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it's hot import nights. it's just a regular ol' car show. i'm not brave enough to enter a concours event! I'm going for best paint (unlikely considering it's stock paint) and best mild scion (which could possibly happen) I still have all of that left to do unfortunately. I never got around...

saturday night. I have to drop the car off friday afternoon/evening though. we're driving up friday at noon so the car has to get done by then! Interior- take out everything that doesn't need to be there (phone charger, change, pens, cd holder, etc etc) Vacuum carpeting/seats lint roller on...

2.5-3 hours from gathering the supplies to the final wipedown w/ a QD. dont forget i do more than just wash and dry clean wheels/tires- 20 minutes clean paint- ~1.5-2 hours dry w/ blower- 10 minutes QD paint (don't forget door jams)- 10 minutes do glass w/ krystal vision- 10 minutes (dont...

as said above, you're not going to see much of a difference in lighter colors. the only time that i've really seen results on light colors is during the early morning and late evening when there is very little sunlight. in these lighting conditions you can clearly see a difference between a...

here is a few pictures i took a couple of months ago showing my washing setup- bunch of mitts, assorted tire brushes, soap, foam gun, nozzle, 2 buckets, and some quick connectors closeup of the nozzle setup. hose-shutoff valve-female quick connect- male quick connect on nozzle mitts...

ya, night launches are awesome. I'm 2 hours south of cape canaveral and the you can still see the shuttle/fire clearly. it's awesome :D seeing it launch at the visitors center in cape canaveral though... that's just the coolest ;)

lol i can barely do digital pictures! and as for it being safe, as long as the paint isnt fresh, it doesn't matter how much you wax.

after a while you'll just pick up what finishes are harder than others. honda is realtively soft for example, but don't even try to fix honda white without a rotary! most europeans are realatively hard, but some bimmers are on teh softer side. it just comes down to experience with many...

well, tommorow is actually going to end up being pretty busy for me. I'm getting up earlish and going to a friends house @ 9. There i'm going to be helping him install a new radio into a mustang and finish installing a subwoofer setup into an accord. after that im running to another friends...

I live in a cookie cutter style community... my house is the exception though, its the only 2 story on the block :D i dont know if that's a good thing or if it sticks out like a sore thumb. but anyways, for what i'm doing on tuesday, ummm.... nothing. st lucie county has a burn ban in...

I have 2 wash buckets that get filled with products, i put products in the holding tank of my wet/dry vac, and then i carry a small rubbermaid container that I hold towels in. 4 pieces in the back of the car, works great for me :D

hmmmm i think this week i'm going to do a 5-8 layer spit shine process on a panel of the tC. I want you all to see just what spit shining is all about. Spit shine that many layers and you can literally start flaking off wax. not that i'd recommend going that far, but just to show you want...

^good advice heat guns are an awesome invention. I normally remove dealer stickers/emblems for customers when I detail their cars, so i use mine alot.

We are now at the time in the detail when the cars finish is looking utterly amazing. It has been cleaned, polished, cleaned again, glazed, and sealed. This is the point in the detail when what is called a last step product is used. The more common name for a last step product is wax. If one has...

alright, i did the same exact type of paper 2 semesters ago- The first time that a person buys a brand new car is special. I bet if they were asked about it, they would recall a great feeling of pride. I can also bet that probably wanted to take care of how the new vehicle looks. To most...

adding horsepower isn't going to be the hard part. With technology the way it is these days, 1000 horsepower is not that hard to attain, though making it emissions legal at the same time does get a little tricky. what is difficult though, is making it reliable. I read an article about the...

Type of car?- Bentley Continental GT why?- The car has beautiful lines that look as if there are no areas that a PC can't get to. and it's a bentley, come on now, who wouldn't want to play with a bentley? especially.... a fast bentley ;) where?- In a fully decked out garage. air conditioned...

The DP glass restorer is my life saver. My parents don't really like me going down to my local drag strip so when I go, I keep a small MF and some DP glass restorer in the glove compartment. When I come home, I just bust that out and the shoe polish'd numbers come right off.

things you don't really want to be wet- underhood fuse box alternator spark plug area battery if its an exposed filter, the air box/intake basically, if it's electrically oriented, leave the water out of there. Also, i dont recommend spraying a hot engine. Hot engine + cold water never leads...

foam gun clay klasse AIO sealant of your choice DP interior surface protectant 303 fabric guard -foam gun will make washing faster and less likely to cause scratches and swirls -the clay will remove any contaminents on the car's paintjob. use it every 3-4 months. -AIO is a great paint cleaner...