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I'm tired of trying to bump the old thread. It's pretty dead, and the Hot-Tub has little traffic compared to a main forum. Mods- this thread pertains to improving the cars, and it will possible be held in a garage. If you need to move it, then go ahead. So. Being that we've already...

Get in the Autopia chat now, to "meet the members" of Autopia ;) Chat is held Monday and Wednesday night, from 9:30 PM Eastern time to whever we decide we're bored. And it's also held whenever I feel like chatting.

We're discussing this in the BF.C OT section now. It's a subject I've always felt strongly about, and have never understood everyone else' reasoning. People use the Blank-American too often. German-American, African-American, etc. Why? At what point does someone just give up on...

And I had to let it sit on the car over the weekend. Story: I came home from school on Friday at 15 minutes 'til 3, and that's when I saw it. I needed to leave at 15 minutes after 3 for a trip, and I still had to pack. I had no choce but to let her sit, covered in that horrible gooey...

I hate to say it, but I'm way too impacient to use a PC for full details. I just can't sit and wait so long to do one body panel. It was great when I first got it, but it's starting to upset me. Now I understand why people said "The PC is an arm saver, not a time saver". I planned on getting...

There were rumors earlier this morning that he had already passed, but now I'm seeing he's still alive. This has been a really bad few weeks for deaths, hasn't it? :(

http://www.comedycentral.com/standup/central/detail.jhtml?p=/comedians/h/mitch_hedberg.xml Rumor is he OD'd. Sad. I loved listening to him on the XM during road trips. *tear.

So I'm sitting in marketing class today online (we were doing a sort of online scavenger hunt) and I think "This would be a perfect time to buy some more clay and shampoo. So I go to the Autopia store, planning on buying a few bars of plain old yellow clay in the individual wrappers. All I...

What are some of the little tips and tricks you use to make life easier? Mine would be: -Set your clocks 5 minutes ahead. -If you're traveling the speed limit, get out of the fast lane. -After you've turned or made your lane change, turn the blinker off! -Back into your leather seat...

As some of you know, I recently acquired a new [to me] Lexus SC400. The car only has an average of 3-4 thousand miles per year, but the owner was some old man. Said old man insisted on parking up front everywhere, resulting in multiple small door dings all over my car. Most of these...

To get my first set of wheels. After some new negotiations within my family, I'm on the hunt. I think I've considered about everything that I want. This car has to take me through college so a POS beater isn't an option. My parents went out shopping today and came back with some items...

I was just thinking to myself the other day. This past season, my mom's car and my Jeep were comepletely defect free. I mean, perfect. Now, I'm looking at them and seeing lots of swirls. Who really owns and maintains a swirl free car? Yes, show cars and garage queens count too :D

Well, being that we're a family of red-blooded Americans, the time has come to purchase an excessivley huge land-yacht for my Mom. She started out looking at the FX45 and Murano, but decided she didn't care for the interior and wanted something a little bigger. I suggested the lexus...

I don't know if any of you are/were involved in DECA (Distributive Education Club of America) but tomorrow I am doing a selling project for my marketing class. I have to set up a roll playing situatuion where I sell X product to another student. Anyone wanna guess what I'll be selling? I...

My dad was checking out the Tornado (fuel saver thing) website and he must have come across this. He e-mailed me the link. Anyone know if these are similar to the ones Autopia is familiar with? I think AutoGeek sell "The Miracle Towel", don't they...

When you use QEW, you try to minimize the amount of water you use. This is handy when you're mobile, but what what do you use to rinse the wheels and tires off? Wheel wells? I don't know of any wheel cleaners that are 'spray on, wipe off', so wheels need water to clean. What is your method?

I guess this can go in here. It's for machine polishing. I'll stop by the paint store this week and pick up some more 3M blue painter's tape, but first, I had a few questions. -What size(s) is(are) reccomended for different kinds of trim? -Does it leave a residue on textured plastic...

Once again, I was one of the lucky few to get this product to tr out. It's a dressing/protectant for anything plastic, rubber, vinyl, etc... Packaging It came shrink wrapped to prevent any leakage onto any of my other products. Very nice. Comes in the typical black plastic Sonus bottle with...

I was one of the lucky people to get these products to try out. Please note that these opinions and techniques are myown only, and as always, your results may vary. Let's start with the All-in-1. I'm going to start my own acronym, and this product shall now be known as Sonus Ai1 :D Packaging...

This is primarily to the pros here who have hired other people to work with (for) them. But, if you have an opinion, please feel free to chime in with your ideas :) . I was thinking to myself the other day (my head still hurts...) that if I were to become a mobile detailer and work by...