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Hi guys. Anyone round the metroplex up for possible meets, detailing days and training. I need some new buddies. Steve

I love my Rupes is fantastic. I don't prime the pads as such I just use more little dots over the pad, not seemed to have a problem in two years of using it.

I've wet sanded lots of cars to remove orange peel and never had a problem on factory paint. I only use 2000 grit not 1500 grit. Then 2500 and 3000. Quick polish with 105 on wool then finish with 205. If your removing swirls then you will be taking say 10um off the car anyway I took 12um off...

Hi Chaps. This car owned by a friend of mine and was new to him, as you can see the paint was in a real mess. He had only got the car and was quite shocked by the condition. So a deal was struck for free haircuts for life as he owns a chain of barber shops if I look after his cars, seems fair to...

Cheers guys. yes I was almost near Coit. Gonna take George Bush in future may cost a few $$ but better alive, that freaked me out. Also after coming down 75 last week from McKinney and a piece of re bar with a concrete block flew off a trailer and smashed the front of my car I am thinking of...

Driving home on I635 in Dallas this rig undertook me on the right and as the traffic was slowing he hit his brakes, his left back wheels locked up then he was suddenly sideways in front of me, he corrects it and I am at the side of him, I just hit the gas and pass him before I get squished...

Oh yes 200 miles south from Scotlandshire. :Picture:

Evening all!! Today I hosted another one of my One to One courses dedicated to what the customer wanted training on; today was paint correction by rotary. Also, for Mirror Finish today marks a major mile stone in the company as we will be in our 8th year trading. I cannot believe I set up...

I like that. Do you have a link for trailer manufacturers like that?

No read below dude. On one panel the readings were 178um before wet sanding, after flatting the readings were 172um and after polishing and refining the readings were 169um. I have done normal compounding on cars and taken off more paint, the thing is wet sanding takes of less but takes 3...

Evening all. This is a car that I carried out the work back in June, so you can see how far behind I am on write up's. Contacted by the owner after him seeing the Merc AMG I did and he not wanting to do it himself. Car was dropped off for the week and I did it over a week. Not hundreds of...

Nice work there dude. They are badged Discovery here in the UK. I have just spent 3 days on one and wet sanded the peel out as the customers was driven mad by it, wet sanding is really easy and really does take the compounding stage out. Wet sanded it then polished with Scholl S17 with a big...

The car has seen another wet sanding and polish on an advanced wet sanding course. We got all the panels to within 2 microns across the panels so the paint is really flat and the reflections are awsome. Finished it with Zaino all in one, 5 coats of Z2 and final wipe down with Z8. Looks awsome.

Thanks That is the problem, customers want the paint fully flat with no peel at all. It is slightly different here as a lot of cars are either company cars or leased, so the first owner wants perfection and as we only tend to keep cars for two to three years the removal of the paint is not an...

Cheers Mike I think the peel in european cars must be pretty bad compared to US cars. It is taking a week to flat them properly and a lot of tape to keep checking. Wish there was some super paint depth guage that would fire at the car and do the readings automitaclly. Steve

I'll have to stick with the tape method and multiple readings. Just thought there may be some scope or machine in the US to speed this up.

Hi The peel in European cars is really bad and can take 2-3 hits to remove. I block the car with 2000, 2500, 3000 and 4000 grit and get it flat. The problem is orange peel is still there. So could this peel be in the base layer or am I not getting the clear totally flat?? I don't have any...

Finally finished Rod the BMW with 3 coats of Zaino Z2. As you may or may not know another part of my business is the buying and selling of BMW and Mercedes cars. Usually picked up at the local auction, turned around with a machine polish and sold. Plus I do prefer older cars, usually my daily...

Hi. I do a fair amount of orange peel removal here in the UK by wet sanding. My question is how do I check for the flatness in the panel without having to keep polishing back to panel first; I am sure there is a logical answer??? Thanks guys Steve