn't switched, but that's okay.

But, well, it's an audio show too. That's okay.

Yeah.

But, yeah, today we're having a good time.

There we go. That works.

Boom, you got a camera. All right.

Yeah, but today we're detailing this super dirty Honda CR-V with a bunch of products from various brands.

We're using a couple brands from Carcandy.

We're using some armored detail supply, even some optimum.

And, yeah, we're going to have a great time.

We're going to detail the headlights.

Headlights are a little foggy, not terrible, and then restore some of the trim and clean these wheels.

So, that's kind of our main thing on today's Q&A.

Excellent, Carson. Thank you very much.

Speaking of fog, Dane.

Yeah, it's foggy outside too.

It has been foggy outside here in Pointe De Chaux.

Something pretty fierce, to be honest.

I mean, we saw the fog rolling in.

The way to describe it is, have you ever seen the movie called The Fog?

The Mist.

Okay, The Mist is a completely different movie, and that ends not in a great way, but The Fog itself.

So, there was the remake of The Fog movie that, I believe, happened with a couple key actors from the early 2000s.

The guy that played the primary role in Smallville.

Mmm.

See, when I think of The Fog, I think of the original, going back to the 80s.

This is the remake of the early 2000s.

Also a very fun movie, not like The Mist.

Mist is not a fun movie. Do not recommend watching that.

A real good back-to-back was 28 days later and then The Mist.

Or either one you could start with and finish with.

You like to party, don't you?

I feel like the ending of The Mist really is a great way to just end the whole night, though.

It's not.

Just really not.

End it on a high.

The Fog is something fierce outside, but good news, though, because hopefully it's going to clear up.

We've had some pretty decent weather here in Boise, and we've been able to do some outdoor washes and do some video shoots,

especially stuff in preparation for TRCMA, which is quickly approaching, Dane.

Yeah, man, it's coming up fast.

TRCMA 2026. We do it big. We do it right.

We have a ton of fun with this, essentially online detailing event expo, whatever you'd like to call it.

Sure.

Virtual trade show.

Some of the biggest brands in the world under one roof here for a week where we go over new products and techniques and tools and tips, tricks, everything like that.

So, Dane, do you know what the dates are for TRCMA 2026?

See, he's asking me this because he doesn't remember exactly, and I don't remember exactly.

It's always the end of March, beginning of April, March 30th to April 2nd.

That is when your time frame is, but it always runs for that week in that little window of time.

So the thing to know about that show is it's the biggest thing we do all year.

We prep like crazy for it.

Honestly, the last thing in terms of TRCMA I'm even thinking about are the dates because there's just so much other stuff going on.

That's true.

And I figure the dates will sneak up on us one way or another.

They just do.

Every time.

It is truly as a marathon, as not a race.

A year's worth of effort, video shoots in advance, all kinds of stuff.

For a live show, there sure is a lot of stuff you gotta do to prepare for it.

It is intense.

Agreed.

So that'll be quickly approaching here.

It'll be again the end of March, beginning of April.

So don't miss out.

Mark your calendars.

Maybe take, I don't want to say take the day off of work, but maybe let your work know that you're probably not going to be doing a whole lot of work that day.

Or that week, I should say, and you're going to be watching TRCMA.

So other than that, though, we are obviously here in January.

So some general housekeeping.

We've reached the end of our quarter four.

So we're kicking off here Q1.

And I think that this year, 2026 is going to actually have a series of different changes in a positive way.

Things that are going to have to do with our social media.

Things are going to have to do with our whole ambassador program.

We also have some changes being made, obviously, to our product lineups and things that we're going to offer, especially the old trade show line coming down the pipeline here very soon.

So I'm excited about this year.

I'm looking forward to it.

I think it's going to be so awesome and obviously hosting more shows like this.

And there may actually be some format changes as well to possibly Q&A.

I'm not going to say anything set in stone yet, but it is something just to be aware of as a possibility.

I've been working on some things behind the scenes with Nick and Glenn.

And I'm really happy at what potential there may be.

So Dean, I want to change it up really quick.

How was your weekend?

You know, it actually was nice.

Boy, what is this?

The TRC podcast that I just like forget.

I went through a time warp.

What did you do?

You misunderstand that I literally just forget everything that happens in the past week when it happens.

I'm terrible at remembering stuff, but the reality was we had a birthday party for my brother's girlfriend and it was really fun.

We had a bunch of family in town, so we actually had extended family around.

It was a good time.

Hung out at my parents' house, just did kind of festive things, cooked some cool dinners, and all in all, staying happy birthday a whole bunch.

Nice.

With the piano and everything my dad was playing.

How many times is a whole bunch?

Well, we sang at least four different times, not including the Crab Shack night, which was a seafood fest that we did.

We actually got a bunch of crabs and shucked them, and it was a whole thing.

We made a whole party out of it.

And my brother's girlfriend actually made aprons for everybody that were specially branded, said Henning Crab Shack.

That was pretty fun.

That was a whole thing.

It was pretty funny.

And they were actually very nicely done, so I was super stoked about that.

That was fun.

And we all sang B-52's Love Shack super loud while shucking crabs and dancing around the kitchen.

It was a whole thing.

What about you?

What did you get up to?

You're asking the questions.

I'm throwing it right back at you.

We talked last Thursday about doing some more house projects and doing some refining around the house and things that we want to do in 2026.

I've been mapping out my idea for my candle lights that I'm thinking about doing, a little bit of garage cleanup, shelving, stuff like that.

I think that this year, obviously I need to continue, what's that called, thinning out the herd of stuff that I own.

Right now I have a temporary storage unit that I'm renting as a holding place for crap until I can figure out what goes, what stays.

And so I had to make some trips over to there, drop off some Christmas stuff, pick up some other things.

And overall though, it was a pretty chill week and it was actually pretty nice weather and I was able to get out and do a little bit, drive around a little bit.

And that was, yeah, that was primarily it.

Now this week, just mostly family stuff and preparation because I'm leaving next week for Mobile Tech Expo.

Yes, you are.

Because I'm going to be sitting a whole week in Orlando there to kind of do some Disney stuff with the family, go and spend time with each other.

And I think it'll be a fun time.

So I'll be there a week early and then obviously following that Mobile Tech Expo does start on that following Wednesday at the end of January,

in which I will be hosting a detailing class on how to choose right microfiber for your shop on Wednesday and then microfiber 101 on Thursday.

And then Friday is the start of the show. Saturday is the second day of the show.

And Sunday morning, we head home bright and early.

It's going to be a pretty early flight.

But we get back into Boise at noon, which is kind of sweet.

Okay, so you still got the rest of your day to do stuff.

Yeah, be able to enjoy, you know, after a six hour, seven hour flight, whatever that is.

It's not really fun when you spend like a whole day traveling somewhere and you just feel like, well, I lost that whole day.

Yeah, yeah.

And then last night I was telling the guys, so today, depending on how I'm feeling here in the next hour or so,

I may or may not be bouncing out for the second half and bringing in Mr. Lucas Blaine to join me.

That is Lucas from customer service.

He does a killer job at servicing our customers and he does it Monday through Friday from nine to five.

And he's incredible.

He's a busy guy.

So yeah, last night I had, funny enough, I had like a can of sardines, right?

And I followed it with like this really like boutique thing of like tuna that I got from like, it's like from Spain or something.

It's all my stocking stuffers, right?

This is what you get yourself the stockings?

Other people get me, Dane, because I guess I'm doing...

Because I know you're the fish guy.

I do not.

You're the seafood guy.

Okay.

I like sushi, but I draw the line of anchovies and sardines.

I do not like sardines at all.

They're good for you?

Do not like anchovies at all.

And then for some reason I took like my, you know, my combination of my vitamin D, my CLA, you know, my multivitamin stuff like that.

I also threw another high potency omega-3 in that mix.

Okay.

So that's a lot going on there.

So I pounded that down along with that fish stuff and needless to say, it has messed me up something fierce.

I am not feeling great.

I had some coffee this morning and it was not what I needed.

So with that said, I might bounce out.

So use me and abuse me while I'm here with some questions.

So Dane, let's get started.

What do we got?

Don't we?

Let's kick it out to Eric here.

Eric, do you know why?

What's he saying?

Good afternoon, TRC team.

I hope everyone is staying warm.

I'm going to hit 30 degrees Fahrenheit in Florida.

Oh gosh, don't tell me that.

So basically the end of the world for natives.

I got to bring other instances with Anthony's tips.

30 degrees, I was expecting 70.

Actually, believe it or not, that's colder than it is here.

Yeah.

That's messed up.

I got humidity too.

Normally it's way colder here, but we've had this weird buffer thing going on where it's

just been hovering in the 40s and 50s.

Anyway, moving along, we've also got Levi here who is touting he's got a tour video

that premieres on his channel after the Q&A.

So look forward to that.

Then I've got David Boyce here.

Always with something to do with festive things.

He didn't call me General Grievous, so that's a start.

That's an improvement.

Anthony, I got my apartment smelling like you were large.

Log cabin.

Okay, I think I know where he's going with this.

I used the Christmas edition O&R from my kitchen and bathroom floors.

Ooh, nice.

Thanks, Grizzly Adams.

Okay, so I got a different name.

Very nice.

That's awesome.

Yeah, the Christmas O&R, perfect this time of year for some baseboard wipe downs, cleaning

up your vinyl floors, wiping down your kitchen cabinets, all that.

I like that.

Use it while you can, because I think it's no longer on the website.

Really?

I believe it's been pulled.

We didn't have one or two bottles left, and I think it's been taken off.

Yeah, when it's gone, it's gone, folks.

That's how limited edition things work.

Next up, I got Eric again.

What's Eric saying?

Thoughts on ceramic toppers.

If you like the idea, do you prefer wet type to use at final rinse versus drying aid versus

final dry application, liking wet styles since I blow dry coated vehicle?

I think it's whatever your preference is.

I don't, I really, I could go either way, because basically, you know, you are saving

time, you are saving effort, the only downside of using a wet top or would be, for some reason,

if you had excessive buildup, that you would have to come back through and wipe down with

a towel anyways, unlikely, but it can happen from time to time.

Sure.

The therapeutic aspect, though, for the most fun, right, unless, I mean, less efficient,

is to do a dry wipe or to do a drying aid.

That just makes you feel like you're having a little bit more of an intimate moment with

the car, if that's what you choose to do.

But with the right hydrophobic, the blow dryer may be all you need.

So, I guess, different strokes for different folks.

I don't really have a preferred preference.

It's mostly what I have time for.

Okay, noted.

Then, I've got Ronnie Ott, simply saying, good afternoon, TRC family.

Ron, come on.

Right back at you.

Ron, happy to have you with us.

Then, we've got Juice Free, saying, let's go.

Nice juice.

And I like how Ron says, it looks like today's car is a Lazarus project.

So, I'm thinking, you know, maybe more along the line, maybe not quite a ship athesias,

like, most of the original parts are still there.

But, I think what Carson's doing is just demonstrating, at least when I picked this car out and the

owner's watching right now, I believe, when picking it out, the idea was you take something

that hasn't been detailed before, and it has some notable things like these headlights,

this trim, the tires, just things that get left alone over time.

The sun happens to them, weather happens to them, normal stuff.

What are things you can do to a car that just, you know, looks a little tired and you can

wake it back up again without having to do anything crazy, like a repaint or full body

polish or anything like that?

What can you do that's kind of like specific?

And that's what Carson's showing us today.

Yeah, I mean, headlights are going to be your number one thing that's going to show.

It ages a car.

It ages a car super quick, absolutely.

And it transforms it.

Number one, it's a safety thing.

It's a big safety concern.

You can, you know, see farther down the road.

And it ups the resale value like tenfold.

And so that helps quite a bit.

These unfortunately have like chicken scratches or chicken feet, whatever you want to call

them, or it's, or spider crack, whatever, you know, whatever you want to say, where

the inside of the plastic itself is actually cracked.

And that can happen over time from heat or whatever it may be.

And some of the edges of the clear coat are failing in this corner here where you could

sand and you could go super crazy on it and maybe get it perfect.

But, you know, at the, you just have to, you have to decide, especially if you are a

detailer that is getting paid for something like this, do you charge the customer by hour?

If this is a personal project, would you take care of this?

You know, quick Google search of, hey, how much are headlights for this?

I'm assuming probably headlights for these are about 200 bucks.

It may be worth it just to buy some new headlights.

Usually, like you're saying, if the damage occurs inside the housing and you're seeing

that happen, that's probably a good time for it.

Unless you're just planning on, you know, doing like a resale situation.

But if you're planning on keeping it for a long time, replace those headlights, it's

going to be a good investment just for safety's sake.

But in this case, you're just showing us like how much you can do with what's there.

So some of the clouding, if I'm understanding correctly, you're saying some of the clouding

is on the inside of the lights.

And I wouldn't go out and replace these, you know, tomorrow.

But these would be restored.

And then in the next 10 years, if they get bad again, maybe, you know, maybe it may be

time to restore them again or replace them.

I mean, if that car has got 10 years left in it, which is a Honda, and I'm sure it will.

Oh, a hundred percent.

It's got a K series in it.

Yeah.

It's K-24 in there.

Yeah.

K-24 in there.

Yeah, it does, yeah.

Absolutely.

Just like my old element had.

All right.

Very cool.

Moving along, we've got a demo here with a good afternoon.

Everyone, same to you there.

What's going on?

And Anthony, we've got to come up with a name.

And I want to give a shout out to D-Mo.

Oh, of course.

Thank you for the King Cake D-Mo.

Huge thank you.

I saw the photo I sent you.

That was amazing, actually.

Of Dane and I devouring that King Cake.

Now, we only had like one piece, and we shared it with the rest of the team.

It was delicious.

It was like a donut, kind of, as usual.

It's like a donut style with the filling.

It's like a donut cosplaying as a cake.

Yeah.

It's pretending it's a cake just for the day.

Now, we absolutely loved it.

Thank you so much for sending that and keeping the tradition going.

Next up.

All right.

Then we have the One Who Shall Remain Nameless, who always gets a name on the show.

What are we going to call him today?

Hey, Carson.

Yeah.

I'm going to ask you, what should we call the One Who Shall Remain Nameless today?

I think his name is going to be Justin for today.

Justin.

Okay.

We're rolling with Justin.

Basic name.

Okay.

Yeah, sometimes that's all right.

Good afternoon, and happy Friday, Junior T-R-C family from the sunny south coast of Massachusetts.

I hope this finds you.

I hope I find you all well this afternoon.

Yeah.

Pretty well.

Minus whatever is going on inside me.

Your guts are doing something.

It's something that's happening.

Thank you, Justin.

I just want this to end.

Much appreciated.

And I think for all of us here, we all say, please, Anthony, let your stomach get better.

Yeah, I think it will, Dana.

As someone who's sitting right next to you, I really hope it gets better.

Something has to happen.

And not worse.

Move on.

Stilly.

Stilly says, happy Friday.

You T-R-C gang, hello to all.

Rumor of Levi making a showing.

He's a little far away for that, I must say.

He's a little far away.

Yeah.

But appreciate the thought.

I will be seeing him in two weeks, though.

Yes.

And he's in the chat here, guys.

You can talk to him.

He's hanging out right now.

Let's see what's going on, Master of Shine.

Yeah.

Next up, Neil White.

Neil.

Hey, T-R-C, I hope you're all doing well.

Thank you, Neil.

Back at you.

And then we got some weather updates from, I don't know.

I'm Hankman here.

Thank you for that.

And then we got a hello from Mike, G detailing.

And I'm going to move on to another page.

Nice.

Because we need some detailing questions.

All right.

We got another one from David Boyce about the smell of Christmas O&R, which we touched on.

Alpha Tango.

Dane always has the best hair.

Busy season is over.

I'm back to the lives.

Alpha Tango, I'm happy to see you here.

And my hair is doing what my hair does.

It is just thick.

It is so thick.

It's luscious hair.

Donating it, possibly.

It's not that long, though.

Like, it's not like a long donatable.

It's just thick.

Dane, it's kind of like the Black Forest in Germany, right?

It is, there's an incredible density there, right?

Some might also call it kind of gummy.

Gummy?

Yeah.

Like the fact that it just has good bounce back.

Oh.

I think it needs to steal out.

Yeah.

Wow.

Look at that.

Okay.

Moving along.

We've got Neil.

Just do that every day.

Just an animated gift for that.

All right.

Yes, Neil.

The Fog is a John Carpenter film, a really cool movie.

Yes, he scores his movies that way.

It's awesome with the synth and everything.

Love, love that.

All right.

Then we've got, boom, would not be a Q&A without this guy.

Good afternoon.

We're up from a cold Minnesota, USA.

Happy Friday, U-T-R-C game.

Hope all is well.

Thank you, Dan Pfeiffer.

We appreciate you being here.

We love having you here, Dan Pfeiffer.

Appreciate you.

All right.

What on earth is going on here, Justin?

Some might call him a Pfeiffer for life.

A Pfeiffer for life.

I like it.

Justin is saying, will TRC be offering a bathing suit, car wash calendar?

Yes.

For 2026.

Yes.

That was not on my bingo card.

You weren't invited to the meeting, Dan, but you are very much a part of it.

Oh, no.

So we have picked out a series of outfits for both you and myself.

And one of them includes Leader Hosen.

Leader Hosen?

No, no, no, no, no.

We are not going back there.

No, we are not doing that.

It's just Leader Hosen.

That's it for the swimsuit calendar.

Okay, well.

And we will be shooting this entire shoot over at the Schnitzel Garden in Eagle, Idaho.

So to all of you who are listening, thank your lucky stars that this for you is an audio

only podcast.

All right, moving along.

Jesse, what's Jesse saying?

He said, Carson, do you like that idea?

I don't.

I'm not going to say anything.

It's not appropriate.

Would you buy a swimsuit calendar of me and Dane or in it in Leader Hosen at the Schnitzel

Garden?

No, no.

And keep in mind, it's Garden with a T, Garten.

Garten.

Yeah, it's not happening.

Jesse Greese says, hey guys, my rims are coated with ADS wheel coating.

You think brake buster will start weakening the coating over time for being higher pH?

Most likely not, no.

I've been using brake buster, full strength, half strength for years on coated rims and

wheels, no material effects.

I mean, as long as you're not letting it sit there and dry on the surface or 12 for too

long, I mean, you're fine.

Yep.

It's going to be very safe.

All right.

And then Justin says for 2026, sorry about that.

I'm using voice to text while sitting in traffic.

Well, I appreciate you staying safe out there, Justin, and doing the clunkier method, but

one that guarantees your hands are still on the wheel.

Agreed.

All right.

Then we got angry monkey detailing saying, hello, all.

Can we get Ziva from G-Technic on the podcast?

He stole every scene he came through.

Thanks.

Are you familiar with Ziva?

The dog.

Yeah.

Oh, when we were up there.

Chris is dog.

Yeah.

No, Ziva is amazingly.

Ziva is a girl, I think.

Ziva is a girl.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, that dog was very sweet.

And actually I got a lot of footage when these guys were like setting up to go talk in

front of the building.

I'd set up a shot looking like I'm looking directly at them like, all right, I'm going

to get a picture.

And then I just slowly moved down to zoom in on Ziva looking through the glass behind

you guys.

Ziva's a great dog.

Very cute.

Ziva's a great dog.

Really cute.

Chris got a good one.

He loves that dog.

Shot dog.

Very much.

It's like a cream lab or like an English lab type thing.

I don't remember exactly the exact model number.

Okay.

Yeah.

What's the VIN on that lab?

I remember the exact chassis code on that dog.

So what's the SKU on that lab?

Can we lift the tail to scan?

I don't think it works like that, buddy.

Okay.

All right.

Next up.

Well, actually, you know, people watching here, there's probably some people watching

from the barking part.

They could probably tell us.

I would appreciate their input.

Do they lift the tail to scan or no?

I mean, when they say they put a chip in your dog, where does it go?

Good question, Dane.

I mean, I know.

Dane says, with sister Sydney moving to car candy, any plans to carry their lineup, we

currently distribute car candy on Amazon right now.

There you go.

And then we've got Jason here saying, hello, TRC, greetings from Snowy, Toronto.

Nice.

And happy to have our international audience.

We do really have a good time with people from all around the world popping in to watch

these things.

I do.

And now Jeff C always with a thoughtful comment.

What's he saying today?

What are TRC's favorite use cases for O and R hyperfoam?

I've been enjoying using it as a pre-soak and then following up with regular blue O

and R for the contact wash really cuts through the grime.

Man, I pretty much what you're doing.

I mean, if you want to continue just sticking with the O and R hyperfoam or the, the, the

foaming O and R, foam and R, if you want to stick to the wash, you can, you don't necessarily

have to switch to the blue O and R unless you just prefer the way it feels.

But no, I mean, that's pretty much like the best use case is you can foam it on.

And what's nice about foam and R is that you be just due to the viscosity of it.

It goes a little goes a long way in a IK foamer.

So you could throw in an IK foamer at foams.

Great.

You could do your pre spray with that, allow it to start breaking down and start penetrating

a lot of that surface grime and then follow up with your normal rinse.

Listen, and you can be good to go.

I mean, you're, you're done.

So it, it serves a very similar purpose as a pre soak like with an APC, but obviously

it's going to be a much more neutral chemical.

That's not going to be as, as potent in terms of like, you know, acidity or alkalinity.

So it's a good option for a lot of people who are just looking for good, strong lubrication

with great encapsulation.

That makes sense.

Then I got David Boyce here.

Dane, can you sing Billy Joel song to piano man?

Well, your dad plays the piano.

That would be awesome.

Didn't Billy Joel famously say he was sick of singing that song?

That's why he's asking you to sing it, Dane.

He's just like, well, Billy will.

Yeah, Billy won't do it.

So Dane will.

Oh yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

Any word on ADS coming out with a low pH shampoo asks GT details.

GT details.

There is a word.

One word.

Ooh.

That's it.

You can't say it.

Cryptic.

That's how we like to keep it here.

There's a word.

Keep you guessing until there's no more guessing.

Oh dear.

We've got Ronnie Yacht saying it's been warm here.

We had a couple of days of rain which washed the salt off the roads.

I took the mistress.

That's my 2006 Mustang out for a little neighborhood romp, he says.

Nice.

All right.

Very cool.

And Neil, back to Seafood Shame, you're saying sardines are awesome.

Too bad Anthony is scared of oysters.

Neil, I don't want to be scared of oysters.

I actually was offered oysters the other day and I turned them down for my own weird,

you know, personal reasons.

We're not going to linger on that, but thank you, Neil.

Fibrio Maljo, whatever the heck it's called, or not whatever the one thing it is.

But I do like sardines.

The thought of them right now is making me absolutely sick to my stomach.

And I wish I wouldn't have done what I done.

Oh man.

It just, you don't take fish oil, high potency fish oil on top of eating the two cans of

that.

That's too much fish, man.

It's too many omega-3s.

I'm omega-3ing.

I don't care if your diet is entirely seafood.

That's just too much fish at once.

That's clear, though, when you think about it, right?

Like sardines, like there's such a good concentration of omega-3s there, but I think it also has

to do with the actual oil that they're in, whether it's soybean or olive oil.

So I think that amount of oil, too, kind of offsets, it actually makes the, probably

more, I don't know, makes it worse on your stomach versus eating like an entire salmon.

That's a fair point.

How does that make someone a better detailer?

Dane.

First off, omega-3s are great for your overall skin health.

Oh yeah, it's great for your heart and health, right?

And I like to think that omega-3s negate the negative effects that maybe-detailing chemicals

could eventually, chemicals could eventually have on all of our health.

Okay, yeah.

I think that's valid.

I'm a fish fan, too, so, you know, right there with you.

You're slightly more adventurous on that front than I am, but I still love the fish.

I see food, I eat food.

Next up, Jason, AM5636 says,

Hey, Anthony, if I have ADS glass coating on the windshield, can I use built-in hammer

traceless or PNS glass finisher after maintenance wash or will those weaken the coating better

to use, better off to use bead maker?

So, man, that's a great question.

So, if you're talking about reflect, reflect is totally fine.

You can use reflect as much as you want on the windshield.

You're never going to hurt anything.

Built-in hammered traceless does contain things that could eventually break down a coating.

It's potent stuff, dude.

I mean, it's a great glass cleaner, whether it's the IPA or solvent or that weird combo mix,

I'm not sure exactly what it is, but it is some potent stuff.

And so, I think that continued use on something with protection could eventually start breaking that down.

So, what I would recommend is probably reflect, as I know it wouldn't do that,

or just a traditional, just a glass cleaner.

Nothing crazy.

I don't have to, you know, the coat, you don't have to put a topper on top of the topper for your glass.

You can just literally use a traditional glass cleaner and just clean it up and be happy.

That's what I'd probably say.

All right.

Then I've got, ooh, my goodness.

Let's see.

We have a beer medic.

Did we already do that one?

Oh, no, I think I already, I think I already did that one.

Pop that out there.

Clean up black.

Did we cover this one?

No.

Okay.

What's the best way to clean up what looks like water spots on the black window trim on my Tesla Model Y?

I've used water spot remover and everything else I can think of.

Have you just tried polishing?

Have you tried hyper polish, for example, just on a little towel?

You can just take it and rub it.

If it's gloss black trim, which I'm assuming it is, then yes, you would just, you'd polish that out with a machine

and something light and then work your way up in abrasiveness as needed.

If it's sat and finished, then you would just use hyper polish on a ribbon rag and by hand,

just lightly agitate it and see if you can remove it that way.

Yes, sketchy.

Yeah, that's pretty much what I would do between those two options.

Yeah, water spot remover on trim may not always yield the best results just due to the porous nature of it.

Which is also why it ends up with those spots in the first place.

Correct.

Next up, we've got Michael, 2000 lives and good afternoon everyone,

trying to pick between the Comet and the Active 2.0.

Any opinions from you guys?

I know that both are popular choices.

I know that, was it the Active, the first Active, the 1.0's where people were having some...

The 2.0's.

The 2.0's were the ones causing issues?

Yeah, they've made some changes and fixes to them since then.

So now it's like 2.5.

2.3 technically, they're working on 3.0.

So the 2.0 is a good pressure washer, no denying that.

For the price, it's definitely some of the best bang for the buck that you can get.

I think the output's great.

I think that reliability-wise, some of the stuff has been exhorted out.

There's plenty of people here on the office that have 2.0's that haven't had any issues

and they've been using them weekly for months and months and months.

The Comet, we do have one, Josh Brodle, one of the guys here at the RAG company.

He's a very picky guy.

So the fact he chose that one means he has confidence.

He's got the Comet and he loves it.

Yeah, I think Lucas also has the Comet as well.

I think Lucas can chime in later for the second half.

The Comet is also a killer machine.

What's nice about the Comet is the fact that it's an all-in-one system.

You have your built-in hose, you have everything there, it's the reel, it's all of it.

It's easy.

So I guess the question would be, would you want to build out your own wall mount setup with an active

or would you just keep it on the floor or however you want to use it?

Would you rather do that and then be able to mix and match things in the future

or would you just like something that's easy to plug in and just go?

Yeah.

Carson, fair point.

Yeah, I do have the Active 2.0 at my house that I purchased from Gizaloo Enterprises, which is Gabe.

Oh, that's okay.

You purchased a used product from Gabe, you're risky.

And he charged me full price.

Oh my gosh, that's the Gabe we know well.

He does know.

He upcharged you.

He takes care of his stuff though.

He does, but he did give me a deal to give me five bucks off.

Off of what, the MSRP?

It was markup.

Actually, now that I think about it.

Anyways, I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

He hooked me up, but.

I believed you.

And I've known that guy a long time.

Well, the fact that he believes you is not a good sign.

No, I have the Active 2.0.

It is a great machine.

Make sure if you do end up going with it, you get the correct orifice size and for your tips and everything like that.

And then if you can spare it, upgrade your outlets, upgrade your breaker and everything like that.

I have a dedicated 20 amp breaker and the machine seems so much happier.

For you guys who set them up on shelves and stuff, do you get little anti-vibration pucks or anything to put underneath just to quell the noise a little?

I've seen somebody put them, like they have them on Etsy.

I don't run them personally.

I know Joey has an Active 2.0 and he says that it's a little loud.

I don't really care.

Well, because the noise is one thing, but the vibration it causes on a shelf is another.

Just thinking about like the hardware on a shelf and the vibrations eventually working itself loose or something.

You don't want that.

It could.

I mean, it's a plastic machine and the way you mount it, it goes into plastic.

I mean, eventually it's like anything.

It's got a working life and so I think the working life is like 300 hours or something.

Eventually I will upgrade to like an AR, like an AR blue.

Probably the 630 or something like that, maybe 650 depending.

Maybe a Crenza.

Who knows, but yeah.

Okay.

Nice.

No.

Appreciate the input.

And you're doing a great job on those headlights.

Thank you.

By the way, I can already see the stark difference between left and right.

There looks really nice.

Yeah.

Check that out, man.

That is well done.

The other one did a good job.

There's a couple of spots where just it wouldn't, it wouldn't turn out.

It's pretty, pretty foggy.

Okay.

I was hitting it pretty good.

There's the shot I'm looking for.

Look at that guys.

I mean, that's a thousand grit, man, and it was not going.

You were going through fairly quickly.

It's not like you spent, you know, an hour or two hours on this thing.

Sure.

It can be done pretty efficiently while still ensuring that you're not damaging it.

So mind you, I'm using like a thousand grit on a machine.

Yeah.

So like if I was doing this by hand, it'd take me quite a bit longer.

Yeah.

And I did, I did see ahead some questions about the tool you're using because of course

everyone's always curious.

One of the reasons we have to use that tool in particular is because the sound is such

that it's not too irritating for us to talk and you to still be able to work.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

So this is a shine mate polisher.

Okay.

And I think you borrowed that from one of the guys.

It's not normally one we have here in the studio.

It's, yeah.

It's Lucas's, Lucas from customer service.

He bought this with his own money.

Okay.

And I know alternatively apart from that one, we also have the RBL around that we use a

whole lot.

Yeah.

And I'll say that one's even a little bit quieter.

Yeah.

That one's Sydney's.

But I think this one he got from our friend Ryan at Ryan shop.

Sweet.

Thanks, Carson.

Give him a little plug there.

Next up, I've got Lucas Fudekir.

Nice.

Lucas says, hi guys.

Just jumping in and out.

Okay.

Well, hopefully you stick around for this.

We'll listen to the podcast and Spotify later, but let me say Carson is doing some art there

polishing those front lights weekend plans, KCX active foam rinse and KCX rapid rinse

wash.

That sounds like a therapeutic weekend.

That sounds great.

That sounds like a smells great sandalwood in the air, you know, get in the air.

Right.

Just love that.

Just do it.

Right.

Love it.

Yep.

All right.

Then I got Levi here saying, what's up everyone?

Happy Friday Eve.

Levi Gates the master of shine himself.

Yes.

The, the, the adventure Friday Eve, right?

Or not here on the channel.

There we go.

Next up.

We've got common here from sheep star headlights will be 800 to $1,000.

Now on newer cars, I know headlight units get absolutely crazy expensive with these really

complex projector systems, LEDs, et cetera.

They, they get really out there.

Housing's, you know, for these units where they still use like a halogen bulb, a reflector

housing stuff like that.

I haven't looked at prices lately.

So I don't know how much they've jumped, but I would have a hard time believing it was

above five or 600 bucks for, for a pair of like this generation CRV headlights.

Later, I fully believe you.

And I know they get even higher than that 1500 2000 plus for a lot of cars nowadays.

Well, can I just kind of jump in and say something mid late 2000s, early 2010s.

I feel like five, 600 is more in line.

Dean, you are correct.

I want to, I want to say something very important to sheep star here.

What you're seeing right there, that, that vehicle of essentially of engineering perfection,

right?

The Honda CRV, is that a CRV?

It's a CRV.

The Honda CRV.

I knew it was a CRV.

Why did I say that?

The Honda CRV is at its core, a Honda and will always be a Honda.

And the driver of this Honda will probably always be a Honda person, right?

They look for value.

They look for reliability.

And for that reason, I have a feeling that you could get a pair of eagle eyes headlights,

some replacement OE style headlights for probably no more than $300 to $400 for that brand new set.

Now, if we're talking OEM, most Honda people not buying OEM headlights.

It's not really a thing.

I was going to make that caveat.

He's right if he's talking OEM, which he probably is.

OEM probably.

In which case, yeah, I'll grant you that sheep.

I'm talking like depot, depot, you know, kind of level.

Depot, eagle eyes, things like that.

I found a great pair of depot tail lights for my flex.

They were in that cool black color that you can't get anywhere else.

And people are charging like thousands for those tail lights.

If you get the factory spec ones, I have the depot ones on there.

Same exact quality.

Like it's virtually indistinguishable.

So how do we know that it's not depot?

It might be depot.

It's a DEPL.

I just called depot depot interchangeably.

I just know the way that you say certain things.

Like when you say roof, you say roof.

Right?

It's a roof.

Yeah.

And what does a dog do?

It ruffs.

It ruffs or whoops?

It whoops.

It's rough, buddy.

Moving on.

Next question here.

I don't build a fence out of wood.

Yeah.

Okay.

Moving along.

We've got...

Oh, man.

Oh, that's still sheep there.

We go on to page two, where we will find Levi has also pointed out.

He just filled a 15-yard dumpster.

Decluttered the house.

15-yard dumpster.

That is no small feat.

So there's nothing that Levi and me don't like more than a little bit of dumping, right?

Going down to the old Boise dump.

I think it's an off-roading event is what it is.

Classic dump run.

I have yet to actually take the Raptor up there for that trail.

Okay.

But when I do, I think it's going to be a ton of fun.

All right.

Well, yeah, you should off-road it a little bit, because that's what it's made for.

It hasn't left the asphalt more than about five seconds in its life.

I went to a dirt parking lot the other day, and I got out of there quick, because, yeah,

it is definitely picking up too many rocks.

All right, all right.

Moving along, we've got Ronnie God saying, if one will be replacing headlights, get OEM.

The aftermarkets are nowhere near the same quality.

Ron, you are 100% correct.

You are really.

You are correct.

And it really depends on the vehicle, right?

So for a lot of my little cheapo project cars that I would own and stuff, I would have

to think long and hard about, do I get aftermarkets that look the part, but they cheap out in

certain fasteners, stuff like that?

That happens.

But it really comes down to the look, and in terms of protection, you can make them stronger

than they are if you clear code over them or stuff like that, add an extra layer of protection,

whatever you want to do.

But if you get OEMs, I'm usually looking on the use market for a good quality set of

used OEMs that are just like me a little dirty.

They're not beat up.

They're not cracked, but just a little like, you know, oh, that can be cleaned up.

That makes sense.

Because frankly, new OEM prices are insane.

Battery died.

There's only one battery, so we're going to charge it for a little bit.

Okay.

We're going to jump into some wheels.

Wait, since the battery died, he means the polisher.

He doesn't mean the car.

All right.

So moving along here, we've got David Voice.

My 2005 Acura RL headlights had the same issue, cracking inside the headlights.

I treated it with McKee's headlight restoration product along with 2000 grit sanding.

Nice.

Probably made it look a lot better.

Yeah.

And the cracking on the inside, I mean, once that starts to happen, short of like putting

your headlight into an oven and separating the lens from the back, you're not going

to be doing much with that.

I know some people, I spent a lot of time in forums when I was, you know, in high school

and college, like looking, how do I modify my headlights?

Ooh, exciting.

You know, when angel eyes on BMWs for the hot thing and stuff like that.

But anyway, a lot of people throwing their headlights in ovens.

Feel free to look it up.

Um, next up, we've got Kali Carlos saying it's been a while.

We've been swamped.

What's up, fellas?

And good job, Carson.

Kali, welcome.

Thank you.

Welcome to the party.

Love for Carson.

Then we got love for Gabe here for none other than Joey Balinsky.

What's he saying, Anthony?

Uh, Joe Balinsky says, hello, friends.

I want to apologize for being so spicy last week.

I just couldn't stand for the Gabe slander any longer.

Oh, I didn't even notice, Joey, to be honest.

There was Gabe slander?

What?

Yeah.

I don't remember that.

I don't recall that.

My goodness.

Um, then I've got Dan, the man saying, wait, y'all are doing a swimsuit contest during

tears now?

We are not.

At least nothing in an official capacity.

If you want to do that on your own time, be my guest.

For enough money, Dan.

Wow.

I'm just looking at that tire right now.

That is.

No, that's chocolate.

That's chocolate thunder.

I saw that color and I was about to go, holy smokes.

That's the thunder from down under.

All right.

Little car candy love on that guy.

Chocolate thunder diluted four to one per Sydney's recommendation.

So she recommended I dilute it four to one.

It looks chocolatey for sure.

It definitely does.

Foamy frothy.

Like a nice latte.

Dimo says we can sell a lot of calendars, Anthony.

I also agree, especially if they're digital.

All proceeds will go to Dane and mine, our own kind of individual hobby fund.

Dane has been investing into premium dog collars lately over the last few months.

But maybe there will be like a shortage coming up.

I don't know.

Just trying to get ahead of the curve.

And we'll be putting that money towards more RC cars.

Yes.

Because RC cars are a lot less expensive than real ones.

Yes.

Moving on.

Boss window tint says, will you guys be stalking PNAS intervention and the new agent orange

buff and shine pad soon?

I think yes and yes at some point.

All right.

Then I got through.

So I believe yes in the near future for sure.

Okay.

David Boyce says the calendar issue will be awesome.

This is actually happening.

Oh, no.

Can't wait to see the phone.

Back here.

No, no, no, no.

We don't need that.

No.

Let's go, Danimal.

Oh my gosh.

David Boyce put that genie back in the bottle.

Don't you put that evil on me, Ricky Bobby.

Jay Hall catching it on delay.

Can you describe the products that can dress plastic car mats after cleaning without slippery

products?

So he's basically saying, clean the mats, but don't make them slippery death traps.

Coach Kemi Goof.

It does.

It works great.

G-U-F.

It's a big seller from Coach Kemi.

It is essentially a match interior dressing that you can use on floor mats and it just

works awesome, especially on weather techs.

What's that?

I call it Goof.

Gummy fix?

Because you're talking about a German company.

And in Germany, there's that very famous, basically place that modifies Porsche straight

from the factory.

So they actually have a, well, they have their own manufacturing license.

Roof.

R-U-F.

How's it spelled?

R-U-F.

And how would you say that if you didn't pronounce it roof?

I'd call it roof.

It would be called rough.

No, that's two Fs, buddy.

Oh, right.

Levi says he would buy the calendar.

Thank you, Levi, for your support.

So at this point, I think we have about 10 people buying the schnitzel garden calendar

featuring Dane and I in Leader Hosen.

I am conflicted.

But Dane, answer me this question.

Yeah.

Do you own a pair of premium Leader Hosen?

Unfortunately, I do.

But I will tell you, after having gone to the Real Oktoberfest, the prices people will

pay for some of these Leader Hosen are insane.

It's a store I was at.

So yeah, it's a premium experience.

My Leader Hosen were like reasonable person kind of pricing.

Like we're still in the low three-figure kind of thing.

But I saw ones that went into the four figures.

Yes.

Thousands of dollars for Leader Hosen.

It blew my mind.

It's a lifetime commitment to the Hosen.

Like if you want to have the Leader Hosen that are literally going to fall apart like tissue paper,

you go sub $100 and you'll get a pair that's like kind of whatever.

It's real, real iffy.

I want that leather so thick that it's still new.

Mine were in the, you can trust it.

It's like Fred Meyer level quality.

Yeah.

I get what you're saying.

Yeah.

But it's not like that next.

It's not Patagonia, okay?

Yeah.

It's not a cocktail essentially.

It's not even, yeah.

I want it thick enough to where if I get hungry during the Oktoberfest,

I can just grab the strap and start chewing on it and still get.

It's straight up leather.

You're like, it's basically jerky.

Just really, really fancy jerky.

I still want to get remnants of some beef.

Yes.

Oh my God.

Agreed.

Somebody get the dogs to stop licking it.

Yeah.

Don't take me to the barking purr am I right?

Keep this man away.

Okay.

Michael 2000 live says, what's up?

He's not allowed within 100 feet of a pet store.

What's the polisher being used on the headlights?

We did address that.

Yes.

Then we've got Alpha Tango.

Oh man.

Go home, Anthony.

I'm not sure there's enough O and R in the warehouse to clean up that kind of accident.

Yeah.

Oh, I know.

I know.

I agree with you.

I think here in the next 13 minutes, I'm going to be parting ways and then Lucas will be coming in.

It's just funny because I feel like energetic.

I feel fun.

I feel like normal.

But there's this wrenching feeling that's just happening.

It's like shedding.

Yeah.

And I believe we already answered this one, Beermetic.

Correct.

We did.

Yes, we did.

About water spots on this Tesla Model Y trim.

We've got Christian GTCS saying, why can't I buy the ultra wheel and body brush on your website?

Been wanting that so bad.

It's thinner to get to the hard to reach spots.

That was Anthony's particular special creations.

I think we might be out.

Are we out?

Like for good, for good, or are we getting a restock?

I believe that we are out as it currently sits right now.

To my knowledge, we are currently out of them unless something changes here soon.

What would happen with that brush just due to popular requests?

So if that brush were to return back in stock here at TRC, there would be a restructure to the bristles.

So the brush itself is awesome.

The ergonomics, the handle, the thinness, all that is amazing.

It's one of my favorite brushes.

What it was is I created the safest brush.

I created the softest brush.

I went through 40 different bristle iterations.

We went through every single process of flag tipping to finally eventually come down to this one process that made the most sense.

Because I had been testing that brush on essentially black gloss paint, soft gloss black paint, Icona paint for like it was months.

And I went back and forth with ONR soap and all this to find what doesn't scratch.

So in terms of making like a true paint safe brush for wheels, especially gloss black wheels,

I wanted it to be able to be used in a jam, literally, on your door jams or other things like that.

So it took a while for me to eventually get to that point.

But once we did, we found that the bristles again now being so soft that after usage, especially rough usage on grills,

that what would happen is fraying of the bristles could happen and it could cause like, you know, it could cause them to kind of look wonky.

It was a learning lesson. Design wise, I still love it.

Bristle wise, it would need to be changed to a stiffer bristle.

Unfortunately, you would lose a little bit of its kind of, you know, safety level.

I mean, not much, but a little bit. And we would revisit that down the road.

So it really just depends. If you guys want to see it, please let us know.

Reach out to customer service. You can request it.

What I need is I need a good enough case to be able to go back to the, you know, I need to feel motivated to want to redo those bristles if customer requests are there.

Okay.

If that makes sense.

That makes sense.

We have Jimbo Slice.

Can you recommend a panel prep for glass and plastics?

I'm looking for something safe for plastic trim before restoring with something like armor detail supply trim plus.

So you can actually just use the armor prep products.

Yeah, they're prep spray. We've been using a trim nonstop and we've never had any ill effects of it.

So I'd recommend it.

Yeah, he's going to use it today.

I mean, like it's, their prep, their prep stuff is really good.

You know, it's, it's aggressive, but not overly aggressive.

It would be different, you know, if it was something like panel white from GTecnic, which we know is just kind of a beast.

But I mean, the armor detail supply stuff is pretty decent, safe.

Next beyond that would be just your, you know, IPA, diluted IPA.

All right.

I see we've got a number of people watching here.

I haven't said this in a while, but you guys slam that like button.

If you're watching right now and you like what you see, help us out.

Hit that like.

All right. Moving along.

I've got Jason M5 636 saying, Anthony, my Rupa's yellow pads aren't so yellow.

Used a few times and always washed.

How do you know when to replace pads?

Assuming they're not damaged and always cleaned, they should be used, should be okay for how many uses.

Hmm.

Okay.

So pads have a very long shelf life if, you know, maintained and cleaned and stored properly.

So foam will degrade with time.

You know, there's no denying that heat can degrade foam.

Shoot, just literally just stagnant air.

I mean, you can degrade foam over time.

If foam can just age.

Um, what I would say is I wouldn't be, I would be less worried about the color of the pad because, I mean, as any, any detailer knows, I mean, your pads will change colors, you know, 50 times in their lifespan.

They can go from, you know, having color pulled from, you know, single stage, it can have trim dirt pulled from dirty trim.

It can have a glass particulate dirt pulled from, I mean, you can, everything can be pulled onto a pad.

So color doesn't really matter.

If they're looking dingy, I wouldn't be afraid of that.

It doesn't necessarily mean that they're not clean or that they need to be replaced.

What I would do is clean them to the best of my abilities.

I would obviously brush them, spin them, pad, washer them, throw them in a, throw them in a washing machine with some warm water, a little bit of rags, trishes.

If I'm doing all of that to make sure those pads and ensuring they're clean, I'm doing as much as I can do.

Once your pads start to have delamination issues where your backing, your actual Velcro backing starts delaminating from the foam itself, that would be a replacement issue.

If your pad has chunks missing out of it, that's a replacement issue.

If you find that it's off balance, right?

Let's just say you get a pad and even though it looks good and you throw it on the machine, you just cannot get this thing no matter how many different uses to just balance itself well.

And you find that it's kind of skipping and jumping.

That would be a replacement issue.

Those types of things are what I'm doing.

Other than that though, I'm keeping pads until they're pretty much disintegrating because I can find a thing to use them on, right?

It's just like a towel, right?

I can find how to send them off to, you know, the trash can one last time.

And I try to do that with as many pads as I can.

Anything else to you again, we'll just get thrown away.

So, yeah, that's it.

As far as how many uses, it's really how many heat cycles they go through.

It's, you know, how are they holding up?

How are they looking, feeling, and how are they still performing if they're causing damage?

And obviously they're done.

But, you know, one fun fact is that when you take a look back into the old school body shop days and, you know, I remember my first time, I was what, I was 17.

I was getting my roof repainted on my Honda Civic.

I was 17 or 18.

I got my roof repainted.

Oh, that's an early time you get a car repainted like that.

And I was so excited.

I saved up, you know, I saved up money because my roof was like starting to deteriorate.

And I was like, I hated looking at that.

Did you go through like a shop or a guy or what did you do?

Yeah, it was a guy.

I saw on Craigslist, you know.

I had paint cars.

Man, those were the days, right?

Sweet man, where you paint cars at?

I'm over half a chinden over here.

You know, I'm kind of across the street from Hubcap Annie's and I go, ah, sweet, right?

I'll be down there.

And I take my car there and it was a body shop and this guy, you know, sees the car.

All right, cool.

You know, I got you, you know, and he takes the car and then when I went to go pick it

up, the paint's brand new.

It's fresh, right?

Like, he's like, Hey, I just need to just cut this.

I just need to cut and buff it really quick.

You want to hang out here and watch, right?

Yeah.

I'll hang out and watch.

It's fun.

That's sweet.

Pulls out a, I can't remember if it was a Makita or a DeWalt or something and pulls it out.

And I see him pick up the machine with the wool pad off of the ground.

Oh, like the pad was actually on the ground, right?

That's just extra grit, man.

Yeah.

So he picks it up, right?

And he does a quick little sanding session by hand, knock down some high spots, picks

up that machine.

I go, Oh no.

Is that okay to be on the ground like that?

Oh yeah.

No.

He's just so dense.

I wouldn't ever worry about that, right?

And dude, he throws on some M105 and just, I think it's M105 or 3M or something like

that.

And he starts ripping and tearing, right?

Yep.

Maybe it was like blue coral.

I don't know.

One of the brands.

And he starts just going for it, right?

Funny enough, right?

That pad was so used.

It looked like it was absolutely, it looked like a mop, like a dirty mop.

It was on the ground in the driest, grittiest stage.

The second he started off, it flung off so much dust.

Oh no.

I was covered in it, right?

I look like I just left Scarface's mansion.

I was like, Oh my God, this is crazy, right?

Great visuals.

So I'm like, this is nuts.

And I'm like, the car is going to be jacked up, right?

He just showed me perfect paint and he sanded it and now it's going to be screwed.

And I looked at it and I go, Whoa.

Whoa.

That looks pretty good.

Now this was before I knew exactly what micromarring was and all of that.

But I mean, I'm not going to lie, man.

That car looked pretty dang good on the roof.

And so even with the nastiest, dirtiest falling apart pad, can it still probably clean up

a car and polish it?

Yes.

Will it be the best finish?

Probably not.

So that was a very long-winded story about how that works.

Will it satisfy a detailer?

Maybe, maybe not.

Will it satisfy a customer?

Yeah.

Probably.

Yep.

All right.

Next up, I've got Christian GTCS saying, any updates on Koshimi?

Koshimi S003 being battle tested by P&S version.

Hmm.

Some kind of head-to-head between products like Defender or something.

Yeah, TBD, man.

TBD.

Okay.

Then I've got Justin Anthony.

Sorry to hear you're not feeling well.

I am, however, not sad to see Lucas on the show.

Will we still have you, or will he still have any favorite products to start the year?

Maybe one in each category.

He might.

And then he wants to follow up.

They don't necessarily need to be new or TRC sold products.

So he just wants to know, like, you know, stuff you're excited for.

Yep.

Next up.

Okay.

Then we've got David Cervantes here saying, what's up, guys?

Long time no see.

Happy to see you, buddy.

What's going on?

Yeah, great to see you here.

Thank you for joining us, even though we're in the tail end of the first half of the show.

There's still more show to go.

Absolutely.

When should we use multi-star in and when shouldn't we?

Can you give us a rundown in general?

So multi-star, I mean, exterior cleaning, you know, heavy duty exterior cleaning.

So I think it is going to technically be probably more potent than green star in general.

I think that multi-star in general is a very versatile APC that if I had to pick an area

for it, I would probably stick with undercarriages, wheel wells, barrels that are nasty, engine

bays that are just horrible, things like that.

It just, maybe even not even engine bays because it takes a while for that to rinse, right?

It's a pretty concentrated product.

And so when you start rinsing it, it's going to resuds for quite some time.

So I would use it on an area that I wouldn't be concerned about like any type of resudzing

effect or anything like that.

But it does do a good job of melting away a lot of the grime.

So if you have green star, is there a reason to switch?

Maybe, maybe not.

But multi-star in certain situations on tires and wheels, I mean, it's pretty freaking potent stuff.

So I just pick and choose what you really need, what you're looking for.

If this is just on your own car, you probably don't need multi-star.

That's a good question, Devin.

Thanks.

Then we've got angry monkey detailing saying, hi, do you have any recommendations on the

best insulated waterproof gloves for winter rinseless washes?

I work in my driveway or mobile.

I have Milwaukee's and they get wet after some time.

What do you think?

Oh man.

So there's a few different options out there that work well.

Unfortunately, they're all not the most comfortable and they're all like your dexterity just sucks.

And I mean, it's not fun.

What a lot of people will do is they'll, you know, they'll double glove or they will,

you know, college trick.

And then you could also take just a normal glove and then, you know, a thinner warm glove

and then you could put essentially a nitrile glove over the top, right?

Oh, that's a good idea.

I'm starting to get that in the air.

Carson, what are you spraying over there?

Nothing.

He's rinsing off some stuff on the wheels and tires.

What is it?

I'm bringing it in.

Well, 10 to 1 diluted wheel acid.

It's a 10 to 1.

Turn on the fan, please.

It's 10 to 1.

As we all joke and die.

So anyways, that is going to wrap it up for today.

I'm just kidding.

No, don't say that.

They're going to go away.

If we make it out alive of here.

So with that said, it's going to wrap it up for the first half.

I will be swapping places with Lucas, but don't go anywhere.

We're going to have a few messages from our friends here in the industry.

And yeah, I will see, I won't see you guys next week,

but I will see you here in a couple of weeks,

unless you're going to MT and then I'll see you then.

So, Dane, we'll see you in a few minutes.

All right, gotcha.

We're switching it up today.

Anyway, I'm your host, Dane Hennan.

And to my left, Anthony Fisher.

Sorry guys, I was feeling a little bit under the weather.

Had to go to the bathroom during the break,

but now I'm feeling better.

I'm feeling lighter.

I'm feeling younger.

I'm ready to roll, Dane.

You lost a few years there, buddy.

Just a couple.

Yeah, okay.

Well, your hair, it looks different.

Did you like that?

Did your mom cut your hair today?

All right, guys, I got a secret to tell.

What was it?

I'm not Anthony Fisher.

Oh, okay.

Wow.

I'm Lucas from Customer Service here at the RAG company.

Yes.

Coming to join in for the second half of Q&A Thursday.

Okay, good save.

Good save.

All right, we're back.

We're doing this thing.

We got comments.

Carson's over there detailing the corner.

Before we get to the comments, I do want to shout out Carson,

who's doing all the work today, who's doing a great job.

And you may be wondering, hey, this car,

it's got all kinds of little focused detail,

but it hasn't been washed yet today.

That's going to happen during the second half here.

Carson wants to focus on these little areas

and get them taken care of before doing the big, broad wash.

Absolutely.

We'll get to that point.

I understand your logic.

I can give you an update, too.

Yeah, so what's going on over there?

Yeah, to give you an update, we were working on the headlights.

Battery died, so we're letting that charge a little bit,

finishing up the wheels and tires now.

Using car candy's chocolate thunder,

diluted four to one and a little bit of optimum power clean

for the wheel wells.

And so we're using that, finished that up on the driver's side.

So looking good there.

In full transparency, I did use just a little bit,

like the smallest amount of wheel acid diluted 10 to one

to get in the corners that are like super, super stained.

Sure, yeah.

And that's on anything.

Like I can take my favorite wheel and tire cleaner,

armor detail supply.

Yeah.

And that won't take it off.

So it's no fault to chocolate thunder.

I'm very impressed with it, even diluted four to one.

But yeah, it's performing great.

And so still trucking through.

All right, dude.

Well, thank you very much.

And we'll check back in with you in a little bit

once you move on to some other parts.

All right, Lucas, you and I, we got this thing.

I think we do.

Let's get the comments back.

Questions next up.

I have Christian GTCS.

What's he saying, Lucas?

Have there been any new and improved glass coatings you guys

prefer, regardless if you sell them or not?

Easy ease of application is important,

but trying to find durability too.

Well, I don't have anything that we don't carry for you.

And I may be biased, but my go to for my personal vehicles

as well as customer vehicles is armored detail,

supplies, glass coating.

So super easy to use, super easy to work with.

I'm going on.

Actually, I did get my windshield replaced,

but right before I got it replaced,

I was going on almost a year and it was literally performing

like day one.

Well, and of all the different kinds of coatings out there,

people get hung up a lot of times on like paint coatings

and stuff.

Right.

But for me, when I noticed like the discourse online,

people seem to have a really hard time when it comes

to glass coatings because it's just the kind of surface.

It's a different substrate.

It's not like a painted metal or clear coat.

It's not like plastics.

It's glass.

It's just different.

So there's just like a different feeling of friction

on the surface, a different kind of way of bonding to that

that doesn't necessarily mean a coating.

Just because you can coat paint doesn't mean that same coating

is going to work awesome on glass.

Right.

And that's something that I have to talk to customers about

sometimes because it's like, is it just a marketing thing?

Are they just trying to sell more stuff?

It's like, no, each one is formulated.

If you have a wheel coating, a glass coating, a paint coating,

they're formulated for those specific surfaces.

Could you use a paint coating on the glass and the rims?

Sure, absolutely.

Like in the early days of coatings, it was kind of like,

you can do everything with that.

And it's like, OK, maybe with like a sealant,

you can also do that kind of thing where

because of the chemical nature of the product,

it'll play nice with those surfaces.

But if you're looking for like a true coating

and you've got to deal with the weather,

you've got to deal with windshield wipers moving on it

and you don't want that chatter,

you've got to deal with all this other stuff.

It's going to get chewed up.

It's always going to get chewed up.

So finding a really good, durable glass coating

is extremely challenging, not only for consumers,

but for the people who actually make this stuff.

Yeah, that too.

So I'm just kind of shouting out the companies

that dare to offer one because it is challenging.

It's difficult.

But apart from that, I was just thinking,

as far as this card goes,

I do think the glass is going to want a little attention.

I did hear from the owner, actually,

that Carson has carte blanche to wipe out these stickers

on the back of the car.

You can take the stickers off of it,

including the dealer tags, like all that stuff.

So he just says, feel free to clean slate it.

You don't mind.

I like that.

So we'll try it and I'll do it.

If we have to do it off camera, it's fine.

It's just a time constraint.

I understand.

Carson's got an order in the process

and I really appreciate that he's taking his time

and doing this right.

Look at this guy.

He's getting after it over there.

Yeah, dude. Absolutely.

With that Ultra H2O gun, too.

We love Carson.

That looks good.

All right.

What can I say?

So next up, I've got Terry O'Connell.

Hey, guys.

OptiCote has a liquid PPF product that's OptiShield

with a potential application upcoming.

What's your opinion of this type of product

and any chance of TRC carrying it in the future?

What say you, Lucas?

Yeah, I honestly don't know really anything about it.

I've done this for the first time a few days ago.

Yeah, recently.

I've known about it for a little while, but...

Yeah.

Honestly, I just haven't done the research on it.

I mean, I like the idea.

Again, I've done zero research.

I don't know how it's applied, how it works,

the science behind it.

I honestly don't really have any thoughts for you, unfortunately.

Well, when it comes to those kinds of products,

I would never say never as far as us carrying a product like that.

However, I do know when it comes to certain things like PPFs

or coatings, we do have to take into consideration like,

okay, is this going to be something that has like...

I mean, realistically, you want a product to be good.

And since I don't have experience with this,

I can't say whether or not it is,

other than I trust Optimum to actually make a good product.

Yeah.

They're going to know what they're doing when they produce it.

Dr. G doesn't mess around.

But when it comes to these products,

it's like, okay, what's the return rate going to be?

What are people feeling when they put on the product

if they do it wrong?

How confusing will it be for someone to apply?

Some people are just more adept at this kind of thing than others.

So there's a skill issue, I would say, attached to it.

And it's no mark on anybody who does this stuff

and goes, hey, why are you calling me out like that?

But I've just seen it.

And you work in customer service.

You've seen what happens when somebody does an install

and they didn't quite follow the instructions

or they didn't do their prep right.

Didn't do the prep right.

And then they're maybe not quite so happy with the finished result.

And then they come talking to you and you handle it in a respectful way.

But at the same time, it's like, okay,

well, let's figure this out together.

Give me the steps.

Yeah, you got to help me help you a little bit.

So, I mean, on that front,

what would you probably expect to see for a product like that?

I mean, kind of like you said earlier,

if it's Optimum that made it,

I mean, I completely trust in Dr. G and, you know,

the madness behind him and whatnot.

So I would say if he's confident in releasing it,

I would say it's probably going to be a great product.

Again, I just unfortunately don't know much about it,

but I'll probably end up testing it eventually.

Yeah.

So basically the answer is right now the two of us,

I would say Anthony of all of us,

probably knows the most because he does talk to Dr. G pretty regularly.

I apologize.

We don't have him here.

He just wasn't feeling super well.

Sorry about that, guys.

You got me instead.

We will tackle that again.

If you ask that a few weeks from now when Anthony's back in here,

we'll readdress it and see what we can do for you, Terry.

Okay.

All right.

Next up, I've got GT details.

I got the rubber feet for the AR635 from OG and they help.

Okay.

So we were talking about like vibration on,

well, and there was no vibration issue that anybody was talking about.

I just said, when you have a shelf matted unit,

do you guys like putting, you know, little pucks or something underneath

the feet of a, you know, your pressure washer,

or do you just let it sit there and raw dog the shelf?

I'd say that probably reduced.

I could imagine that reduces sound and vibration a little bit.

So it's not just bouncing straight off metal.

Yeah.

Makes sense to me.

Eventually, you know, if it sits there and it vibrates,

it is going to like walk or try to move a little bit

unless it's held in place by something either some kind of fastener on the wall

that like kind of holds it in place or a strap or something like that.

Or something to just give it some more stability.

Otherwise those vibrations, it is even on a like stainless steel surface.

It's going to create kind of funny little patterns where it was in the metal.

Just like, like how ours was for a year.

Yeah.

Literally just like a sad way around.

All right.

Next up, I've got Care Bear Killer.

Oh my God.

What a name.

Am I crazy for liking O&R yellow as a quick detailer and interior cleaner over regular O&R?

No.

I don't think that's too crazy.

I think that you liked that the yellow O&R offers you a chance to provide protection

when you're using it that way.

I mean, for those who don't know, the yellow O&R comes from the OptiCote Maintenance Line,

which is different than your traditional standard O&R.

The OptiCote Maintenance Line is designed with coated vehicles in mind.

So the formulations are slightly different.

They're made with that, you know, intent.

Yeah.

So people might be, oh, it's like the same product.

Why did they just re-bottle it?

It's like, it's actually completely different formula.

The ones that you get in the regular optimum polymer technologies line are designed for any and all vehicles.

The OptiCote lines are optimized specifically for coated vehicles.

But because of the nature of the way they're made, they will still work on other vehicles,

certainly even if they're not coated.

It's just, it's going to work better if it's coated.

So if you're working on interiors, you know, stuff like that.

In most cases, you're not dealing with coatings on interior surfaces.

So I just think in this case, it's just a little bit of protection.

It's not the end of the world.

It's like an interior quick detailer.

You like the finish?

That's cool.

And I don't often hear people using O&R yellow that way.

So it's pretty cool, actually.

Good to see some love.

I appreciate it.

So yeah, thanks for thinking outside the box there.

All right, Devin, for a full paint correction on soft paint, can I do fine cut and then lack polish ground?

Would I need to still use micro cut to get a perfect finish or just those two instead of H9 and M3?

No, let's say fine cut and finishing up the polish ground should be just fine.

So especially soft paint, so fine cut, you're not going to be doing anything too crazy.

We're going to be, you know, marring up the surface and whatnot, leaving any sort of trails

or like cloudiness behind.

And then the lack polish ground is basically just like lotion for the paint.

So you're not going to have to worry about marring it with that.

And then it's going to shine it up pretty good.

I think you'd be perfect with that combination.

Call Devin.

All right.

Then sheep start hitting me with the OU sweet summer child.

Oh, Dane, that's for halogen unit with no bulbs.

LED units are thousands.

I don't doubt.

I know that newer headlights say like 2014, 2015 and up most cars.

They're going to have a pretty complex headlights and pretty because they're all trying to compete

with each other with their daytime running lights, DRLs, like different LED funky designs,

projector this swivel that like active LED.

Like there's all kinds of things that these manufacturers are doing that make their headlights

very complex, especially in EVs and stuff.

And that's cool.

But when it comes time, you get an offender bender.

Suddenly that cheap headlight is no longer cheap.

Not cheap at all.

So when you said that 800 to a thousand was for the going rate for these headlights,

I had a hard time believing you because this is like a 2008 or nine Honda CRV.

That's actually $800 to replace those headlights.

Well, that's what he's saying.

And I was kind of disputing going maybe like five, six hundred I could see.

Maybe.

But like Anthony was like, oh, you can get a cheap one for 200.

Now I'm not saying get the cheap like knockoff ones or whatever.

You're saying like nice.

Those ugly aftermarket ones.

Yeah.

But like an OEM one, I could see the MSRP on those being pretty high like 800.

I could see that.

But I think for like an acceptable replacement that you really wouldn't know if nobody told

you, I think like a depot brand or something like that kind of, you know, three quarters,

you know, price kind of one, that would do the trick and it wouldn't functionally be

any different.

No.

So I don't know.

I kind of debate that.

But then again, I haven't looked at used prices.

So if somebody pulls up rock auto dot com, right?

Right.

That's not paid advertisement.

I think it's just where I go to get like my parts for the flags and stuff like that two

weeks ago.

For the speed.

I just like using them.

It's simple and they have like most things.

I still shop around, look at other places, but rock auto.

I'm curious what prices like a 2008 or 2009 Honda CRV, not an EX.

This is like a lower trim model, but like, you know, like an LX or something.

I'm sure you can find a budget friendly solution.

Just find out and see.

I'm curious.

All right.

Next up, David Boyce, Johnny Carson Black can use the wheel and body brush on the car

while you scrub.

I swear.

David Boyce was always trying to get him to wash a car with a brush.

Every dang time.

Okay.

Moving along here.

David Cervantes.

A lot of the aftermarket headlamps we use at the shop have a horrible beam pattern compared

to factory.

Now that I do believe we even had a couple that the adjustment system didn't work at

all.

Now see that right there, the adjustment system.

When you're talking about, you know, headlights that actually have like leveling and all that

kind of stuff, that's in the more modern systems or in luxury cars, cars, you know, like cars

from the nineties in the luxury segment did have like, you know, xenons and adjustable,

you know, leveling and stuff like that too.

But here I'm just looking at like these, these fairly standard halogen housings on a Honda

from the mid late 2000s.

I'm just, it's, I'm having a hard time believing a thousand bucks.

OEM though, I get it.

Like they put a crazy price tag on those.

Sure.

I guess if they're like not making them anymore, like introduction and whatnot.

And I'm sure shops, you know, when, when like somebody gets an offender bender and they

send it to insurance, I'm sure insurance is like, oh yeah, that's real expensive.

And they're like, that's way too expensive.

And people, the shops are like, no, no, no, it's this price and you end up with a whole

frustration of that.

Going back to that argument, like I see where she starts coming.

Yeah.

Oh, he killed the towel.

That's okay.

I see where she starts coming from, but like I've done this before where if you want to

stick with the same OEM headlight, go to the junkyard.

If the car, that's usually my solution.

Yeah.

If the car is in the junkyard, go see if you can find a pair that is in better condition

or can be saved.

That's in the junkyard.

And if that doesn't work, then put the hours in, but it, you got to think of it from a

customer's point of view, especially one that doesn't want to spend a ton of money,

where they just see it as dollar figures.

They don't necessarily care necessarily, you know, necessarily about if it's OEM or

not.

They just want it to point light and they can see.

Usually my move in those situations is junkyard.

If it's a common enough car or since I tended to pick weirder, less common cars, I'd look

on eBay and see what was there.

Yeah.

Unlike a like new used, you know, headlight.

It's a quick Google search.

If they're like three or 400 bucks, cool.

If they're not, then move on.

Hey, it's going to be 400 bucks for me to do your headlights.

I got to spend four or five hours on it.

Cool.

Yeah.

That's it.

That's all I'm saying.

Okay.

Then I've got BTWs574.

Are you going to be stocking the Agent Orange Pads by Buffinshine?

I'd assume so.

I believe so.

I'd imagine we will.

Yeah.

I don't have an ETA for you guys, unfortunately, but send me an email.

I could probably try to get that to you.

Yeah.

You can find out the info, but I'm fairly certain that will be happening.

Oh, yeah.

Well, it's definitely in the pipeline because Nick actually says.

Someone just chimed in my ear.

He has some media for it coming.

Keep an eye on the new product page.

EricDIY for a DIYer.

Hey, it's in your name.

What micro-polishers would you recommend?

Wondering if the pricier models are worth the extra money?

Well, let's see.

So micro as in like one inch polisher, I'm assuming?

Micro.

Oh, oh.

What mic?

Okay.

So yeah, he's talking probably the one inch guys because I don't think the three inch

guys are a little different story.

They're kind of like the mid tier.

So I'm going to be honest with you, Eric.

I've only used a nano polisher, maybe a total of like five times my life.

I don't even own one of my personal garage.

Like a mini hybrid type thing.

But that new Rupes nano polisher is pretty freaking legit.

Yeah.

I mean, that's what I would probably go with personally.

But I do think outside of the micro area, when you start looking at like the three inch,

so you're not going up to like the full like 15 millimeter throw or 21 millimeter throw

machines, but if you're looking like those three inch guys, pads and stuff, that's going

to be the sweet spot for a polisher that could do a ton.

Like, and you can swap, you know, backing for smaller backing if you want.

I understand certainly the machines, the one inch machines, the housing, the bodies are

a lot smaller.

Yeah.

To get into tight spaces.

We'll be easier to get into some areas.

But I honestly, the number of times I've seen people who bought those who ended up not using

them nearly as much as they thought they would, they just ended up using their three inch

for a lot of things they thought they would use their one inch for.

Yeah.

It becomes one of those things where if you work in a shop, maybe it's good tool to have

is like, oh, this specific customer needs a specialty stuff.

Yeah.

But like as an individual, unless you know you have a vehicle where it's going to happen

and you're going to do that, it really just doesn't, it doesn't seem like a need to have

more of a want to have.

Yeah.

More of a, I mean, again, depending on the situation, especially if you do it in your

car, think about how often once you've polished your car, you don't do it again for a while.

Yeah.

If I am, I'm probably not going to use a one inch polisher on this tiny little spot.

Realistically, it's, it's a while before you do it again.

And a one inch polisher, even on that headlight, that would be kind of annoying.

Yeah.

It'll take like 15 minutes.

Three inch, you can see it in three inches doing a much better job.

Three inches ideal for that situation right there.

For sure.

Anyway, anything else to say on that?

Nah, Rupes new micro polisher goes pretty hard.

Take a gander.

There you go.

All right.

Then I got cheap star.

Yeah.

You have to go with the bigger brands to get anything decent.

They're not far off OEM pricing.

Now you're right about that when he's talking about the, the headlight housing again.

So you're right about that.

The best of the aftermarket ones that aren't OEM do tend to be pretty close to OEM pricing,

but you can usually save one to 200 bucks in my experience.

All right.

Appearance 91.

Now granted, I'm saying all this, but if I was like in a collector type mood, if I

was buying cars where it was like low mile pristine example and it just had some like

wonky headlights or something, I would buy the OEM ones.

I mean, you have to do that.

If I'm concerned about resale value on that level, I would buy the OEM ones.

But knowing like the cars that I buy, I like to buy cars that are drivers that are usually

like a little more used.

Even if they look nice, they tend to have more miles on them.

My Miata is a rare exception.

Yeah.

That's super low miles.

Well, I think if you go to resell your cars too, if you did do some like tasteful aftermarket

cosmetic stuff, I think the buyer would appreciate that.

You know what I mean?

I don't think they'd be necessarily care too much about, it has to be OEM, fully stock

kind of thing.

Okay.

All right.

And then I've got David Cervantes here saying, is TRC carrying car candy now or in the future?

I'm way out of the loop.

We are the distributors of car candy on Amazon.

That is why that's here.

Yes.

Because we did use some chocolate thunder on those wheels and tires earlier.

So you may have seen that if you're watching a little earlier in the show.

Hanzo.

Good to see Hanzo here.

Is it possible to restore headlights by hand only?

No power tools.

Is it possible?

Yes.

Would you like to do it?

No.

Probably not.

Yeah.

That's a fair assessment, I think.

Carson, that's your arm day, brother.

Carson's shaking his head.

He's like, yeah.

Don't ever.

But you could.

Yeah.

But the question is could versus should.

Yeah.

Anything is possible.

Over there, this area is protruded out a little bit, so I had to restore it by hand.

If these headlights are really, really bad, I would probably use a little bit of 400 grit

in here or certain spots.

I would only use that by hand.

Or 400, 600 grit, something around there.

I would never put that on a machine.

But I've wet sanded headlights plenty of times just by hand and stuff, and that gets you to

a point, but then it makes way more sense to just polish them after.

Yeah.

If you've never polished headlights, start out by wet sanding them.

It sucks.

Yeah.

But do that, because then you can kind of feel it out.

I wouldn't start out on a machine.

No, no, no.

It's good to get used to that wet sanding with your hand first.

Yeah.

But when it comes to the polishing and the fine stuff, yeah.

Don't lose an arm trying to do that.

I swear, somebody's just going to hate themselves after that.

All right.

So hopefully that answers your question, Hanzo.

We've got a question about P&S reflect gallons.

Lucas, do you know, are we going to be providing gallons of reflect?

I don't.

Per the words of Sydney.

I don't think so.

I think it's like it's been talked about over there, but I don't think.

I've heard they've talked about it, but at the same time, when I saw the question, this

question posed to Dave, he was kind of like, I don't need to.

I saw some resistance.

If they are, I haven't been told.

And I don't think the rest of us have either.

All right.

Next up, I got sheep star here.

Yes, you can, but you'll need an aggressive pad and compound to make any quick progress.

It will also need clad, clot, or PPF clear coat, I think he meant to say, or PPF to prevent

future yellowing.

Yes.

Sheep star, one of our favorite headlight correction methods for like long term headlight

correction is to PPF them because when the PPF finally gets tired and old and you start

to see like, oh, there's a little yellowing or kind of a color tinge happening.

You peel it off and guess what?

There's a fresh headlight waiting for you under there.

If you have to do a little touch up, you can, but then you just PPF it again and go on with

your life.

If you are PPFing your headlights and you own the car for under like five to seven years,

you never even have to deal with it anyway.

So honestly, I have just used like, depending on if it's polycarbonate or glass on your

headlights, I have used coatings before on my headlights, like the flex and stuff.

I just polished them down because they were like a little tired looking.

Then I just coated it and it's been great.

Do I think that that's a full life, the rest of the vehicle kind of finish?

No.

But as long as I'm owning it and then when the time comes to sell it eventually one day,

I'll probably just read, you know, polish and then do it again, polish, quick coat it up

and it goes on with its life after that.

It's got 145,000 miles on it.

So 145,000.

It's not.

It's not a new car.

Nobody buying it would have expected to be either.

Hello all from snowy Canada.

Welcome HM auto detailing and yeah, you'll have a Popeye forearm after that's right.

All right, we got Christian GTCS wondering what's the best water spot remover out there

when the conform or suds when agitating made for easier removal and ability to scrub harder

ingrained water spotting.

So kind of looking for that one that can strong water spot removal that I mean, I don't know

in my experience out of all the water spot removers we carry W nine is going to be the

strongest water spot remover from there.

If I'm being honest in this is the way that I look at it.

If you can't get it off with the dedicated water spot remover or W nine, then polishing

is really going to be the best way to remove those because once it's got under the clear

coat, like you can't necessarily just get a water spot remover under the clear coat.

So you kind of got to it's kind of like a one to punch.

Yeah, you got to get in there with the proper chemical and then you got to cut it and then

you got to make sure you finish the job and then you protect.

All right, next up, I've got Joey Balinski saying could we possibly get a release of

the TRC and co shirts?

That's the Tiffany and co looking.

Oh, yeah, maybe a short sleeve variety.

Mine is starting to lose its color.

Man, it's been years at this point, but I do appreciate we can pass the word along to

the homie Nate, but it's the guy promises.

He's the one who determines if that happens or not.

We got a Ola TRC public concrete Ola right back at you, buddy.

Then BT dubs a wise day in the Sydney's chair.

Dane should be in the back.

You know, most people here decided that they didn't like having me and the little like

pod room because they're like, if you're going to have three people on it, just have them

sit around the table.

Yeah.

Don't don't have one person in the room awkwardly like shunted in the format.

So I get it.

One way or another.

I just got to be here.

Sorry, I can only hang out in the closet for so long.

Appearance 91 lads.

Which KCX protection do you prefer?

Protector wax or S O O three.

S O three has superior durability.

So that's what I would go with personally.

There we go.

What about you, Carson?

What say you?

Yeah, I'm going to go at S double three for sure.

Okay.

No argument for me.

I think that's probably the way to go.

Just in here, AKA the one that shall remain nameless.

I think y'all need to expand the calendar models to other staff, including Carson, Lucas, Gabe

at least.

Maybe you could phone the newest team members.

Um, this is starting to get questionable.

Calendar models.

Yeah, they're saying they want to have a swimsuit calendar of us here at the TRC building.

I'm not so sure about that.

I don't know about swimsuit, but like, yeah, we could do something like that.

I'd be pretty sick.

I mean, we could do like a fireman calendar shoot.

We had a fire truck here not that long ago.

Miss the opportunity.

Maybe next time.

This is spender.

All right.

GT details.

I went back and watched the relatable garage series and Danes Wash Bay had me rolling.

I am glad you enjoyed that, dude.

Like, if you didn't notice, I can't take it too seriously.

Like it was my wash bay was literally just me going down the road to a pan spray.

Oh, that's hilarious.

And I took the huge truck I had at the time and took it down there.

Like, all right, here we go.

The solid wash bay state of the art because my garage was a little less than impressive.

So I was like, all right, guys here.

We'll take you down.

This is the real garage thing.

All right.

Next up, I've got air first.

Well, good evening there to you all.

I always love saying air here because air is the one always eating something incredibly

bougie because it's like dinner time.

Doesn't bro look like a castle.

He's like on some castle and something.

So good.

Good for you.

Brian, what's Brian saying, Lucas?

Hey guys, how do I get an old dark stain out of black carpet in the trunk?

Not sure what it is.

Can I just shampoo it with interior cleaner?

Sure.

Give it a shot.

I'd say try.

I mean, I don't know what the stain is, but I'd probably start with like whatever you're

kind of go to like carpet bomber or something or like your interior cleaner of choice, maybe

bump up to an APC or some sort of degreaser if you can't get it out with that.

Yeah.

So it's fine.

I don't think you're going to hurt anything by doing that.

Do you know why with Kane, Lucas is so great with customer service.

Big shout out.

That's what I'm talking about with Kane.

Yeah, that's it.

That's it.

That's what I'm talking about.

There's love, much love.

Jeff C here.

Wonky bristles or not.

I still love the ultra wheel and body brush, a slightly stiffer and higher count flag tip.

Bristle sounds good though.

Yeah.

Anthony was talking about that because we are, I believe, sold out of the ultra wheel

and body brush.

Indeed.

So he was kind of addressing like if it comes back first, it has to be enough demand.

But if it does, it's going to be revised with updated bristles.

Yeah.

Because the one thing, the one thing that anybody can really knock that for is just

the bristles over time.

They're too soft.

We just start to, yeah.

But that was the trade off for being so gentle and soft, right?

So it's just, it's a trade off.

I don't know.

The best way I've explained it to people is, hey, you know, like I can guarantee you probably

haven't had the same toothbrush your entire life.

Yeah.

After three months or, you know, after a month, when it starts to fray apart, I mean, brushes

are going to do the same thing.

That's why I get the ultrasonic toothbrush with the replaceable heads.

I got the same one, brother.

I keep going, man.

Yeah, buddy.

Costco special right here.

Kirkland signature toothbrush.

Yeah.

All right.

Christian's GTCS.

What's he saying?

I'm going to entertain this one.

We need a wheel brush that's thinner.

I prefer stiffer bristles for engine bays and plastic grills.

All right.

I think we need a barrel brush that's kind of right on.

I think that's kind of where you're going for, but I'm with you, man.

All right.

Yeah.

Well, what do you think of the job Carson's doing under the hood right now?

Dude, look at him over there.

He's just killing it.

Yeah, he's on it.

He is on the edge.

Now those headlights.

Those headlights.

Those headlights are so much better, dude.

They're like not yellow anymore.

They're like yellow free.

They're actually clear like they're supposed to be.

I am going to coat them, of course, but after we wash it.

What's the coating of choice?

We had a little bit of ADS Pro Quartz.

Okay.

All right.

It's a really good seller.

When I coated my car.

Cool.

That's what we're going to use.

We had a little bit of that left and it's still good, so we're going to use that.

No, that's great.

We've got to use up the things we open around here.

It's like leftovers in the fridge.

Somebody's got to do it.

Yeah.

Well, no, I will say the camera actually makes those headlights look still like a little foggy

from the reflections, but in person it is much clearer.

I can see without the reflections.

They are a lot clearer.

No, they look terrific.

Night and day.

Yeah.

So shout out.

All right.

Next up I've got Brian.

What's he saying?

Tips for cleaning cloth seats.

I don't have a steam cleaner, but have interior and detail factory brushes and chemicals,

towels, et cetera.

As far as tips, if you just want to know my process personally, I always start least aggressive

and then move my way up.

I would first start with whatever your interior cleaner is, spray it directly onto a towel,

kind of wipe it down.

If there's lighter stains and things, I really like the PNS three step system, Terminator

carpet bomber finisher.

Then I'll usually give, unless I know what the stain is, then I'll use the proper chemicals,

but light stuff.

I'll usually go carpet bomber just by itself.

If that's not enough, then I'll do the full Terminator carpet bomber finisher system.

All right.

So hope that helps a little bit.

I think that does.

And after Brian, we've got Al himself here saying, Al weighs late.

Yeah, super auto.

No, I appreciate you popping in here.

Even when it's on the tail end, it's always a better time when you're around, buddy.

All right.

Air first here.

Oh, this is him describing his meal every time blows my mind.

Freshly dispatched pheasant this evening with a peach and apricot jam and a pile of garlic

and truffle mashed top with crispy onions.

Brother, fly us out.

You know what I mean?

Come on.

What are we doing?

Man.

All right.

Thanks for sharing or airing, I guess.

Vibes Connor here saying, just got done detailing my 2004 Cadillac CTS.

Heck, yeah.

Early first-gen CTS like it.

I applied a spray sealant by Saracote.

I need to buy some P&S products.

I mean, nobody here's stopping you.

You're certainly welcome to try, buddy.

Roll on down to theragcompany.com.

And if you haven't ordered with us before, sign up for our email newsletter.

Get a little 15% off those P&S products.

The best time to start was yesterday.

The next best time is now.

Yeah.

Also, if you have any questions outside of the Q&A.

I can help answer him.

He hooks it up.

So customer service, support theragcompany.com.

Email him.

And for the record, the rest of our customer service team, they're awesome.

We love those guys.

Like absolute rock stars.

We make the jokes.

Lucas is the one who enjoys coming on camera, though.

Yeah.

Exactly.

That's his own thing.

Thanks, Vibes.

All right.

Awesome guy.

Pressure washer came out in southern Maine today.

All right.

We'll look for that.

It's warm enough for you to do that, huh?

We've got...

Okay.

Here's a comment here.

This was about the gloves conversation about, like, not getting super wet under the gloves.

Oh.

So get a pair of cotton gloves and pair of oversized one by nitrile gloves.

So, okay.

So you're going to get cotton gloves and then you're going to put oversized nitrile gloves

on top of them.

I guess that's a move.

That's a great theory.

I don't know if I could do that.

Hmm.

That sounds like it might be a little...

It'd be too weird feeling.

It wouldn't have enough feeling.

I wouldn't know unless I tried it, though.

So...

Yeah.

Don't knock until you try it.

It's possible.

Cotton work gloves, it says.

Okay.

Cotton work gloves.

Awesome guy.

I love the idea, though.

I mean, it makes sense.

Oversize nitrile fits perfectly on it.

For me, I'm usually medium large.

Fits snug over cotton glove.

Okay.

We're trying that out.

Then we proceeded to comment that several more times.

What's up?

I foamed part of the TV.

So...

Oh, well, you know, that happens.

I was just thinking what I was bringing in over here.

It's a clean screen, though.

You know what I'm saying?

Well, yeah.

It's going to be a clean screen.

That's a little bit of car candy destroyer.

It smells citrusy.

It does.

Yeah, I could smell it.

Yeah, I could smell it all right.

Andrew, what's Andrew saying?

What do you guys recommend for polishing headlights and taillights?

That's so funny, you ask, because we got the master of headlights that just polished some

headlights.

Carson, what are you doing for these headlights?

Oh, my goodness.

Lucas, you're so nice.

You know, I actually shared a room with this guy for a week, and I learned so much about

Lucas.

Probably more than I should.

Hey, man, we're like best buds over here.

If you want a turnkey solution, Coach Kemi makes a kit.

It's a headlight polish kit.

I believe we sell it on the website.

If not, it's available on Amazon, but it's right here.

I'll show you.

This kit comes with everything you need, polish, sandpaper, blocks, polish pads.

Other than that, if you want to just kind of buy a couple things, definitely 1000 grit,

2000 grit, 3000 grit, I'd go to 4000.

And then I would do like a heavy cut and then a fine cut of whatever you like personally

and a heavy pad and a fine pad.

It's kind of the basics of it, and a block.

If you're going to do it by hand, hand block, if not, definitely a three inch machine if

you can.

Excellent.

It's kind of the basics.

Lucas, you have any input?

No, I mean, yeah.

Sand, polish, coat, send it on its way.

If you really want to go crazy, I heard you guys talking like earlier.

Well, yeah.

Like doing that, do like...

PPF?

Well, clear coat, PPF coat.

Oh, yeah.

Like 2K clear.

2K clear is usually the move for a lot of guys.

Doesn't Anthony like 2K clear?

Yeah, he loves 2K clear.

Although, ever since he tried the PPF method, that's what he likes now.

Well, do like all three of those.

That'd be crazy.

Wow, you want to guarantee those.

Clear coat, open the PPF, lay down the clear coat, PPF on top.

I don't know.

Coat it.

No, you clear coat them, and then PPF.

Yeah, and then you coat those.

Coat the PPF.

That's a good move.

And throw on a spray sealant topper.

Possibilities are endless.

That's like going out to winter in not just a jacket, but like 20 shirts.

Like doing what I'm doing right now.

Just keep putting more and more shirts on.

Layers, buddy.

Okay.

So, moving along from that, I've got a lot of love for Lucas here.

This is about the point in the show where everybody saw Pop Up.

Hello, superstar.

What's going on, David?

More love from David Boyce.

Hey, Lucas.

Good to see you.

Good to see you, my guy.

There we go.

Another one.

Lucas brings the vibes.

They call me the vibes guy for a reason, GT details.

All right.

And then Levi has a point.

Carson needs to have a respirator on for wheel acid, even at 10 to 1, he says.

And then he goes, listen, I love you, Carson.

I don't want you to have the issue.

Yeah.

I was going to say, Levi.

Yes.

Thank you.

I will.

With love.

All right.

Then we're on from page two to page one.

I find listening to you very therapeutic.

You're just so wholesome and I'm a man.

Okay.

Thank you.

We've got phrasing there.

Let's go.

Okay.

We've got the next up.

Okay.

What are you saying?

ADS has some amazing stuff.

Love their line of products.

By the way, Phobic is just bananas and a real money maker.

Dude, Phobic is freaking awesome.

90 mil bottle.

You get like five cars out of that thing.

Dude, your money machine right there.

They're giving you free money basically.

I don't know.

It's crazy.

Oh, just use power clean, Master Shine.

Then Ronnie Yon here saying liquid PPF intriguing.

That's what I'm saying.

I want to know a little bit more about it.

Excuse me clearing my throat because boy, sometimes it's been enough time in here.

That fan is helping a lot.

Okay.

Justin, the one who shall remain nameless, but Justin for us today.

What's he saying like this?

What's your opinion of KCX green star versus ADS clean?

Should we keep both on the shelf?

Would they have different use cases?

Okay.

Great question.

I mean, personally, right now I have clean as my APC of choice in my garage.

I know there's a ton of love for green star out there though.

No, I mean, green star is a fantastic product.

I'm just trying to think of, I mean, because you could realistically, you could use both

of them kind of for the same purposes.

Yeah, it's tough.

I mean, I wouldn't say throw one away.

Like definitely use both, but like if you're asking for the future, should I stock both

of them personally?

I'd probably just go with one or the other.

That's what I would say.

That's fair.

All right.

Then we got sheep star.

I have a sample of liquid PPF Ron.

Haven't played with it yet.

Well, sheep, I can't wait to see the video come out.

You do test it out.

Sheep makes videos.

I'm looking forward to seeing what he does with that.

Juice.

Rock auto is like 60 apiece.

No, I'm not sure he actually looked.

That might have been a real cheapies for headlights for the CRV.

It would be around 2008, 2009 era.

Rock auto has the headlight assembly for 50 to 200 each for the CRV.

That's what I was thinking.

Yeah.

Because on modern cars, like even some basic headlights on some modern cars on

the nicer end are like 800 to 1000 bucks for a pretty non-complex headlight.

Just a newer tech and stuff.

At least just the body.

Yeah, we're sitting in like 70 to 200 range.

Yeah.

I mean, granted, I saw some cheapie like aftermarket ones, but they're available.

OEM look though.

Yeah.

I like this new white.

Rock auto needs a website refresh.

Yes.

Now, I'm well aware.

Rock auto functions a lot like Craigslist does in that it never changed the look because

it really didn't have to.

If you know how to use it then.

The people who used it never cared what it looked like.

They just appreciated the organization and the functionality.

Exactly.

And to be fair, like the websites, if you've been on the internet for a long time, you've

seen how much stuff has just evolved over the years.

Like that was a look for a long time.

People got used to it.

All right.

We've got Nano two is goaded from GT details here.

So love for the.

I agree.

Yeah.

Pretty nice polisher.

If I do say so.

David Cervantes.

Dane OE headlamps for the CRV 350 is from a factory direct website.

See, I mean, that's what I was saying.

Like on the higher end, because I guess we were thinking almost like a pair.

Like I thought 600 700 be like the max.

I would expect for a pair of these headlights, not projectors, not any of the fancier stuff.

It's just for a good halogen housing, clean setup like that.

All right.

Then we've got details officials.

That's right.

The boys are here details in the house shown love for the whole TSC team right back at

details.

Appreciate you, my guy.

It was great to meet you guys at this year's SEMA.

That was a lot of fun.

So thank you for coming by the booth.

Funny story too.

I just bought a bought a hoodie from these guys.

You did order the wrong size.

So I got to know how to do a little.

We're doing a little exchange action.

You know what I'm saying?

I always just enjoy.

I know it's like fairly simple, but I always liked your guys's logo.

Yeah.

Just you're like, that's why I'm grabbing design choice.

I'm like, it looks cool.

So no, you guys, you guys do a great job.

All right.

We've got Dan, the man here, alkaline top hat.

What about a TSC calendar packed with lore, cool cars from the videos and staff at special

dates?

That's TSC anniversary.

Teresima.

The one time a year.

Dane washes the car himself.

I'm going to be honest.

I mean, I don't think a lot of people would buy those if I'm being real, but if Nate designed

one, I would buy that.

Yeah, I would buy that.

I totally keep it in my office.

So if enough people request it, like send in emails to customer service so that looks

good.

Send an email.

Let's smash the like button on this podcast, guys.

If you reach, I'm not that decision maker, but we get a lot of likes.

We'll try to push it at least.

All right.

Next up, I've got vibes Connor.

All I got is mother's headlight restore.

What's the best way to restore my CTS headlights with that polish when I don't have a polisher?

Ah, man.

Well, if you're not going to wet, I don't know, depends on you sanding them or you're not.

I would just try first, maybe getting something just like a clean microfiber towel.

Just go ham, press down, go in circular motion, see what you can get out of it.

I suppose.

Carson, what do you think?

What's that?

Mother's headlight restore.

How would you go about it with that polish if you don't have a machine?

Are we talking about the mother's headlight kit or are we talking about the polishing

polish?

His mother's has a drill polish kit.

Yeah, I know you're talking about.

Basically, that acts as a rotary.

And so it can be hard and you have to treat it as a rotary, which is very intimidating,

especially for first time users.

So be wary of that.

If it's just the polish, I would just treat it like a normal polish.

That'd be one of your final steps.

But if it's the actual thing, I would probably just ditch that and do it by hand.

Yeah.

Unfortunately.

It's going to take you a while, but you're not going to burn through and not ruin your

headlights.

Yeah.

Nice.

All right.

Next up, and I would also say this for people are looking for kind of like a all in one

headlight solution kit.

Casey X does have a good headlight fixer upper headlight kit.

I mean, it's just literally headlight correction kit.

And it's even better because it's available on theragcompany.com.

That's kind of what I'm getting at.

So come get one.

Pick the whole thing up there.

Then you don't have to think about what you're going to use because it's all right there.

Okay.

Next up, Enthusiastic Auto Detailer.

What's up, guys?

Question.

After washing the wheels with Casey AWH, I noticed that the brake discs become a bit rusty.

Is that normal?

Totally normal.

Okay.

Anytime you put water on rotors, unless they're going to rust, it's just going to be a little

bit of blooming.

You're going to go drive around the block for a couple of times.

You'll be fine.

Taps on the brakes or a good slam once in a while.

Exactly.

Just a cut down on it.

Oh, well, an alkaline tow pad actually has some useful advice for vibes there.

It says he had wet sand with 400, 800, 2000, then 3000 by hand and mask around the headlights

and keep the grit off the paint.

Yeah.

Great process.

Lloyd G. Desid Taylor.

Dane was coughing like he took a hit of iron buzzer.

Man, I was feeling it, buddy.

It was, there's a little bit of something, but that fans on now, the garage doors a little

peaked open.

We're doing a lot better.

Oh, yeah.

A lot, a lot better.

Got some ventilation.

Then I've got sheep stars in.

Go back and read my last reply, Dane.

Well, I looked at it.

What happened?

I read it, but he said he has a sample of the liquid PPF, which we did say.

And then he also said, wait for it.

So I think we did that.

All right.

So then we've got a comment here from Joey Blinski.

Are you guys ready for TRCMA 2026 or what?

We're ready.

Are you ready?

That's the question.

That's the important question.

Yeah.

What are you guys going to do about it?

Where are you going to be when TRCMA comes to you?

What were you doing on the day of TRCMA 2026?

It's days, by the way.

My fault.

More than one day.

My apologies.

That's true.

It won't happen again.

Carson, are you looking forward to TRCMA?

Yeah.

So they don't have to think about it for a while again?

Because it's so much work.

Yeah.

Last year was my first one.

This year, I'm excited because it's my second.

So I know what to expect.

I'm ready to go.

I'm ready to see my friends in the industry.

I saw them at CMA so I can like, I know, hey, I already saw you, type thing.

Yeah.

But yeah, super excited.

Well, I'm actually really curious to hear your thoughts on what your TRCMA experience was like.

Yeah.

Like going there last year, doing the thing, your first real chance to be in it as opposed to watching it online.

It's super cool.

I mean, it's behind the scenes.

It's way different than watching it online.

It's like super quiet.

I mean, you're behind the scenes.

You're super quiet.

And my job was getting footage and getting like little bits and pieces that you guys saw on Instagram, TikTok, that kind of stuff.

And YouTube Shorts and like that kind of, that's all I did.

And it was super cool.

But then, you know, wreaking the benefits of, you know, having fun after going to the after party, the after, you know, the after dinners and everything like that.

Super fun.

And so like all this hard work that you spend, you know, especially the production team, Glenn and Nick, they do a great job with this stuff.

They've prepped for months with this stuff.

And get their kind of reap the benefits.

So shout out to them.

All right.

Well, thank you for sharing, dude.

Then I've got a Luigi Detailer Rockado is the Craigslist of car parts.

Yeah.

You're not wrong.

It really, really is.

Christian GTCS.

What's he saying, Lucas?

I thought I was getting too in depth with plastic cleaning.

What's the best way to clean plastic good enough to coat them with stout and not have the durability affected?

Obviously, new plastic is better.

Well, I would say our friends over Armored Detail Supply make a fantastic tire cleaner that works on rubber as well.

So I would just cut it four to one, spray it directly onto those plastic or rubber pieces or whatever.

If we're talking like black plastic, just spray it on.

Get like your tire scrub brush, scrub it in, agitate it, rinse it off.

Should clean them right up.

Nice.

Then I've got Dan here, Alcline Topaz saying,

Vibes Connor, after polishing those headlights, I would get the headlights PPF ASAP.

Good investment.

Yeah.

If you're not comfortable doing PPF yourself, even the first small thing like that, understand it.

As somebody who's tried to wrap in PPF stuff before, if you don't have the skills and you want to learn,

you can go listen to Justin Paid at the Rapids to do.

But if you find that your motor functions just don't seem to agree with what you're being told is the thing you're supposed to do, like me,

you pay somebody else to do.

Somebody who is good and their motor skills do line up with that skill set.

What about you?

If you have much like wrapping things, Lucas?

I took a class from Justin Paid.

I had a roll of wrap for a long time.

Okay.

And then, uh...

But did you use it?

Yeah, I did.

I sold it, as a matter of fact, because I had it for two years in my garage.

Oh, so you kind of forgot it was there.

I can go deep into this or I cannot to.

I bought, it was a diamond white.

I had a black Mustang at the time.

Oh, right.

It was going to be sick.

And then I got a red Mazda Speed wrapping over bright red with white.

Yeah.

Not ideal.

It wasn't in my wheelhouse.

The easiest cars to wrap in terms of having them look good when you're done,

it's a black car.

It's neutral color.

Just a neutral color, but a black car is the best because then,

if there's any kind of parts peeking through, it just looks like a shadow.

Yeah.

It doesn't look like anything.

It's perfect.

So wrapping other color cars to more exciting colors,

you got to hope that wrapping around the edge is like all the extra stuff.

And guys will charge extra for like doing the around the edge stuff.

Like yeah, if you want like underneath your hood or if you want it like your door jams.

You got to pay for it.

Yeah.

All right.

So then I've got David Cervantes here saying thanks for the live guys.

It was nice being able to catch one today.

Thanks for stopping by, man.

I was happy you came by and said hi.

Then Jeepstar, holy smokes.

He says he's a parts manager.

He sells headlights.

He knows what he's talking about.

He said he did it at Honda.

Oh man.

Oh shit.

I sold you the headlights at Honda.

So I know what I'm talking about.

Carson also worked at a Honda dealer.

I sold the customers the headlights.

I imagine there's, he's a little bit more qualified.

I'll get him back.

I imagine there's a little markup on that end though or something.

So you're doing ship return to these right now.

If I'm going and I'm just buying mine off of eBay or something,

it's not the end of the world.

You know, if they're good quality, oh yeah.

It sounds like he's got ulterior motives.

I'm just kidding.

So you're starting to agree.

Oh man.

No.

If he does, I believe him.

It's just, I have a hard time believing that these relatively

simple halogen housings from back this time period would cost that much.

That's amazing.

They're OEM.

Everything OEM is going to cost more.

But I would get a near OEM and then just make sure that they're

really nicely protected and call it good.

But Jeepstar, tell me your cost on those.

Yeah.

I bet he won't mention that part.

Yeah.

Most people will.

Tell me your list cost and MSRP.

Just your listed cost.

So.

We'll go from there.

Care Bear Killer says, hey TRC, thanks for being awesome.

You definitely make the best towels and I enjoy your content.

Thanks buddy.

Appreciate you.

And if you're not subscribed to the channel, I would absolutely appreciate

if you did that before you left today because I like to think

you produced some pretty cool stuff.

Smash the like button, comment, subscribe.

Carson works hard.

Lucas works hard.

And yeah, that'll like button, man.

Really, really does help us out.

No joke.

Alpha Tango.

I'm going to be taking a day off to come visit this year for TRCMA.

I know it's just for a few minutes.

You guys are busy.

Well, while it is true that we are busy, Alpha Tango, I would definitely

appreciate if you were to come by.

I know that a lot of people here would think it was super cool if you did.

So, yeah, reach out, send an email.

You can probably hook it up with Lucas here in the customer service.

Send me an email.

We can schedule time to go do a little tour or something.

We can like set it up in a way that'll work better for you, you know?

If you haven't already talked to him, that is.

Yeah, me or Lucas.

Can you potentially get you in a half-time show or something?

All right.

Sounds like a plan to me.

Then I got Neil White saying, can't wait to see more steak action at TRCMA.

Whatever you see, I don't think it's going to be steaks this time.

Something's changing.

We'll see.

Then we got Christian GTCS here.

Water Spot Remover Sudzing for cracks and grill crevices.

I meant not paint and for window corners where you can spray the Water Spot Remover

and agitate with brushes.

All right.

I mean, off the top of my head, I don't know of any foaming or Sudzing Water Spot Remover.

Any less?

Carson Dane, do you guys know of one?

Technically, I think Armors does, but yeah, I think it may be a DIY solution.

Water Spot Remover?

Oh, no, Water Spot.

I'm sorry.

I'm thinking, I'm thinking I'm just going to use like, you know, GTAC, you know,

Water Spot Remover, something like that.

But it's not necessarily going to be like super sudsy like you're looking for.

That is unless you like over apply it.

You're just making a big puddle.

But yeah, no, I think something like that off the top of my head, unfortunately, I wouldn't

have a perfect solution like what you're looking for.

But, you know, check them out.

See what you can do with that stuff.

And if it's not perfect, you can look at alternative methods.

I know that while it's not super sudsy or anything, FSE is really nice for like a more

basic, quick, detailer meets Water Spot Remover type thing.

But for what you're describing, you're thinking of something more strong, I'm guessing.

So W9 or something might be a better fit for you from GTAC.

Otherwise, I would say we're pretty much here at the end of the comments.

There's a couple more.

We've got Joey saying Carson loves talking about those cost discounts.

And then we've got Styler here.

Tuned in late, but wondering if you guys are coming to Wax Duck in the UK this year.

Unfortunately, not to my knowledge, Styler.

So I don't know that we're doing that.

I don't believe so.

But I also never say never.

So things can always change.

And then we've got Christian GTCS with the best way to prep plastic trim for a coating

can never seem to get them clean enough for coatings to be durable.

ADS Tire Cleaner 4 to 1.

Spray it on, agitate, rinse that bad Mimba Gemma.

All right.

And Carson, I think I'm going to throw it over to you now.

I'm done with the comments for the day.

We have made it to the four o'clock mark, but I want to check in on this detail.

I want to see how you're doing because that car is looking very soapy still.

Thanks, Dan.

I appreciate it.

This ran a little long, but that's OK.

It's going to look good.

Gabe seems to always finish these first, but he doesn't do as good of a job.

So that's what I'm going to blame it on.

It's not because I'm slow or anything, but basically I'm still playing the car.

I'm playing it and using it as my wash media.

It's totally fine.

This car is not corrected or anything.

Probably needs a correction, but that's OK.

That's what I'm doing right now.

Other than that, we used the decon soap.

We used car candy's destroyer.

It was great.

A little citrusy.

That's OK.

But other than that, I'm going to be rinsing this off here in a few minutes, then spraying

a little bit of Defender on it and removing these stickers on the back and calling it

a day.

But other than that, if you guys did enjoy this, make sure to like it.

Dane, take us away.

OK, thank you, Carson.

You've been doing a great job this whole time.

We really appreciate you putting in the work.

And I know the owner of this car will be so excited to see it looking fresh when it's

done here.

That's really cool.

So yeah, we will get to see the finished product.

I'm afraid you will not, but we made it as far as we did, right?

So I know the owner is going to be super stoked when they see their cleaned up car.

Anyway, Lucas, thank you so much for popping in the chair, subbing in for Anthony like

that.

Thank you so much for having me, Dane.

I appreciate it.

You make this whole thing just work just as smooth as I hope.

I appreciate you.

Customer servicing it up as usual.

All right.

So everybody there, if you're watching right now, listening wherever you are, I want to

say thank you.

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And I hope you have a great weekend.

We'll see you next week.

Bye.

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