- Hey, welcome back to Conan Tonight,
our next guest you might know from the very successful
YouTube series Chemical Guys Detail Garage.
Give a warm welcome to Nicholas Scavo!
(cheering)
- I have my intro.
- Give an entrance song.
- What's up everyone, welcome to another episode
of Detail Garage.
Happy Monday, and I hope you guys had a great weekend.
Today Walker and I are gonna be in the detail garage
because Walker is also very brand new,
and we're just going to be going through a very,
you know a very live demonstration of how to clean
and also how to organize your detail garage,
detail your tools, that kind of stuff, right?
- Yep, I'm ready to go, I have no idea how
to organize stuff so,
I'm ready to learn.
- How to organize stuff?
- I'm not very smart.
- I'd love to see this kid's room.
(laughing)
Not very smart.
- I'm homeless!
- All right guys, last week we had our SDU,
which stands for our Smarter Detailing University,
and if you don't know what that is
it's basically hands on training where we bring in
a lot of guys from all over the world,
we're looking to enhance and hone
their detailing experience,
also those of you guys who are looking to open
your own franchise that's a great way
to one build yourself, build your business
and also you're gonna get a little more hands on training.
So all of our stuff is a little bit scattered
because we had all these guys out here,
we had a bunch of cars come in during the week.
Walker was in and out of that class, looking in,
trying to learn a little more.
- Trying to learn.
Key word: trying.
- And basically we're here, we have all of our carts,
which throughout the class sometimes would get
a little bit disorganized I guess you'd say,
and we're just gonna go through the proper way
to organize because one it not only looks better,
but also this is great for you guys who have
your own detailing business cause now you're going
to be able to easily reach for the parts you're looking for
rather than wasting time trying to find the bottle
that may have been misplaced or could be empty
or lost, or who knows.
So over here we have one cart that's already done,
just like one of those cooking channels where you open
the oven and you've already got one
that's already one ready to go.
This is a cart that has been properly organized,
we have all of our compounds and chemicals on this side,
we also have all of our degreasers, all purpose cleaners,
interior dressings, glass cleaners as well as,
any kind of quick detail sprays,
and then over here, what I do is I turn the bottles
on the outsides so that when you pull the cart out
you can easily see the labels and reach for it
that way you're not looking around
or spinning bottles wasting time.
You also have your clay bars up here
just because no matter what you're detailing,
a clay bar is a necessary tool,
which brings up a good point because a lot of people
think that this removes scratches and swirls
when in reality, all this is doing is pulling out
any kind of contamination before it's cleaned.
Did you know that?
- Somewhat, I know it helps prep the surface, right?
So you would clay bar,
and never just stop, you'd always clay bar,
prepping the surface, then later do the other stuff.
- Right, so if you're gonna polish your car,
put on a coating, waxes, glaze, sealants,
but also a lot of people think you need to do this
every month or whatever, this is just a tool.
This is only going to remove the contamination
from the pores in the paint,
and you should only do this as necessary,
and also you need to pick the appropriate grade
so you're not marring your vehicle or anything like that.
- And we have light, medium, heavy, correct?
- Light, medium, OG, heavy.
- Okay nice.
- Nice.
- That's what they call me.
- Also down in here we have three separate towels here,
three categories, do you know why we have those categories?
- Yes, so we usually color coordinate with a type of,
with a part of the car, correct?
Like, green would be for?
- Exterior.
- Exterior, yellow--
- You're teaching me now?
- Yellow, interior?
- Yellow is interior, and blue would be for the
wheels. - Windshield.
Oh wheels. I was close.
- Windows.
- Those are three of the big categories on a vehicle
because one you're always gonna be working on the exterior,
windows, so glass needs to be perfectly clean
so you don't want to use the towel that's been
on something dirty that could smear or scratch it.
And lastly you have your interior,
so you want to keep that separate from everything else
so you're not bringing that wax or polish or something
else onto your seats which could really stain it.
- Makes sense. - I afraid there's
something else because I'm out of wind,
I'm out of breath here.
A lot of people wonder why I talk to fast,
and one I have a lot of information that I want to share
with you guys and I have a very little bit amount of time
to do it, but also when I was younger I was a cadet
where they train you to be very efficient,
work with speed and intensity,
that's something I learned there.
I also learned how to be very organized,
but I still have that mentality,
so that's why I work so fast and I speak very quickly,
but if you guys want me to slow it down I will,
drop your comments down below, if you think I'm going too
quickly over it, or if there's a specific topic you guys
want to talk about let me know that.
- Sounds good.
- So moving away from the carts here,
obviously these carts need to be organized so that's
going to be your job for later,
and then we'll wash the towels also,
and over here we have our big category.
This is where we have all of our machines and our pads,
out here we're filming a video
or taking a picture or something that looks like fun.
And the reason why we have them all set up like this,
you have different categories of rotaries,
you have coarse rotationals, dual actions, random orbitals,
is because when we're doing our classes or teaching SDU
or even teaching Walker, you want to
try out every kind of machine.
So they all have a different feel,
they all have different purposes,
even though they all can achieve the same result in the end,
you basically have your way of working up
from a light dual action all the way up
to rotaries over here,
which I've said before is more like a scalpel,
where your dual action or random orbital is more like
a butter knife because they don't cut as quickly,
but you need that proper training to grab a rotor.
I'd love to see this kid grab a rotary.
- I was gonna say, they told me to stay away from rotaries.
That's a little, - Go to town on your
- Outside my expertise.
- What are you driving now?
A BMW? You got rid of the BMW and now you're driving a?
- Subaru Forrester.
I decided to save a little money, go green.
It's a PZEV, partial zero-emission vehicle.
- Is that what that stands for?
- Yeah.
It's not a pure zero-emission vehicle, it's a partial.
So like, it utilized fuel in a more efficient way.
- How many cylinders is that car?
- Four.
- That's not what you said last time.
- Well it used to be a V8,
but then it was just too much power.
- It was wasting too much gas - Yeah.
- so I got the V8 taken out
and put back the original four cylinder.
- In my spare time I do a lot of work in the shop.
- Yeah okay.
- That's for another time, we'll get into that.
- I would love to see you just change the oil on a car.
- I'm very bad casting.
- So, going back to machines, we have one
of our machines here, this is our torque 22D,
and we've already wrapped the cord the proper way.
A lot of people wonder what the best way is,
or some people wonder why their machine stopped working,
because they damaged this cord here.
It'll become frayed if they bend it a lot or whatever,
so what we do,
here I'll undo this just to show you guys,
is we'll wrap the cord
in this, I don't know what you would call this procedure.
Just wrap the cord up like this,
with this looping technique.
And then I'll leave about six to eight inches
left over of cord here
and then we'll just go around it a few times,
and then we'll just throw it in through one of the loops.
That looks pretty ugly,
but this way your cord doesn't get damaged,
it doesn't get too tight or start getting brittle
or start fraying the wires from the inside.
- So that's a way to keep your tools clean.
- Nice.
- Also after every job it's good to just visually inspect it
for any kind of compound or anything
that could stain the plastic on there.
Just a quick wipe down with an all purpose cleaner
that keeps your machine looking its best.
And also you can also check your backing plate
or your bearing if it's going out.
Just things to keep your tools looking their best
for as long as possible.
- Nice.
- Anything else you want to learn about in here?
- Want to go over the hex logic pads for a little bit?
- Well you can go over the hex logic pads.
- So I know kind of similar to the towels,
we have different colors to be used
for different grades of cutting or polishing, correct?
- Correct.
- Do you want to take it on maybe on exactly
which is which?
I know the
general understanding. - So he knows
that there's color coordinating
and that's about all I know.
So basically up here we have our heavy cutting pads,
these are our heavy polishing pads,
these are refining polishing pads,
this is a final polishing pad,
and then we have your application pads.
So what that means in a sense is that
you're going to get more cut, a little bit less,
a little bit less, this is for refining,
and these three down here all they're going to do
is just apply your favorite glaze, sealant or wax,
it doesn't really make a difference on which one you use.
Some of these will spread a finer coat,
something like this will spread a heavier coat,
it just depends on what you're using and how you like
to apply it.
- So these three have almost no cutting power though?
- They have zero cutting power with the dual action,
they might have a fine cut with a rotary,
but obviously a rotary is going to cut no matter what,
that's why we would also recommend that
you don't apply anything with the rotary
because it has the potential to leave tiger stripes
or mar the paint.
- Makes sense.
- Where else we going with this?
Antavio has been very quiet behind the camera,
let's go ahead and turn it on him, tell em.
What's going on here?
So Antavio has been videoing me for how long now?
About 19 years, and
(mumbles)
He's just got his BMW all tuned in,
what did you do this weekend?
- [Walker] I saw you.
- Went to the Angel's Crest.
- And what happened?
- It was pretty awesome, just driving.
First time me driving my own personal car.
- For those of us that don't know, like myself,
do you want to explain where the Angel's Crest is
and kind of what it entails?
And it was like you had a whole group of you, correct?
- [Antavio] Yeah.
- That's sick.
You guys ever let Subaru Forresters out there?
Or is there kind of a cut off on niceness of car?
- [Antavio] Yeah you can take the school kids.
(laughing)
- There's gonna be a lot of cutting on this floor.
- [Antavio] Let's take it off then.
- Let's get our yellow pads and start cutting.
- So yeah we'll keep going on this,
so we've got the carts dialed in,
over here we also have a couple of organizing bins.
This is something that we don't actually ever really show,
is that we have all of our applicators that are clean
in one bin up here, then we have designated
for different surfaces.
So a lot of this is exterior, these ones are probably
due for some interior jobs.
These ones are for our foam applicators,
which is probably for your waxes, glazes, sealants
by hand because obviously you can apply them
by machine but you can also apply them by hand.
And we have our wash mitts here, all clean in one bin.
Spare towels because you can never have
enough towels that's one of the detailing tools
that you have to have a bunch of.
- Need it.
- No matter what they're always going to get dirty,
or you'll run out of towels on a job,
so have spares.
- Got our dirty bins.
- Yes, and then we also have our dirty bins,
which after every detailing job we'll throw them in here.
It doesn't matter if we wiped them down on glass, wheels,
everything it's all going in there,
but we'll separate them once we go through the washing.
This way we don't cross contaminate it
and that brings up one more question that people ask us
is how do you wash your microfiber towels?
What we prefer to do is you use about and ounce
of microfiber wash,
- Great product. - And we'll separate
our towels by what they do obviously.
Exterior they can all go together
but interior they need to be separate exterior
as well as glass so we're not spreading waxes or polishes
on those towels.
And then we want to dry them on low heat or tumble dry.
Or if you want to air dry them that's fine as well.
Or if you don't want to use your own washing machine
or a public washing machine you can also
just do it in a bucket.
Rub it against a dirt trap and that'll help loosen
anything that's on the fibers
but it's best to use warm or hot water.
This way it will release the dirt that's in the fibers
of the towel.
You've been very quiet this whole time.
- I feel like I've got lots to say.
Let's go through the carts.
So we've got our example cart here,
and I can try to replicate it maybe on this cart?
- Yeah.
- Let's do it.
Maybe you can help explain to me
why things are positioned the way they are.
- Maybe.
- All right.
So I'm just gonna take a quick look.
- Assess the damage here.
- So the easiest way to start is we have our bigger
spray bottles all on one side.
- Sure.
- Kind of flanked behind with our v-line.
- Flanked?
- And then on the other side we have waxes, polishes.
- We're going to take Bunker Hill here.
- Okay so let's start with.
- This is gonna take a minute.
- Yeah this is gonna take a minute,
maybe fast forward through.
- Also this could be a test.
- Orange degreaser.
- There may not even be all the products on this cart.
- Oh.
So we got orange degreaser, followed up by...
- You're losing our audience.
Hey it's Kevin!
- [Walker] Hey.
- And there goes Kevin.
- It goes to Kevin for one second
and comes back just completely finished.
That does look a little bit better.
- From far away, yeah.
- Yeah well there's a lot of products that aren't matching
from the two,
but I think just purely aesthetically it looks better?
I've got whatever v-line products I have flanked,
like I said behind all the miscellaneous spray bottles.
- Oh yeah.
- And then I've got a collection of all of these,
and I've got all my leftovers on the bottom.
And I guessed, correct me if I'm wrong,
depending on the type of detailing you're using,
you would maybe have different products.
- It's possible.
- In the lineup.
If you're doing something with leather
I'm assuming you're going to have
leather cleaner, leather conditioner,
leather protectant serum.
Whereas if you're doing something not with leather
you'd probably have those on the bottom as excess storage.
If you're gonna do a wax, like butter wet wax,
you'll probably want to have clay bars ready,
butter wet wax ready, some kind of soap ready,
to prep before the clay bar if I'm not mistaken?
- You're not mistaken.
- We got an atomizer here, a bit of offered brushes,
and yeah I feel like that's not a terrible job.
It doesn't maybe match exactly just because
I didn't have--
- Yeah this is a lot of excess product too,
which we'll probably have to go through and organize.
But also a lot of people ask us what do we use
or what are these carts called?
These are just a standard two shelf tool cart
that you can find on most online stores
as well as basically any hardware store.
And the reason we chose this is because one it carries
a lot, is very durable, but also
because they're relatively inexpensive
so if they do break, just replace it.
But also because they're plastic we don't really
have to worry about em rusting or deteriorating.
- And they're honestly really handy to have.
- Heaven forbid they run into something like a car.
- Yeah they're overall just handy, right?
- Yeah.
- Like you don't just want all your things
in a big bucket or something.
- Hence why we're organized.
- Exactly.
- Bothering you?
See them right there?
- The other night.
- Yeah.
- I don't like that GoPro any more.
How is the GoPro?
That Octavio tricked me with.
- [Nicholas] Oh you're being tricked right now.
You walked on the set you're going to be in the video.
- Whenever she sees this she has like trauma.
- Trauma, I start coughing
from the burn now. - [Walker] Smoking, you start
feeling the smoke from the burning.
- Why don't you guys put me next?
- I was like who are you?
I am not taking it.
- [Antavio] This is a new style of video.
The BTS.
- [Walker] This is called the--
- Yeah I like it.
- [Walker] The water cooler conversation.
- Alrighty guys, if you think Walker did a good job,
I think he did a relatively okay job,
but he still has a lot to learn
because he's obviously still new to detailing.
- Baby steps.
- But that's the great thing being here is we're willing
to help and teach you guys as well as our employees.
Stay tuned for more of these fun videos
if you like them, these vlog style videos,
comment down below what you guys want to see,
or if there's any improvements, or if there's anything else
you guys want to talk about you know.
Drop them down below.
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right here in the detail garage.
- Be gentle.
- [Nicholas] Why would you say that?
- [Walker] Because I'm a bright guy.
♪ I used to be the one ♪
♪ I used to be ♪
♪ Getaway dreamer ♪
- [Antavio] Little BTS over here, we're gonna be filming.
Ms. Jan, what do you think about this car?
(laughing)
- I'm eating.
- [Antavio] I need you in the video.
People like you.
- I'm eating!
This is great.