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I have a bottle of IronX which I believe I purchased last year. Never opened the bottle. This is the first time using this product. A few moments ago, I sprayed the hood of my car with the IronX and wiped it into the paint with a damp sponge. I waited 5 minutes but the white IronX did not...

I read the article from Mike on DA polishing up to raised edges on car panels that have them: https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/ask-mike-phillips-your-detailing-questions-/90714-orbital-polishing-creases-edges.html Mike also describes using 3M blue vinyl tape to protect edges. With your...

I happened to be playing around with Langka blob eliminator on a few slightly deep scratches on my driver's door. It appeared that the blob eliminator caused some fine scratches into the finish, so I tried some M205 to clear this out by hand, but it only seemed to make more fine...

I was watching WaxMode's short video: YouTube and read Mike Phillips review and how to: https://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/product-reviews-by-mike-phillips/119277-review-how-blackfire-pro-ceramic-coating-mike-phillips.html for Blackfire Pro Ceramic Coating. I have been waiting for New...

Can someone explain to me what kinds of polishes are for use with a Lake Country HydroTech pad vs the CCS pads???

I have a Porter Cable polisher. I was looking in the store for orange 4 inch Lake Country CCS pads and could find none. I called customer service and they told me there are a few colors left in the outlet section, but it looks like the pads are discontinued. I will call during the week to...

I had been doing some heavy polishing of the inside of one of my alloy wheels with a porter cable polisher and a 3.5 inch yellow backing plate that I got from autogeek and an orange 4 inch ccs lake country pad. Since it is not a horizontal surface in front of me, I'm sure I was using probably...

An hour ago, I had the displeasure of driving too close to a granite curb when parking and managed to chew up a 3 inch edge of the car's alloy wheel, plus some other scrapes more on the body of the wheel. I know the only great fix would be to dismount the wheel, grind the metal down and...

I have looked at Mike's sticky, which is missing pictures on Dr. Colorchip, plus a few other posts. I have had no success with using Dr. Colorchip black on a black 2017 Honda Accord for scratches. Maybe the call it Dr. ColorCHIP because it only works on chips...? Anyway, I'm finding that no...

I bumped into a rear bumper stop at a garage and managed to create two raised dimples of pain on the top edge of the plastic bumper surface. One spot cracked off a tiny fragment so you could see the primer. I was going to try to fill the spots with Dr. Colorchip and squeege, except that the...

Last year I had a new 2017 Honda Accord Sport SE which was totaled in an accident this year (no one hurt). I've decided to buy a used 2017 Accord Sport SE, but was appalled by the thinness of the pain on my original car and the black used car I'm about to buy. I don't know how Honda gets...

I'm a little confused from the information I see in the forums. I have an old car which has weak clearcoat, so I am skipping polishing. I would think I should IPA first then do the claying, but would like to hear other opinions. Thanks.

After recently buying a new Honda Accord and googling "Honda soft paint" and seeing a chip or two already, I am mortified and sorry I did not research this before car buying. I am interested in getting info on a clear bumper/hood etc. wrap in the Boston area. Any recommendations? Preferably...

I have a new Honda Accord that I recently purchased. The paint appeared to not need any correction, so following advice from Optimum Customer Service, I simply washed the car and then used Optimum Paint Prep ->Extremely generously to make sure I removed any of the wax from the factory or...

I just purchased a 2017 Honda Accord with a light silver (Lunar Mist) paint. I am going to use Optimum Gloss Coat as a sealant, but need to prep the paint first. I believe they put some kind of wax on the car from the dealer. I'm going to use IPA, then clay the paint, but am not sure if I...

I have a little daylight left today and did not have time to set up for a complete clay, polish and wax today. I have to drive somewhere tomorrow and I should have a full day of time on Tuesday to work on the car. The car has just been washed and I was contemplating doing some claying on part...

A good while back I had measured my paint thickness and came up with 110-130 micro meters. I had also had some issues with some tiny crow's feet fractures in different parts of the roof, hood and trunk, so I had former advice just to clay and wax the car. The old advice I received with the...

I just bought a new set of Nissan Oem carpet mats for my Maxima. However, the mats do not have a rubber heel pad, so the heel rest area carpet fibers get quickly ground down. I was trying to figure out how I could make one myself. Not sure of where to get material. Don't have tools to...

Last year I wrote about some clearcoat cracking/fracturing in my paint: http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/auto-detailing-101/30164-fractured-wrinkled-etching-popping-up-all-over.html I have not polished and rewaxed the car in almost a year because of my job, but am considering doing it today...

I had some posts last year, where it appears I have numerous small splotches of clearcoat failure mostly on the hood, roof and trunk lid of my car, after buying the car used from a private party. I just bought a paint thickness guage meter and am getting readings from 100-135 micrometers on...