{"id":3173,"date":"2010-10-07T06:20:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T10:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/?p=3173"},"modified":"2015-04-21T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-21T18:23:35","slug":"ask-a-pro-foam-applicator-pad-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/ask-a-pro-foam-applicator-pad-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask-A-Pro: Foam Applicator Pad Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Hi, for the below applicator pads, how do I wash and reuse them (are they dishwasher friendly)? Are there any signs that I should not use more than once (e.g. discolor, tears, number of times used) can I use multiple times? (sorry for so many questions) pls let me know -ron<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/DI-Accessories-M12\/Foam-Applicator-Pad-P94\/\" target=\"_blank\">DI Accessories Foam Applicator Pad<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey Ron, thanks for the question.<\/p>\n<p>Those applicator pads are perfectly fine for about 15-20 washes in my experience.\u00a0 I use them to apply all sorts of things&#8230;tire dressing, wax, trim detailer, etc.\u00a0 After each time, I will drop them in the wash and get them clean.\u00a0 After a certain point you will see some normal wear and tear.\u00a0 At this point, its time to retire them to other duties besides waxing; you don&#8217;t want the tears to leave marring in the paint while waxing (think of it like the edges of a use microfiber towel that you have discarded to interior only use).\u00a0 This is the point where I will use them for tire dressing and trim detailer.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Detailing!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Schuster of Envious Detailing addresses a reader-submitted question about care and maintenance for the DI Accessories Foam Applicator Pads. How do you maintain yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,64],"tags":[650,305,89],"class_list":{"0":"post-3173","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-general-detailing","7":"category-submitted-questions","8":"tag-di-accessories","9":"tag-foam-applicator-pad","10":"tag-how-to"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kPO7-Pb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3173"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16590,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3173\/revisions\/16590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.detailedimage.com\/Ask-a-Pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}