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    What products need to be protected from freezing?

    I keep all my products in the garage and its getting colder. I have several bottles of EWAUD, cans of paste waxes, menzerna polishes, megs SMR 2.0, NXT, QEW, EO Tire Gel and many other products. Do i need to do something to prevent my products from freezing?
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    How would you go about cleaning this one? (hope its not a repost!)

    info and more pics about it here: http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1625363
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    #83 DACP vs. menzerna IP

    Which product applied with a PC and a yellow pad will take out swirls, fine scratches, water spots. etc the best? i have menzerna IP and FP, but i have been thinking about using #83 on my dark dark blue paint..
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    Air Brushing Method for chips/scratches?

    i have an air brush with a compressor.. its a Paasche. i have a bottle of touch up paint from my dealer and also a spray can full of color matched paint from paintscratch.com. what would i need to do to take car of some chips and scratches on my car? the paint from the touch up bottle seems very...
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    Napa Auto Parts by me has ALL kinds of 3m products!

    I went into the napa by my house yesterday and they have a whole display of 3m products, paste wax in a tub, finesse it II, even a 3m car shampoo ( i didnt even know they made that) all kinds of stuff.. what would be good to pick up? they even have the waffle pads. i think they pretty much have...
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    Costco has great spray bottles..

    I went to costco yesterday and in my travels i found these great spray bottles.. the come 4 to a pack, have good sprayers and the best part is the measuring system on the side.. it gives you marks for dilution ratios, and oz. i mixed up a bottle of woolite 6:1. i forgot how much they were but i...
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    Porter Cable Air Compressor..

    i was looking through my Griots Garage Catalogue last night and i came accross this air compressor. i have a smaller, one car garage that is 10x18 and already has some shelves and a work bench in it, not to mention my car. here is the discription from GG: \PORTABLE AND POWERFUL. THIS...
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    Porter Cable Wet Dry Vac...

    I was looking up online how exactly wet/dry vacs work and i came across this: Porter Cable has a line of Wet Dry vacs.. any one here have one or used one? it would be kind of cool to have a PC vac :) because we all love the PC 7424 (and its variations) here. here is a link to one...
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    When using your wet/dry as an extractor...

    do you make any changes to the vac?? do you have to takeout the filter and all that just for a little bit of water? mine came with some kind of foam sleeve for when you use it to suck up water. i think you are supposed to put it around the filter, or instead of the filter, i dont remember. i...
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    got my 2x16oz QEW wash in the mail today.. question..

    i ordered 2 of the 2 fer $10 of QEW wash from Protect All's website. they also came with the little packs of ProtectAll Surface Care trial pre treated sponges. My questions are: Did anyone elses bottles of QEW have a piece of tape wrapped around the cap (that tape with the threads in it, very...
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    Autopian Parking... BIG pic!

    guess who i am! :) after a weekend of menzerna twins and #16 :) and its supposed to rain tomorrow...
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    #16 streaky?

    I used MENZ IP and FP with yellow pad and white for each. i clayed before hand. i applied the #16 with a mf wrapped foam applicator and removed with costco MFs. i found it to be very streaky. There were dark marks/streaks that would not buff out. i had to use WAUD to get rid of them. i have...
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    Nice lincense plate frames...

    i just got new tags for my car and i want to put nice, not $4 from pep boys frames on them.. prefferably just matte black. I looked on griots garage and they have some but it would be around $70 for a set.. thats a little steep for me. anyone know a site to get similarly high quality frames for...
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    what can i use on our homes exterior windows?

    i want to wax or rain-x or something to keep the water spots from drying on them. What can i use? Thanks guys!
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    Not feeling good about my car... venting. :(

    The last couple times i have washed my car the water has been leaving bad water spots that are leaving outlines of themselves on the car after i dry it. i dont wash in the sun, i dry right after i rinse. i cant think of what i am doing differently. Even my WAUD or QD wont take them up. I am...
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    3M SMR vs. Megs #9 2.0

    I did my dark blue Jetta yesterday. i started with the 3M SMR for dark cars. I have used it before by hand with decent results. But now since i got my PC i decided to see how good of a job it could do with an orange pad and speed 5. it went on easy but got real powedery and was very hard to...
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    Any use for the white pad that comes with pc7424?

    i got my PC for my birthday and as well as the white, screw on pad that it comes with, i also was given a replacement one as well. Is there ANY use for these pads?
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    difference in quality between MF at Costco?

    i got a pack of the MF towels from costco about 3-4 months ago i guess. they are pretty thick and plush, good for product removal. Well, i have been doing more cars lately so i decided to get a couple more packs. i went to costco last weekend and got 2 more packs. i just washed them last night...
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    My one car garage..

    trying to make the most out of the limited space! ps, i know the pics aren't of the highest quality. I have 2 other digi cams, a 1.3 megapixel and a 3.1. But i got this little logitech card camera for xmas last year and i like taking it around with me and snapping random...
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    Ranny's 24x24 MF towel TOO big!

    I got a set of 3 24x24 ultra MF towels from Ranny a month or so ago and i find the size of them very difficult to use.. most of my MFs are 16x16 or so. if i dont use them folded up (which doesnt work too good for me) they just fly and flop all over the place.. it would be really bad to cut...
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