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Hello everyone, This weekend I worked on a very nice ‘76 Corvette. It came in for a one-step and deep scratch removal. The customer isn’t the first owner and doesn’t know much about the history of the paintwork. It was repainted at some point with base coat and clear coat. The paint was in bad...

Who else has made or almost made this sort of mistake? I was working on a car and I was pretty tired. I needed to finish a bottle of water so I walked up to the table and grabbed the bottle, untwisted the cap and then at the last second I realized it was M205. Whew! From now on I'm keeping my...

Hello everyone, About three or four months ago I put CQuartz on the deck lid of my Scat Pack. The deck lid has two stripes. I applied the coating right up to the more narrow of the two pieces of vinyl. A small strip of painted surface is exposed and did not receive the same protection. The...

For fun tonight I cleaned the wheel wells on my Challenger. Power Clean at 1:3, distilled water, a few brushes and throwaway towels were used. The neat part is what a great job Solution Finish did to darken the plastic wheel well liner and splash guards. I used Wolfgang Exterior Trim Sealant...

I am getting my Challenger ready to go to Texas Motor Speedway this weekend. My car club is getting to drive laps around the track. It will be the second time I've done this and I'm super excited! The hood of my Challenger is used for all manner of product and process testing and as a result...

Hello everyone, The majority of the vehicles I work on are modern Mopars and they all have varying degrees of surface defects (scratches, water spots, what have you) on their mirror caps and stems. Is it really called a "stem"? It's the piece that connects the mirror cap to the door. A Flex...

Yesterday I had a chance to clean the wheelwork on my Challenger. Once a week I perform a traditional wash on all four corners, but this time I decided to do something a bit different. Using McKee's Tire and Rubber Rejuvenator and N-914 I was able to perform maintenance cleaning of the wheel...

I'm curious how others reliably clean out crevices and seams (like between adjacent panels) when doing rinseless or waterless washes. I missed some spots on the car I'm working on and it's been bugging me all day. When I caught it I used D114 and a flagged brush to remove the some of the dirt...

Hello everyone, For a long time I could not figure out how to clean exterior and interior glass. Every video, article, pointer, tip, trick, chemical, towel, and whatever else just didn't give me the results that I desired. Well, I finally found a procedure that produces a result that matches my...

Hello everyone, Today I want to share my recent experience with Griot's Garage Liquid Gloss Poly Wax. I first saw the product on Auto Geek, but initially thought it was not worthwhile - it's just another sealant. After hearing positive buzz about the product on the Auto Geek forum I decided to...

Hello, In a few days I am going to do the engine bay, exterior and interior on a Charger that is fully wrapped in matte vinyl film that has a bit of texture to it. I want to avoid using anything that includes gloss enhancement. To tackle the paintwork (the vinyl wrap) I'm thinking of the...

Modern compounds sure are nice! :) Griot's Garage Fast Correcting Cream and standard Correcting Cream are absolutely amazing. After using both for a month I don't know what I would do without them.