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Happy Saturday all. I've been out of the detail game for a while since my daily driver for the last 4 years barely had paint on it and the GTO in my avatar got driven maybe 4x a year. Just picked up a 2013 Focus two months ago and have been going crazy throwing money at AG the last few weeks. I...

I tried the "fine" grade on the hood of my 06 GTO this weekend and it left a ton of marring vs the Mothers clay I used before which left zero marring. However, the paint on that car is very, very soft. I took the marring out with HD polish on an LC white pad to give you an idea of the paint...

I will never use RP again in anything I drive. It seems to completely shear down to water in only a few thousand miles, making my valvetrain VERY noisy. I just used amsoil for the first time and my car is virtually silent from under the hood. I used their "Signature Series" and will continue...

I use 4-in-1 now and my only issue with it is that it removes all the slickness from my paint when using it. I don't think it's supposed to, but it does. I will be trying ONR when I get done with this DP. From what I understand ONR leaves behind a bunch of polymers for shine and slickness.

I have 32ozs of XMT glaze and am getting ready to give/trade it away. I used it a few times and it does nothing for the paint. It would be nice for Pinnacle/Wolfgang to make a quality acrylic glaze that'll work a lot better then XMT glaze.

So I got new rims for my car a week or two ago, but I don't have a good camera. I borrowed my parents camera and took some pictures after a quick detail. I wanted to see how P21S looked over this sealant and it seems like it just added depth without altering the color. Too bad its protection...

Looks awesome. Much better without the spoiler though.

I use the foam gun when doing my whole car, or someone elses car. When doing just small portions of a car I use a dedicated lube.

It's awefully expensive for a QD that doen't really do anything special. If it was about half the price I'd definitely give it a try, but not when it's 2x the price of other QDs.

So did the glaze cover up the sweet holograms? I will agree with Greg that the metal polish consistancy is way to liquidy. It's almost like water and I can see where a lot of it gets lost in the applicator.

Once again everyone tells you to go get it resprayed and it'll look best. But you want to "fix" it yourself, when it's obvious you don't have any buisiness doing so. So have fun doing your own "fix" and ignore all the smart people here.

I have a pH meter somewhere in my house from Hach. I should also have some calibration solution. I will see if I can find it.

Definitely an NSX. Especially since the smoke comes out from under the rear hatch.

On a GTO forum that gregsgoat and I belong to used to be full of the Zaino Nazis. Any detail thread would be crashed by them instantly telling people to use zaino and it was the best thing ever. I used it for a few months and spend an entire weekend doing the "zaino process". It has 50 steps...

^Yeah, I really want to try CK Quickshine and RMG and their other glaze.

Megs #26 is a good OTC wax. I happen to have it on my car right now with Opti-Seal on top.

Probably nothing. If you have to glaze then seal you will need Wolfgangs glaze. Their glaze/sealant are designed to work together.

^Must be nice, change 3 parts make extra 100hp. Greg, how many parts did you change to get that extra 100hp over stock?? lol I am currently at 13.4mpg for my current tank. I am going to push the go pedal a little harder for this thread tomorrow.

In case anyone was wondering how to degrease/dress an engine I decided to do a quick write up on how I do it. The test subject is my girlfriends 97 GTP. The car has never been detailed and had 10 years of junk built up on the engine. Soon the rest of the car will be detailed, either for a trade...

Looks like the front of my car, but a little worse. There are thousands of little pits all over the front bumper. I think they are just from driving on the highway and having sand/rocks hitting the bumper. My car is an 06 and I have owned it the whole time, so I know it isn't from bugs being...