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During the week I watched a bit of the Republican candidates debate on TV. The man asking the questions, on several occasions referred to Newt Gingrich as Mr Speaker. As a Brit I am not that familiar with American courtesy titles but is it formally correct to refer to Mr Gingrich as Mr...

Not sure if this has been mentioned before but there seems to be a small issue with the search facility. If I search for "interior" the results say there are 25 pages, if I use the 'jump to page __' button and put in 18 the response says "sorry no matches". If I manually go from page 1 to 2 to...

This is a new problem which started a few weeks ago, where the door seals make contact with the paint, the paint has started to fail. The rubber seals are kept clean and seem to be nice and soft. The car was repainted at some stage but I do not know when or why. Any ideas on what is happening...

Could a dry coat guide be used on paint prior to wetsanding in order to highlight swirls or other damage

For sometime I have wondered how big is a block, in American films or TV programmes someone will say "it is only 2 blocks from here" but I have yet to understand what geographic area this covers. Does it take a minute to walk one block, is there a standard definition of the area

After my 18 month sabbatical from Autopia, it is nice to be back. During this time I did think about this place but to many other things were happening. Over the last few months I have noticed an increase (in some UK forums) in conversations about detailing which either fell into brand X...

Last Saturday my father in law suddenly died, two days before his sister and brother were killed whilst on holiday in California. John (father in law) always liked a clean car and took at to the car wash every two days and every now and then he would bring it to me to polish out all the...

I received a response to shipping costs for a gallon of 425, it is around $70, plus $27.51 plus UK tax equal $114. It is an unfair question because the major costs are in shipping but would you pay this much for #425 and would I still have the wow factor in terms of value for money

My uncle has been involved in a serious car accident whilst travelling somewhere in California. His sister was killed and we understand my uncle has suffered severe brain damage. He is in Bakersfield Medical Centre and the accident happened sometime on Thursday the 9th Feb. This is all we...

It is 00.40 2006 in the UK, Happy New Year to everyone :dance

I wonder if there are any advantages or disadvantages to steam cleaning the paint. I do not have a steam cleaner so I cannot experiment. My theory is with some shampoo in the cleaner, this will release the dirt which could be rinsed off. I understand the steam is heated to about 130...

The top layer of the platter on my record player is made from vinyl. Over the years this has become dull, does anyone know of a mild polish which could be used to bring back the shine. Sorry Mods if this is in the wrong section

Saturday morning we are driving to Southern Ireland (Eire) for two weeks :woot: Next Friday is my 40th birthday and I cannot think of a better place to spend it. We are also searching for the remains of one of the two family castles; which are now only a series of stones but 400 years ago were...

A reference is made in another thread about Hatfield & McCoy. Who are what are they and why is it such a negative thing?

Last week I bought some cheap shoe polish, I know I should have bought Kiwi but they had none in stock. After hours of trying to get a decent shine, I have given up and in anticipation of getting some Kiwi this weekend I need to remove quite a few layers of cheap wax. Any suggestions?

My MOT certificate (yearly car check) ran out yesterday. My family were going away this weekend and so I got the car booked in early so that when I got back home we could set off for the weekend. The car failed its test. When the brake check was being conducted one of the brake pipes burst...

I found this link http://www.research.bayer.com/medien/pages/2974/Coatings.pdf from Autoexpress magazine http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/55327/selfhealing_paint_on_way.html. It seems to indicate the ability for the paint to heal itself from minor damage. It would be interesting to see if...

It has been a while since I received the Sonüs kit but the weather has always been against me. Today it was cold and damp but at least it was not raining. Wash the car with Sonax, then clayed with Sonüs clay. In order to try and use all the polishes in one go, I decided just to...

I decided that I needed to start preparation for winter protection today but I could not use my PC due to an electrician working in the house. I wanted to try the new method of using a spray bottle to apply Extra Gloss and CMA's tip of applying the Gloss directly on the Resin without buffing...

My car was resprayed a few months ago, I left it alone for about 45 days before polishing. The respray was not of great quality but there is nothing I can do about it. The gloss level is ok but thats about it. I have used DACP, #9, VM and EX-P but I cannot get a decent gloss. After using...