A lively Q&A session unfolds as the hosts wash a dirty Jeep while answering listener questions. They discuss detailing techniques, including the use of various cleaning products like Trim Plus and the importance of proper maintenance for vehicles exposed to the elements. The conversation also touches on home renovation projects, personal anecdotes, and the challenges of detailing specific vehicles. Notable guests share their insights, making for an engaging and informative episode for automotive enthusiasts.
THIS WEEK ON Q&A: Dane, Sydni & Anthony answer viewer's best detailing questions while tackling the mud, dirt and extremely faded trim of a daily-driven Jeep Wrangler!
"...this Jeep behind me is actually really dirty and also the plastics on it are extremely faded. So here is my madness, I guess, or thought process."
Jeep is a brand of cars that are designed for off-road driving. They are known for being tough and durable, often used for adventures in rough terrains.
Jeep is a well-known American automotive brand, famous for its rugged off-road vehicles. The brand has a long history and is particularly associated with the iconic Jeep Wrangler and other SUVs.
"...I understand it as a 2015 Jeep Wrangler. It's a sport, so it's not a Rubicon or anything, but it's got a few basic mods on it..."
The 2015 Jeep Wrangler is a tough SUV that can handle off-road driving. It's designed for adventure and can be modified easily, making it a favorite for outdoor enthusiasts.
The 2015 Jeep Wrangler is a compact SUV known for its off-road capabilities and rugged design. It features a body-on-frame construction and is popular among enthusiasts for customization and adventure driving.
"...it's got a few basic mods on it, a little left here, maybe slightly larger tires..."
'Mods' means changes or upgrades made to a car to make it better or look different. This can include things like bigger tires or new parts.
'Mods' is short for modifications, which are changes made to a vehicle to enhance its performance, appearance, or functionality. This can include upgrades like larger tires, new bumpers, or performance parts.
"...where the Mini Cooper parks is all cleaned out now..."
The Mini Cooper is a small car that is fun to drive and easy to park. It's known for its unique style and sporty performance.
The Mini Cooper is a compact car known for its distinctive design and agile handling. It's popular for urban driving and has a rich motorsport heritage.
"...coarse blue wool pad while doing a one step with Uno on a Rupa's HLR15, polishing black GM paint that ..."
The Fiat Uno is a small car that's easy to drive around the city and saves on gas. It's a good option for people who need a simple and affordable vehicle.
The Fiat Uno is a small city car that gained popularity in Europe for its compact size and fuel efficiency. It is known for being practical and economical, making it a common choice for urban driving.
"Yes. So the only thing that stands out to me in this question is that detail spray is a very widely used term. So if we're talking about detail sprays like paint gloss, like a quick detailer is probably going to be what you want to use as a pad primer versus a detail spray."
Detail spray is a product that helps clean and shine your car quickly. You can use it without needing to wash the whole car, making it easier to keep your vehicle looking good.
Detail spray is a type of automotive product used for quick cleaning and enhancing the shine of a vehicle's surface. It often contains lubricants and gloss enhancers to provide a clean finish without the need for water.
"...I do like an APC or something like that. And so what I noticed yesterday with the two vehicles that we did..."
APC means All-Purpose Cleaner, which is a type of cleaner that can be used on many different surfaces. It's good for getting rid of dirt and salt on cars, especially in winter.
APC stands for All-Purpose Cleaner, a versatile cleaning solution used for various surfaces, including automotive applications. It's effective for removing grime, dirt, and built-up salt, especially during winter months.
"...except today I'm using power clean. Okay. Yeah. But power clean is I would they say you could run it straight..."
Power Clean is a strong cleaner that can be used to clean tough messes. You can mix it with water to make it less strong or use it full strength for really dirty jobs.
Power Clean is a type of cleaning product designed for heavy-duty cleaning tasks, often used in automotive detailing. It can be diluted for lighter cleaning or used straight for tougher jobs, making it versatile for various cleaning needs.
"More so than roofs that I'm surprised is I use it for the bed covers. You know, because like yeah, because literally like the most common thing that I detail is trucks, right? So many F-150s. And they all have those bed covers. And I use it on those all the time."
The Ford F-150 is a big truck that many people use for work or to carry things around. It's really popular because it's tough and can do a lot of different jobs, like hauling stuff or towing trailers.
The Ford F-150 is a full-size pickup truck that has been one of the best-selling vehicles in the United States for decades. Known for its durability, versatility, and strong performance, it is often used for both work and personal purposes, making it a popular choice among truck enthusiasts and everyday drivers alike.
"...I ordered two bottles of O&R Christmas edition. That's the Christmasy scented Optum No Rins. I'm going to use it around the apartment because Anthony, SBG..."
Optimum is a brand that makes products to clean and protect cars. They are well-liked for their quality and how easy their products are to use.
Optimum is a brand known for its high-quality car care products, including washes, coatings, and detailing supplies. Their products are popular among automotive enthusiasts for their effectiveness and ease of use.
"...how is the ADS Pro coating doing on the Raptor? And yeah, to answer the..."
The Raptor is a special version of the Ford F-150 truck that is built for off-roading. It has better suspension and a powerful engine to handle rough terrain.
The Ford Raptor is a high-performance variant of the Ford F-150 pickup truck, designed for off-road capability. It features enhanced suspension, powerful engines, and rugged styling, making it popular among off-road enthusiasts.
"...that coating is so awesome. And I have no complaints. It's performing not only is the water behavior extremely good..."
Ceramic coating is a special liquid that you put on a car's paint to protect it. It helps keep the car shiny and makes it easier to clean because dirt and water slide off more easily.
Ceramic coating is a liquid polymer applied to the exterior of a vehicle to provide a protective layer against environmental contaminants. It enhances the vehicle's shine and makes cleaning easier by repelling water and dirt.
"This paint needs a polish, like a true decontamination polish is what this either needed a polish or it needed Sydney's famous wash clay and seal."
Polish is a special product that makes a car's paint shiny and smooth by getting rid of small scratches and imperfections. It's like a beauty treatment for your car's exterior.
A polish is a product used to enhance the appearance of a vehicle's paint by removing minor imperfections and providing a glossy finish. It typically contains abrasives that help to smooth the surface of the paint.
"It needed Sydney's famous wash clay and seal. It could have used a wash clay and seal."
A clay bar is a special tool that helps clean a car's paint by removing tiny bits of dirt and grime that regular washing can't get rid of. It makes the paint feel smooth and ready for polishing.
A clay bar is a detailing tool used to remove embedded contaminants from a vehicle's paint surface, such as dirt, grime, and industrial fallout. It helps to prepare the paint for polishing and waxing.
"that's going to look amazing once you get some trim restore product"
Trim restore products are used to make the black plastic and rubber parts of a car look new again. They help prevent these parts from fading and getting dull over time.
Trim restore products are designed to rejuvenate and protect exterior plastic and rubber trim on vehicles. They help to restore color and prevent fading caused by UV exposure and weathering.
"...ke I wouldn't mind one, but you know, I have the grand Cherokee, but Delaney's thinking about getting the 392. Th..."
The Jeep Grand Cherokee is a type of SUV that can handle rough roads and off-road adventures while still being comfortable inside. It's a good choice for people who want a mix of adventure and everyday driving.
The Jeep Grand Cherokee is a mid-size SUV known for its off-road capabilities and luxurious features. It combines rugged performance with a comfortable interior, making it a favorite for both adventure seekers and families.
Car
Jeep 392
"...but Delaney's thinking about getting the 392. They just released a special one for 2025 or 2026."
The Jeep 392 is a special version of the Wrangler that has a really strong engine, making it faster and more powerful for off-road driving.
The Jeep 392 refers to a variant of the Jeep Wrangler that features a powerful V8 engine, providing enhanced performance and off-road capability. It's designed for enthusiasts who seek a more robust driving experience.
"...Come from the 4 by E to that would be kind of crazy."
The Jeep 4xe is a hybrid version of the Wrangler that can run on electricity as well as gasoline, making it more efficient and better for the environment.
The Jeep 4xe is a plug-in hybrid version of the Wrangler, combining electric power with a traditional gasoline engine. This model offers improved fuel efficiency and electric-only driving capabilities.
Torque is the force that helps a car move, especially when starting from a stop. More torque means the car can go faster and pull heavier things more easily.
Torque is a measure of rotational force in an engine, which is crucial for acceleration and pulling power. Higher torque means better performance, especially in off-road conditions.
"...why would I need a Civic with VTEC? And I'm like, are you kidding me? Like you have to have VTEC, right? Or why would I need the 1.5 turbo?..."
VTEC is a system used in some Honda engines that helps the car perform better at different speeds. It makes the engine more efficient and powerful when you need it.
VTEC stands for Variable Valve Timing and Lift Electronic Control, a technology developed by Honda that optimizes engine performance at different RPMs. It allows for better fuel efficiency and increased power by adjusting the timing and lift of the engine's valves.
"...why would I need a Civic with VTEC? And I'm like, are you kidding me? Like you have to have VTEC, right? Or why would I need the 1.5 turbo?..."
The Honda Civic is a small car that many people like because it's dependable and gets good gas mileage. Some versions are also fun to drive and can be modified to go faster.
The Honda Civic is a popular compact car known for its reliability, fuel efficiency, and sporty performance, especially in its sportier trims like the Civic Si and Type R. It's a favorite among car enthusiasts and tuners.
"...ike utilitarian Subaru and enjoyment of like the WRX and things like that. Yeah. Carson has one of tho..."
The Subaru WRX is a sporty car that can drive well on all kinds of roads, even when it's slippery. People like it because it's fun to drive and has a cool racing look.
The Subaru WRX is a high-performance compact car known for its all-wheel-drive system and rally-inspired design. It has a strong following among car enthusiasts due to its sporty handling and turbocharged engine.
"...hat. You should wear that and borrow Glenn's pit vipers and you'll be set. Well, drinking a Sobi. Yeah. Y..."
The Dodge Viper is a super-fast sports car that many people dream of owning. It's known for its loud engine and exciting performance, perfect for those who love speed.
The Dodge Viper is a high-performance sports car known for its powerful V10 engine and striking design. It has a reputation for being raw and exhilarating to drive, making it a legendary choice among car enthusiasts.
"like 98, 99. What was a 90s drink? Don't try to think of a surge. Oh my Surge. Surge was totally a 90s drink. That is the trick. Capri's on. Capri's on is classic. Why are you saying that? That way. Capri's on and Kool-Aid. It's just, there's just"
The Ford Capri is an older sports car that people loved in the past for its cool looks and fun driving experience. It's a classic car that many collectors appreciate.
The Ford Capri is a classic sports coupe that was popular in the 1970s and 1980s, known for its stylish design and sporty performance. It holds a nostalgic value for many car enthusiasts and represents a significant era in automotive history.
"...I did not see that coming. Well, Dean, have you, you know, the Le Mans racers, right?"
Le Mans is a famous car race that lasts for 24 hours. Teams race their cars around a track in France, and it's known for being very challenging and exciting.
Le Mans refers to the 24 Hours of Le Mans, an endurance race held annually in France. It is one of the most prestigious automobile races in the world, featuring a variety of manufacturers and teams competing over a full day of racing.
"...absolutely freaking love the MetroVac portable cordless VAC system. Sweet. I vacuum my sim racing setup, my car setup, everything frequently..."
MetroVac makes powerful vacuum cleaners that are easy to use and portable. They're great for cleaning cars and other areas where you need a quick and effective vacuum.
MetroVac is a company known for producing high-quality vacuum systems, including portable and cordless options. Their products are popular among car enthusiasts for keeping vehicles clean and well-maintained.
"...with trim plus on there, it should be able to withstand a lot more than it did before putting it on..."
Trim Plus is a product you can use on cars to make the faded plastic parts look new again. It also helps protect them from sun damage.
Trim Plus is a detailing product designed to restore and protect automotive trim surfaces. It helps to rejuvenate faded plastic and rubber parts, making them look new again and providing a layer of protection against UV rays.
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Hello, hello, hello, and welcome to yet another wonderful Q&A Thursday here at the Rag Company.
I hope you guys are ready, buckled in, set to go.
I've got a good panel here with me. Of course, I'm your host, Dane Hennad.
To my left, Anthony Fisher. Dane, thanks for having me.
Ride or die. Happy to be here. Of course.
To my right, we've got Sidney Gwen joining us. Thank you, Sidney, for once again popping in.
It's always fun when you're here. And you know, I think it's fitting.
We've got a Jeep over here, but more importantly, standing in front of it, we've got
none other than Gabe Garcia. He's going to be doing our detailing today.
And Gabe, before we move on to questions and so forth,
can you tell us a little bit about what you've got planned for this thing?
Yes, Dane. Well, you guys do the talky talky. I do the washy washy, right?
That's right. Well, so I've got a big, I've got a mix can of products, if you will,
because this Jeep behind me is actually really dirty and also the plastics on it are extremely
faded. So here is my madness, I guess, or thought process. So Greenstar, I'm going to use that
heavily on the fender well specifically. So I have that diluted five to one magic wheel cleaner
for wheels, obviously rubber plastic and you're right over there, Anthony.
Yeah, I guess getting comfortable. Break buster, obviously tires. I am also going to use power
clean on the rocker panels, motor plus, obviously for the motor. We're going to do a GSF wash,
and then we're going to do my hyper seal to give this added protection. I'm going to spray the
absolute living snot out of this Jeep using full send. And then I'm going to panel prep all the
plastics and do a trim plus application on all the plastics. So we've got ourselves a very busy wash.
Well, thank you very much, Gabe, for the update. And as far as little information about the car,
I understand it as a 2015 Jeep Wrangler. It's a sport, so it's not a Rubicon or anything,
but it's got a few basic mods on it, a little left here, maybe slightly larger tires,
some like things you might expect to see, just like a fun, you know, run about kind of Wrangler.
So it's a daily driver. It's ready for the mall, you know what I'm saying?
I think this one is capable of a little more than that, but hey, you never know,
wherever you're driving it, you want it to look a little sharper. So I think those bumpers are
going to need some attention before this afternoon is over. Anyway, back to this table, what we're
doing here while Gabe gets started over there, we were talking about like electricians and home
like renovation stuff. I know you guys are interested in detailing, but if you got any advice on like
what, you know, recommended rates are for like electricians in your area, I know we were all
kind of debating the numbers. Anyway, something to think about. Well, Anthony was sticker-shocked,
Anthony was sticker-shocked. He has no idea. Gabriel, just a quick, quick, quick reminder, Gabriel,
um, that fitting on there isn't tightened all the way and you're having a little bit of over spray
when you're spraying, so you might want to just go and cinch that up. We swapped it out earlier.
I already swapped them. Yeah, you did a bad job because it's, it's, it's, it's, it's ricocheting
everywhere. What's ricocheting? The spray, Gabriel. You literally designed this gun.
It should work. Okay, but I didn't tell you how to put the fitting on. Look at this. Look at what
you did. That is you, sir. Oh my. Oh, look it. Here we go. Here we go. Oh my gosh.
No, it still sucks. Yeah. So you're going to need to go ahead and fix that, please. Yeah,
fix the, did you use Teflon tape? No, you probably didn't use Teflon tape. Well,
now that circles back to what we were just talking about. We were talking about if you're like a
miss, Mr. Fixit. You didn't Teflon tape it, you silly goose. Yeah, we thought Gabe was a Mr. Fixit
all-around guy, right? Yeah, but the thing is, is I have to fix everybody's crap around here.
We're four minutes in and you guys are so far off the rails already. Anyways, I should have ordered
him a coffee. Let me, let me, sorry, sorry, let me start off on the right foot. You can share my
blue. Gabriel, you're doing great. Thank you. I accept your call. Let's bring this back down.
All right. So what you were talking about, the topic before we, before we jumped into the actual
start of the Q&A here, we were talking about home renovations and doing things to either improve
your home, maybe for detailing, improve your home, maybe just for just general use. Like,
you know, what's important to you? What are some things that you're looking forward to doing this
here? If any, and I'll just start by saying that here in the last week, I've been kind of doing
a few things. I hung up some like little mini floating black shelves in my garage. So I have my
TV on my garage wall and this space around it was just empty, but I needed something there.
So I thought about like, do I hang a poster? Do I hang a sign? Like, what do I, what do I do? And
I thought, well, I'll probably just put some shelves there. And then temporarily I'll put up
my little Pressell bottles or some IK sprayers or something as some placeholders. And then maybe
I switch out to a framed picture or maybe a little, what's that? What's that called? A succulent?
Mm-hmm. Yeah. A couple succulents right on the shelf, right? There you go, yeah. The plants that
are hard to kill, yeah. Something, this wasn't even tightened. Yeah, you literally gave me a gun
that was put together as if Dane put together an air compressor. Didn't you say you put it together
a minute ago? To all those of you. No, the base I put together is different. It normally has a flow.
It even feels professional sometimes. Yeah. But you could be fooled by this dynamic.
This is how we come up with great ideas here at the RIDE Company, just so you're all aware of it.
Well, it certainly is. 2026 is off to a roaring start. So I put up some shelves and I really like
it actually. The shelves look great. I can put whatever on them. In the meantime, we'll put some
just bottles up there just to kind of hold them. But just a small change like that,
weirdly massive difference in the garage. I filled out that space that looks really
tasteful. And so now I'm kind of like, well, what else do I do around the garage, but also
what else do I do around the home? So one thing I've been wanting to do is Grant Hotree's family
lives up in my attic space, right? Still. And still, yes. And his family's been locked in there.
I'm pretty sure they've got to be deceased by now. But what I'm probably going to do is
do a ladder dropdown, like just the pool string and have a good ladder. So that way,
I'm not climbing up on a six foot ladder to get up there. But that's a project I'm wanting to do
here, I'd say relatively soon, because I don't know if I told people, but I got a storage unit
as a temporary holding place for crap until we can organize stuff. And the goal would be to
get everything organized, get the dropdown in there, and then eventually just get things where
we need, right? Remove some junk and just feel cleaner going into the new year. But then on
top of that, for the house, I've been thinking about putting some can lighting up around certain
areas. My house is, what's that called? It's, it's, it's, it's, it's east facing. So it's east,
it's an east facing home. But what it is is, you know, sun rises on the front of the home,
sun sets on the back. But what we have a, we have a, what's that called a patio? Oh yeah. So
it stays pretty dark in the living room all day long until that final five o'clock, six o'clock
hour. And it's very unmotivating when you're home during the day. And it's just dark in there. I
don't like darkness. I want to be bright. So some can lighting would brighten it up a little bit.
I'm thinking about doing something like that. And yeah, that's kind of something I'm looking
forward to. But you were talking about, said about doing some more stuff to the garage. Yeah,
I am going to be making some changes. And so I actually have a question for the guests. So I
really need to put in a lift because we got a storage unit. So that whole third bay where
the Mini Cooper parks is all cleaned out now. And so actually we have to keep shoving the
Challenger up there, which is like hilarious. And so this morning we had to do that. And I was
like, I'm just done with this car. You know, it's been really nice here in Boise this winter, but
I need where that thing goes up in November and doesn't come down till March, but I need it out
of the way. It's huge. It's a boat. It's really wide. Yeah. And so I need a lift back in that space
so that the Challenger can go up top and everybody can park inside. So that's one of my goals this
year. Maybe the problem is if I get the lift, though, then Mike thinks he gets to buy another
car because he's like, well, there has to be a car on the lift, you know, like, and so balance
must be restored. Yeah. So that challenge is going to be a while. And then the other thing I need
is I need a new TV because what I noticed is when I put my AirPods in when I go in the house,
it always tries to connect to the TV. But my garage TV doesn't do that. But if I could have
the garage TV on but hear it in my AirPods, because I can't like work noisy stuff, you know,
so I never use the TV. Yeah. But I was like, well, if I could have it in my ear, then I would maybe
use it and that could be kind of cool. So I need to get a TV that has Bluetooth connectivity.
That'd be cool. Then the other thing that is a question for the viewers is because,
you know, I like to have all my bottles pretty labeled all matching. But I use stuff from a lot
of different brands now. None of their bottles match, right? And so we know I don't like the
press all bottles. I don't, oh, it's not that I don't like the IK bottles. I do like the IK,
but they don't fit in my holders that I have. So I need a solution for bottles that is like a nice
quart size bottle that I can put the IK sprayers in that I can label myself. I bought a Cricut,
so I'm a step ahead. I just don't have the bottles. So like I like the labeled bottles,
but I need bottles that fit in my bottle holders. Okay. So I need a solution for that. So if anyone
has one, hit me up. Let us know. Yeah. All right. Well, it's been a minute. I've got a certainly a
few questions pulled up here. Sweet, sweet. You're home. Oh, yeah. What are you going to do this
year? Oh, me? This year? I mean, just finished cleaning out what was formerly an office, but
now I'm almost thinking of turning it into like a reading nook or something. If I was made of money,
I would just knock that wall out. Yeah. Assuming it's not structural and then like it would be kind
of like an open cozy space in the corner because I've got that kitchen. It's on the second floor
because I have a three-story house that's like on a hill. It's kind of funky. Yeah, but it's like a
loft. Do you knock that wall out? I think because it matches, open it up a lot. No, but it's right
above my garage and you know my garage has two, my garage has two supporting posts in the middle
of the garage. Those are poles, right? Those are poles. I think they line up with where this wall
is. Okay. So if I kept posts going up just to open it up because it has a vaulted ceiling,
it's all open up there. I think if I worked around it, if I could get that knock. Yeah,
keep it cool. No, keep the posts. Yeah, keep the posts. But that's the thing. It's upstairs.
There's just a wall. So there's no clear idea as to where, I don't know what support I want.
I don't think that's a good idea. I think it is. I am not, as much as I love architecture,
I'm not an architect or a structural engineer. So I don't think that's a good idea.
You gotta blow out that back wall. You know what I mean? Good lordy. Okay, on that note,
I've got questions. I can get some detailing stuff in here, believe it or not guys. Let's do it.
You might be amazed, but actually we have a lot of folks popping in here. Sweet. Let me start things
off with Eric DIY saying, Happy New Year. Hope you had a great holiday. Excited to be getting my
new reel and CR today to try my hand at custom wall pressure washer setup. Sweet. Congratulations.
Follow up by saying it seems like there's a war for GPM now in pressure washer companies.
Wonder how this plays out with many people wanting non pro level DI systems that can't handle that
flow. Is three plus GPM really needed over 2.5 ish? I'm going to say it's not needed.
That you like and or use it. I feel like it's keeping up with the Joneses at this point.
It's literally it's just the number go up line go up mentality. I think I think you were hitting
two GPM on anything. You think you're solid man. I think that yeah, I think that you're you're
sitting in a good spot. Watch that water bill just point with the Sierra spotless. I mean,
yeah, I mean, if you are wanting to run, you know, a non commercial DI system,
you keep in the GPM and low is going to be is going to be the best thing ever. And it's the
trade off too, right? You won't. Well, you'll have all this flow, right? Do you need that much
flow? Right? I mean, realistically, like I can tell you it is great for rinsing and speeds up the
process. For sure when it comes to rinsing soap off. But I don't know if it's worth the trade
off necessarily of eliminating spotless water or just using that much spotless water in general,
even if you are hitting that peak of which it can it can it's capable of. I'd rather yeah,
I'd rather have slightly in my opinion, I'd rather have slightly higher psi. It's just more rinsing
power with a slightly lower GPM, but still having spotless water. That would be my preference.
Okay. Then, of course, I've got none other than a baritone here saying hello to your
C team. I hope you all had great holidays. I did. Yeah. How about you guys? It's great.
Yeah, sounds like it. Super chill. Super chill. That's what we want. Make it great. Yeah. Less
noise drama, whatever. It's great. Yep. Yeah. So hope you did too. Next up, I've got Jorge here.
What's he saying, Anthony? What light for polishing do you guys recommend at the beginner
price and one at a higher end cost? Thanks. I there's a couple different ways to go about this.
They are there are some sun matching lights that you can pick up off of Amazon for super,
super cheap handheld lights. They are very similar to scan grips and you know, even
Harbor Freight has some for color matching. The color matching is what you're looking for.
I mean, that's a swirl finding light. And if you were just getting started and you just want to
get a feel for it, that's a great place to start there. If you're looking for handheld,
if you're willing to spend $40 more dollars, then I highly recommend getting the scan grip,
the eye match, which actually is a headlamp. And that's something you can put on your head and
then use as a constant reference light for both exterior and interior, which is great. But some
people also do like having an extra light on a tripod or secondary mount off in the distance
to reference as well. I mean, Sid, do you have a preference on polishing lights you like?
I mean, I use the scan grip, the eye match. So I have the one that can either sit on the
ground or sit on a tripod. You know, I feel like those give the most, you know, true results.
If that's what you're really looking for. I mean, I've tried the other ones. I think that
once you finally use a scan grip, it's tough to beat.
Kind of down to that CRI and stuff. Yeah. I mean, they really have it dialed in as far as the color
match and stuff. But that being said, like what level of correction are you trying to get to,
too, though? I mean, if you're a beginner and you're just trying to make stuff look nice,
I mean, you know, the Harbor Freight ones and stuff are going to be fine because you're not,
I mean, we're not polishing for perfection, right? So, you know, for me, I have
polishing lights installed in my garage, which a lot of times can also be the death of you,
because you see absolutely everything. You're self insane. Yeah, literally. But
I do, I like the scan grip. No, that's correct. I have the head, what do you call that, the headband
one? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. Then I've got a bunch of folks saying, hey, TRC family,
they're happy to be here. What's going on? Welcome. And Serrano's here making sure he says
interiors for life. He's an interior fan. You know, you don't see a lot of that in the
detailing world. Everybody's obsessed with the exteriors. But, you know, interiors can definitely
make you money. Neil White here. Happy New Year TRC. Glad to have you all back. And we got more
from Matt Bergson. Nice to see you. Welcome back. Jay-Z also the same. And wouldn't be a show without
Sheepstar checking in. Glad to have that. And, uh, Zib, what's Michael DeBlau saying here?
All right. Happy New Year, everybody, and TRC team from a snowy, ice-cold,
Belgium. Very nice. And now a actual detailing question. Jay-Z even says it. Got a question
right off the rip. Could I use detail spray to prime my coarse blue wool pad while doing a one
step with Uno on a Rupa's HLR15, polishing black GM paint that is currently Swirl City. Of course,
it is. Now, one at a time. Let's start reading with Sydney here. How would you approach?
Yes. So the only thing that stands out to me in this question is that detail spray is a very
widely used term. So if we're talking about detail sprays like paint gloss, like a quick
detailer is probably going to be what you want to use as a pad primer versus a detail spray.
A detail spray, a lot of people think more of things like, you know, something that has a little
SIO2 in it, like even, you know, bead makers considered a detail spray. And so I would definitely
not use something that has any protection in it, because that is going to build up in your pad and
it could interfere with the actual polish or compound that you're using. But like a quick
detailer, you know, like a paint gloss, something like that is totally fine to use. Absolutely.
All right. And then just to make matters even nicer, everybody clap. Jay-Z sent 999. Very nice.
Thank you, sir. We appreciate that very much. We are going to come up with some new fun ways
to put Super Chat money to use. TBD. Okay, moving along here. I've got, oh dear, we've got to come
up with a name for him today. What are we going to call the one who shall remain nameless?
Well, we've already used Kevin. We have. All right, novel ideas. Who's got him? Like, just think,
what are some current baby names going around? What are people using these days? Oh my goodness.
What? What? Minions, Groot. Groot? Just call him Groot. People are naming their babies Groot?
No, I was just thinking of the minions. Just call baby Groot. Baby Groot. Baby Groot. Let's go.
He's baby Groot today. Once he's saying it's it. Good afternoon and happy New Year from the sunny
and kind 40 degree warm south coast of Massachusetts. Wouldn't have it any other way, right? I was
excited to see a couple snowflakes today because I've been dying for some snow and there's been
absolutely nothing but rain here. I know. You know what? I, this morning I sent this to my family
chat because Mike took my car this morning because it was supposed to be, you know, scary,
which it wasn't. But so I was driving the Minion when I was coming down Cartwright
at Polecat, which is like one of the little turn offs. There was an ACHD
sanding truck. And like, you know how sometimes TikToks pop in your head, you know, the one
where he's like, oh, I've been waiting for this. You know, I've been waiting for this. And I was
like, I can't believe I didn't stop and take a picture because that would have been so funny
to put that sound clip and the guy doing that over it because it's like these poor guys that
run the snow plows and stuff around here. They're just like bored to death. Nothing to do. Yeah,
bored to death. It's been like 60 degrees. It's crazy. It was like five flakes this morning.
Yeah, they were waiting, but it was so funny. And I was just like, oh, you can literally count
the seconds between each flakency. I don't think we're doing anything. I don't think so either.
I hope I won it. But I mean, all right, Anthony, what's Jesse saying here? Hey guys, got a good soap
to use for the Northeast salt. Realistically, I mean, you can use a variety of different soaps,
but I mean, it depends on, yeah, I guess it depends on kind of what you're trying to do. Are you
using this on the undercarriage or using this just to remove it from the exterior surface?
What I'd recommend is like a decent APC or pre spray, rather than, you know, focusing purely
on soap. So get yourself a good APC. You can use your, you can use, you know, like sitting,
like crystal wash, there's a few other different awesome, you know, pre treaters that you can
use for salt. But realistically, anything with some alkalinity in it would probably be your
best bet over going pH neutral. You can even go on the acidic range if you wanted to. But
yeah, I coached Kemi, active foam, super foam.
Those are great. Sid, what do you like? Well, this is actually a good question because Gabe and I
actually kind of encountered this twice yesterday. So we don't have the salt on the roads here,
but we do have that crazy winter buildup, right? But what I was surprised about yesterday was we
did a car with, you know, kind of a pre foam and the foam didn't do what I thought it would,
but it wasn't the foam's fault. It was the buildup on, actually it was on Dane's car.
Well, to be fair, I've let that thing bake like crazy. Yeah, I know that I think about it. It was
actually Dane's car. In hopes that we do a video about it. So it was kind of interesting to me,
but then we did my car, which was equally as dirty, but Gabe pre sprayed it with green star.
And I have that and I've used it, but I've not used it in the way that Gabe did yesterday. And
I could not believe like we did a live and it was crazy what green star did. And so for me,
I do like crystal wash a lot, but when the salt is actually like built up, I do like an APC or
something like that. And so what I noticed yesterday with the two vehicles that we did,
we had better success here yesterday on the winter grime using APCs than we did.
Not to say you wouldn't need to use like an active foam or a decon soap. I still think you need
that. But to cut through that salt, I think you actually need something that's like going to permeate
through that. But doing the same thing that you're talking about, Sid, except today I'm using
power clean. Okay. Yeah. But power clean is I would they say you could run it straight or you could do
five to one, I think, or one, three to one for exterior, five to one for wheels, and then
10 to one if you want to do it on interior. But in this instance, we're going straight.
Nice. Nice. I like things straight. Next up, I've got none other than Charleston,
so happy Thursday, everyone. Happy to see Eric. Good to see Eric. Happy to have you in the chat.
Oh man. Then I got a whole bunch of new comments here. Oh, well, wouldn't want to skip Alex here
saying, is that the game that learned everything from Sydney? It is. I believe so. Well, she confirmed
it. All right. Then Jay Z here also pointing out, wow, had himself a Rubicon 392. It was a beast.
I believe it, dude. Those things are kind of wild. Why'd you get rid of it? They're not that old,
so like you couldn't have had it for very long. Yeah. Maybe just like three years at most, four
years at most. Yeah. All right. Crazy. David Boyce here, making sure Gabe, let's see you use the
wheel and body brush on the paint. Always throwing that out there, man. Always throwing that out.
Yeah, he'll do it. What did he say? No. He wants to make sure that the Gabe learned everything from
Sydney. He's not using a brush on the paint. Oh. Still trying that. Air first, always coming in
from Ireland. I always love seeing this guy here. By the way, Aaron always has some fascinating,
like, because this is like his dinner time there. He's always eating something super bougie. Oh,
cool. Like he's up in some castle, like it says, and he's just eating the most
drinking like 100-year-old wine and stuff like that. Yeah. There's always something. I'm like,
that must be like a 4,000, 5,000 bottle of wine if you're getting this in. It's kind of wild. He has
like fresh caught prawns that he has. He has like a little Irish boy catching them every morning,
you know, on the coast. Yeah. And he delivers them to his front door. He has a milk man that
actually milks local cows and also drops it off at his door. Holy cow. You know. There we go.
All right. Ryan Rigdon here with a Happy New Year and Friday Eve everyone right back at you,
Ryan. Happy to have you here. And then Neil noticed that Gabe and Anthony were about to throw down.
That's how far back in the comments we are. There are actually detailing questions here.
Molasses follows up with so much aggression. Yeah. Yeah. You guys were ready to attack each other.
It's critiquing me. Yeah. Yeah. Just a little. He was also making noises.
A little strumpiness back at Forest. It's like two dogs circling. All right. The one of y'all
remain nameless. Baby Groot today. I'm taking donations for a home renovation. I'm guessing
250 to 325 pay for mine in the next couple of years. Wow. I hope I can get Garage Renault into
that price. Wow. Well, I'm moving. That's a bad price. Yeah. That is. Oh my. I only need like 50.
50 would get me through a couple of years. Oh my. I'm flooring. I think I wonder at some point
in my life if I will ever experience that, right? Like the, you know, the, the Helock, the ReFi,
the something and putting and dumping in like an obscene amount of money into a home. I don't think
that's part of my home's plan. But that is one of those where it's a seems like a hard pill to
swallow. And I always wonder, you know, 50K, 60K, 100K, are you really getting that much out of it
before you go? Yeah. Should I just move? Yeah. Dean, have you ever done that? I feel like because
my house is in a unique location and it's not a typical build. It's not just like you're kind of
cookie cutter set up or it's not part of like a general suburb and HOA and all that.
It's kind of tough to replicate what I have without just finding another kind of like one-off
oddball. Yeah. So I could justify it more to myself if I was like, well, I have to modify this one
because where else am I going to do this? And because there's no HOA where I am, you can get
away doing more creative things. Yeah. Yeah. In your neighborhood, I wouldn't dare try and
modify anything too much. I would never put that much money into renovating my house. I just need
to change all my flooring, you know, like new carpet and I need to change the hardwood. But
otherwise, everything's fine with my house. I like it. Really? But I mean, my carpet, we've lived
there for eight years now, which is so crazy. Yeah. And you know, the builders put in carpet that's
like $1.24 a square foot. Yeah. And so it's like three-year carpet and we've been there for eight
years and it still looks pretty good, but I would like new carpet. I would love new carpet too.
Yeah. I only have, I'd have one. So if I were to count the amount of rooms slash closets I would do,
it'd be like one, two, three, four, five, five rooms in the closet, something like that,
four rooms in the closet. And you just get some nice, because everything else has been switched
to the laminate flooring. So I would love just that nice, I love that nice tight-weave carpet that
like doesn't look gross. See, I like, I love renovations. What do you think, Gabe? I love
renovations. I love doing all that kind of stuff. Of course you do. We did our old house and it was
fun. But yeah, no. The only thing I don't like sometimes is doing the electrical and getting
shot. Oh my goodness. Higher professional. You guys missed before the show started.
Higher professional, Dave, they're going to charge so freaking much. And they, they'll be the, because
at least if they do it, you know, it's like a burst of energy, you know, it's like taking a shot of,
of energy. I was going to make a joke. I was going to make a joke there about the burst of energy.
No, just say it. Just say it. I was going to say, are you hoping that the electricity
corrects the, uh, you know? Oh, no. Oh, no. Did he really just say it? He didn't have to. You
really just said it. You literally just said it. He said it without saying it, but he said it. Oh,
but I might as well say it. It was already said. Of course, to like listeners on the podcast,
I know what's going on right now. Freaking cut for it. This is
sick. And they make me do the electronic. Okay. Yeah. And then Joey just saying, wow, Anthony. Wow.
Okay. So air first in Ireland, like I said, he eats and deck it and stuff. He says here,
tucking into some cliff caught lemon soul, cradle them winter vegetables and wash down with some
cellar merlot. Bon appetit. I told you, it's amazing. He lives in a castle. He lives in a
castle. There is a fancy. That's amazing. Fancy lad. All right. I would love to visit his castle
someday. I would love any dinner made with lemon sheep star with some sage advice. You guys will
be so smart after you learn from your mistakes. Yeah, true. Feel that. Okay. Where's some actual
Ooh, Sydney, go ahead and take this one. All right. Raffer, Rafferin 1618 says,
if I put my new armor pro coating bottle in a vacuum sealed bag, does that extend the life?
I ordered it for Black Friday, but plan to use it in the next two months.
So no, not really exposed to the oxygen and air that are in the bag. You would have to like
vacuum. I would just take some electrical tape and go around the, go around the lid. And honestly,
when it comes to coatings, the biggest thing to extend the life is to make sure the cap is obviously
on very tight, but then put it in a dark cabinet. Like the light that it's exposed to is actually
more harmful than the air. So it doesn't necessarily need to go in the fridge. It needs to go in the
back of a dark, like climate stable cabinet is the best thing for it, honestly. But make sure
that it is on tight. Gabriel, I see you're using an incredible accessory there. Talk, talk about it.
You know, Anthony, I really don't talk about my daily regimen of weightlifting, but I'm glad
that you pointed that out. Oh, boy. No, please stop. Please stop. Please stop doing that. Yes,
this is also a podcast. Remember to explain things so that people can only hear and can't see.
I am using the Yeti bucket. No, I'm just kidding. Detail factory or not detail factory,
the middle of the stick. Oh man, you got me all flustered.
I want to include you in these conversations, but you're making it really hard for me to do that.
Gabe, you just make the motions. Anthony will talk over you like a voiceover.
Would you say we have a good time here? This is why we don't do our own electrical work.
It's the electrical work that got me, my bad guys. It was the guy that he shocked himself.
Unfortunately, my eye is still crooked, Anthony, so I don't know what to tell you about that.
A little correct to create a surgery.
Mid on a stick Pro Plus there from mid on a stick from our friends over there. And this tool is
just killer, man. We love using this thing pretty much as much as we can. Roofs, hoods, windshields.
We actually kind of roofed my hair at the rag company. But no, this tool is awesome. If you
guys haven't picked up a mid on a stick, you can do so at theragcompany.com. We are actually in
the process of getting more replacement covers for these. So those will be here sometime in the
near future. But for the most part, I've been finding that just the original cover has been
taking a ton of abuse. We've been using the same one for months now, actually. We just wash it,
maintain it like we do the rest of our microfiber. But it's a killer pole, man. And I love the gray.
It's awesome. It's just neutral. It's pretty. The gray is pretty. It goes with everything. So if you
haven't picked them up a mid on a stick, we highly recommend it. You know what I use it for the most?
More so than roofs that I'm surprised is I use it for the bed covers. You know, because like
yeah, because literally like the most common thing that I detail is trucks, right? So many F-150s.
And they all have those bed covers. And I use it on those all the time.
My process said, so I do, I go, I've perfected it now. Okay.
Before a mitt or anything touches the truck, right? I start with the stick, right? Okay.
Foam, dunk or rinses, whatever I'm doing. Dunk, I do my roof. I do my windshield. Part of the hood,
if I'm feeling kind of lazy, if I can't reach it. And then I finish with the tonneau cover
and then set the, set it aside. I'm done with it. Yeah. And now I've moved on to just the
mitt and the bucket or the pad and I'm just, I'm blazing fast. Yeah. They're so awesome. Yeah.
I was also going to point out here as well, because I think the owner of this Jeep may be
watching. I sent him a link. Just so you're aware when, depending on like, you know,
not everybody is into detailing, but they care about keeping their car clean. When they see
somebody cleaning their car with a brush they may have heard from somebody, oh my God, don't do that.
Yeah. This is not your average brush on a stick type situation. This is actually,
that's why I'm saying that because somebody sees somebody using it and they go, oh, a cringe at
the officer car wash. It's not a brush at all. No, it's actually more like a cyclone mitt.
Yeah. It's like the cyclone mitt, but it has like its own arm, right? Yeah. And very importantly,
the arm itself has a bunch of soft material covering the entire thing top to bottom. Yeah. So
that if it ever makes contact with the vehicle, I know it looks like an aluminum pole, but actually
if it touches it, it's just kind of like a nerf bat. Yeah. Just a point hits it, doesn't hurt
anything. It's like pool noodle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Pool noodle material is probably closer. That
foam-ish kind of finish. Anyway, I just wanted to point that out for people who may be new popping
in here and aren't aware that that's a thing. All right. I think your leg may have hit my
battery here, bud. Anyway, moving along, we've got Mike G detailing here. What's he saying?
Hey guys, happy new year to all of you. Congrats sitting on the new gig. Send my regards to your
Megan on the court. Megan, yes, I will. Thank you. Oh, Megan. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry, Megan.
You are correct. I knew a girl in high school or no, in elementary school and her name was Megan
and it was spelled like that, right? Yeah. It is kind of confused because it's confusing. It's
spelled the same. Yeah. If it was M-E-E-G-A-N, I would never screw it up. If it was M-E-A-G-A-N,
I would never screw it up. If it was M-E-I-G-A-N, or if it was M-I-E-G-A-N, I mean, honestly,
there's an incredible amount of spelling ways that I would probably never mess that up,
but due to how it's spelled, I apologize and I will work on that. Yeah.
My name's the same way. How many years did it take everybody to get my name right?
There are so many creative spellings. Nobody said it wrong.
No, but they spell it. Nobody could spell it. Everybody could say it right, but nobody could
spell it right. Some of the ways they spelled it were like crazy too. Pretty crazy, yeah.
Pretty crazy. All right. We've got Charlie here. What is Charlie saying? Sydney. I'm listening to
this while installing insulation in my newly built garage and then on to wiring and getting ready
for a lift. Oh my goodness. He's making us all feel bad. Way to go, dude. He's like a year ahead
of all of us on his home to-do list. Yeah, he is. That's awesome. I did my insulation myself.
I didn't love it. I wouldn't either. I didn't like doing the insulation myself. I wouldn't.
You're worried about breathing stuff in. That stuff will mess you up. Yeah.
It's not whether it's itchy. I don't like itchy. I did the roll out insulation,
so it was actually already trimmed to fit, so all I had to do was roll that with my dad.
Not as bad. So it wasn't blown in or anything like that. So it was a lot less messy. It was all
about that process, and I even talked about it on one of the podcasts that I did the insulation
with my dad about it. It was more so just a- you're on your hands and knees. Not a satisfying job.
You're on the- what's it called? The studs? Yeah. And so you're really- we had like a board
we were moving around throughout the row. Oh, right. Sealing. Yeah. Because we didn't want to
fall through. Yeah. Nobody does. Definitely not onto a, you know, a car. Yeah. Oh, gosh.
Ronnie Yutt here was some interesting pointers. A friend of mine built his dream garage. It was
120,000. He acted as his own general contractor. Wow. Okay. So he like filed all the paperwork
himself, did all the things. I'm guessing there's like permits. He got to do most, you know,
jurisdictions a call for that. But that's interesting. I'm sure it's a lot of work.
All right. Next up, I've got a question here. I'm going to throw it at Sydney
Robert Tech, wondering a penis dream maker or paint gloss. Now, he doesn't say why. He's just
throwing the two out there. So yeah. So it really depends on what you're doing. But I think
nine times out of 10, you're probably going to say paint gloss for whatever your question might be.
Dream maker is a really fantastic product, but it literally has one job in the entire
universe. And that is just to make paint pop. So when you think about all the other detailing
tasks that we need to do paint gloss, you can use for about eight of them and paint and dream
maker, you can literally only use for one. Now, if what you're trying to do is just make your paint
pop, dream maker is going to be the way to go. But the thing about dream maker for me is that
shortly after dream maker came out, so many really, really great
detail sprays that had protection in them kind of gave you the same effect. So I noticed that I
wasn't using it as much. Like for me, even like armor amplify, I feel like makes my paint look
how dream maker did. Yeah, looks really good. You know, so I think it's a great product. And the
one thing I do like about it is I do like to give it to my customers that go to car shows and stuff
because I don't want to give them something with protection because I don't want them to
use it like a dusting spray. Yeah. And so I think it just depends on what hands it's in. And you
know, it's still a fantastic product, but paint gloss is going to do a lot more for you as far as
jobs. Agreed. Okay. All right, next up here, Todd Hill. Yeah, Todd says thinking about
and crystal wash my arsenal. Can you coach me on the way to use it any parts of the exterior
vehicle of the exterior to avoid Sydney? Yeah, so really, um, you really only need to avoid the
front windshield. And that is more out of precaution than necessary necessity. If you're
going to be doing like a full decon and polishing of everything coating and you're polishing the
glass to coat it, you can feel free to spray it on there. The one thing is it just it probably
doesn't need it. It does work on glass, but I don't purposely try to spray it on glass. The
side glass and the rear glass, I don't worry about because there's something different in the
composition of those windows versus a front windshield that the French windshield, it can
tend to like, if it's hot, it could leave a spot. Not that it's permanent. It polishes off super easy
with any other polish. So you don't really need to be concerned. But otherwise, I haven't ever
found anything that you can't use it on just the front windshield. And that's only if I don't
feel like taking the time to go back and polish the front windshield. Nice. But otherwise, you
spray it on a dry car if you can. That's how it works best. Then I've got, oh goodness, it would
not be a Q&A if I didn't include a very special good afternoon and a word up from Dan Pfeiffer
from Minnesota USA. Happy New Year TRC gang. Glad you were back for the Thursday Q&A. That's
right. We're back in the swing of things. Happy to have you with us. Then I've got Paul Woodcock here.
Sydney, what's he saying? Happy New Year all. Question if I may. External hose finally died
due to the age in the recent minus five Celsius freeze in the UK. That's pretty cold. So wheels
really need a good clean, but no pressure washer. So you're probably going to want to use some pretty
powerful chemicals if you can. So like an iron remover, something like that. But I think for
me when I've had to wash wheels with no pressure washer is I have a keg sprayer. So I use that a
lot to rinse wheels if I can't use my pressure washer. But I think probably the biggest thing is
washer wheels like normal. But then what I used to do when I was outside and I couldn't use my hose
is I would just have a warm bucket of rinseless wash and I would use like, you know, a mitt
to kind of rinse it off as best I could, knowing that you may not get it rinsed off all the way.
But it's most likely going to deactivate the chemicals enough, you know, whether you get
all the soap bubbles off or not. You know, so you're going to be okay. It's of course it's not as
ideal as being able to rinse it. But if you use a clean bucket of rinseless wash, you know, you
can rinse a bucket. You can rinse the wheels. Pretty good. Pretty good. Then let's see here.
Thank you, Paul. I've got David Boyce here with a note for me, apparently. Dang. I ordered two
bottles of O&R Christmas edition. That's the Christmasy scented Optum No Rins. I'm going to use
it around the apartment because Anthony, SBG, I also ordered, oh, because Anthony, I think it's
because you do your baseboards with O&R. Oh, nice. Yeah. SBG. I also ordered Mud Buster because
here in Michigan, I'll use it to neutralize the salt. Perfect. Yeah. So just based at APC. Perfect.
Yep. And then I've got a question here from Jesse for Anthony.
Honestly, man, that coating is crazy. It's the real deal. It's probably...
Remember, it's a podcast. I don't know what coating you're talking about.
Oh, sorry. So he says, how is the ADS Pro coating doing on the Raptor? And yeah, to answer the
question, it's doing killer, man. That coating is so awesome. And I have no complaints. It's
performing not only is the water behavior extremely good, but I would say just the amount
of buildup on it has just been so minimal. I mean, that car, the truck lives outside,
stately driven, and the rain, the muck on the road, there's construction that's been on State
Street for like six months a year now. It never goes into the garage. And the truck
never goes into the garage. I mean, the only time it's indoors is when it's being washed inside here,
and that's it. So the coating, again, I did a wash a week ago, just do it into a general
like contamination check on it. And I was shocked to see that there was no buildup.
There was nothing I felt underneath the mitt. There was nothing I felt underneath clay.
And this is, again, I mean, it's getting driven every day. It's gotten a bunch of stuff on it,
and everything just wipes off. Even tar spots are just melting off of the truck and not really
sticking long term. So I would say that that coating, I mean, how do I say this?
There's a lot of coatings out there. And I think there's probably a lot of really good
coatings nowadays. I think a lot of them have really caught up.
I think that it's difficult for a coating to enter the market and really wow people,
especially nowadays in 2025, 2026, I mean, it's just so competitive. So even when ADS explained
that they were coming out with their pro coating, there was part of me that goes, oh, God, you know,
another one, right? Let's let's see how it does. And go figure, right? You know,
after testing, installing, you know, and driving now with it for it's been,
but it was applied in June. So now it would be what, seven months? Okay. Yeah, seven months.
Not bad. It's performing like a brand new coating, still looks like a brand new coating.
And I'm really excited to continue to see long term, you know, how it holds up. But
I do think that here pretty soon, we should probably film like a maintenance update video
on it since it's been so many months already, you know, to see how it's all holding up.
Wait for that eight month mark or a 10 month mark and then revisit and see how
things are looking. Next up, GT details, which I've put on the screen here. Very happy to see,
Anthony. So we were getting closer to the launch of the Ultra gun and phone can and can't wait.
Yes. So to give people an update on that, I saw a comment the other day on YouTube where
somebody had commented something along the lines of like, why would you guys be showing
the gun in action without selling it yet, right? And I think it's just somebody that's excited,
right? And they want it and building interest. And we're still tweaking. What it is ultimately is
we are going to continue to do longer term testing, no matter what point we are at in the R&D
slash creation product of any product. And so the fact that we're just using it, I mean, well,
why wouldn't we continue to use it? I mean, that the second that we have a working prototype or
anything, it should be attached to our tool, our system, our pressure washer or whatever,
because that's more long term testing. That's another avenue of testing.
And we need to continue doing that. Now, with that said, have all of the final tweaks been made
to the gun, the phone cannon and the spray lance? The answer is yes, they are, everything has been
completed. It's been completed down for a little while. So production is currently
is currently happening. And I'm really excited. I think it's going to be
again, one of the best probably bang for the bucks value for the money, but most premium
experience that you could you can really get. And I'm super proud of what we were we were
been able to create. So now it's just the final finishing stuff, right? So not necessarily having
to do with the product, but having to do with the packaging and all that. So we are closer.
We would we're still aiming for the TRCMA launch is still the expected launch date for that.
And yeah, I just I'm super excited. But in the meantime, you'll continue to see it used here.
And again, that just it should be something you want to see on your end, just to ensure that,
you know, it's working how you want it to work. And I think visually the phone cannon
it produces some wild foam. The actual tactileness of the clicks and the adjustment on the foam
cannon are incredible. And then all the features of the sprayer the spray gun
just make it such a killer experience. I mean, I I'll touch more on it and go into
excruciating detail in future videos. But I just know that I'm really happy about it.
There will be a video breaking the whole thing down, you can trust. All right. Next up, I got Dan's
diamond detailing saying, Hey, guys, you all had a great holidays and hope the family as well.
Thank you, Dan and to everybody here. So I hope you did have a great one, too.
Next up, we got Joey Balinski. What's he saying, Sydney?
Happy New Year, my friends. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday. I'll get right to it.
When can I check out those new liquidators? I'm asking for a friend.
Oh, okay. Well, we'll have to figure out who your friend is.
Next up, awesome guy at 7771. It was 40 today. So I could finally take out the pump sprayer
and the rinse less solution. Nice. Nice. Hear that. Hopefully you put it to good use. Then I've
also got one who shall remain nameless, aka baby group today. I love group one of my favorite
characters for the Avengers. Did you say I thought you said grew as in
Oh, you're thinking despicable me. Well, didn't that is what Gabe said? Grew? I thought he said
Groot. Well, Groot is not a baby. Groot is from Guardians of the Galaxy. Yeah. Yeah. Grew when
he said minions. That's despicable me. Hey, Anthony. No, I've got a question. Sorry. Sorry. What's
I also have a question. It's just not a digital one. It says from not Joey.
Ask what magnification Anthony's glasses are set at today. Yeah, that's right.
Are you are you pointing to make sure people know which way
Oh, shut up. Right. We've got David boys here. He said cheap pink or red.
It is red. It is red. I think one of the cameras, the one in the bay directly above it,
the white balance is a little off. So it looks pink. The paint is absolutely dry, like bone dry.
I put I did the hyper cell trick that I showed a few lives back and it was as if it did
nothing. Like it was still flat and it's still very, I mean, it looks nice, but it's still it.
This paint needs a polish, like a true decontamination polish is what this
either needed a polish or it needed Sydney's famous wash clay and seal. It could have used
a wash clay and seal. I mean, city of the magic touch. Yeah. My main thing with this Jeep when I
first saw it was that from bumper. It's not really showing right now because it's still wet up there,
but that thing was a completely different shade of gray from the vendors. Yeah, it was so light.
Yeah. All I could think was that's going to look amazing once you get some trim restore product
on there. And I believe today gave you were going to use trim plus, correct? Correct. Yeah, we're
going to trim plus. Excellent. And hey, look at this. We've got details official in the chat.
My man got the line of the handle any job on the cart. That's right. Gabe has a little bit
of something for everyone. Well, I wanted to change it up. I don't know. I like to use different
products as much as possible on these Q&As. Sure. You guys can see them in action and make the
decision for yourself if that's something you want to try. I don't know. Love it. That's all right.
Then I've got a question for Sydney here. Nice. Take it away. Oh, when is Sydney joining the
Tier C full time? Well, I think you didn't hear the news.
Sydney. How about that? Do people know? I don't think people know on here.
I said just go ahead. You're doing something pretty amazing nowadays. Yeah. And tell us about it.
Yeah, Sydney. What are you doing? That's so amazing. I don't know. Or do you not want me to say anything?
We can talk about it. Okay. So, Sydney, we can talk about it.
2025 marked the end of your... End of an era, yeah. Of an era. Yeah. Of your time at PNS. Yeah.
Yep. Yes. And it is... Yeah. I would say it is a beautiful chapter closing. Yeah. And it was
an amazing time full of amazing memories in many, many years of, again, creating a fantastic brand,
right? And evolving a brand. Yeah. And 2026 was the start of something new. Now,
the RAD company is involved with you, right? You are obviously here right now. Yeah. But
something else has blossomed that is delicious. Yeah. Tasty. Yeah. Colorful. So sweet. And so
sweet. So, what is that sweetness? Yeah. So, for those that did not hear... We're just cheesing it
on me. And cheesy. But you know what? We're pretty fun. So, okay. Sorry. Continue. Yeah. So, at the
end of 2025, I did step away from PNS. I'd been there for almost seven years. Still, I'll probably
always be their biggest fan. I mean, honestly, the products are great. But things change in life,
and different paths happen. And so, when I joined the industry, so for those that know,
I mean, I still detail full time, right? And so, I don't necessarily look at it as a job for what
I do in the industry with these companies. It's really like, it's a passion. And I want to be
doing the things that I want to be doing and helping in the ways that I enjoy. And a lot of that is
helping detailers be successful and help their lives be easier so that they're not killing
themselves, trying to do certain tasks and use certain products. And with that, I knew that I
needed to make a change. And so, there's obviously lots of options. And I work with a lot of different
companies. So, to answer the question, I mean, I'm full-time TRC family, but I'm here part-time,
right? Because I do a lot of different things part-time. So, you know, everybody knows I work,
you know, here at TRC. I work for Buff and Shine part-time. And so, this year, I've joined the
Carcandy team because, for me, one of the biggest things, if you put two and two together, all of
the companies that I'm aligned with are all family-owned companies. They're based in the United
States. They make their own stuff. And that, to me, all is like, I'm really passionate about that.
But with Carcandy, I mean, absolutely fantastic team. I mean, fantastic people. So, that was a
huge draw. I really wanted to be part of just a killer team that, you know, worked at the same
speed that I did. And so, that's been great. And then the products are, you know, their history,
their products were really formulated for, you know, car washes, car dealerships,
more production style. And so, when we joined forces, to me, I looked at it and went,
this is going to be so fun, you know, to help them go through their product line,
just like I did P&S, and, you know, really refine them and give them a detailer's touch
and detailer's perspective and a DIY perspective, right? Because I obviously started out enjoying
working on my own vehicles. So, there were so many foundational pieces there with Carcandy and
there was just the fun stuff left, which was, you know, playing with products,
creating new products, you know, working with old products to kind of modernize them,
to make them work in today's environment. So, it's going to be a lot of fun. They have,
you know, an on-staff chemist. We've worked together. He's been great. I think, you know,
and then obviously Josh Pierce went there too, right? And so, I get to work with him again,
which, you know, we made a dynamic team. And so, I'm super looking forward to it,
really, really looking forward to it. We have some really big news coming out in a couple
weeks when we all head to MTE that I'm really, really excited about. And so, I'm just, I couldn't
be more excited to join them and join forces with them and just, like, go kill it.
That's going to be crazy, yeah.
But yes, but I will probably never work anywhere full-time to answer the question.
Except your own house.
Yeah. Well, and even that is,
Oh, well. Right now, Delaney's home. Like, I'm subbing stuff out now to my kids. But no,
but I, but yeah, I'm full-time here, family-wise, but I'm not full-time anywhere. I have, like,
19 different jobs, but it's fine. But yeah, so that's, that's my 2026. It looks different.
You definitely won't be bored. Yeah.
Yeah. That's for sure. Definitely not.
We'll be bored.
Too fun. Too fun.
Next up, I got Michael DeBlau here. Remember, he's over in Europe.
Got the Active 2.3 delivered from TRC Europe. Who has experienced tips
still need to set up on the wall with the Active Hose Reel and Wall Mountain? Yeah,
I do not have. I do. The Active 2.3.
I still have the, oh, what's the 2.3? I have the 2.0. Never mind.
It's the latest one.
Yeah.
That actual, I'm going to turn this off.
Is the 2.3 the bigger one?
We're good now.
Is that the bigger one?
Yes, it is the bigger one. And, and then he's talking about the new Active just came out
at the end of 25 mid or end of 25 Q4. They came out with the new wall mounted
hose reel and pressure washer mount all in one.
Cool. That smells so delightful right now.
Oh, that's Amplify.
Really nice.
Oh, I was going to say.
I was doing a test on these wheels. These wheels need love in.
My guess is this, this Jeep probably saw like the odd, you know, drive through car wash once in
a while, but like not necessarily a whole lot of in driveway care or that kind of thing.
Right. And maybe not a lot of garage action either.
Well, and when I first saw it out in like a parking lot, my first impression was actually
the red paint like from a distance looks pretty good. There's certain parts where it's definitely
more chalky and like faded. But I was like, okay, this is a lot of JKs like this generation.
Since they started clear back in 2007, there's obviously examples out there that look like
really kind of chalky and rough. This one, I was like, oh, that red paint looks pretty good.
Despite the age. And then I heard it was a 2015. I was like, oh, it's a little bit later.
It's got the penistar of those updates. So it's, it's to be expected, but that trim,
that bumper was crazy. So I can see it starting to dry now. You can see kind of the,
it looks like camo now.
Yeah, it's got like a little camo pattern going on.
And that'll just keep happening the longer the show goes on, the more it starts to turn back
to gray. So yeah, we'll definitely be addressing that as we move along.
But yeah, so Michael DeBlau, no personal input for the active reel and hose mount there or
well, Michael, I hope you have somebody who does have 2.3 experience, but that one will
have to wait. I'm afraid. All right, baby Groot here. Mudbuster is my go to for after winter
and after winter cleaning here in Massachusetts. Yep.
Oh, sitting. Go ahead and take Jay Z here. All right. So just to answer your question,
you guys, I had the Jeep 392 and a Hellcat Challenger with the three pedals like that.
I have one of those and a few other cars had to decide what to keep and I kept the chalet.
Okay. Honestly, a three pedal Hellcat is fun and there's not too many of them really. I mean,
virtually everyone who got those things got auto. So that's cool. Is the Jeep 392,
the death Jeep? That's the V8 Jeep. That's the Wrangler with the V8. Yes. The 6.4. No, I saw one
launch at a stoplight. Yeah. This is probably two weeks ago. I was getting like sushi one night
or something like that. Body rolls and I saw this thing launch and heard it and went,
is that Jeep on steroids? Like what just happened? Like it shocked me. Like I was floored. They're
pretty cool. The first year that they just literally just shoved the engine into a Jeep Wrangler.
Overheating problems. They, a lot of them got returned because they were almost undriveable.
But the last couple years, they're very, very nice. Like I wouldn't mind one, but you know,
I have the grand Cherokee, but Delaney's thinking about getting the 392. They just released a special
one for 2025 or 2026. Come from the 4 by E to that would be kind of crazy. No, but you know what's
crazy is you look on paper and her 4 by E is as fast as the 392 off the line. Because the torque
from the electric. Yeah. Yeah. But she's thinking about getting one and it was so funny you should
have seen when she told Tristan she was going to buy a 392. He like lost his mind and he asked the
dreaded question, why would you need that? Oh, well, there's no good answer for that.
Like haven't you been part of this family? We don't ask that question in this family.
Why does that matter? I mean, accepting family. It is funny that you guys are all based around
like, you know, American muscle and cars like that. But I mean, I would love for my family to
be like that someday with tuner vehicles, but like much slower, right? Like, why would I need
a Civic with V tech? And I'm like, are you kidding me? Like you have to have V tech, right? Or why
would I need the 1.5 turbo? I'm like, because, you know, like I would love to be able to justify
things like that for my daughter someday. And yeah, it's a beautiful thing. It really is.
Tristan doesn't seem to fit in with the rest of the family as much. No, he's like in the Subaru.
No, not but not tuner Subaru. He's into like utilitarian Subaru and enjoyment of like the
WRX and things like that. Yeah. Carson has one of those. Yeah, sports car. It's pretty funny.
Yeah, it's pretty funny where it's Carson's going to get real mad. Yeah.
All right. Anyway, actually brings us to a very important point. So at this point,
we are going to go to a brief break. We've had a ton of fun so far. We're going to have some more
fun here in the second half. We will be covering some information on Mobile Tech Expo at the beginning
of the next half. So don't go anywhere. And in the meantime, enjoy some messages from ourselves,
as well as some sponsors, and we'll see you in just a few minutes.
Hello, hello, hello and welcome back to the second half of Q&A Thursday here at the RAG
Company YouTube channel. I'm your host, Dane Hennan. To my left, Anthony Fisher,
looking some hydrogen water. Sorry. And to my right, Sydney Gwynne. Welcome to the show. And
it wouldn't be an awesome detailing event without Gabe Garcia over on the far side. They're cleaning
up this Jeep. And you know what? This Wrangler was looking rough earlier, but you're doing a great
job making this thing look better on camera. And I'm excited to see what happens at front bumper.
Thank you, Dane. Yeah, my eyes are getting a little bit straighter as we go. So okay, well,
you know, probably the fumes talking, but that's all right. I'm definitely looking at you, see?
You really are. Okay, so can you tell us a little bit about what your plans are for this Jeep in
the second half of the program? Give us a little update. It's now been washed. It's been dried.
What's happening next? So I sprayed some full scent on wheels. It's been washed. Now what we're
going to do is we are going to use, we're going to go back and we're going to hit it with trim plus
on the fender wells and not fender wells, the fenders and the rear bumper. I am going to hit
with the front bumper, but I'm a little worried. It kind of looks like it's been heated. Now,
I don't know if you guys know if you've seen those videos where they heat the bumper, but
what ends up happening is when you heat plastic, it looks good at first, but what it does is it
closes the pores. So whenever you put, whether it's solution, finish or trim plus on that plastic,
even after it's been properly prepped, it's not going to adhere or take it. So I have a little
bit of concern on the front bumper. I did do a test spot on the rear. It looks great. So I'm
feeling good at where we're at there. So we're going to do that. And then if I have time, I'm
going to clean the windows because Carson was complaining about specifically the front windshield.
Okay. Yeah, I can see handprints and like wipes and stuff on it. It looks like somebody tried to
cut it. It's from the ANSI. It's definitely from the ANSI. Like a little off-gassing happened and then,
yeah. Yeah, it's definitely from the ANSI. It looks pretty grody. So we'll address those last,
but overall, I'd say this Jeep is looking good. Metal and stuff like that, full send is your
best friend. I just hope they don't slip. So here's a good shot of the windshield. Yeah. Yeah.
All right. Well, I want to get back to the comments guys. Well, actually, so,
oh, right. Yeah, you got a little talk. We need to cover a little bit of some information here,
Dave. So here in about three weeks, actually three weeks is the mobile tech expo. Yeah.
So MTE 2026, which is going to be held in Orlando, Florida at the Rosin Schingle Creek.
It's quite a name. Quite the name. Now, this is going to be essentially a multi-day event.
If you've never heard of MTE, it is for detailers and PDR specialists and a little bit of everybody
in between who enjoy seeing really a more concentrated form of, I mean, really detailing
and PDR tools and refinishing tools and even some paint specific tools and product as well.
And so it's slowly but surely becoming another real big standout event for the industry.
And it's kind of like taking a good portion of SEMA, the concentrated version, and then just
throwing it into a completely different environment over there in Orlando. And it's
awesome. So we'll be there for technically Wednesday is going to be the start of the
first education day, which is the paid day. So if you pay the, I think, the extra $50,
you'll have access to that and you'll have a variety of classes to go to,
including one that I will be hosting at 1 p.m., which is going to be how to choose the right
microfiber for your shop and or business. Then from there on Thursday is going to be the standard
education day. And that is going to be a big one where there's tons of classes. And I will,
again, be hosting another class at 1 p.m., which is going to be the microfiber 101 presentation,
just to go over the basics of microfiber. Sydney, are you teaching anything?
I am, well, I'm sure I'll teach lots of things while I'm there, but no, I'm not doing a class
mainly because I do need to set up. But I do, I am a board member for the IDA. So I actually run
around and I introduce everybody. Cool. You know, so maybe I'll introduce you.
Sweet, that means. Yeah. So I go to all the classes. So I did not do a class this year,
mainly because I knew I was switching companies. And so that made it a little bit difficult.
But no, I will be there. I'll be introducing the speakers, which will be great. But I do want to
give a plug for the IDA because it's open to everybody on Friday night after the show floor
closes. There's the annual banquet or whatever, gala, you know, for the IDA. That's always a lot
of fun. There's lots of great awards and stuff. But then immediately following, here's the important
part, immediately following the awards banquet, there is a 90s concert party that is being put on
by MTE. Wow. And I will be there fully dressed in 90s attire. Nice. That's going to be sweet.
So I put a lot of effort into my outfit. The whole team did. So if you are going,
go check out the MTE party. It's from seven to 10 on Friday night after the IDA banquet.
Yeah. Which I also encourage you to go to. There's like drinks and orders and stuff.
Yeah. But yeah, 90s party. Were you guys like one, two? Oh no, I actually got all the 90s.
Did you? Yeah. I was born in 89. So I had, you know, a year of the 80s and then I was right into.
Yeah. I graduated from high school in the 90s. So anyway, so I'm really excited about it. It's
like my prime. So I have, I have a, I have a, I remember the gecko shirts that were, you know,
like the gecko, the sunglasses. The white gecko shirts. I could just wear that. You should wear
that and borrow Glenn's pit vipers and you'll be set. Well, drinking a Sobi. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. So, Sobi was like late 90s, early 2000s. Yeah. No, I was, I was aware of Sobi as early as
like 98, 99. What was a 90s drink? Don't try to think of a surge. Oh my
Surge. Surge was totally a 90s drink. That is the trick. Capri's on. Capri's on is classic.
Why are you saying that? That way. Capri's on and Kool-Aid. It's just, there's just
Capri's sun. It's clearly Canadians were very 90s. Yeah. What's that? Clearly Canadians.
Those were very 90s. Zima. Zima would be pretty crazy. Yeah, dude. Nice. That would be, what
were those? That's courtesy of Nick, by the way. What were those wine coolers that everyone drank?
What were they called? No, I don't know what they were called. I know my mom drank them.
Yeah. That's a slightly different. No, I know what you're talking about. There was a wine cooler
that everybody drank. I thought Zima's were. The wine cooler that had the foil
top and then it was just, I think a beer, I think it was like a beer style cap, whatever it is.
You break the foil, you pop it open. Yeah. They looked like the clearly Canadian bottle,
but they were wine. It was a wine cooler. Oh, Bartles and James? Everybody's saying Bartles and
James. Yeah, probably. Yeah, or Jones soda. Not Jones soda. Yeah, Zima's I do remember.
That's all fun. So very cool. And then I believe Friday, obviously the start of the event. So
we know we'll be there all Friday for the first day of the event. And then I'm sure there will be
a couple of different after parties. And then I think there is going to be an event at a couple
different local detailers in Orlando at their shops. And then Saturday is going to be the second
day of the event. And that one's also going to be great as well. And then Saturday night will be
probably some type of dinner. And then Sunday, I know that we are leaving Sunday morning right
first thing at like 5am or something. Oh, wow. Yeah, we're out of there. I decided not to do
that to myself this year, because I've done that in years past and always regretted it. I'm still
on like a 7am flight. But yeah, yeah, I am fun fact, I'm actually going down a week early. So I'll
be in Orlando the week prior to us normally arriving. So I'll be leaving some around the 21st
or something like that. And I'll make my way down there because I'm going to be going down there
with a family, spending a little bit of time. We're going to go hit up a couple Disney themed
parks, which I think will be great. You know, maybe a little bit of a Magic Kingdom or some
other stuff. My, obviously my family's never been, but my father-in-law has purchased a home in the
villages. Oh, okay. That's a sign of retirement more than anything else. And my favorite part
about it is he has purchased a home in the villages, but he has purchased a home one mile away from
Matt Mormon in the villages. Matt's very excited here in Middleton. So we're going to be going down
to, I think go see it, but also go do some Disney related stuff. I think actually we're going to be
staying in Orlando for the most part, but we might go visit the villages at least one of the days or
something. So I might stop by and go say hi to Matt if I can find some time to do that. But yeah,
I'll be there for a week. So I will have my full fill, full fill of Florida. I'll have over a week
and a half there of, you know, festivities and show stuff. I'm just excited for the weather, man.
I just hope it doesn't let us down. Remember there that was in one year it was like cold and
rainy and windy and yeah. So I'm hoping, I'm hoping to, I hope we get the best. He's literally going
to turn into one of those Capri Sun kids where they melt into liquid metal or whatever. Yeah.
Yeah. Kind of like an Alex Mack type thing. Yeah. Now there's 90s for him. Yeah. All right.
Moving along. I've got comments and questions here. Let's get BT dubs up there. Any update on the
foam cannon? We kind of already addressed this, but for the second half, Anthony, can you do a
condensed version? Basically the products are finished. They're currently in production right
now. And so yeah, that's foam cannon is feeling and performing awesome. So we're excited. Yeah.
Bam. Then I've got Hanzo, classic Hanzo. What's Hanzo saying, Sid? I have to get a new portable
electric power washer asking for recommendations on what PSI and GPM to look for. Also any machines
that you would recommend. Thanks. So the only machine that I have any experience with is the
ego one. Okay. For electric. Is that what portable means? Oh, I mean basically. What does portable
mean? Is my active portable? I mean, I could take it anywhere I need to take it. If you have the
ability to hook it up to a different water source, like a bucket or something. Yeah. I mean, the ego
is obviously. Oh, I would love to tell you. I thought you meant like literally take it with you
at any time. So yeah, so electric powered. I have the ego or not the ego. I'm sorry,
Jason. Active 2.0 that I can literally unhook it and take it in my backyard if I need to.
I like that. I know there's been a lot of, you know, dislike for those, but I have had good
luck with mine. I did have one that caught on fire. That is too exciting. Yeah, but that was from
the first group. They did send a replacement right away. They were great and that one's been
really. Was it a oil issue or what was causing that? The pumps were like not allowing enough water
into the unit. Oh, so it's just overheating until it finally cooked itself. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. I
think Gabe's did the same thing, but they sent us new ones right away and no big deal. Okay. Yeah,
no. A smart company would definitely not want that to go any longer than it had to. Yeah, but it's
been running now for like two years since then and it's been great. That's good. That's good. Thank
you. All right. What about you? Anything to add? What about that new one everyone's talking about?
Like the new AR? Oh, the AR. Yeah. So the AR, if you, so I guess I'll just make it really simple.
If you're looking to just purchase something at your first ever pressure washer and you just want
to get a feel for it, you don't know how often you're going to use it. Buy a cartridge. A cartridge
is like the best bang for the buck under a hundred bucks or around a hundred bucks. They work great.
Ryobi probably in the similar, similar field there. I only went through two cartridges, Dane.
Only two. And they back their stuff. So cartridge killer. Sunjo is really kind of falling off.
They were also a great entry level product for a lot of people. Not really hearing a whole lot
about Sunjo recently. So I would say between cartridge and Ryobi, somewhere. I think the
Ryobi is kind of the standard for the cheapies. Yeah. And then if you're looking for the next
step up, you jump into an active and the actives, again, have been improving quite a bit. And I
think they're really, they're really making some decent products. Going up from there,
you'd go to probably the Comet and then the AR series of products. And right now, I think AR
is really starting to catch up with Krenzla on a lot of the, you know, components and overall
reliability and power. And so depending on how much you want to spend, you know, you would jump
up to the Krenzla slash AR field now. But I think the other stuff is valid. What I said. Okay.
Well, let's keep this train rolling. We got Superado here, very helpfully pointing out that he's,
in fact, a little earlier than usual. He made it to the party. Happy New Year. Back at you, Al.
All right. Then Joey pointing out, he loves not having any carpet for 15 years. Well,
then Bucky, Alex here, loves home renovations. Just double your allotted time. And yeah, I mean,
you're going to save money, but you're going to use a lot more of your own time because,
unlike a professional, you probably don't know the ins and outs of all the things you're going
to be attempting to do. All right. Then we got some love for Gabe. We got Gabriel's the best by
Dan Steinman detailing. You're welcome, Gabe. After all the shade that was thrown at you earlier,
I think it's only fair I share a comment like that. I want Gabe to continue cleaning this vehicle.
So a great job there, Gabe. Yeah. Yeah, Dean. That's right. Doing this for you.
Well, GT details. Anthony with the Roast of the Year already in January.
Brutal. Brutal. That was rough. All right. G Dave. Oh boy, G Davis. This is a Q and A episode
where Tain finally addresses this connection to Luke Berge. Oh my God. That's hilarious.
That is, wow. That is very good. You don't want to find yourself in the Berge files.
Okay. Dean, did I ever tell you off camera that I did give G the update on your life and the
final connection to the local bark and purr? What? Oh, it's from, because my girlfriend works there.
So now it's a bark and purr. It's a pet store. Please do tell us. They just sell like pet
store pets. But G Davis loves poking fun about the bark and purr because one time a long time
ago when I got a cat from Levi near his house, this place is on Vista. So I had to go up and
find like a cat carrier to pick up this cat from him. And I needed a cat carrier. I was like, well,
shoot, what's close? Okay, bark and purr. I'll just go there and check it out. And it was like,
I was like, Oh, wow, this place is kind of bougie. It is very nice. But you know, I paid a price for
that cat carrier that you might not necessarily pay elsewhere, but it was a very nice one. So
okay, well, I'm glad it's actually a pet store. It was actually high quality. Yes. It was the
Crensla of cat carriers. That's basically how they operate. But I told G that and I think that
made it. He probably died. I think that made his whole year. Yeah. Oh my thank you for that boy.
Appreciate you, G. Ron, a yacht, Gabe, if you have a licensed electrician, do the work with
proper permits. If anything happens, like a fire, one of the first things your insurance company
will do is check for permits. That was something I was talking about. And Ron is a firefighter,
so he can say that. And he goes, if there were no permits, they can deny your claim.
Remember that they are not in business to pay claims and will do everything to avoid banks.
Yeah, Ron, I'm not ready. So just to reiterate, just to reiterate, I'm not rewiring, like,
adding new circuits or anything of that sort. What I'm electrical that I'm doing is like
replacing thermostats with a new thermostat. Oh, well, that's not that bad. Yeah, that's easy.
Yeah, I'm not adding that kind of stuff. No, the stuff we're talking about goes a little deeper.
Like, you're talking about hard wiring, candle lights, and running, you know, wiring. Oh, that's
easy. Switching and existing fixtures, one thing, but when you start messing around with new wiring.
We did do permits and we did pull and get an inspection. Because when we, our old house,
when it flooded, we had to redo it and we had to add junction boxes and stuff like that. So
we did it. We pulled the permits and we got it approved. Good thing you did it before it was too
late, Gabe. Thank you. Sheepstar, with a very productive and helpful, maybe you guys needed
another week. Oh, serve it, comment. The sheep is on the ball today. Okay, well, we got a lot of
people saying that made my day, et cetera, et cetera. Oh, okay, let's get flag pyro up here,
because he's got a detailing question. Mitt on a stick, is that another auto fiber cullab?
Anthony, can you speak to how that all works? Because call him Mitt on a stick.
Mitt on a stick is actually a company. So Mitt on a stick is technically its own brand within the
auto fiber umbrella, if you want to call it that. Mitt on a stick is the brand for the product
made by auto fiber by Ian. But Mitt on a stick is very well is, I mean, it could be its own
standalone brand. And so we are treating it as a standalone brand, not to say that we don't have
other collaborations with auto fiber haven't done collaborations in the past, like we love Ian over
there. And it everybody's awesome. So we are just doing this more so as a different color way. That's
all it is. I mean, basically, the gray is the rag company, like addition color of that. And that's
our exclusive. So if you want the gray stick, the only place you could buy it would be here at the
company. And the fact of the matter is the product is so good right out the gate. There really isn't
a need to like try and reinvent the wheel with that. It's a great product. So if you haven't tried
it, it is worth every penny. Of course, air here from Ireland pointing in with his very bougie
eating habits here poached pear crumpled now in brandy custard and fresh cream. Yummy. I'll set
your places at the table and won't disturb to all of your arrivals. Love you. Wow. Thank you,
air. That's very kind. Very nice. That sounds wonderful. I I again, this castle is just just
sounding better and better. Real nice. I don't know how many people you have working there,
but I do feel as if like I am going to have somebody into the door with the towel draped over
their arm. This just feels like a situation where he unironically does have a butler.
I'm convinced at this point. You can still have butlers in 2025 or 2026, right?
It's not like sure. Like there's people out there who have drivers. Well, you know, in terms of like,
you know, class hierarchy and stuff, people looking like you have a driver and they'll be like,
whoa, okay, Mr. Moneybags over here. Yeah, kind of thing. So I get it. There's there's a certain
like impression it makes if you're like, oh, I have a driver. Air's driver would be like Jason
Statham. Like when he wasn't filming movies, you know what I mean? Like Jason Statham doing
his downtime. He's a driver. I would acquire a whole nother job on top of my job just to have
Jason Statham as a driver so that I could just go on like crazy joy rides, just just running off
jumps, flipping the car, not going to, you know, crazy. Oh, well, I don't want to get demonetized
off at the bottom of the car. You've seen transported to anyway. Moving on. Love transporter
to so much. Love that. But I love transport. I think transport one's a significant one is a
significantly better movie. No disagreement there. Transport or to transport or to so much because
it's so much wacky, cheeseball, super schlocky, funny over the top action. Like it's just
creatively and it's it's not good. Like in terms of like the the writing of the storytelling is
a little rough. But overall, the impression it makes just really stuck in my brain, especially
Crank. Like that is an all time thing to be careful. I'll have it be known though. My favorite movie
is it man. My favorite movie is the life of Quatigo Steve Zizzou. So it's a little different speed
that movie compared to, say, Crank. Shortly followed by Herbie the love bug. It's out there for sure.
Well, you know, lots of classic race footage. Anyway, we are off way off. Let me get fine
detail here with high friends. Our friend Ryan popping in. He's been releasing some videos lately.
I hear things are going well. Then I've got Carly here. Cindy, what's Carl saying? Sorry,
I called you Carl. Shout out to the TRC team. I brought back the, oh, I bought the back in
black pack. Oh, nice. That's hard to say 10 times. And I love the design of that wash mitt. Do you
all plan on making other mitts that way as well? We do not. That was not to say never, but it was
kind of a limited edition thing. We could revisit the cuffless mitt and do that here in the future,
you know, if people really liked it. It was more so just something fun just to change things up.
But yeah, maybe. All right. Then I've got DIY with Kane, simply saying Minnesota checking in.
Always happy to see you pop in here, Kane. It was nice meeting you at SEMA, by the way.
Yep. Then I've got, hey, Ryan, how are the low spots? Hearing a lot of talk about low
spots in the comments from people. What's low spots? It feels like something that came up in his
video. So it is not a high spot. Is that everything that's not a high spot? It's not a high spot,
it's a low spot. Was this a video reference? I feel like this is a, yeah, a lot of people are
saying this. So I haven't watched the video. Ryan's most recent videos has some. I'm not aware of the
chatter going on. Yeah. You know how it is. Detailing, detailing YouTube, detailing. I don't
know how, I don't know. I've been away. The social media addicted side of the detailing community
does really latch on to this stuff. He reviewed a product and the product. Things happened. All
right. That's what I heard. Caught on fire? I don't know where you need to look. They'll,
they'll fill it in. Is it a bad product? I'm sure. It'll come up in the comments. I'm sure. Oh look,
here it is right here. Find detailing. I need a recommendation for an eight-year ceramic coating.
Okay. Well, you know, he's just, he's looking for feedback. Did you install a coating? I'll leave
it at that. Or was it, or was it the coating? Was it a bad coating? Was it bad, was it a bad coating?
Everybody's tested. It was not a great one. I'm asking, I genuinely, I don't know what's going on.
Yeah, I don't, I'm very curious. So, um, all right. Anyways, Detail, Grind podcast. It says,
tune in tomorrow as we chat with Sydney about her adventure, 7 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Mountain,
4 p.m. Pacific. You really are everywhere. That's nice. Did you know you're doing that?
Yeah. Okay, cool. No, she's just finding out now for the first time. I do. Yeah. No, I do. Sometimes
I don't look at my schedule till the day before and I'm like, whoa, like I have a whole coating
tomorrow and yeah, it's gonna be crazy. But yep, I'm gonna be there. Boom. Sweet. Uh, we got zero
day detail. Are we still targeting the end of quarter one for the ultra pressure washer gun?
Inquiring minds want to know. That is correct. Yes. That is the, that is the current target.
All right. Now, these actual year quarters or financial quarters are houses.
They were just, yeah. It was end of March. We'll see as we get closer. Which calendar we go with.
The point was when we were throwing out like a perspective timeline on this stuff, it hasn't
really been pushed because this is always the timeframe we were kind of setting for people. So,
yeah, it's realistic. Yeah. I'm not trying to shorten it at this point. I mean, that's the
minimum of what it would hit. So, yeah. So, not unreasonable. All right. Then we've got fine
here saying, you know, these are my friends from the Razzling. I'm here for it. All right. Glad to
hear it. Uh, Steve. Oh, Steve Pearson. Happy to see this guy in here. What's he saying, Anthony?
As someone who is starting to get back into eye racing, what products and towels would you keep
near your sim rig to keep it clean? Oh boy. Anthony is going to go off on this. Okay. Set a timer.
Set a timer. You got two minutes. This is an exciting question. Oh my. Oh no. So, Steve,
first off, you're going to need a towel for yourself and for the rig because guess what?
It's going to get sweaty in there, right? So, you're going to want to keep yourself a rag
company sport towel draped over your neck, right? Preferably damp. So, between each session or each
heat, you know, you can go ahead and, you know, blot your, you know, blot your forehead or whatever
it may be. I also recommend running yourself some type of camelback system on the back of your chair
so you could feed yourself some water, right? Because those races do get intense. And then,
if you would like, I'm not going to say I recommend a catheter, but if you wanted to get a catheter,
then that's something to keep you in the seat for longer. So, I don't know what I saw this turning
into, but I did not see that coming. Well, Dean, have you, you know, the Le Mans racers, right?
Yeah. So, you do what you got to do. Yeah, because you're actually in a car, actually racing, and
it actually gets hot. You are in a car. But he was asking how to keep it clean, not how to keep
racing for as long as possible. He asked how to keep his rig clean. I guess I was wanting to,
can I go down my own path? The cockpit here is literally just from the cooling fans on the PC.
I think it's for talking about things that I'm interested in. I'm sorry about that.
All right. So, to keep it clean. It's a real catheter enthusiast. I'm just a big fan of like
having a 365 or like a creature or something like that. And I actually have a bottle of just
diluted O&R or like a detail spray. I wipe down my wheel base. I wipe down my wheel often.
I do race with gloves when I'm driving. So, I do have gloves to keep my wheel from getting all
gunked up. And then my foot pedals, I usually just make sure to dust off. And so, that's why I
absolutely freaking love the MetroVac portable cordless VAC system. Sweet. I vacuum my sim racing
setup, my car setup, everything frequently. And it is spotless around that whole area. It's awesome.
I like how Jimmy just walked in while talking, while we were talking about eye racing and things,
but I'm sure you can't. I want to see if he stopped walking. He did not. All right. Anyway,
moving on. I have a question from Carson. Wanted to know, Sidney, have you used candy coat yet?
I actually have not. Josh has. So, I believe I have a bottle coming soon, but I have not gotten to
use it yet. But Josh has and he really likes it. Nice. Okay. I also want to point out Gabe's work
over here. It really likes to see the bumper getting attention here. You just see what a
stark contrast that is. That is a massive difference. Are you using the Armor Detail Trim Plus?
Holy crap. Look at that difference. Look at that. That's crazy. Now, of course, yeah, with those fog
light housings, you'll want to make sure you get all the way in there because I know it's going to
be lighter colored on the inside. I was going to leave it all. I was going to leave it all.
So, that way you can show the joke is that it's a little light on the inside. So, did the customer
know that his plastics were faded? I don't understand that joke, Dane. You want to elaborate?
What do you mean by that? It's a little light on the inside, literally.
I'm making a dad joke. Okay, come on. Sidney, please continue. Sorry. Save me.
I asked, does the customer know that his plastics were faded? No, no, the customer's aware. He's
aware of it. I was going to say, after the eye joke, I can't take anything serious right now,
Dane. I specifically mentioned that if nothing else today, this front bumper would be addressed.
So, that was a big selling point to me. We're seeing that and going, ooh, we can do something
with that. So, happy to see it. ADS Trim Plus doing an awesome job. Can you get a 50-50?
Ooh, a head-on shot of that? Yeah, that'd be awesome.
Yes, huge difference. And you notice the splotchiness, too, because it was really splotchy.
That is doing a great job of evening everything out. So, the big picture, that's going to look
great when it's done. All right, moving along. I've got Joey here. What is Joey saying? Oh,
no, it's more this. Either one of you. Joey says, have you guys ever heard of low spots in
a ceramic coating? If so, could you elaborate? I have not heard of them. The only thing I would
imagine is just that it's the opposite of a high spot. Astute observation. DIY with Canon.
Hi, Anthony. How are the UltraGun and Canon coming along? We offer different orifice options for the
Canon. So, yeah, so the Canon is going to come with a couple of different orifices right out the
gate. So, they're going to get a 1.1 and a 1.25, 1.2 along with the foam Canon. Now, I understand
that with crazy and crazy pressure washer setups coming out and depending on your overall flow,
that you may require a larger orifice size. So, right now, I think it would be a short term
accessory would be eventually adding in the 1.5 or even adding, I don't know, 1.4. Something in
that middle category range. I don't think we would offer like a 1.8 or anything that big yet,
but we would have something that would get people by for this next gen of pressure washers,
but I still think that we'll probably continue to offer the 1.1 and 1.2 as just the standard in
the box because that's still going to basically be sufficient for 90% of the market out there,
and then we would have an accessory orifice option for people who are running some a little more
flow. It's like getting a kit lens when you get a new DSLR. All right, Jason here. That's exactly
what it is. You're correct, yeah. Jason, I'll leave this to Sydney. Hello, all. What small brush
would you recommend for black wheels, lug nut holes, etc.? I feel like the Detail Factory Boar's
hair one are going to scratch while the nylon ones are too soft. Am I overthinking this? So the
nylon ones are not too soft. They are very soft to your hand, but they do a very great job cleaning
wheels. The thing is, obviously, you're going to be using your chemical to kind of help break the
dirt up, but then the synthetic brushes are all that I use. I don't use the Boar's hair one on
wheels because you're right, they are a little bit too much. So that's all I use is the Detail
Factory, the TriGrip on lug nut holes and stuff. But yeah, I mean, they're great. They're absolutely
great. Then I've got SAF here. Switzerland says, hi. I tried Rensseless in negative three degrees
Celsius panel temperature measured with a laser gun. Ooh, precise. Because I'm testing new products
for my business. It was fine as long as you quick and spray liberally. Okay, so just being quick.
But yeah, Rensseless washing when it's cold out in Switzerland. We were there, beautiful country,
like one of the prettiest I've ever seen. But yeah, sounds like you're doing the right SAF.
Sweet. All right, angry monkey detailing. Oh boy. I like that. Go ahead, Sid. I hope everyone had a
great holiday season. The Hella Georgia looked great. Is it possible for normal people to get a visit?
Hmm. So the Helen House, I'm assuming. So that, so it was a house that you could rent through Obsessed
Garage. Think of like an Airbnb. He was offering that for close to two years. And he now has finally
sold that house. So it's now under new ownership. I don't know if the new owner will be doing or
offering the same thing in the future where essentially people could rent it. I would say,
while the house was amazing and it was a very nice house, I think the overall vibe of the whole
town is also super cool. So if you ever wanted to just go to Helen and experience it, I highly
recommend it. I think just rent any other place and just go up for a week or weekend and spend a
few days. I will say that go at the turn of the fall, you know, when kind of we went beginning of
October, especially during Oktoberfest, was really fun because it's a German inspired town.
We had no idea we were going to be there during Oktoberfest. That was also hilarious. We just,
it was kind of how it happened. And Dane, we had a good time. We did. Yeah, we had a going through
the town. We walked around. I mean, it's really, it's really cute and the food was decent. There's
all sorts of beer gardens and all sorts of fun stuff. So I recommend it at least for the drive
alone. I mean, the roads are really pretty. Oh, beautiful area for sure. And for anybody who's
like here in the Pacific Northwest and is familiar with Leavenworth, Washington, where it
kind of got turned into Bavarian town, Helen, Georgia is like a much bigger version of that.
Like the it still all operates off of basically one main road running through the whole thing,
but it's just it's more expansive. It like it's more spread out. There's more German themed stuff,
Bavarian themed stuff around. I do not recommend going to Earth Mother Coffee as they will cast
a spell on you there. Little witchy, I guess. All right, then moving on to DIY with Kane,
probably an Anthony related question. Have you shared the Ultra Gun or Canon with Keeve or other
detailers to get some real feed, real world feedback, hopefully avoid another MTM Pro 3.0 gate.
So as of right now, most of the testing has been done by us as we are probably going to be as
as picky as we possibly can be. We will be eventually once the production units land
and they are here, those will be going out to probably some influencers or people who, you know,
friends and things like that to review or make videos on or just honestly just enjoy using.
At some point, I don't know when that will happen and I don't think it'll be anything,
you know, fishy or anything like that. I think it's just going to be like, hey, here's something
that we think you'll like and go from there. But we have done for reference because I know
people are going to ask, right? If Keeve, for example, you know, his big thing now is like
destruction of, you know, foam cannons and spray guns. It gets views. It gets views. It's a good
idea, right? I mean, people like to see things broken and break. I've been doing the same test
here and I have been throwing things on the ground. I hooked the spray gun into the,
we'll call it like the ravine, but like I hooked it into there. I was kicking around. People are
like walked out and they're like, Hey, what's going on with Anthony? He's like, he's like having like
a meltdown out there and he's breaking all of his stuff. No, I wasn't doing that. I was just,
I was just testing out the products and I will say that everything is withstanding a significant
amount of abuse. Not that I think that you should go out and abuse your foam cannons or spray guns
or lances. It just, I think people want to know like, what if this did happen? And I don't, that's,
so I'm trying to, to fit the needs of all of that, which is weird because like, I guess this is the
first time I think I've ever been like, yeah, I guess I'm going to just try to break my stuff
because I have to break it or else other influencers will on camera. And then it'll become a
controversy that then carries throughout social media. Because it gets broken, I'm going to get
dinged for it. So I guess like, I probably, so I guess I probably should do it myself, which is
just so weird, but I'm like, I guess that's the world we're living in now. So I guess I'm just
doing it. So needless to say, I've been, I've been putting it through a lot of stress testing.
Now with that said, I don't think anything's going to be indestructible. And I think that
there's going to be particular things that are meant to come part in all that as normal. But
we have not had any breakages, which has been super awesome. And to that end, Kane, I think it's
important to point out the fact that you just heard Anthony say all that shows like, we are aware
of how people do this stuff now, like online. And Keith got to see like all the parts at SEMA
in person. And you talked with him about it. He did ask if I could send him one. And I probably
totally will. I mean, I've been like, there's nothing to hide. There's nothing that I just
tell you, you have a finalized version though. Yeah, I just need something that's finalized.
And then that'll go out. And I think that people again, are really going to really going to dig
this setup. I'm loving it. Sweet. Oh boy. Sydney, go ahead and read DS here. All right. That's
because Gabe really has an eye for detail. Not plural. Oh my God. It's still happening.
Apparently. Joey, I love you, Anthony. I'm blind as a bat too. I can I can see the
magnification from here. Out of time detailing just used armored detail supply trim plus on my
2020 Jeep. Amazing transformation. All the gray is now back to new. Nice. I mean,
I guess I'm just a little concerned. I see Texas in your avatar there. So I'm guessing it's seen
a lot of Texas on. I was like, why is it a 2020? And it's already turning like that gray. It's a
little concerning, but it happens fast. It happens. It does. It happens super fast. UV damage
out the wazoo. So with trim plus on there, it should be able to withstand a lot more than it did
before putting it on. I think it was to like 21 or 22 that they changed the compound of the fenders.
Yeah, I hear they use different kinds of plastics depending on the year. But I want to say it was
probably 22 when they changed the fender compound. Yeah. Okay. Good to know.
All right. So we got David Boyce with a question for Sidney. Bemaker and coffee ending too. Oh,
yeah. Now, will you do something in it? Yes. So we'll probably do something in the future. It may
not be necessarily car candy based. It may be other detailer based. And so there may be a group
of us getting together and doing a similar Q&A. But the bead maker and coffee man, that was one
that it was kind of one of those ones that I didn't like really think about, you know, with
everything else that was ending. I didn't really think about that. Waking up on the morning that
I obviously knew it was the last one. And I remember thinking, Oh my gosh, this is going to be the
last time I've done this. And I did bead maker and coffee for six years and never missed an episode.
That's amazing. Never had to have anybody fill in for me. So the whole getting up at 6am on Monday
morning every other Monday for six years. Yeah, I don't necessarily miss it. I definitely miss
everybody. But I mean, the bonus is I get to be on this Q&A. And you know, that was really my goal
was to help people. But I'm not going to miss the I'm not going to miss the super early morning
things anymore. All right, Steve Pearson also saying car candy, Sydney Bray Gwyn double teal
collection coming in 2026. Dude, I ask for teal everything and nobody'll do me anything in teal.
Okay, car candy doesn't do something teal for you. That's crazy because their whole thing is being
colorful. Yeah, which I'll be honest, I haven't asked them to do anything in teal yet. I'm waiting.
I'm waiting for like, you know, the one thing, but hopefully a little birdie catches this. Yeah,
I know, I know. Passes the word along. I know. All right, awesome guy. What's he saying, Anthony?
Always the best when you can work with many different teams because that's when the most
progress happens. Yeah. Okay. Then I've got I always pronounce this guy's name as success,
because I don't know any other way to pronounce that. Yeah. What's your 2026 word guys? I don't know
if I can say that. Oh, we can't say that word? Oh, okay. Well, what's your backup word?
Well, mine is just the word is what describes my vibe. Oh, okay. Yeah. And I probably shouldn't
say it publicly. No. Oh, I thought it was going to be like foobar or something, but no. No. No.
But it's but it's not necessarily negative. I mean, I shouldn't like leave it on that. Like,
it's kind of positive, but like, yeah, little edgier, and I'm just excited, but in a really
positive way. Does that make sense? Okay. Yeah. Yeah. A little edgier, but in a positive way.
Yeah, just you're going to you're going to kind of push the envelope a little. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.
Cool. What about you? Shoot, Dane. I mean, he's not ready for it as a shoot. I'm excited.
Oh boy. Excited. Okay. So you're excited. I was going to say the word for me is improve.
Like whatever you do, it doesn't have to be the best necessarily. You're working towards something.
Just improve. I think you can apply that to virtually everything. Yeah. What about you, Gabe?
Um, I would say chance. Chance. Yeah. We, you know, we are, you know, family wise,
we're taking a chance and we are, we bought a place and we are going to run it as an Airbnb.
And it's kind of ties a little bit to the home stuff. It's a little scary doing some,
you know, updates on it, but hoping that it all works out.
I like that. Then I've got another one for Sydney here from King. Oh, congrats, Sydney.
Got to chat with Ashley Nye at SEMA. Very nice, smart, hot. I emailed them last week. They will
not provide a chocolate thunder SDS without showing proof of purchase. Fix that. I'll ask about that,
but I don't, I don't, I'm not on that side. So I will ask about it. Okay.
Noted. He's saying that Ashley Nye is hot. Yeah. That's the owner of the company. She's a beautiful
lady. Good for her. She's awesome. She's amazing. She's amazing. That's sweet. So we've got Lance
Raybourne here saying now I'm going to have to try some card candy. What should I try first
and do they have a rinse list? So what you should try first, I'm going to go with probably their
most known product is chocolate thunder. The thing about chocolate thunder though, I will give you
a heads up because when I'm testing products, I always like to do it the way that most detailers
do. So I try to be like, I don't want to use the word irresponsible, but like, I don't read the
directions. I don't read the label. So I just stuck a sprayer in the bottle and went to town
and I was like, I don't really like this, but you're supposed to dilute it four to one because
it's super concentrated. So when you dilute it, it is actually, it's so good. It's so, so good. So
it is a wheel and tire cleaner. So chocolate thunder is great. There's a lot of great products.
The impeccable interior is really great. I really like the eradicator, which is their like carpet
stain dissolver. It's really great. And the thing I think I like about that is it's very similar
to Terminator, but it has a pleasant smell and you know, we all like smells. And so I've been,
I've been liking the eradicator. Do they have a rinse list? Not yet.
You didn't know this. It is on Amazon and you can see Sydney on the Amazon
storefront of car candy. So if you want to see more and learn from Sydney, definitely go to the
car candy storefront and she is going to be doing, what is that? So you're going to be doing weekly
presentations or? Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, on the Amazon storefront, we went live today and I kind
of discussed the chocolate thunder versus burst, which is the other like ready to use a wheel
entire cleaner. I really like both. I just use whichever one applies to my situation.
But so we kind of broke those down. But if you don't already follow that, yeah, like Gabe said,
I would definitely follow that because we will be going live every week, kind of breaking it down.
And like I said, there's a lot of new stuff coming. So that'll, you know, definitely be a
place to learn all about that. But yeah, I'm excited to get into it for sure. Yeah. Then I've
got Charlie here, Charlie T 70. Hey guys, quick question. How long can I leave O and R? That's
often a no rinse in a spray bottle before I have to dump it out. I'm a GMC tech and use it to spot
clean. But after about a week or two, it becomes clear. Now I'll say right off the bat, if it becomes
clear, it's not the end of the world. You can actually give it a little shake and you're still
good to go in most cases. Yeah, you can leave it in a spray bottle for months. So the, so the color
is not UV stable. So that will go away, but the actual polymer blend will stick around. And so
I've had O and R that set on a shelf for six months and I've gone to pick it up and use it
and it works just as it should. There's a faint smell to it. That kind of goes away as well.
But there is no downside to having that diluted and long, long-term it can stay diluted.
Yeah, I totally agree. And I, when I give you this tip, don't think that I do this at home,
but my one tip for if you're planning on keeping O and R or Rinsless in a spray bottle,
I would always use distilled water or, you know, RO water or something like that. It's going to
help it kind of stay stable longer. But that said, I use tap water and I keep it in a bottle. And
yet maybe not smell is great in a year, but it still works just fine. Okay. I, yeah, I recommend,
you know, one of the easiest things you can do, man, is like literally just go down to the store
by $99 or $99, not $99.99 gallon of distilled water, throw a cap full of a Rinsless, you know,
or O and R in there, and then just use that as your main, you know, filler up of anything. I mean,
Yeah, that's what I do for my steamer. So you can have steamer, extractor, spray, glasses cleaner,
laptop cleaner, TV wiped down, you know, you can use it for so many different things. And I find
that I do that. I go through roughly about a gallon a month of diluted Rinsless for
house. Yeah, yeah, house and stuff. And yeah, it's consistent. Like actually, like, I bought a
bunch of gallons and I store, I was storing them. And I was like, it was at the start of every month,
I was like, Oh, cracking open my, my, my December cracking open my November. And I've been mixing
different Rinslesses in there just for general house cleaning, including Hero, Opto and Orynsaps,
absolutely. I just mix up whatever I, whatever I'm feeling. Yeah. Okay, just throw it in. Cool.
And I've got Kevin Meiser here saying he bought a detail factory wheel brush mini.
The clearance between the rotors and wheels is still too narrow. Any other options or suggestions?
Yeah. So Kevin, realistically, there's going to be certain wheel and rotor combos out there,
where you really can't escape the easy detail brush. So easy detail brush is going to probably be
the answer. You're going to be able to get into the tighter areas. You will need probably the
smaller brush. And depending on how tight the clearances are, like I know that on the Raptor,
for example, I can't even fit the normal size easy detail brush in there. I have to get the mini one
to get it wedged in there. And then we're talking like that's super small. So
certain wheels will need that kind of, you know, nylon bristle to be able to get in there just
due to the, you know, how they, how they form the wire. The biggest downside of that style brush
is not necessarily that it's going to cause a bunch of damage or scratch. It's just the fling
that happens. It's just such a freaking mess when it comes back out on you. That's why we do love
the detail factory barrel brushes. There's not really much you can do. Sid, do you have any other?
You know, I mean, I've switched to the mini and, you know, I have two SRTs, so I'm right there with
you. Still around my caliper covers. I still can't get anything in between them, but I can get them
with my mini, but it's still kind of tight. But the one thing that I have tried that has worked is the
wheel wooly mini. The wheel wooly small one. Very small one. But I mean, you're
yeah. You are brushing the teeth. I was just saying you're this close to just using a pipe
cleaner at that point. Yeah. That's basically what it is. Yeah. Yeah. So if it's just where your
caliper is, what we do is we clean the barrels and then we back up, you know, 25% and then clean
behind the caliper, but I still can't fit the, even the mini barrel brush in between my caliper.
Yeah. And I, so I was actually washing the Raptor here and here the last week and I was the same
thing, right? I was going, oh man, dang it. It was gross and I got messy and I got kind of gross
looking, but like I just went to the backside of the wheel and I just plunged it from the back.
I was like pushing around. I'm like, oh, this is, I'm like laying on my stomach. I hated it. But
if there's a wheel, there's a way. Yeah.
That was a game joke. Sorry. Yeah. Juice free. The good thing in my case is I just, if I need
them to match, I just go back out and drive and stop one time and then they're blown up again.
So that's what I do. Right back to it. Juice free says, man, I already know TRC foam,
Kim Press washer gun about to be the new standard. Good luck. Everyone else. Thank you. I
appreciate it. It's very kind. I think that's nice juice. People are going to dig it, man.
We want people to be able to look at it and truly like feel like this is worth it. This is
something that you can actually go. Yeah, I will never regret this purchase. It is awesome. Yeah.
Next up, we got Neil, very interested in the new AR pressure washer, but hearing it has some
bugs. What bugs have you been hearing about? Um, I think the running the, the dedicated 20 amp
circuit is probably the one thing that I'm like, uh, kind of switching between 120 and two.
Yeah. There's an issue between that. Otherwise, um, trying to figure out keeping out for the
pre-owned gen one, uh, pressure washer, people might want to upgrade to 635. Yeah, that's true.
Yeah. The power stuff's always tough with the pressure wash, right? Because again, the more,
the more GPM, the more output the, you know, the crazier these things get, the more power
they're going to require. And at a certain point I'm like, what are we doing? Are we
eventually going to get to 220 outlets for pressure washers? You know what I mean? For,
for home pressure washers? Which I'm not paying another $600 for that outlet. Right. Um, and I just,
I don't think that most normal people can justify that much work and effort for the weekly wash.
Like I'll tell you, I'll tell you it's not worth it. I mean, um, and this is coming from a guy who's
used, you know, the, all the different fun OG systems. And I can say the dual pressure washer,
the dual Crenzels, yeah, freaking crazy, right? Tons of power. Uh, the amount of GPM that has,
it was wild. I don't think, I don't think 99.9% of people will ever need that. Right. But
is it cool when you do have it? Oh, for sure. But for the price point and all that,
what you really need, you need a decent pressure washer, find a good mid-tier to
high-tier pressure washer that you're going to be in the long run with, get yourself a decent
mid-tier to high-tier reel, get yourself a decent, uh, DI system and get yourself some
awesome accessories. Um, like we will eventually have with the, you know, the rag kill company,
ultra H2O stuff and you're set. Sweet. That's it. Just wash your freaking car. Don't upgrade
anymore. You don't need to. Just enjoy it. Um, says, I've never bought any costuming products.
Any recommendations for general washing? I have an 04 Jeep. Um, I'd like protectant on it since
it stays parked outside. So yeah, um, general wash, man, GSF. And, um, if you're looking to
add some protection along the way, what I would do is I'd maintain it with GSF and then once a
month wash it with ceramic effect shampoo. Yep. That's solid. Yeah. Oh, that's a Korean. I think
I said, man, I'm sorry. Um, well, I would ever, you know. Well, I see, I see Mal 5. So I'm taking
the dead mouse approach and just saying mouse. I know, but I said, well, man, well, man, well,
man, whatever you want to do. Do you have any alternative wash methods? Um, no. Nope. I think
that's, that sounds really fair. I wouldn't have thought of the ceramic soaps. That's a good idea.
The ceramic effect shampoo. That is a powerhouse shampoo. Insane. Yep. We need an ultra safe
sponge on it. Not a bad idea. Oh boy. Not a bad idea. Oh boy. I'm trying to think of how
super glue. Oh dear. I can make something. You'd almost have to, it would almost have to have a
back like mitt and then the, you know, the face of it would have to be little sponge fingers.
Here, focusing on the fact that you love a $30 curveball brush for wheels. It's wild,
but amazing. Dude, but here's the deal. So I was at Ryan's shop and I had him use this and now he
can't stop using it, but that's what I'm saying is like, once you've used it to clean wheels,
you can't use any other wheel brush. Like it's so good. It's so, so good. And here's the deal,
though, is I, I mean, I've used my curveball to clean wheels now for over a year and you would
never know it. Like you rinse it out, clean it. Like it has never broken down. So I mean,
yes, it's $30, but it lasts a really long time and it does a killer job. Like seriously, once
you start doing it, you can't go back. Yeah, I can assure you that the curveball, in terms of
being chemical, chemically resistant is the best there is. It can live in a bucket for periods of
time with no issues. It's got a good weight and a good handle to be able to find it in a bucket,
right? And on maintained wheels, it's perfect. I mean, really, I agree with you. I mean, I go
through a lot of wheel face brushes too and they're great, but I mean, the curveball is really
awesome. So I'm going to end us on this one since we did cross the four o'clock mark here locally.
I don't know, time flies, right? But Jay Hall here is saying, joining late and we'll watch delayed.
Happy New Year. Can you explain best practices for getting the most out of a vacuum aid,
clarity cream and reflect interior, exterior and household? Yeah. So the vacuum aid release,
getting your most out of it is going to be to I do a pre vacuum of all like the big chunky stuff,
right? And then I spray two to three sprays per like area of the release. And then I wait about
a minute and then I just start vacuuming like that's really all you need to know. Super,
super awesome product. I literally will I love, love release so much clarity cream.
My best advice here is to it is pad dependent. So if you have really like heavy water spots,
you're going to want to use more like a maroon. If you're just wanting to do general cleaning and
decontamination like a yellow, the one tip with clarity cream is put the polisher in the middle
of the window and run it at like speed one or two until you get it worked into the pad. If you try
to just rip it at like speed four, it's going to fling clarity cream all over the whole room,
which we've all done every single time. So don't feel bad if you do it, but you do need to kind
of work it into your pad and then reflect could not be easier to use. I mean, I use it with an
FTW, but it is so, so, so easy to use. So I use it interior, exterior household. I use it everywhere.
Absolutely love to reflect. Love that. And to end things off, I will actually throw one more comment
on the screen just because it does round it out nicely. Thank you. We'll get the curve balls,
says Ryan Riggan. Thank you. So next week we'll talk about the screw ball for tire dressing.
Yeah. No, that is awesome. And Gabe, before we go, just any final notes on the detail you did
on today's Jeep, anything weird or cool you noticed along the way?
Pain's very dry, so it didn't take necessarily to a rinse aid. The plastics on the fenders did
exceptionally well. The front bumper on camera, it looks great. And from afar, it looks great. But
the closer you get to looking at it, still blotchy. So I don't know what's going on there with the
bumper. I do know that this car is going to have or this Jeep is going to have good protection.
Yeah, you can kind of still see a little bit of blotchiness, but it is adhering with the panel
prep and then letting it dry. It did its work. So trim plus, holy smokes, fantastic product,
matched with your favorite applicator is the ideal two-cut combo as far as getting
your plastics looking new again. So definitely worth it. Jeep looks better. I think the owner's
going to like it. Awesome. No, thank you, Gabe. And great work on that Jeep. Yeah, guys. Thank you guys
so much for tuning in to the Q&A. Thank you. All right. So as far as everything goes, this was
our first show of 2026. We couldn't be happier to have you with us. Thank you so much for tuning
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you next week. See you. See you.
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