Recent content by justinschmidt1

Car was looking pretty rough when the customer brought it to me. Had some pretty deep scratches and swirl marks all over the car, headlights were oxidized, paint had tar on the lower sides of the doors, hub caps were looking a little rough. Customer was just looking for a quick clean up...

Ok so Im supposed to be detailing an older car, a 55 Fairlane to be exact and I believe its been resprayed at some point but the paint is dull, oxidized and needs to be brought back to life. I know it doesnt have clear coat so how do you guys go about attacking a single stage paint like...

Im just trying to see if I can get 5 other people to buy 1 qt bottles of 3m ultrafine/ ultrafina polish. Its the same as the ultrafina se looks like this Normally these seem to go from anywhere from 45-50 dollars a bottle and after shipping you could be looking at another 10...

Ok lately ive notice that on certain cars with harder clear coat ive been having problems getting the results I want. Im using a pc7424, yellow cutting pad, and poorboys ssr3 but it just seems like its not removing enough and when im finished there is still some swirl marks left. Im going...

Ive got a PC, yellow cutting pad, and some ssr3. How should I be using the pc to remove scratches with this setup? Should I just hold the PC hard enough to keep it there? Move very slowly for a couple minutes? Should I keep going over it for 5 minutes or so? Ive been seeing...

Well I got my PC and I dont think im gonna be happy with it. It just takes way too long to remove scratches or anything really. Im thinking I might try and get my hands on a rotary so I can actually do some paint correction in a reasonable amount fo time. Whats a good/cheap rotary?

Anyone know if its bad to repeatedly quick detail my waxed car vs washing it?? I pretty much never wash my car cause I just quick detail the entire car since the dirt just wipes off my Glanz wax Just curious if anyone thinks I should wash the car every now and again or does it really not...

Hey guys, I was just wondering what you guys thought would be a good price to charge customers. Im just detailing friends cars on the side with the PC to make some money/ pay off the 300 dollars worth of pads/products and the PC. I was thinking 100 for a basic wash/polish/wax maybe...

I only did a small spot cause it was my GFs car Just testing out some stuff. I used pinnacle swirl/scratch remover and wolfgang polish enhancer with my PC Followed it up with 1z glanz wax The scratches and swirling was like 5x as bad in person but the camera couldnt really capture...

Ive read that the pc7424 orbital buffer CANT remove clearcoat/paint and can not fix scratches How can this be true? If I use a cutting pad and a strong enough compound/polish it has to be removing some clear and removing the scratches right? I dont understand why I keep reading that...

Heres my stang what do ya guys think?

Just wondering what you guys thought of these products? Will the swirl/scrathc remover actually remove scratches? Is this polish any good? Ive noticed that everybody reccomend Menzerna here...

Alright guys...my paint looks good on my car but ive always noticed that the clearcoat looked like it has small craters/indentatons on the hood and top sides of the carif I look at it at an angle with the sun shining on it. Im assuming its clearcoat and its gotta be possible to remove. I...

What do you guys reccomend for really bad oxidation on headlights I was thinking sanding it down untill it looks like normal plastic then polishing it with something Ive tried plastx with my PC 7424 and it did nothing.