Recent content by SiegeX

I'm loading up on some products right now and I came across some branded paint cleaners to prep the surface of the paint for the LSP. In the past I have been using 91% IPA in a 50:50 ratio for this. Do these semi-costly paint cleaners do anything differently and/or better than IPA can do, or...

Below are the definitions of what I think they mean, although I'm really unsure about burnishing and jeweling: Compounding: This step uses heavy cut 'rocks in a bottle' type polish/compound to get out some seriously deep swirls and scratches. It can be skipped if the car is in decent shape...

As the topic says, are CCS pads worth coughing up the extra money for or is it just a marketing gimmick to differentiate themselves from the flat pads? The 7.5" flat pads I got from Adam's Polishes were just too large to do any real cutting on my wife's scratched up '98 Mustang. Adam's 110%...

I just bought and used my porter cable for my first detail over the weekend. Today I went to take off my backing plate and this is what I saw: I had to work my wrench back and forth just to get it to bite onto the hex nut to pull the backing plate off. Was I supposed to remove this...

Hi all, I just got a 2007 5-series BMW w/14K miles a week ago and overnight became a detailing enthusiast. I also have my wife's '98 mustang in pretty bad shape as far as the exterior goes. There has definitely been some serious etching by overhead pipe water from our previous parking...