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Ford finally released my wife's new maverick from our personal hostage crisis. Velocity blue: I started with the ceramic coat today. Showing that I have learned something over the years, I settled on the 1" strip behind the wear window, above the bed coating as the least visible. I...

Sometime in the next couple of days (probably Thursday), we pick up the brand new Maverick for my wife. It was built about two weeks ago. I intend to give it a ceramic coat right away; we live in the desert (Las Vegas) with brutal sun much of the year. My (amateurish) intended approach is to...

I assumed that it would be easy to find, was foiled, and finally thought to come here--where I assumed, again incorrectly, that there would be a sticky thread on it. My wife's new special ordered Maverick will be ready for pickup in a couple of days; it's in town at the yard where the train...

I just acquired a 1993 Fleetwood. The paint is good, but not excellent. I've immediately set out to give it a polish and good base of wax (it has a mesquite tree to live under, which deters most, but not all, birds. That and the desert sun can be brutal). After a good cleaning (blue...

I've found a potential daily driver (My poor ETC has been turned classic insurance only from a minor collision; the White Diamond paint costs far more than the body work, leading to salvage title.:mad:) However, it looks like the vinyl top has faded, even though the Crimson Pearl paint...

When her Deville got overheated, we picked this up for my daughter. Mechanically, it's sound, and our own mechanic knows the car. The sun, however, has not been good to the paint: or the vinyl: She'll probably be in it for a year or two while she saves up for something else--but...

I live in the desert (Las Vegas). Dust and mesquite tree debris (from individual tines to small branches) are inevitable. I think I could stick the car in a vacuum room and it would still happen . . . Anyway, what can I safely use to brush the dust & debris off before washing? I'm thinking...

I picked up Maguire's ultimate liquid wax for no more real reason than being told that the paste could stain other bits of the car, and the liquid wouldn't. Not having hand waxed a car since the 1980s, and using paste back then, this seems to be far less work. But . . . I used the towel that...

The paint on this 1997 is stunningly good. I have the roof and hood rubbed down with clay bar and waxed; the trunk is next. I recall reading here about color separation on white paint. Is that what I have here with these two pink lines? And if so, what do I do about it? It almost looks...

The '02 Deville paint is indeed damaged, but my wife doesn't want it (!!), and my daughter is taking it. My body shop thinks it can be buffed pretty, but I'm not after the four door anyway. An adult daughter wanted it, and schemed ("Hey. I'm not scheming. I prefer 'conniving'".) to find...

All of the roads on paint at the cadillacforums seem to lead here . . . I just picked up a 2001 deVille, and the paint color is apparently "crimson pearl" (I don't see a different between it and ford's "medium red", but I guess you get fancier words at cadillac prices :) ) Anyway, the paint...

I just picked up a 2001 deVille, and I may have bitten off more than I thought (someone may have scrubbed clean through my clearcoat) . . . whereas I know how much I've bitten off on the 2001 Eldorado convertible. (And the van is a lost cause, ready to be sacrificed as a college car for my...