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Dear Friends I know this guy. He and his accomplices hold the record for driving across the US in the least amount of time. Ed married our friends' and neighbors' daughter, Megan. The guy is super-smart. He owned and operated Supercar Rentals of Atlanta before he graduated from college. In...

Dear Friends A few days ago the ground of my Master Blaster's plug broke off into my extension cord. I'm not a card-carrying DIYer, but after wiring up my son's model railroad and doing a Google search for "Repairing 3-Prong Electrical Plug," I found this YouTube video: Repairing a 3-Pronged...

Dear Friends I was just browsing a popular online retailer of pressure washers and stumbled upon this new gadget for washing automotive and RV undercarriages. It may not be made of metal, but it looks like it might be a good thing to have. I don't have a Karcher washer, but now I wish I had...

Dear Friends A year or so ago I was either speaking to Chris on the phone or having an exchange with him in one of the forums, and he suggested that when my Opti-Bonded tires started to lose their luster, that I wash my wheels and tires with ONR. If I remember correctly, Chris's advice was a...

Dear Friends I know painfully little about detailing and would love to attend a detailing party where the folks who know how show those of us who don't. I don't know where we'd meet. My father-in-law has a first-rate two-bay garage here in Buford, but I haven't asked him to borrow it. I'm...

Dear Friends I just used CeriGlass/Lake Country Glass Polishing Pad/Griot's 6" DA on my wife's windshield to remove wiper trails. I got rid of the trails, but there are some little white specks or flecks that won't come out. I used Eraser and an Elastrofoam block in trying to scrub the little...

Dear Max & Autogeek Please get busy on developing the true ultimate wash bucket. That's what Griot's calls its bucket, but simply by virtue of containing only a single chamber, it can't possibly be the ultimate wash bucket. And a person just getting set up to wash his own cars at home can't...

Dear Friends I'm counting on your help with educating me about how to clean my mother's windshield on her ’99 Malibu. There's some sort of stubborn smearing on her windshield that follows the paths of her windshield wipers. Allow me to tell you what didn't get rid of the smearing: Four...

Dear Friends Here's my Christmas list that I gave to my wife for me: Pressure washer, $279.99 (saw for $269.99 in sale) Karcher K 5.740 Karcher K5.740 - X Series 2000 PSI (Electric-Cold Water) Pressure Washer 866.618.9274 Foam Cannon, $119.99 *Specify Karcher K-series adapter* Autogeek...

Dear Experienced Detailers What's on my paint? I pulled my slick-as-a-baby's-butt Odyssey out of the garage this afternoon to glaze its wheels. I pulled it out of the garage because it was too dark in our garage for me to see what I was doing. Before glazing I washed and dried the wheels. As...

Dear Friends What do y'all carry with you, if anything, for detailing your own vehicles when you're on the road? Take a family vacation as an example. You're going to be away three to seven days. Do you pack some detailing supplies? If so, which ones? What do you use to carry these supplies?

Dear Mike & Other Experts I'm enjoying Mike's Art of Detailing eBook, but am having a little trouble figuring out how much stuff I'm supposed to be using. I'm referring to waterless wash and microfiber towels in washing our Honda Odyssey van. About how many ounces of waterless wash, and about...

Dear Friends On Friday and Saturday I detailed our new 2012 Honda Odyssey, which is white with a gray leather interior. This is the first time I've detailed a vehicle since 1994. And by "detail" I mean that I simply washed the van, checked it all around to make sure it was clean, used Ultima's...

Dear Friends Would any of you care to estimate how much time it should take me to wax my new minivan, a Honda Odyssey, by hand? I don't know for sure, but I guess I'd use a carnauba paste wax. Would using a dual-action polisher save time? If so, would you please estimate how much time it'd...

Dear Friends I apologize for asking such an elementary question, but based on my reading of Mike's Art of Detailing, if I make a product-choice mistake, I could ruin my wheels. I have a 2012 Honda Odyssey EX-L with stock wheels (image), which are aluminum-alloy. From Mike's list of five wheel...