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The 4 minimum categories of wiping cloths Just as important as any product or tool in your detailing arsenal are your wiping cloths. You can use the best compound, the best polish, the best LSP and of course the best buffing pads and top of the line polishers but if you're using any type of...

Wolfgang Black Diamond Tire Gel - Review and How-to Most people fall into one of three camps when it comes to their car's tires, High Gloss Semi-Gloss Matte Wolfgang Black Diamond Tire Gel falls into the semi-gloss category which looks great on most tires. It creates a deep, dark black...

The practical differences between single stage paints and a clear coat paints I've worked on hundreds of cars with single stage paints as well as conducted a number of extreme makeovers where the project car had single stage paint and below I'll outline some of the practical differences...

3" Mini Polisher- 2nd Generation Griot's Garage Mini Polisher The new 2nd Generation Griot's Garage 3" Mini Polisher just arrived and I've been waiting for this little puppy to get here so I could take it for a test drive. I'm happy to say that it matches Griot's description of being *New &...

Wolfgang Elastic Poly Clay Bar - Review and How-to Review The Wolfgang clay bar is a professional grade clay and works great for removing above surface bonded contaminants like tree sap, air-borne pollution, industrial fallout, overspray paint, railroad and brake dust, etc. Right out of...

RaggTopp Fabric Protectant Review - Waterproofing & Waterbeadingand and Good Looks Too! After having my Bikini Top made I treated it with 2-3 applications of RaggTopp Fabric Protectant to insure it was waterproof because when it rains here in Stuart, Florida it comes down by the bucket loads...

Removing Orange Peel & Sanding Marks with the Griot's ROP and the Wolfgang Twins List of products used Griot's Garage Random Orbital Polisher PosiTest Paint Thickness Gauge Brinkman Swirl Finder Light Wolfgang Total Swirl Remover 3.0 Wolfgang Finishing Glaze 3.0 Nikken #2000 Finishing...

Two "Must Have" Car Washing Tools - The Brass Shut-off Valve & Brass Quick Connector Without a doubt, the Single Brass Connector Shut-off Valve is one of the best car washing tools ever invented. Period. Look, we can all discuss which wash mitt we love the best or which car wash soap is our...

RIDS and Feathersanding - A Highly Specialized Technique by Mike Phillips A long time ago when I first started buffing out cars with a rotary buffer it was real noticeable that after compounding a daily driver that of course you would remove all the shallow swirls, scratches and etchings very...

Wet-sanding - Fresh Paint vs Factory Paint Ever since discussion forums starting popping up on the Internet there's always been a fair amount of interest in the topic of wet-sanding either on detailing forums or forums dedicated to a particular type of car, for example Corvettforum.com, a site...

TOGW = The Other Guy's Wax This is called, TOGW, pronounced, togwa. Here's a close-up of TOGW TOGW stands for The Other Guy's Wax. That is the wax in the cracks and crevices or on trim components or around emblems left by the last guy that buffed out the car. So not only do we have to...

The power in the after shots is created in the before shots In my life I've had the good fortune to work on a lot of cool cars and with a lot of cool people for which I'm always very thankful for. I've also had the good fortune to work on a lot of very neglected cars, some special interest and...

Cleaning Pads with the Flex 3401 and the Grit Guard Universal Pad Washer Someone asked me if the Flex 3401 could be used with a pad washer to clean pads. We were doing some testing today in the garage and while I was out their cleaning up after the testing it's protocol to clean the pads so I...

What it means to remove swirls, scratches and water spots out of automotive clear coats One of the most common problems people want to solve when it comes to improving the appearance of their car's finish is to remove swirls, scratches and water spot etchings out of their car's clear coat...

Tips and Techniques for using the PC 7424XP Dual Action Polisher :)

Man versus Machine The human hand versus Meguiar's G110! This Lincoln has moderate swirls and also straight-line scratches running from front to back, they look like the type of scratches inflicted from an automatic brush style car wash. Besides the car wash scratches which are all in...

Open Invitation - Extreme Makeover on a 1975 Corvette Hi all, First of all, I asked Dwayne for permission to post this first and he gave me his OK. Second of all, the tools and techniques we share during these extreme makeovers can be used with any company's products, you don't have to use...

Hi, my name is Mike and I like to polish paint... Sometimes I feel the way TV portrays people at AAA meetings, you know, "Hi, my name is Mike, and I'm addicted to polishing paint" Hi everyone, My friend Tim, aka 2hotford, told me about this site so I thought I would check it out. :)