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Hi all, I recently had my all-season tires installed on my car after being in winter storage at the local tire shop. I sprayed down the tires with water, hit them with Optimum Power Clean full strength, scrubbed with brush, rinsed. I noticed they were still dirty, so I repeated this process two...

Meguiar's Ultimate Protectant was introduced in 2010 as an exterior trim protectant which claims to last weeks, even in the rain. In 2011 it was renamed Ultimate Black and positioned to compete against Back To Black, Black Wow and other trim restorers, but it's the exact same product as 2010's...

Hey AG, I finally got around to swallowing the shipping costs from Florida to Canada and received two deliveries this week. Both boxes were well packed with no room for the products to move around inside. It also only took 5 business days (not counting Saturday/Sunday) for each package to...

Winter's finally over and spring is here. I also just got a nice $560 bonus from work, so what's a guy to do... detailing supplies! Here's what I picked up from AG and a couple of other online retailers: Pads Last year I bought some CCS pads with my PC7424 starter kit. I discovered Flat pads...

According to the bottle of Collinite 845, it says it is for "automotive, marine, RV, aeronautical and industrial use" along with its use on power lines to prevent "flashovers" which can prevent fires, outages and explosions. It's obvious that 845 is tough stuff, but I'm wondering - has anybody...

Two things that Mike Phillips preaches are: 1. Use a test spot and 2. Use the least aggressive approach first. Now, my question is about both of these bits of advice. If I'm doing a test spot, say with a PC7424XP, white LC CCS pad and Optimum Polish and I'm finding that it's not getting the job...

With spring on the horizon here in the frozen tundra of eastern Ontario, Canada I'm starting to prepare my shopping list. I own two each of LC's 5.5" CCS orange, white and black. It seems however that the popular opinion is to use Flat pads with the PC7424XP, so I'm going to try those out. For...

Hey all, I was brushing snow and scraping ice off my car ('02 Hyundai Accent) and caused some rather noticeable scratches on the trunklid and roof. Before winter I threw on two coats of Collinite 845 to protect the finish during the winter months. There's still at least 4-6 weeks left of winter...

What is the difference between these two products in terms of application, ease of use and look? I already have a bottle of UQW but Aquawax is on sale at Autogeek's Canadian distributor and heard great things about it so I'm wondering if it's worth my time and money to add it to my order.

Hi all, I'm in the process of finishing up a paint correction on my '02 Accent with Optimum Hyper Compound and Optimum Polish II. I ordered some Collinite 845 because I wanted something that's inexpensive but has very good durability. I have some Meg's NXT 2.0 lying around along with some...

So I was talking to my Dad on the weekend after I finished polishing the hood of my '02 Hyundai Accent (pics will come when the whole car is finished :xyxthumbs:). Me: "Hey Dad, remember when I told you Dodo Supernatural was the most expensive wax on the market? Well, I found something even...

I recently received a 32 oz bottle of Opti-Bond and noticed that the opening on the bottle was rather large. I was worried that I would waste a lot of product because it would be difficult to control the flow of the product coming out of the bottle. So I discovered an old empty bottle of dish...

Hi all, I'm in the process of doing a full paint correction on my 2002 Hyundai Accent using a PC 7424XP, Optimum Hyper Compound and Optimum Polish II. Once that's complete I'd like to move on to some friends and family members cars since their finishes have been somewhat neglected over the...

Last night I wanted to do a quick wax job on my Dad's 2003 Chevrolet Malibu, but I noticed it had some swirling that I wanted to correct so I grabbed my bottle of Meguiars ColourX. At first I was applying it like a polish using a white LC CCS Polishing pad on speed 5 using six section passes...

Hi all, I live in a small city in eastern Ontario, Canada. We're stuck in a heatwave with temperatures in the low-mid 30s ('C) which is approximately 90'F. However it's also very humid, so factoring in the humidity it feels like low-mid 40s'C or roughly 110'F. Now I know direct sunlight and/or...

Hi all, I'm Ryan, from Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. I've been browsing the AutoGeek, Autopia and Meguiars forums for some time and joined the Meg's forums last year under this same name. I finally decided to stop lurking and start posting on AutoGeek so I can stop spying on all of you and join in...