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Hello, I have a 4th gen fbody and I am thinking about picking up a set of C5 thin spokes off a facebook market place seller. They are cheap, likely for this reason.. From my research this is polished aluminum that is clear coated? Looks like someone used a powerful wheel cleaner of some sort...

Hi guys, its many many years since I was last present on here. I have a 93 firebird formula that was resprayed in 2002-2003. Prior owner garage kept it, I bought it two years ago and it lives outdoors. The paint had defects like this when I got it, but I feel there are more of them now. What...

Hey guys, I just had to share this with you all because you are the only folks I know who will truly appreciate this. So the paint on my fender started to delaminate I about 4 years ago. It only got worse and kept peeling. I eventually decided to try the DIY route in 2012. I bought some rattle...

Some of you may remember my previous thread where I asked for advice and purchased new rotors, pads, and brake fluid. Well I finally got the job done today. Did a test drive to make sure all was well. After this I was going to bleed the brakes. I started with the right rear tire and while...

Hey guys, My altima about 3 days ago began squeaking only from what sounds like the rear right wheel area. Its the type of squeal you hear when someones brakes are really bad, but its not obnoxiously loud. What is strange is it does occur even when the brake is not applied, and sometimes when...

Me and my brother want to learn to drive stick and we were thinking of going halves on a cheap beater we can learn on and then get rid of once we got it and are bored of the car. Was thinking of trying to stay around 1-1.5k. I am of course limited to what I can find locally, but do you guys...

I have for the most part. I still wash it properly, but that's the most I put into it as well as a spray wax every once in awhile. Not interested in fixing swirls or scratches anymore as the paint is too delicate.. The reason I lost interest is my cars paint, it just sucks. The roof's clear...

My Altima is nearing 10 years of life. It has many paint issues and it bums me the heck out. The roofs clear coat is failing (the first bit of white cc and coming out), the hood is also showing signs of failure, some jerkoff backed into my car and luckily only hit the hood, but the lip got...

I used OPC in the past, bought a gallon and used it for everything. Tires/wheels/bugs/carpets/wax stripper. What I am wondering about is the fact that I completely forgot how well it works on tires. After I ran out like 6 months ago, I started using A2Z as I remember it being a great product...

Thinking of giving coatings one more try on my Altima. The clear coat is slowly getting worse on my roof. I figure the only thing I can do besides a repaint is coat it with something permanent/semi permanent and hope it helps hold it together a bit longer. I had a real bad experience with...

I opticoated my car two years ago and had nothing but problems with it. It would bead for a month, then stop. I had re-applied it 3 times and the same result. I prepped by the following: Wash, clay, opti-compound, opti-polish II, IPA wipe down, opti-coat. I applied it correctly, and...

My car is opticoated. Well I think it still is. It hardly beads up anymore. Its been about 2 years. I want to try to deep clean the surface as I am sure there is build up. Would ironx be the way to go? I already tried claying awhile back and it make zero difference. Beading was still...

So I got new tires recently (Nitto Motivo) and I washed my car yesterday and wanted to remove their tire shine and I noticed after doing the first tire with my stiff bristled tire brush, it actually left marks on the side wall. WHAT!????? I have never seen this before. I have used this...

Ive had this tube of opticoat for around 2 years now and I just pulled it out to use it again to coat my headlights and it has a bunch of chunks in it and its hazy! Does this stuff have a shelf life? I didn't know this could happen. Would it be fine to use still or should I just throw it out...

I made the huge mistake of deciding to refinish my kitchen cabinets. My mistake I mean, good lord this is time consuming, and its no fun the food and dishes spread out across three rooms. Its been like this for 4 weeks now. Anyhow, I already scraped and sanded and applied the stain last...

Me and my mom have spent the last 3 weekends scraping and sanding our old kitchen cabinets and we just finally got to a point where we could stain them. We stained it today and it looks pretty good for old nasty veneers. Anyways, I was reading online on the best way to apply the polyurethane and...

IDIOTS!!!!! AGGGHHH Someone backed into my car denting the lip of my hood and now my hood doesn't sit level with the fenders. :( I don't know for sure when this happened, but I am quite positive I know as I have those autogeek eyes and anytime something gets damaged, I spot it like a hawk...

Not sure what to think right now. To start. My goal for today was to replace my headlights. So I replaced them. After doing so, I noticed the fenders had a gap that they didn't have before around the headlight. After manipulating the fender and getting it mostly like how it was prior(literally...

I just now finished installing replacement headlights on my Altima. I ended getting aftermarket (tyc) as OEM is way to expensive. Anyways after wiping them down with ONR, I noticed that the surface isn't perfect (autogeek eyes activate!). Just has some very light marring that look kind of light...

I have thinking about getting a dash cam recently after reading some threads on other forums of people getting in accidents and getting screwed by insurance or people running away after accidents. Basically, I want to have something to capture these moments to protect myself. I also would like...