After using Dawn Ultra / Dawn Power Lift on ALL of my Lake Country pads, I started noticing the adhesive withering away on the back of the pads (Even on some new ones) - I looked online and found that a lot of users were experiencing this issue when they washed their pads with Dawn.
Decided to give this a shot - GREAT results, even better than Dawn. I highly recommend a Pad Condition Brush for this, the Griot's Garage, the Chemical Guys, Adam's whichever, best results when using the brush.
My two year old white pad from Lake Country was yellow/cream colored due to use of compounds over the years. I've always made a habit of cleaning them right after too, but the Chemical Guys Foam and Wool Pad Cleaner definitely managed to remove all of that within a matter of 2 minutes of brushing.
On the CG site they recommend diluting it, I didn't dilute, sprayed directly on and had great results using the following method:
- Mist Pad 2-3 times with Chemical Guys Foam and Wool Pad Cleaner
- Lather into pad by hand, spreading evenly
- Use a pad conditioning brush to agitate caked on polish, compound, product, etc
- Using a Pad Conditioning Brush, Brush thoroughly for atleast 60-120 seconds
- Rub the pad against a Grit Guard (If you have one, remove any excess stuff as well)
- Rinse pad off thoroughly, will have to ring it out atleast 5-6 times to get out all the suds, it is very sudsy
Those are my personal steps, never had to go about doing it twice to get a pad complete
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