Recent content by Derek173

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Woot.com Not sure if its a good deal, but this site usually has good stuff for cheap.

Yesterday I had a track day at the 4 mile long and brake intensive Road America in ElkHart Lake, Wi. Today I swapped back street pads on the fronts and was about to begin washing the car when I remembered I had a new camera and wanted to do a little test. I have the gel version of both P21s and...

A friend of mine came by to detail his car and brought me some Riccardo clay bars. Selling this as a set, you get one yellow and one blue poly-elastic clay bar for $60 shipped.

Can this muffler section polished? What tools would I need? I have a Flex DA and some Optimum Metal Polish but I imagine some sandpaper will be needed?

Cleaning out the garage to make some room. Went through my detailing supplies and found some stuff I no longer need: QD = 50% full Scatch X = 80% full Scratch X 2.0 = 90% full UC = 90% full Swirl X = 90% full Liquid GC = 100% full Leather Cleaner = 70% full Leather Conditioner =...

I finally detailed my car, vacation time FTW :cheers: Used the following products: Flex Pinnacle Ultra Poli Clay Optimum Car Wash and ONR Optimum Polish 2 w/ White LC pad Optimum Final Finish w/ Black LC pad Optimum Opti-seal I will apply some more...

Looks like pudding now? Was fine until I kept it in the garage for a month, maybe low temp? Is it still good?

Hmm.. what did I do wrong? I recieved my flex and my first victim was a red Toyota Camry (moms). Used Optimum Polish and observed about 75% correction in my opinion but since the car was beat up to begin with it looked amazing :woohoo: After polishing I applied Ultima PGP and let it cure for...

Forgive my Newbness, I just used my flex for the first time. Just practicing right now as I have never machine polished. I started with Optimum Finish and white ccs pad and saw a slight difference then I switched to Opt Finish + orange pad and saw a big difference:woot: but still felt it...

So I plan on getting a Flex soon. I have never done any kind of machine polishing and figure this is a great product to learn with. Here is what I am ordering along with some Questions. 1. Flex 3401 intro kit w/ CCS Orange , White and Red pads. Should I order a more aggressive pad too? A...

I tried two different 5 gallon buckets I had in my garage and the grit guard only makes is 3/4 of the way down. So I have a gallon or more of water under the grit guard. Should my Grit Guard sit at the very bottom of my bucket?

I keep all my detailing products in my garage, crazy huh?:chuckle: With winter approaching and a garage that is not heated, should I be worried about all the stuff I was forced to buy because of this site? Will the cold cause my waxes and sealants to break down and die?

I was wondering if NXT has cleaning properties :nixweiss . Will it strip off a sealant or wax? Applied some Opti-seal and was wondering if Nattys blue might be a better topper?

Can I put UPGP over Opti-seal and vice versa? What about Opti-seal or UPGP over a carnuba wax? Thanks!