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My customer has a black Porsche Panamera. He says that he recently drove over a wet fog line stripe and the white paint splashed up on his car. Obviously he brought the car to me and asked me to remove the white paint from his black car. First, while I have no reason to doubt him and I doubt...

Thanks Mike... you ROCK!!! Oh yeah - My wife thanks the class for the help detailing that nasty dirty Prius I drove to class. I would never have done a rinseless wash on a car that dirty but we did it and it worked!!! Bill - from the Griot's class

So you're saying that if I took a towel and some polish to a door jamb, the paint color would transfer to the towel (no clear coat)? I've never seen that happen. Bill

All an inexpensive paint gauge can give you is a rough idea of what's going on with a base coat/clear coat paint job. Most new cars seems to measure out around 5 mils of total paint thickness. Mike Phillips tells us that, new, we're looking at 2 mils of clear coat. Clearcoats are thin So if...

I live just a few minutes from the Griot's headquarters in Tacoma and I've been there for events and training more times than I can count. But taking Mike's Roadshow class there was a treat. Not only did we get the benefit of Mike's wisdom, we got to hear Jeff Brown (head of Griot's product...

Not all cracked leather requires a visit to the upholstery shop. Some damaged leather can be sanded, filled, stained and sealed to look like new. I agree with Mike that Griot's Leather Rejuvenator can do amazing things but it has it's limits. Bill

Guys, correct me if I'm wrong here but it's not that a coated car will get spotted in a situation where an uncoated car won't. The situation is that when a coated car gets water spots, they are a BEAR to get off. Case in point. I have a customer with a Porsche Cayenne and a lawn sprinkler...

From the description you just gave, $60 is low. Of course prices vary dramatically from region to region and neighborhood to neighborhood. I suggest you consider a couple things. First, how long does it take you to perform the service you describe and what do you want to make per hour...

My vote is to make sure the paint is coated or waxed and the interior is detailed with something with UV protectant and then roll with no car cover and a sun shade in the front window. Why? I've had a few folks bring me their cars proudly stating that they use a car cover. Typically, these...

$#%^ it Bob!!! Why did you have to go and read the instructions? ;) Nope, I'm not attacking the PPF with that polish. Unless I get better advice between now and Saturday, we're all going to find out how it turns out. Bill

Seems like it would be easier to coat everything. Trying to work up to the edges of all those little bits would be a royal pain. Bill

I figured this had to be a topic on here somewhere but 15 minutes of searching didn't turn up anything definitive. I've got a car with a clear bra on the nose and it has lots of little pieces of the film scattered about the wheel wells, door sills, and mirrors. I'm about to coat it. I'm using...

I've seen coatings that say you can apply it to anything including trim. But I've got Wolfgang Uber Ceramic sitting in front of me. The product write-up mentions painted surfaces, glass, and wheels. But what about trim and other bits and pieces? The car I'm about to do has: - Pebble...

Look, if you're using an extractor, you're shooting a high pressure stream of liquid into the carpet. Sure, you're following right behind it with a strong vacuum. But you're putting a LOT of liquid into the carpet. There's a reason many in the detailing business divide interior work into "wet...

I have only one area of caution with Mantilgh's advice. Drying seats by sitting on them undoes much of the cleaning that was just done. Let's face it, if a fabric seat is really dirty, no matter what tools we use, some of the dirty solution will end up in the foam under the fabric. So here's...