you guys have any suggestions for cleaning my DA pads? I have only used them once and that was at the end of last summer. I searched the forums and couldnt find anything for some reason. I know I have read some stuff on here before. Anyway, any help will be appreciated

 

I through mine in the sink with hot water and Dawn dish soap and let them sit for 1/2 hr. Then fold the pad in 1/2 and squeeze the dirt out, I repeat until clean. Leaving it in a bucket over night works even better. After that some times I will put the pad back on the DA and spin some of the excess water out.

 

I soak mine in the sink with hot water and Dawn dish soap over night and then rinse them out in the morning with the hottest water that I can stand to have my hands in. You may have to do this a couple of times if there is dried probuct on them. There is a pad cleaner made by Pinnacle that some of the guys here use and get good results with and it can be found at AutoGeek.com. Hope this helps.

 

AutoGeek is having a sale on the Pennicle Pad Cleaner - buy one- get one free!

http://www.autogeek.net/xmt-pad-cleaner.html

Get a pad brush while your'e there and you'll b good to go.

http://www.autogeek.net/padtool.html

 

thanks guys... I'll get right on it and hopefully i'll be ready to give her a good detail on Thursday.

 

Murphy's Oil Soap works good too.

 

 

For those using Murphy Oil Soap, how much of it do you dilute with water?

A cap or two in a gallon?

Does it really clean the polish off the pads that well?

I used Simple green (about a cap full for a gallon of water) and let the pads soak for about half an hour. It semed to do a decent job but I still had to work the pads by hand to get a majority of the product out of the foam.

 

X3! Awesome!

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- NCSU

 

Wow! Thanks NCSU! That really helps

 

I just poured a little bit soap on the pad and washed it under warm running water. If it wasn't all clean, I'd repeat until it was. Murphy's doesn't dissolve the polish/wax/etc, I still had to work alot of it out with my hands.

- NCSU

 

BTW, that clean pad looks a lot better than my clean pads, NCSU.

 

Awesome, thanks. That really did work well.

 

No prob. Now I just have to wait for the pollen season to end here...


Then I can get out and give the truck a full detail it so badly needs!

- NCSU

 

Ha! Yeah, that pollen is a major PIA. We haven't quite hit that point up here yet, but I'll be doing a serious detail tomorrow before heading up north (where pollen season happens even later in the season) where I spend a good portion of my summers. I park under trees and that yellow stuff really covers everything. At least by detailing/sealing the paint now the pollen will come off easier.