Recent content by imported_zenhog

Ah, thankfully spring is here and I can get back to some serious detailing.. I missed this group alot this past winter... Ok, here's one for the leather people. I have leather seats in my '99 Suburban and I think I ruined the leather on the passenger side. My seats normally have this...

I had a gasoline spill in the carpet of my suburban and that residue that was left after it evaoprated is producing that gas odor. Any tips on removing that residue?

I need to do something to protect my rocker panels, at least the first foot or two behind the wheel. I see TOL is selling a paint protection tape called BodyGuard. Anyone have experience with this stuff? Or something like it? Craig

I usually put more wax on the rocker panels than I do on any other spot on the car, since that area needs the most protection. I was thinking... does anyone use something a lot more durable on that part of the car? I'd opt for something extremely hard on those areas if someone could recommend...

I'm pissed and maybe I don't need to be, so one of you people may be able to help me here. I think I permanently messed up the plastic on one of my side mirrors. It's black plastic, I don't know if it's painted or not. I saw the threads about how wonderful the yellow can Turtle Wax tar and...

I've got some extra zaino QD and I'm not using zaino on the car at the time. This has got me thinking... Does it matter what type of QD you use on top of your wax? Some QD's are made to go onto acrylic waxes, some are made to go with carnauba waxes. I got Sonus acrylic spritz when I got...

I'm sending up a pic of the temp I took of my car sitting outside today under a slightly-overcast sky. 150+ degrees! Yesterday when I bought the Radio Shack gauge there was direct sunlight, no clouds, and spots were 170+ degrees! I don't know where this idea came from that if, while...

I'm talking about true paint cleansers, not cleansers that also have filling in them. What would be the need or benefit from using a paint cleanser after doing a bang-up job (rotary) of compounding and polishing, then completely cleaning the paint with 50/50 alcohol? Isn't a cleanser supposed...

I'm looking to find a place where I can buy this masking paper I saw my body shop use when they had to buff a door and didn't want to get sling all over the place. From what I remember it was a brown roll of paper, probably about 24-36 inches wide, with an adhesive strip on one side much like...

I have a 10 foot ceiling in my garage, it's 25 x 32. I've got some 8 foot high output flourescent fixtures (2 bulbs per). How far apart should I hang them? How far from the walls? and.. i saw one place to hang them parallel to the way the cars park, another to do it perpendicular. Which...

Well, I did a test yesterday and had too many quadrants on the car, couldn't compare crap, and also didn't use the z6 between applications so I invalidated the test. Also I ended up topping everything and that didnt make sense for the zaino side. So.. I removed it all (2 appl of 50/50...

I'm doing this test on Saturday 7/26 in the AM. Your feedback is appreciated, if I'm wasting steps then let me know. If I should be trying something else pls also let me know. Car: 2001 sebring dark navy blue. finish in very good shape. Testing for: Look. Depth. Gloss. I'll worry about...

It seems to be common belief around here that s100 is the same thing as p21s. Yet there is another poll on best waxes where there is a huge difference between votes between s100 and p21s. Which is either becuase you can only pick one and most people use the s100 .. or people don't really believe...

Hey gang My car goes in to the body shop on Monday for 3 days to repair and repaint the door. It's not a "Hollywood" shop in that all the cars are always inside in an almost-sterile environment, from what I can tell from the one trip I made there. The driveway is gravel, and I'm guessing...

Ok, so here's a lesson in karma. If you're not done with your detail job don't take pics. Here's what happens when you're in such a rush to show off your car that you forget your neighbor parked a car trailer on the section of lawn you use to back onto and turn around... just have to laugh...