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Old 08-23-2008, 10:48 PM
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How Often?????

I have detailed my truck twice in probably the past three weeks. The first time I washed, clay bar, DC1, DC2, and wax w/ NXT 2.0. Yesterday and the day before I repeated the process with the exception of the clay bar. My question is how often do I need to do the DC process. When I do it I usally have to break it into 2 days and a total of 3 to 4 hours not counting doing the glass, interior, chrome, wheels and tires. Do I need to do this every week or so. Or can I get by washing every couple weeks, QD in between and then once a month or so repeat the whole process? Thanks. Troy
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Old 08-23-2008, 11:17 PM
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I would do it as often as you like. I think it depends more on your driving conditions than anything. I think you can skip clay and DC1 most of the time but then again it would matter what kind of conditions you drive in.

Kevin
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Old 08-24-2008, 02:27 PM
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Once you have everything done, you really only have to do the whole process about once a year. Use UQD after every wash, and toss another coat of NXT 2.0 on when you feel like it. NXT 2.0 has enough polishing and filling agents in it to do a nice job in between the full jobs.
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