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Had I known people were interested in my trip and its progress I would have posted this two weeks ago. At present I am in Tempe, Arizona where it is 103 degrees outside and despite being a dry heat, is absolutely miserable. :mad: Tomorrow is the Grand Canyon and Hoover Dam. I'm going to spend...

I found these on another forum and simply had to share them with you guys. NASA and some very brave astronauts are currently on a mission to perform maintenance on the aging Hubble space telescope. The mission itself is to repair broken parts and add in a new camera and other new pieces to help...

So I applied a coat of UPP to my car in February to protect it while on my trip. Now I'm finally starting the trek home and am thinking about the good detail my car will need when we get home. She's been bombarded by everything imaginable and unfortunately, hard water spots are EVERYWHERE due to...

I was the first in my family and group of friends to be "shown" swirls in car paint. I was introduced to them by Aaron, the head sales lot attendant at a Land Rover dealer I used to work for in Portland. He was incredibly finicky and the management was even more so. Even used cars had to look...

Okay...summer is coming on and I'm dreaming about what to do to the Santa Fe to get her looking top-notch. The black is peeling off the rubber wheel well liners so I'm going to blast off what's left and re-spray with a matte black spray paint. Also, my rotors have rusted where the wheels meet up...

Just thought I'd let everybody know I'm still alive. I left Kansas City on Friday after class and now I'm in Philadelphia for the next two days. Apart from non-stop rain here in PA, the trip is going great. I'll jump on when I can. :dcrules

The people who do this work are Gods walking amongst mere mortals. :bow I had this dent in the fender of my Santa Fe from three years ago and had never gotten around to getting it fixed. I had night class tonight so I had most of the daylight hours free and decided to blow just a bit of my tax...

Y'all are probably tired of hearing me say it but Hyundai has been great to me. I can put aside the perceived cheapness of the interior plastics and small patches of peeling clearcoat on my '04 Santa Fe but where it matters (mechanically), the car has been solid as the Rock of Gibraltar. I can't...

As those of you who saw in the showcase, I cleaned up the Santa Fe yesterday and ran some errands on my lunch break (returned some DVDs, etc.). I come back and my space (naturally) was taken by another car so I backed into a spot near the end of a curb to keep the sun away from the windshield. I...

It seems the weather has FINALLY taken a turn for the better here in the KC area so I washed the Santa Fe in the hopes that it would stay clean for more than 24 hours. Time will tell but I decided she looked so good and the sunset was so beautiful I'd turn it into an impromptu photo shoot...

This is another one of my details that I pulled out of the archives. I did this last September for a neighbor of mine who bought the car new in '01 but has since given it to his girlfriend as he has his Range Rover Sport to drive. This car has never been corrected properly and has seen the...

This may sound a bit lame but hear me out. Back in high school, I had a big crush on this girl who did not feel the same way. I was home-schooled from 5th to 8th grade and had not had a good school year since the 2nd grade so my social skills were very rusty. Because of this, I did not read...

...and (insert feigned amazement here), gets mauled. :wall Needless to say...Darwin would be proud. :huh:

I took my Santa Fe to Shawnee-Mission Hyundai in Merriam, Kansas for an oil change just about an hour ago. I printed out a sign that read, "PLEASE!!! DO NOT WASH!! Thank You..." and put it on the dash. I also told the service advisor to make sure they didn't touch it as I cleaned her up...

You may recall I detailed a blue Audi A4 Avant last summer. The rear bumper was scuffed to hell from people dragging suitcases or whatever over it. I tried buffing it out with my Griot's random to minimal success. Only a month or so later did I think of wet-sanding it. These people are good...

I'm sure all of you are now aware I'm not in Portland but instead, in Kansas for school and because the class is held at a community college, we have to stay at hotels. Well one of the kids at the class is staying in my hotel and does not leave me alone. He's 19, is loud, swears, and does not...

My Santa Fe has light-colored gray seatbelts that have accumulated grit in the webbing from years of my grabbing it from the B post. Below that is what the untouched portion of the belt looks like. I know it's impossible to get it back to new but I'd like to clean it up. I've tried cleaning it...

So I'm usually pretty picky about the inside of my car. I keep the dust away, get gunk out of the crevaces on the stalks, etc. I don't know how this ever escaped me before but the driver's side B-pillar had never actually been cleaned and had four years worth of entry and exit dirt on it. I...

My car has never had her...um...bottom properly cleaned and she turns five in May. A local detailing shop (back home in Portland) offers undercarriage steam cleaning and I was thinking about balling that in with carpet and cloth seat extraction cleaning. This guy had his Audi's undercarriage...

I detailed this car almost a year ago but I figured I'd share it. This Bug started life as your run-of-the-mill VW New Beetle in black. Originally purchased for sale by local VW dealer Herzog-Meier, it was sent to Seattle to be custom-painted as a promotional tool. This was back when the New...