Recent content by Smoked Tails

Gents, I was curious as I only have a rotary buffer. Can I use a paint cleaner and Autoglym's SRP by rotary? I normally use them with a German applicator, but I'm looking to do the whole car as it's actually not supposed to rain for once in my corner of England tomorrow? I can use them by...

As the title states, I need to deal with a Black Mica Mazda3 that suffered from a moron with a rotary. It's not terrible, I considered trying to get some RMG and Natty's Blue and calling it a day, but the Autopian inside me said no. I'm starting from scratch here, no buffer, towels...

Not that it really matters. I'm just an enthusiast like the bulk of you. Just bought a new car and I'm scaling back a bit on the amount of video games I play in order to maintain it. I'd link my old threads, but I rearranged my photobucket gallery at some point and don't feel like re-doing...

You may have seen this car before in my post "So I rubbed one out today." I tackled the daunting task of bringing back a neglected SS red car by hand. Or, so I thought. It looked great for the first week. Then we got some rain, and then some more and two weeks later my car was shiny, but not...

hehe, I love innuendo. Anyways, I got the chance to semi-finish my car today. In case, you didn't see my welcome post. It has some before pics and other miscellany. Here we go. Here's what I used. My right and left arms and hands. A car wash down the road so I could borrow outside...

Aren't we all? I'm a long time shine junky. I'm glad I found the rest of you. I heard about Autopia from the detailing forum at vwvortex. I've been lurking on and off for six months or so. I just got a gem of a car for cheap that really just needs a good cleanup. So, for the last few...