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My friend asked me to do some work on his Wrangler and get it nice and shiny. The car sits outside 24/7 and may have been washed less than 5x since new, certainly not in the last few years. I had to do this in 3 stages, due to limited time on his end. First I prepped the car, then polished...

I'm having a bit of an issue with iron fallout attacking the pain on my car. It's a '13 Focus hatch and the rear of the car just gets covered with iron fallout every few weeks. I don't live in an industrial area or anywhere near train tracks, the car does sit outside 24/7 though. I took some...

Quick review of this Cquartz fabric and leather coating. 1. Clean leather and dry, I used Megs APC 10:1 2. Spray product onto leather and spread around, I used an older yellow foam applicator 3. Let sit for one minute 4. Lightly buff Leather before Product on leather Spread around Final...

So my gf just bought a new car today, of course it had to be black, even though I told her there's a reason my DD isn't black. Told the dealer not to wash it so we could avoid as much DISO as possible. There are some very light swirls here and there and a few spots that looked like someone...

Happy Saturday all. I've been out of the detail game for a while since my daily driver for the last 4 years barely had paint on it and the GTO in my avatar got driven maybe 4x a year. Just picked up a 2013 Focus two months ago and have been going crazy throwing money at AG the last few weeks. I...

So I got new rims for my car a week or two ago, but I don't have a good camera. I borrowed my parents camera and took some pictures after a quick detail. I wanted to see how P21S looked over this sealant and it seems like it just added depth without altering the color. Too bad its protection...

In case anyone was wondering how to degrease/dress an engine I decided to do a quick write up on how I do it. The test subject is my girlfriends 97 GTP. The car has never been detailed and had 10 years of junk built up on the engine. Soon the rest of the car will be detailed, either for a trade...

So with all the lovebugs currently smashing into cars here in Fl I have been removing them from my car 2x a day. I decided since I had time tonight to wash the car and get all them off completely. Also I wanted to put another coat of wax on the front just to make sure that I am completely...

My car has a real soft clear and I start to get noticeable swirling (to me) about 3 months after polishing. Now I don't want to polish my car every 4 months cause I want my clear to last. The clear is soft enough to remove moderate swirls with OP/Edge blue on my rotary. I want something that...

So my friend Brain came over today and asked if I could give his car a quick wash and such. I had applied some Collinite 476 about a 5 weeks ago and the car hadn't been washed since. The Collinite was still beading real good, but I must have missed a couple sections and rewaxed the hood/trunk to...

So I have tried a few different waxes on my car and none have completely satisfied. Souveran muted my metal flake too much, P21S had lackluster durability, Megs #26 worked ok but I felt dirty topping my car with a $12 wax. So I finally decided to pick up some Max Wax at the recommendations of...

My car has a decent amount of rubber trim on it. I try my best to keep it clean and black. However, I can't find anything that will do a good job. I used PB trim restore and it bubbled my rubber if not removed quickly, plus I don't really like the look. Just got some PB natural look on and it...

Today it is time to strip my wax and sealant and reapply. Mostly for the reason that I want to enter my car in the WG contest and I have DP sealant on my car. What is the easiest way to strip my paint down? I have AIO and put it on the hood with my PC and a grey LC pad. Do I need to work it...

This is my friends car. I have a GTO also and he wanted his to look like mine. So we traded cars on Tuesday night and I went to work. The car was in horrible shape. There were water etchings covering every square inch on the horizontal surfaces. Swirls everywhere. These cars have a pretty soft...

I managed to come across some of this today :D and was wondering exactly how to use it. I have been using DP Surface Shield previously and it seems to be very different then Wolfgang in terms of use. I don't need to let the Wolfgang sit on the car for 40 mins before removing? Also do I still...

So I am in the middle of working on a friends car that I need done by tonight and my velcro backing plate just separated. I am trying to use some automotive sealant to glue it back together as a temp fix. Is there anywhere that I can get one locally? Half his car is swirl free and I need to do...

I currently am using the Connolly cleaner and conditioner combo on my GTO. I really like the cleaner and it seems to do a fantastic job, even though it is a little expensive. However, I cannot stand using the conditioner. It seems to work well, but I hate using it. It seems to go on very...

I have been dealing with some white residue on my black trim by my windshield for a few months. I believe that it was some XMT that from previous polishing. I tried 50:50 alcohol and water, straight alcohol, XMT pad cleaner, PB trim restore, Souveran, and everything else I could think of...

I am getting some new rims for my car from a friend. He isn't exactly a detailer, so the rims are going to need some TLC. They are in pretty good shape, but not up to the standards here. They are polished aluminum with a clear coat on the center section, but not on the lip. He says the lip has...

Seems like these 4-in-1 (FIO) are coming pretty quickly now. Well it rained here in Fl yesterday and it seems that all the roads in my area are dusty and the car gets gross after a rain shower. So I just got my 1 gal of FIO and went to work in the garage. Took about 45 mins max. Process: -...