Recent content by mschuyler

There's a thread here that polls how many details people do in a day. Some answers range as high as five. I know OctaneGuy says he works on one car a day, which can take 6-12 hours, so that has me question what "detailing" means. Surely for five cars a day you can't do any PC work: Basically a...

How do you use black tire dressing with tires that have raised white lettering? I'm afraid to touch the white with the black, so to speak, for fear of permanently staining the white letters. Are there any techniques that could help? Thanks very much.

I don't know where i first heard of this: Use the hose without a sprayer to "wash off water." Might have been the Mike/Richard two bucket video. Anyway, the idea is to let the hose run onto the wet vehicle lightly which will result in less water, therefore less drying. I had the black Acura out...

I have a brand new 07 Silverado 2500HD Duramax. It's real pretty! :-) The wheel wells are huge. I could climb in one, I think. They are painted Victory Red just like the truck and very apparent from the outside, easily seen. I sprayed them out last wash stuck a mit in there--and threw away the...

Where did Richard go? anybody know the new url?

I've gone back 15 pages reading everything I could see on the topic, so I figure I can start again. Wife has a black 2004 Acura RL. It has been washed with terry cloth bath towel rejects for 2.5 years. I've told her that we cannot do that any more and have introduced her to the two bucket, Grit...

I have a three car garage. During the winter the floor would get wet and stay wet. (whaddya expect in Seattle?) When it dried a white powder would encrust the floor, leached from the concrete. So I decided to empty the garage entirely and paint it with floor epoxy. It comes in dual cans, each...

It ain't on the jargon list! Tx.