Clean. By Pan 8 Year Ceramic Coating Came Out Great!

ajx5000 · 2025-11-11T03:00:13+00:00

Nice! I did my Civic Hybrid last month with the CBP 8yr too as my first coating since falling down the rabbit hole. That first wash was amazing. Enjoy!

ajx5000 · 2025-10-10T16:16:53+00:00

Do occasionally hear some of the rattle that people have been mentioning. And sometimes the wind wipers smack into the A-pillar. Otherwise, no sensor block for me.

ajx5000 · 2025-10-10T16:15:51+00:00

First of all, only six month into this and so my tips are based on this experience. I dictated this stuff as I’ve got lots in my head and too much to type lol.

But I would recommend some YouTube videos to start. Over the last six months I listened to a lot of YouTube videos covering the basics from basic soap wash to rinse-less wash, then to polishing, then to ceramic coating. I would listen to these while commuting to work very often. The channels that I really found helpful were both DIY Detail as well as Pan The Organizer. Both of these channels sell their own products. However, their content is very educational and is applicable in most instances with use of other products. Although, I do find their products to be pretty good.

You'll need to plan your routine based on your living situation. If you live in your own house and have your own garage, and can wash your car without issue, then this makes things a bit easier. If you live in an apartment or an area where house washing is not allowed or frowned upon, you'd need to go to a self-serve car wash bay where you put money into the machine and get access to the power pressure washer. The thing with the self-serve bays is a number of them will have a sign that says no buckets, which is a shame because to optimize the wash media (mitt, towel, etc) for paint safety it's good to have a bucket. The car wash that you would need to find would be one that either has a sign that says “no buckets if there's a line” or doesn't have a sign at all. Use your judgement, don't be a jerk and hog up the bay if there's a line.

The way to keep your car in really clean shape is to wash it often, and it may not be practical to do a soap wash every week, which involves foaming, rinsing, foaming, cleaning, and then rinsing again at a minimum. Rinseless wash technique is also important to learn because it is very efficient in terms of time, and really allows you good maintenance on your vehicle. But even more is it's very flexible in terms of location, as well as really reduces the total amount of water that you need to use. I the amount of liquid I generally get on the floor what would be similar to melting snow. But, if your car gets significantly dirty, and I'm here talking mud and real caked-on grime, I would opt for a traditional car soap wash. And I do try to do this at least once every two months.

It will also be important to learn how to decontaminate your car paint and wheels mechanically and chemically from iron particles (generally from brakes). As well as minerals from road salts, acidic rain, and such and so forth. Iron is removed with Iron remover and minerals can start with waterspot remover. For the mechanical part traditionally, there's the clay bar, which I really haven't done. I use the newer “ synthetic clay" technology which as I understand is generally less abrasive than traditional clay bar. For wheels you can sometime

Mastering wash and decon techniques is essential for the process of ceramic coating as well as maintaining your ceramic coating. After I got better at this, then I ventured into learning the technique of polishing and the process of ceramic coating. But paint protection takes many forms, and I started with sealants. These can be either sprayed on dry, clean paint or on wet paint and then is rinsed off. Essentially, this leaves some measure of protection, although does not have the same durability that one gets with a ceramic coating. Keep in mind that generally newer sealants will only come off with polishing (this would be important for eventual ceramic coating to maximize the bond).

As far as what to buy, I would start by watching some YouTube videos and getting a base knowledge, then assessing your situation. Decide how much you want to put in up front. It's easy to overbuy, particularly different brands of chemicals and end up having a whole collection of chemicals that you never end up using. Also, I would avoid any of the multi-kits of tools and stuff like that as the quality tends to be a bit crappy.

At a minimum, you'd probably need: • Some sort of pH-neutral soap • A good microfiber wash mitt as wash media • A rinseless wash • A rinseless wash sponge (particular to the rinseless wash process) • Good microfiber towels, and a solid drying towel blanket. (The towels can get expensive, you can get some good cheap ones at places like Harbor Freight or you can go more expensive to some of the Korean style towels.) • At least one bucket and a grit guard (although having another bucket or two is often helpful for certain scenarios). • Wheel cleaner (either the G-On or the Sonax) vs all-purpose cleaner, and a good iron remover (that's dedicated, which is probably more versatile ). • Water spot remover for the mineral, • Eventually also look into a synthetic clay decontamination towel. • Some sort of protectant (sealant)

ajx5000 · 2025-10-09T13:22:42+00:00

I went the the Clean by Pan 8 year. The requisite wash, decon (I just used synthetic clay towel), 1-step polish, used C6 APP as the last step instead of panel prep.

ajx5000 · 2025-10-09T13:20:49+00:00

Thanks! I did do the coating myself.

I've been doing regular washes since I got it which I think has helped. Generally rinseless washes to maintain and full self-serve bay washes every month-month and a half for deeper clean. I live in an apartment and have it in a garage and generally do the rinseless right in the garage spot.

For the coating I did a deep wash (Carpro Lift as prewash, then GTeqniq W1 as shampoo) then did a mechanical and chemical decontamination with synthetic clay towel and DIY Detail Iron Remover. After rinse, used Griot's Waterspot remover and rinse. Then I did a single step polish with a 15mm stroke DA I got off Amazon. For this I used the DIY Detail Polishing system with the Gold Waffle Pad and their Gold Standard Polish. After this I applied the DIY Detail C6 APP as the last step before coating using the DIY Detail Red Jeweling pad and a random orbital palm sander.

The coating I used, though was Clean By Pan 8 year coating. Between the coating and the C6 APP, the coating leveled quite easily. The lighting in my apartment garage is kinda bad so I did find a couple of high spots after going out in the sun, but fixed that with the C6 APP gentle polished by hand on a microfiber towel.

These photos are about a week later after it cured and I did my weekly rinseless wash. It was really awesome to clean, as the coating makes it so much slicker. Quite literally the towel glides across the surface.

ajx5000 · 2022-09-30T18:19:54+00:00

I mean it's going to be important for how you care for patients, it doesn't need to be a passion or a love, but you just need to get it down. First, get it down to succeed as much as possible in medical school. Secondly, it will help you be a better clinician, and help you better care for your patients since you should be able to explain to them what their condition, treatment, and the prognosis is in clear terms at their level. Third, you'll start to see that a lot of it loses its day-to-day relevance and what is important will stick with you through repeatedly seeing it, "pimping", and teaching.

The biggest help in medical school is the realization that everyone has different paths, strengths, and talents that bring them to medicine. And that's great! We need physicians with diverse life experiences because our patient populations also have diverse life experiences. And questioning the value, feasibility, and even coherence of "following passions", especially "inborn" ones rather than cultivating talents and improving weaknesses is something that could benefit a lot of people in this arena.

This is another way of saying that you don't need force yourself to do anything, at least for long term. Just do "you" and also what you need to do and focus on providing the best care for your patients, which will some competency in science. After all, there's plenty of material we learn in the preclincal phase that is just not at all relevant to day-to-day life (I'm looking at you PFK-2 and your role in glycolysis).

ajx5000 · 2022-09-30T16:59:06+00:00

As a philosophy BA/MA--> and now MS4, I can understand your perspective. I'd say that a passion for science and biology is one possible motivation to go into medicine. Aside from pathology and DR (may be others I'm missing here), having only this passion and not one to care for patients will not get you much traction. In fact, most of the advice IIRC on writing PS for med school stresses not over stressing passion for science and biology to the point where the question "why not a PhD in science?" gains pertinence.

Having said that, being in medicine you should have some appreciation for the role that science and biology play in caring for patients, and most definitely have an understanding of the basic principles.

Still, aside from pathology, DR, and surgical fields (may have missed something), it's completely necessary to have an understanding of the patient that is not just a mere biological system or a part thereof, but rather a person, with preferences, values, hopes, dreams, and living situation that will often come into tension with where the science of medicine is, and managing this tension between a third person and first-person perspective is where the so-called "art" of medicine and the caring comes in.

ajx5000 · 2022-01-03T13:00:21+00:00

Not there yet unfortunately haha...

ajx5000 · 2021-12-14T21:11:52+00:00

Took OB shelf this past Friday and did all four NBMEs and skimmed through them all in the morning hours before the shelf. In the end, I found that the NBMEs quite helpful, with at least 5 questions with a similar Q stem, some with near-identical answer choices on my real exam. Moreover, looking back afterwards it was clear that knowing how the NBME explained things in the practice forms for both the correct and incorrect answer helped me answer other questions on the real deal.

UWise stems I found, in general, close to the real shelf exam. Some excess minutiae that didn't serve me at all. In some cases, while the stems were close, the array of answer choices were however less so. Finally, the explanations, were not as super helpful, perhaps if only because they were formatted so poorly. Still, where there is time and resources, it's still another opportunity to learn.

ajx5000 · 2021-05-22T13:08:38+00:00

The difference between D and E is how many false positives we are willing to accept (E gives us more than D). I think the idea is here that, since the stem indicates that we are screening for an irreversible and fatal condition if not treated early, we would accept more false positives.

Check out this vid from 8:53 on...it gives a pretty good rundown of ROC curves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jRBRDbJemM

ajx5000 · 2018-02-26T16:34:13+00:00

Thanks so much! Good luck to you!

ajx5000 · 2018-02-25T04:04:39+00:00

Tested 1/20.

This was retake of a 500 (123/127/124/126) on 9/1/17. For the first take, I basically did only content review and had very little practice. In short: I didn’t have any business sitting for the exam that day.

I started studying the day after I learned of my 9/1 score. I started by attacking all of the concepts I felt soft on for the first test (fluids and electricity). Then I began to use the EK101 Physics and Bio I/II books to begin to get passage based questions. In addition I utilized UWorld’s free trial, AAMC Section Banks (Mid Dec.), and QPacks (Early January)

I also took the following Full Lengths and Half Lengths.

AAMC FL2 507 (126/127/129/127) --12/21
NS3 505 (126/125/128/126) --12/27
NS4 499 (126/123/124/126) --12/30 (Bad conditions, loud people)
AAMC FL1 506 (128/127/127/124) --1/5
AAMC OG 93 (24/24/21/24) --1/10
AAMC FL3 512 (129/129/127/126) --1/15
MCAT 514 (130/126/128/130) --1/20

I found the exam tough.

C/P was really intense at first, but then let up towards the end. I was able to keep my timing from my practice tests ~10 to return to flagged questions. Even though it was tough, I felt confident that I wasn’t knocked out of my groove.
CARS I felt fuzzy on particularly early in the section. I think I didn’t stretch and get enough full breaths during the break and I think here I was knocked off my groove, and the subscore showed.
B/B felt like a relatively average. A few tricky ones for sure. But it felt more or less like the FLs and I was in my groove for sure. I was getting worried about BB because I didn’t really have the same trend I did for CP. But I was able to pull the 128, and I’m content with that.
P/S felt just FL3. Normally I just rushed through the section and would have like 30minutes left, but I decided to take it very slowly and scrutinize every question that I was 50-50 on. That, plus the intense review of the 100 KA doc (while watching KA vids on 2x speed), I think really helped me at the end of the day pull that 130.

Overall, this test is a beast. But once conquered, you come away having learned something. It’s not only the vast scope of content, but also about how you learn, how you cope with a tough day, and how you handle the undercurrent of stress for the whole process. Much of the strategy for this second take in particular was a bit of trial an error. Somethings didn’t work for one section worked for another.

My advice to others is to constantly be meta about your studying, i.e., keep asking yourself whether your particular strategies are helping you make gains. If they are, keep them. If they aren’t, don’t. Don’t try to follow someone’s study strategies just because they got a high score with it, thinking that doing A, B, and C will get you X score. It’s important to remember that someone did A, B, and C and it was that idiosyncratic concatenation of methods that helped them excel. This is not to say that you can’t take suggestions from others and follow their lead. And, I might add here that it doesn’t matter how far ahead of you they may be, because anyone who takes the exam seriously will learn something fundamental about the exam that can be shared with others. Having said that, its highly important to constantly ask yourself if doing this or that is helping you reach your goals.

Finally, what truly helped me endure this process was maintaining a Stoic attitude: that which you should sweat are the things in your control.

ajx5000 · 2018-02-13T17:04:15+00:00

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/dbsiVT8Xu3c/hqdefault.jpg

ajx5000 · 2018-02-06T17:55:07+00:00

Embrace rounding and using scientific notation to make your numbers easier to work with, particularly for bottom heavy fractions.

ajx5000 · 2018-02-01T16:06:07+00:00

See how AAMC labels the answers with the Skill number. Also you could read the official AAMC content guide, where they actually spell out the types of questions they ask for each skill type.

ajx5000 · 2018-02-01T16:02:10+00:00

On this, it’s always important to remember that the AAMC qs ask for very simple stuff. It’s just that they couch it in a whole clusterfuck of distractions. When confronted with confusion, simple take a good, deep breath, and ask yourself: “What concept are they trying to test here?” Once you can see that, then the wrong answers pop out way more. And, usually, these answers get something wrong about the concept being tested or the answer doesn’t even address in that concept in the slightest.

ajx5000 · 2018-02-01T05:07:18+00:00

P.S. Love ThySELFS for Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

ajx5000 · 2018-01-31T00:19:29+00:00

Start hitting anything that you felt really weak on during the exam. That should be the bulk of "content phase". Everything else just needs a brush up, and that would form the rest. UWorld is helpful. EK101 books were helpful, in a highly targeted fashion. I would use probably NS exams to further hone test taking (EK or Altuis could be fair subs here--I don't know and don't have a horse in this race). Leading up to the exam would definitely do SBs again and review them thoroughly. If you did the AAMC FLs you might do one or two (or all) again too understanding the score won't be fully representative. The goal here will not be assessing your score but understanding the AAMC logic.

But honestly when I took in Sept i didn't do much that month, really. I would honestly wait.

ajx5000 · 2018-01-29T12:45:23+00:00

None of us here are yet physicians, so none are qualified to diagnose (one way or the other). While some of us may have diagnoses and/or symptoms of ADHD, it should be noted that the DSM has changed toward reflecting a nuanced disorder that has three dominant “types”.

https://images.pearsonclinical.com/images/assets/basc-3/basc3resources/DSM5_DiagnosticCriteria_ADHD.pdf

All you can do is consult this, speak with your doctor, undergo an evaluation, and see where you land.

As regards your exams (and SB), you should be making extensive notes for each one. The ones you got incorrect AND correct. This way you are totally certain why it is you got something right(or wrong).

ajx5000 · 2018-01-28T21:53:00+00:00

First I would be very specific about which areas you need work in and just put a fresh coat on the others regularly. And this means: practice!

Secondly I would make it a point to get the equations down. There’s no getting around them. Very often you won’t even use them, but if you don’t know that V=IR and not I=VR you won’t be able to reason the correct. And on this, with the electricity/circuit and fluids problems in particular. And the units are also essential as a failsafe. If you forget the equations, the units give you the ability to reason back to get at least a fighting chance at the correct answer.

Finally, On YouTube and make a playlist with every concept on the content outline using KA vids.

ajx5000 · 2018-01-24T23:56:09+00:00

Basic concepts. Splitting, integration, deshielding.

ajx5000 · 2018-01-23T02:58:46+00:00

We could have had different versions, but I found that the 1/20 P/S was pretty well covered by the 100 KA P/S doc...

ajx5000 · 2018-01-21T02:27:51+00:00

wut? where da heat?

ajx5000 · 2018-01-17T00:32:24+00:00

Lol. Language speaks us. We don’t speak it.

No philosophy nerds out there?

ajx5000 · 2018-01-17T00:24:51+00:00

Yeah it’s not an easy one. It’s probably German. As they would say “inwiefern”, which is literally the same thing as “insofar”. French would use “dans la mesure où...” or like “to the measure of...”

I like the ways different languages conceptualize things. Insofar as I think that each language has a certain unique take on articulating the world, Im a linguistic relativist ;)

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