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This Ford Lightning was brought to me literally right out of the barn and had been sitting for many years. Needlessly to say it needed a ton of restoration & refinishing work just about everywhere including interior and engine bay. My first step was to remove the seats allowing me to have much...

Ford F250 came in this week for a complete multiple step correction and interior clean up as well as pinstripe & metal reflectors to come off. This is a prime example of why you need to explain to ur client that there's a possibility of paint getting removed or lifted or worse before even...

Mustang came in this week after two years of my last servicing correction, they were getting ready to put it up for sale and wanted me to bring a little life back into it and remove some light imperfections. As anyone knows black shows everything and almost impossible to keep perfect...

Foxbody Mustang came in this week for a multiple step paint correction, along with metal polishing wheels. Process: Meguiars Wash, Iron Decon, Heavy Clay Bar, Griots Fast Correcting Cream, Rupes Uno Protect finishing Aio. Tires Dressed with Griots Tire Shine Spray. Car came out great and...

1980 Studebaker Avanti II Restoration Hello autogeek, here is a 1980 Studebaker I had the pleasure of restoring for a friend. Here are a few before photos and afters as well during shots 50/50s. Process was decon, iron, clay, griots fast cut, sonax perfect finish, and then topped with...

Had the pleasure of working on a friends 1992 mustang notch back, i believe it was painted red at one time but by the looks of it in the pictures below you would not know it lol. Car currently is just a roller and now currently soon to be for sale as i had to prepare it for that reason alone...

Friend wanted to do some restoring on his older nova that was in preety bad shape due to sitting a long time and neglect. Paint Process: Griots boss g21 with /microfiber pads/boss correcting cream/ and orange pad with hd speed to finish. Griots 6 converted to 3.5 for smaller areas. Wheels were...

Makita BO6040J Polisher Has anyone bought this yet? This thing looks like it rocks! Power forced rotary or dual action I'm really curious on how it performs and finishes.

Here is a third gen nova i did a few months back and forgot to post. Car came to me pretty swirled and needed a nice correction, customer only wanted to let me do a one step which was fine by me. I loved the color on this one with the wheel setup, it also had a 383 motor underneath with a...

​​This truck has not been detailed for awhile the owner said as you can see lol. He did not want to pay for a two or multi step process so i recommended a one step for him. The results were pretty good for a 1 step and most customers aren't necessarily looking for perfect as it is there daily...

These were bad! And my first go and doing preety good i'd say myself. Process: Wetsand, 1500, 2000, 3000, and then compound 105 and machine polish 3m with rotary. Any thoughts or comments to improve or to do would be appreciated. Before: \ After: During: The owner was very happy and...

A friend of a friend wanted me to detail the outside of his f250. Awesome truck but needed alot of work correcting the outside as it was left from the body shop a mess. The truck was just painted a couple months ago and he even went back to get it re-sanded and buffed. To say the least he was...

Heres a before shot of the rear trunk on my heavily'd orange peel'd 01 f150 truck i own lol, not sure if it was repainted at sometime or from factory. It's my test dummy and learning truck lol. I used G21 with 6 inch 2000 grit sanding disc then followed with M-105 and 3M machine polish was...

Hey guys just got my g21 and very happy with it for the big panels, but now im having a hard time deciding what i should do with my gg6? should i convert it to a 3 inch bp and 3 inch pads? I did a hatchback mustang yesterday and couldnt really get to certain areas with out my g21 pads hurting...

Hey guys finally got around to figuring out how to post some pictures! Anywho here is my s10 and 1 pic of my dads bel air 56 straight axle. My s10 has a 406 Small Block Chevy solid roller, currie 9 inch, 350 trans line lock, Setup for 150 shot nos, caltrac setup, car has ran in new york at the...

Would like to hear ur guys opinion on what i should do. I currently have a griots 6 new model, cheap harbor freight rotary fairly good at. Various pads/polishes 3m/megs. I generally plan on just doing side jobs here and there. The only real problem with my griots is i have a struggle with...

Currently I have the griots 6 and it works well but I want something that is even stronger for defect removal. Was looking at possibly a Makita or dewalts, the only thing that I have a problem with is buffer trails. I use 3m compound on a wool pad then I will wash and 3m machine polish on a...

Just ordered my new kit which I went with is this Griot’s Garage & Meguiar’s Paint Perfection Kit 3rd Generation! Anyway i'm wondering if I should order anything else pads/sealants/waxes/tools let me know and any tips would be great this is my first buffer and also ''paint correction''

Hey guys I've been into detailing for a long time but never really tried to seriously get in to it until now, my question is what should I get to start out with? I would really really like to paint correct my car and need to know what buffer/polisher to get pads etc and some products instead of...