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Greg Nichols and I just spent the last three days detailing a C5 Corvette (with a partial re-paint) and a Ferrari 360 Modena F1 package. This gave us an opportunity to try out the new formula M105 and also M205. Here's our experiences... First, the new M105 does work very well with a DA. I...

Greg Nichols and I just compared the venerable CamSpray foam cannon with ADVS1's foam cannon. The two produced very similar foam. The only real difference was that ADVS1's foam cannon didn't pick up quite as fast from the bottle, which is a good thing; the camspray empties waaay too fast. Check...

There's been alot of talk about a bunch of different methods of car washing. Which is good; this is, after all, Autopia! Well, after reading them all, and experimenting a whole bunch, I've come up with a car wash that does a pretty good job. It's mostly based on a very old post that I can't find...

This subject comes up every now and then, and yesterday I received the following PM: "Are water softeners and DI systems the same thing? If not, the CR Spotless System is a DI system, not a water softener correct? This AG sells a system http://www.autogeek.net/clinhofianda.html which...

There are several people that I really listen to around here. Today's subject/victim is Bence. When that crazy Hungarian talks well about a product I have yet to try, said product is removed from the "order this stuff when you get a chance" list to "Today's Detailing Order" list. That's what...

I've always had great luck with SIP and PFW finishing down *very* well. Rarely would I get grams or compounding marks. I had also had some pretty good luck getting M105 and M95 to finish down pretty well with PFW, too. Sometimes I could finish holo-free with it, other times it looked pretty...

Edit: I decided to delete this post until a moderator tells me I'm not breaking the rules...

All of my MF's seem to leave lint on windows. Even my new Eurows have started to do it, too. And the lint from Eurows looks *really* bad, cause the strands are so long. I've been searching and researching window cleaning media for most of the morning as well as last night. Everything from...

If I hadn't bought my John Deere PW last summer, I'd be buying the one that Home Depot has on sale right now. It's a Ridgid 3,000 PSI 2.6 GPM, triple piston pump, Subaru powered PW with one of the nicest pressure guns I've ever seen. 400 bucks. Yowza. I guess I could use a "back up" pressure...

So I just searched around for threads on this stuff. Doesn't seem to be much information around. I'm sure there's gotta be a few peeps on Autopia that have tried it. Would love to hear some opinions on it. It would have to be *very* good stuff at that price level, though. I'm also...

...3.5 ONR capfuls, if you're using the gallon jug of ONR. Last summer, someone pointed out that the labeling on the ONR gallon jug was incorrect; 1 oz of ONR was *not* two capfuls as stated on the label. It's correct for the quart sized container, though. In my latest detailing supply...

Haven't seen you around lately. You doin' a Supe-like disappearing act? ;) Seriously, man, hope you're doing well...

It happened at the local Target parking lot just over a week ago, and it's taken me this long to cool off enough to post about it. The picture doesn't really show it very well, but someone tried to sign their name in my car door with a sharp instrument. On three of the letters, they did a...

This is a repost of a post I made in Rob's 1957 Ford Pickup C&B. It's one technique to successfully use M105. Thought it might get a bit more visibility out here in the Detailing Product forum than in a C&B. Hope it might help shallow out M105's steep learning curve. Note that this *is not* the...

Heavy compounds have always been a pain in the butt. They leave hazey paint, swirls, holograms, dust alot, etc. etc. Out of all the heavy compounds, my favorites were HTEC cut with OP, and MPG. MPG dusts like crazy, doesn't cut as well as most, but it has a decent working time and finishes off...

Yup, another ONR thread. Just what we need... sorry. :( A few weeks ago, I posted that I had some problems with ONR marring. I've been hesitant to really talk too much about it for a couple reasons. So many people love ONR, I hate to post anything negative about it for fear of flame wars...

Guys, I apologize for starting this up again, but I've been reading as much as I can find on this and many other detailing forums, and I still haven't been able to find a direct comparison between the two. On Meguairs forums (and the product info sheets), they say that the M105 cuts faster...

I'm having a blast with this car... The car I used the M105 on the other day is still in my garage. The owner (a good friend) left it at my house while he and his wife went to France for two weeks. This is also gonna be my last detailing job for quite a while, cause I gotta start studying for my...

At least, that's what I call em. Not sure what they are *really* called, but they're the plastic trim pieces that go around the base of the windshield wipers, at the attach points. Most of the time, they have little cutouts all the way along the base of the windshield. I have the worst time...

Thanks to fellow Autopian Greg Nichols, I have a sample of M105. Thanks, Greg! I've actually had it for several weeks, but none of the cars I've done lately have been in bad enough shape to warrant anything stronger than SIP. Then today's car came in. It is *thrashed*. It's a GM Prizm...