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Well, nothing looks better than properly detailed black paint. Here is what I did over the last 2 days. Process: - Wash with QEW - Clay - Polish with #83 and white polishing pad - Polish with #80 and white polishing pad - Spray down paint with Isopropyl Alcohol - 2 coats of Zaino Z-2...

I had a head on accident a few weeks ago with my truck. The front fenders and hood were all replaced and repainted at the dealership. Today in the sunlight I realized how lousy of a job they did. There is fine scratches all over the hood and fenders. I don't know if it is from the...

Hey guys, havent posted any pics in a while so here is some new pictures of my truck. I just had 2.5" leveling kit put in with 18X9 Eagle Alloy wheels and 325/60/18 Toyo A/T (33"). My process was: - Wash with Eagle one - Klasse AIO via PC with white polishing pad - Meguiars #16 by hand...

I had a new exhaust system installed on my truck a few weeks ago, and the tips are stainless steel. After driving on the sandy and salty streets, they are already starting to look like a$s. What do I use on these? Steel wool? Billet polish? I cleaned them up with Simple green, then used...

Well, its been a long and unforgiving winter here, and it has finially warmed enough to wash my truck with QEW in the garage. After the wash, I put on a quick coat of Meguiars #16 by hand. Process: - QEW wash (two bucket method) - Meguiars #16 by hand - Armour All on tires and inside...

I'm just curious, how the common carnubas stack up against the high end sealants in terms of UV protection. I know many sealants try to sell the product on the fact that it protects from "harmful" UV rays, but how do the common carnubas (Meg's #16, p21s, nattys, etc.) perform? Do carnubas...

I've been testing out several products for wheel and tire cleaning lately. I picked up some simple green the other day, and am wondering what is a SAFE but Effective dilution to use my clear coated factory wheels. Right now i have a 1:1 dilution with water. Is this too strong?

Over the last week, we have had like 45 cm of snow. I think we almost beat some record for one day snow fall on Dec 30 that was set back in the 1930's! Anyway, there is a ton of snow outside, and I managed to get stuck in the deepest stuff! My dogs ran away, so I was driving around looking...

Well, my last exam at school was yesterday and today I was bored. Its too damm cold out side to detail my truck, so I did some experimenting inside the house. I taped off a section of the kitchen counter top, and went to work. I had no clue of what products to use. It was in rough shape...

I picked up some QEW (Quick and Easy Wash) this week from a local RV dealer, and thought I would give it a try on my truck today. It snowed a few days ago, and the roads here have been an absolute mess. My truck was very dirty, so rinsed it at a coin-op wash using the pressure wash before...

Not my car (I wish!), but I came across it on another board, and thought that the paint on it looked amazing. This is why I own a black vehicle. It is so rewarding to look at when it is properly detailed. Stay tuned, this spring my truck is getting black wheels also.

I've just recently (6 mo. ago) became a hardcore enthusiast detailer, and over the last little while my bank account hasn't thanked me! I think that since srping, I've spent close to 500 dollars on detailing supplies, including the PC, pads, polishes, waxes, sealants, towles, etc. IMO, every...

Right now, my go to polish for marring and scratches is DACP on a polishing pad. This turns out to leave a great finish, but I want a perfect shine, with absolutly no hazing. I have tried Vanilla Moose with a polishing pad to clear up light hazing, and it didn't do much. I've also tried...

I'm going to be buying wheels in the near future. I really like the look of black. Check them out. By the way, they will be for a lifted 2004 F150 with 35 inch tires. The truck is black. Heres the truck. (no lift yet)

I've had my truck for about 2 weeks now, and I did a full detail on it the 1st week I had it. The Dealer must have been very careless in washing this truck, because it had very bad swirls and scratches the day I picked it up. Normally I wouldn't have taken a brand new vehicle with such poor...

I normally wash my truck using city water, but the other day I decided to wash at home which uses a well. We have hard water, and use a water softner, but the hose outlet for washing doesn't cycle through the softner. When washing, I noticed that I had to use double, or triple the amount...

I just did some major polishing on the hood of my truck, and finished it off with Meguiars #16. Now it has some slickness, but no where close to the slickness I got from NXT. How important is Slickness? I realy like the look of #16 on my black paint, but after the 1st wash the slickness is...

A friend of mine works at a local dodge dealership doing car washing and filling the vehicles up with fuel. He told me that all the new cars there are washed with wheel cleaner like at the coin ops "acid wash" as he called it, to remove contaminents. How safe can this be? He also told...

Well, I'm planning on putting a second coat of NXT on my truck in a few days (1st was just 2 days ago) and I've got some questions. The 1st time I used the NXT, I used a grey finishing pad on the PC and would spread the product at speed 1 then crank it up to speed 4 and spread it evenly...

This was my process: 1) Wash with eagle one car wash 2) Clay with meguairs clay 3) Wash again 4) DACP with Yellow cutting pad 5) #9 Swirl Remover with white polishing pad 6) Meguiars NXT Overall I'm pretty happy, but I don't really like the mirror look. I'm probally gonna try and get...