Mike, can you wise this writer up?

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Just reading Sept Car & Driver, and article by Mike Sutton: How to: Polish Your Car Like a Pro. First issue I had with it is recommending the DeWalt rotary and Orbital sander to, one assumes, folks that are not experienced in this field, rather than a DA polisher. His methods are in disagreement with most tips and instruction I've read on the 2 detailing forums I frequent, including a song and dance in the intro to the article making reference to the rotating wheel "works by temporarily heating the paint's clear coat until it softens into a viscous liquid that fills in and dissipates blemishes". Final result b4/after pics are obviously taken out of the sun or bright light to "prove" the correction. His step by step doesn't even mention claybarring, although it's included in his "Mini gearbox" following the step by step. It's very disappointing to read such poorly researched info in such a mainstream auto publication, and I can just imagine the feedback from an inexperienced user after burning his hotrod's paint up.

I thought it might be far more appropriate for them to hear feedback from a respected "name" in the detailing profession than from a "newb" such as myself.

You up for it?

Glenn
 
That killed my eyes to read that. I usually write into them lots and will be sure to this time.
 
What's even worst than that...is the "instructional" videos found on youtube, haha. Some of them are pretty funny.
 
Porsche Pilot said:
Don't watch em Shane. You will want to claw your eyes out.
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Oh come on. Can they be much worse than Jose Zuniga?


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOJqntJjn9I]‪How to Clean and Detail a Car : How to Wax a Car‬‏ - YouTube[/video]
 
haha this made my day. :)

How can I become an Expertvillage instructor?
 
And I spent all that time looking for a fliptop cap for my 845 and all I had to do was poke a hole in the side of the bottle.
 
lol, I was just going to say, did he just get the wax from the side of his bottle. wow, thats good stuff.
 
S2K said:
And I spent all that time looking for a fliptop cap for my 845 and all I had to do was poke a hole in the side of the bottle.
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Go figure.

And of course he put the rag on the ground when he was finished before he started buffing. ARGH

Jenn
 
rocketman7 said:
I thought it might be far more appropriate for them to hear feedback from a respected "name" in the detailing profession than from a "newb" such as myself.

You up for it?

Glenn
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Hi Glenn,

Sorry for the late reply... just too many other projects going on right now it's hard to get to the forum for very long...

I have the article here on my desk and the information in it is as horrendous as the swirls on this car...

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I know it's hard to write an in-depth article with the amount of space a magazine will give you but I agree, the how-to information is only going to lead anyone that follows it to instilling swirls into the car's paint at a minimum.

A very good friend of mine always taught me to take the high road and along those lines I don't really want to cut the author down because it could be that's all he knows? What he wrote was his best stab at helping people get a show car finish.

That's why sometimes on the forum I post something like this,

Pro Detailers that hang out on online detailing discussion forums like this one tend to know more than detailers, or in this case writers, that don't hang out on detailing discussion forums.


The point being is we all have access to all the newest "information", as well as products, pads, tools etc.

Apparently the staff at Car & Driver gave the article their stamp of approval so whoever's in charge of approving articles probably doesn't know any more than the author? (Just a guess)

I would be glad to write an article for Car & Driver but that's another project for another day...


Lets hope that anyone that reads Car & Driver does a little more research than just trying the tips and techniques shared in what is actually a very short and scant article on using a tool that actually requires both head knowledge and practice before this type of the tool can be used both safely and successfully.

If Mike Sutton ever reads this forum, I would invite him to our studio where I would be happy to spend a day with him showing him some of the really cool tools besides the rotary buffer and also some pretty cool pads, products and techniques for using the rotary buffer.


:)
 
I love it when someone's name becomes a verb.

And the viewer comments were even funnier than Zuniga's wax routine.
 
I like how he slops the wax on half an inch thick, and into body seams too, yet says to ZOMG stay away from the plastic!!!11!!1

I'm glad the video quality is so bad, it hides the swirls.
 
I say we do a mass trolling on the so called "instructional" youtube videos. Then a mass trolling on Car and Driver. :laughing: I don't even like Car & Driver anyways. They have an obvious bias for BMW and Honda.
 
I've thrown my wax bottle on the ground like 10 times now but I can't get a nice crack in the side to distribute my product like the instructor in the video...

does AG sell a tool to do this?
 
In Jose Zuniga voice "Remember we want to use circular motion to make sure we swirl up this paint as much as possible. Make sure you use poor quality old bath towels so we can really get those nice deep scratches over the entire surface area of the vehicle. Now when we go to polish, just use some sand and rocks you find on the ground, this will give the paint that new car look. Thats how we wax and polish a car."
 
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