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I've detailed quite a few exotics. Not nearly as many as some of you, but enough to not really go ga ga when I see em around. Well, that is until today. I saw my very first real life Lamborghini Murcielago today, and damn near drove off the side of the road looking at it. The magazine...

Autopia is such a huge board that it gets it's fair share of trolls. The good ones are able to completely trash threads while staying just inside the borders of acceptable behavior so they don't get banned. These trolls typically argue about stuff that they have no idea about. Now while that...

I've been obsessed with ONR for quite a while now. It's capable of doing things it just shouldn't be able to do. For instance, how in the heck is it able to prevent marring when used as a waterless car wash? I mean, you're doing *exactly* what you're *NOT* supposed to do; smashing a wash...

The surgery went well, and I'm once again able to use my left hand to type with... for the most part. :) It's pretty weird telling a body part to do something, and having it just go "uh uh, can't do it. 's not prudent at this juncture." Still kinda freaked out about how they go in from the...

Gents, I've been thinking... (just don't let my wife know that. She gets nervous when I think). How do you select what pad you are going to use? What's the thought process behind your selection? FWIW, here's my thoughts on the issue... When compounding, I like to pick a compound...

I've been having some pretty nasty back problems developing over the last several years. Then last month, I woke up with the usual severe lower back pain, but with a new twist; I had a stabbing pain in my upper back that radiated down my left shoulder, down my left arm, and made my hand feel...

After reading all the past Autopia threads on carpet cleaning, I took Grouse's advice and bought some Prochem carpet chemicals to clean the carpets in a house my parents rent out. Prochem Liquid Slurry is a *fantastic* extraction chemical. And get this... the standard dilution ratio is one...

I've been reading all the old posts about carpet cleaning. My parents rented out their old house and recently the renters moved out. OMG, the carpets are baaaaad. The carpets are 17 years old, but they were the very top of the line stain resistant 100% *wool* carpets back then. They are of such...

So yesterday, while I was wiping the egg off my face from mis-quoting Kevin Brown, I started looking for the source of my "use moderate pressure for the first few passes, then light pressure for the last few passes" advice I had been giving people, and erroneously quoted my source as being...

There was a recent Sun Gun thread that got turned off topic and couldn't seem to find its way back. So just wondering.... you Sun Gun owners, how do you use them, and what kind of defects are they capable of showing? I've been using a Brinkmann, halogens, and incandescents for...

How do you like the Hitachi SP18VA? It seemed like there were a bunch of guys around here that were very excited for this machine to be released, then nothing but silence afterward. There's been a few sporadic posts about it, and it seems like the primary complaint has been problems with the...

All the excitement about M105/M205 and the rebirth of the DA as a serious detailing tool seems to have caused a very good product to be overlooked (for the most part). You just don't see many threads around about Power Finish. I've only used it three times. Once on a Ferrari, once on a small...

Last October I put three coats of Finish Kare 1 1000P High Temp Synthetic Paste Wax on my Charger. I managed to keep my hands off of the LSP for the entire winter. I can't remember the last time a car I owned went that long without either an LSP refresher, or change out. But I just had to know...

I finally caved in and bought the DIC-20 CRSpotless from costco.com a few weeks ago. I've had a terrible time with the cartridges leaking around the outside O ring. Apparently, the company that supplies CRSpotless with their cartridges and filters have made a change to the filter housing...

Don't get me wrong... I *love* TAW, but it is just too expensive. What are you guys using as a good TAW substitute?

The first and last time I used Meguiar's #7 Show Car Glaze, Ronald Reagan was in office. I had the worst time wrestling with this stuff. I just could not seem to get it to do anything other than streak, haze, and just look yucky. Two weeks ago I found myself in the local Autozone (another...

When Meg's D151 debuted last year, I promptly snapped up a gallon, only to be seriously disappointed with the results I was getting; not very much correction, and I was getting nasty holograms. Well, after reading up on all the KBM I could find, I decided to give it another try using (my...

I picked up a container of Stoner Invisible glass wipes last week. I figured they'd be good for the odd fingerprint here and there. It turns out that they are *very* good. One of my pet peeves is MF fibers left behind on glass. These pre-treated wipes leave zero lint or fibers behind. Great...

I've been using both LC and Edge pads for quite a while now. Recently, I received a Meg's Soft Buff 2.0 pad which came as part of an order I placed at ADS. I was very impressed with that pad. So impressed, that I was just about ready to pull the trigger on a large pad order, but when I heard...

Meguairs and Kevin Brown have ushered in a new era when it comes to personal car detailing, and even pro car detailing for that matter. PC's/DA buffers were always considered second fiddle to the rotary for correction ability and the ability to finish down to a very fine level. While I still...