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Thanks for the insights! I could have sworn I remembered reading here that it was discovered that Essence was reducing swirls due primarily to cutting instead of filling. I'll have to look into this more. After a few more evenings of research, it looks like Prima Amigo is well liked for its...

I have always been in the "no fillers" camp and wanted 'pure' paint correction for my cars. Combined with good maintenance techniques, this has always been satisfactory. However I bought a used car in 2019 that had paint so damaged that I couldn't comfortably get some things completely...

Thanks Mike. WDGPS 3.0 is a traditional paint sealant, not a coating. I've used it on several cars with great success.

I paint corrected my new (to me) 2011 E90 recently using products with no fillers (so I hear): M105, M205. I did the compound stage and it was 2 or 3 days before I was able to polish. The whole time the paint looked good and clear (just ever so slightly hazed from the compound). This...

Good suggestions! This helps me formulate a plan of attack. It probably wasn't clear enough that the EPDM problem pictured isn't one of oxidation (although there is some of that elsewhere). It's a stain or something, but it doesn't feel like it's sitting on top of the surface when I run...

Does anyone have experience with the following? Some of these seem like distinctly 1990s car problems. :p 1) Restoring the appearance of the exposed part of a thin rubber gasket. I could painstakingly use a tiny paintbrush (one of the ones that comes in the Dr Color Chip kits for example)...

Another fan of Griots Black Satin Tire Coating here. I find it takes the least amount of time for me to apply, even accounting for wiping any overspray off of wheels. And unlike a lot of the foaming aerosol tire dressings, this can is good to the last drop and remains easy to control. The...

Yeah, paint fade differences will probably be your only concern. Depends on how long the decals were on and how much the rest of the paint faded around them.

Hey. I haven't used a ton of polishes but the least dust I've encountered personally is with Pinnacle Advanced Finishing polish.

It's interesting that UFF continues to gain traction as a dust-repelling LSP. I did a little testing of my own and didn't reach the same conclusion exactly. The details are in this thread: Testing LSP maintenance products for dust attraction. I haven't used it since, mainly because I really...

I don't know how much of it is the ONR and how much is the Chemical Guys Cyclone Dirt Trap, but my so-equipped rinseless bucket keeps all the dirt (that I can see) below the dirt trap. I still have regular grit guards in my 2-bucket wash buckets, I mainly use the one in the 'dirty water' bucket...

I have found Optimum Car Wash to be the weakest of the half-dozen soaps I've used, fwiw. Great light maintenance wash for dust, but I now do rinseless with ONR for that. My suggestion for you evo77 is to wash first thing in the morning when the paint has cooled overnight. When it's been out...

Great job Justin! Those early photos were cringe-worthy. I hope the customer got (some of?) his money back from the botch job.

Yeah I've been through polishing and re-sealing the headlights many times on this car. Even wetsanded them last time. They need it every couple of months. It's definitely an issue for the early 350Zs. The later ones with the updated headlight housings don't seem to suffer quite as much...

I wonder if Nissan used something different on or in the plastic of their headlight lenses. It seems odd for a product to indicate use on plastic and end up altering the look this much.

Close, as you see now by the new picture I posted. :) 2003 350Z.

I should clarify this haze is just from using a bug removal product once - Griots in this case. The headlight lenses are as clear as they can otherwise be, from recently polishing/sealing them. See picture below -- the headlight on the right didn't get any bug remover on it yesterday. Thus...

Has anyone found an effective bug pre-spray that doesn't cloud/haze over plastic headlight lenses? So far I've tried: - Bug Squash - Road Kill - Griots Bug & Smudge Remover They all leave this hazy film on plastic headlights. Not on paint, not on glass. I let dwell 30-60 seconds before...

Thanks all. :) Let me see if I can remember more about how I cleaned the engine. This was a couple months ago and I just got around to posting it. As I recall I started with an old big bottle of DP Engine Degreaser (now McKee's 37, probably a similar formula) and used a Mothers brush...

Love that trim restoration. Stuff like that makes all the difference!