Recent content by larry_bar56

Hello everyone, I just bought a bottle of 3M Imperial Microfinishing Compound today, product number 06011. I have seen others mention this same product by name, but list the number as 39001. Does anyone know if these are the same thing? If so, why the different numbers? Even 3M has...

Hey Everyone, My wife came home the other day and told me that she had purchased some MF dish towels at Walmart. Now, I have some of their auto MFs, they're sort of thin and I only use them for door jambs and drying my wheels, but these dish towels felt pretty plushy. They were $5 for a...

I have been performing an experiment over the past 2-3 weeks and I want to report my results. Like many people here I have had problems removing wax/polish "stains" from textured, black body side mouldings. I have read all the threads on how to deal with this and in fact, even started one a...

THE BAD LUCK: This morning on my way to work I was passing a truck carrying a load of pipe. Suddenly that loud pop sound and you know you have been hit by a rock. A quick glance over to the passenger side of the car reveals a 6" long crack in my windshield!:( THE GOOD LUCK...

Last month there was an offer from Autofiber.com for a free MF towel. Has anyone that signed up for that received their towel yet? Just wondering how long the wait might be. Also, if you did receive it, how is it?

Here are some pics taken after Saturday's detailing. I tried a couple new things: First, I tried the "clay while you hose the car" trick. I didn't like it. First off you get really wet. Second, the clay kept sticking to the surface and then it would leave some residue that would have to...

After washing my car this past weekend I did the baggie test and felt a lot of surface crud. I clayed it about 6 weeks ago, so what I felt seemed excessive (I don't live near a railroad and I just polished it the previous weekend using DACP). I think what I was feeling was probably sap from...

Ever since I found this site a few months ago I have started looking at cars differently...you know, more critical about the condition of the vehicle (you know we all we do it!). :D I have a BMW and I love the thing, but it has a fair amount of orange peel effect in the paint. I have since...

Has anyone seen the ad on TV for the Auto Wash Stick? This is a synthetic sheepskin scrubber attached to a tube that draws up soapy water like a hypodermic needle. I don't know if anyone has used one of these or whether or not they work at all. But I found the ad very funny.:D It starts...

There is a review in the Mile Marker section over in the Roadfly.org site. Here is the link: Mile Marker Review of PC I thought most new autopians might be interested in this. It's a positive article and contains a lot of information that you'll find echoed here by those that frequent...

thebestwax.com has 16"x16" MFs for $3.95US. Has anyone used these and can comment on their quality?

I've seen several brands of spray wax in the stores these days and thought this might be a good solution for use on wheels, especially ones with lots of nooks and crannys that make it difficult to wax with a paste or liquid. Has anyone used any of these and had good success with it? If...

I had one headlight that was very scratched and foggy looking. The other was perfect (obviously it had been changed and the bad one was probably original). I tried Mother's Plastic polish alone and it did make an improvement, but it still looked lousy to me. So I decided to take a more...

This topic gets a lot of "air time" here so I just thought I'd share my experience. I had read all the threads about using peanut butter, Prepsol, Bug and Tar remover, etc. I tried the Prepsol but didn't have much success. Today at Walmart I picked up a can of Gunk Tar and Bug Remover...

Well, I finally got the chance to use my new PC. My white car has a fair amount of light scratching, probably caused by poor washing and harsh winter here in New England. But, all in all, the car still has a decent shine and the scratches don't seem worse than anything I've read about here...