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Hi! Just looking for product recommendations to preserve hard black exterior plastic on my new Subi Forester. The side mirrors, roof rails, door handles, vertical sections of the door surrounds, and the drain section below the windscreen are all a hard black plastic which faded to grey in my...

Hi! Have'nt posted in a while... This is the result of several coats to get a spray job right on the hood of my car; (spray jet holes with jets removed) http://autopia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=22452&cat=500 http://autopia.org/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=22451&cat=500 The area...

Just had my hood resprayed recently - there was a bit of stuffing around getting the details right so it had a couple of coats of clear by the time they finished. End result has meant that the area around my hood windscreen sprayers appears to be domed up slightly (you can see the reflections...

I have a couple of layers of clear on a repaint now and I was wondering - if clear is laid down over clear that has minor micromarring and/or swirls will they be visible under the new coat? or will the new coat just fill them? I understood that the visibility of swirls/micromarring is the...

I have large sections of plastic/vinyl trim along the sides of my car (Subaru Forester). I have just finished detailing and used Megs Final Inspection on this trim. I thought I might just put a quick layer of SG on there (WOWO) to provide some protection - any thoughts? I know this will...

OK - way back I TRIED to get a PC, but being out of the US (Australia) I had to opt for a standard RO sander with velcro pad. I have been using it fine with Sonus pads but always get frustrated reading PC directions that say "set to speed 2" and not knowing what that means for my machine...

Well I believe it! Used Collinite 476S for the first time last night then thought I would "wash up" my applicator ready for the next job. I ran it under the tap first - nice beading! Then I hit it with some strong dishwash soap/detergent and soaked it in the mixture overnight. When I checked it...

What is the necessary wait time between coats when layering wax? I am using Collinite 476S I don't want to just rub the first coat off...

Clayed my daily driver last night - will be working with Sonus SFX-2 tonight to reduce swirls in some areas. I don't have "bad" swirls - some some micromarring and scuff marks, and the car is metallic silver so they don't show up much anyway (only under the halogen). Normally I would go to...

Anyone got any pics they can post of water beading after Collinite 476S application? I hear great things about it and I am putting some on next week!

I found this on my roof the other day after I got my car back from having the hood sprayed (clear). At first I thought "what the hell? has there been a really bad case of overspray and this is what's left of an attempt to polish it out?" I got the car into my garage tonight and got a...

I had the spray job done last week and I am going to start with clay tomorrow. I only just found it.

I never have time to do a full detail in one hit, so I was wondering what the best way to do it in stages would be? I can't really ever get my car under cover so after a wash it is always going to accumulate some dust (even if I don't drive it) just sitting there. I thought this process might...

Because no matter how well I look after my car... SOMEONE ELSE WILL ALWAYS F#@K IT UP FOR ME!!! :mad: I give up... gotta kick the habit...

New car - just had some repair work done (long story) so I have been inspecting the quality of the work in relation to the adjacent panels (original factory paint) and noticed that on one of the folded edges of the fender (the gap inbetween the hood and the fender when the hood is down - up near...

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19011299-13762,00.html :scared:

Not really detailing but I had Dentcraft http://www.dentcraft.com.au/ in Perth, Western Australia remove a really tricky dent from the drivers door of my Subaru Forester. It had impacted right on two creases in the panel (a really strong section) and not damaged the paint at all. Stuart got it...

I found last time I clayed, the clay was really smeary (bits came off and stuck while using it). I have only used it once and bagged it up in a zip lock between uses. It is Sonus Extra Fine clay and I was using plenty of Sonus Glyde lube... Any ideas?

I have a medium size dent in the drivers door that has not damaged the paint at all. Half the dent is below the plastic trim and the other half is above (Subaru Forester). I wasn't too stressed because I thought it looked like a pretty easy fix for a Paintless Dent Removal (PDR) guy (at least to...

We just moved house today... We did a big clean and my wife wanted me to clean the shower screens. They are clear glass screens so I thought - Hey! - why don't I do this the Autopian way??!! So I grabbed the DA/RO with a Sonus Green DAS pad and some Klasse AIO and went for it! They came up...