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    Interior work how much is product? how much is equipment?

    When it come to detailing the carpets in vehicles how much emphasis is on products vs equipment? Can a guy achieve great result leaning more towards the chemcal side? or is it a balance.
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    How's this for swirl correction 56 caddy

    Holy JC !!! what some people try and do on there own boggles my mind. :nixweiss megs #83 with white wool 2 passes to get rid of the wetsanding marks he has left behind. Washed X-Kote treatment Megs #7 machine glaze with white foam at 600 rpm 2 coats of X-Protect wax.
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    X-Kote'd boat 1 year later

    SO I have been seeing these threads lately about guys struggling with gelcoat oxidization. Today I had one of my clients bring his boat back to me for some clean up. We had wetsanded, polished with Megs #4 and white wool then X-Kote'd this boat just over a year ago. The client openly admitted to...
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    X-Kote on a 64 Impala

    What a great example of a car to show the potential X-Kote has. The gentleman was blown away with the depth and shine we were able to put back into his old classic. Process: Wash Rotary polish 1 stage with medium cleaner ( meguirs) Wash again Dry with compressed air tape all chrome...
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    new life to old paint with X-Kote

    1995 Toyota Avalon. Funny thing only the hood was like this. The roof and trunk were fine. Procedure, wet sand with 2500, then polish with meguirs #2 fine cut cleaner, prep with solvent degreaser and then layed down the X-Kote. It took 2 coats to get it jsut right but it's almost good as new...
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    Side by side X-Kote comparison 4runner

    I thought I would share this photo with you guys to give to an idea as to X-Kote potential in reconditioning some older work over cars. This is a 96 4runner single owner ( rancher) so the truck see's allot gravel. It has tones of stone chips and the surface was scratched severley. I worked...
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    Need some help. Has anyone seen this before?????

    This is a 2006 BMW 3 series with 24,000 km's. The dealer calls me up wondering if I can fix this problem for them. I said I'll see what I can do. They dropped off the car with thsi problem on the roof. Now they tell me that they have tried to wet sand this with no luck. Something has obviously...
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    Petroleum based product question

    Does anyone know if Diamond Kote is petroleum based? If not what type of products would be?
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    X-Kote Job 2003 Jetta

    I did this car on Fri. It's a black 2003 Jetta. scratched and some swirls. It's a used car for the VW dealership. Started at 3pm and finshed the car at 7pm. Sat morning I put a coat of Meguirs quick wax spray on it and took it back to the dealer. We didn't do any prepolishing on this car but...
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