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  1. C. Charles Hahn

    First detail I've posted in awhile: 2003 Pontiac Bonneville

    This is a 2003 Pontiac Bonneville SE1. It belongs to my boss, who scraped it against a parked car when pulling into a space. Resultantly, she recieved a nasty scrape in the paint and on the headlight. I buffed everything out with DACP touched up the couple remaining paint chips, went over the...
  2. C. Charles Hahn

    Eagle One "Nano Wax"??

    I'm a bit surprised I havent found any threads or posts on this stuff in my searching... I was at Advance Auto Parts yesterday picking up my NXT, and saw this new "EO Nano Wax" sitting next to it in a box. for $9.95, one gets a foam app, a MF towel, and a bottle of this wax, which has a...
  3. C. Charles Hahn

    NXT: My initial reactions....

    Guess who's back! :scared ok, so yesterday I came across the new NXT and just had to try it out, so I bought the tech wax and the spray wax to check out. So far, I'm not overly impressed. I ran the blazer through a touchless wash/blow dry tunnel, and got it home clean and dry. I used...
  4. C. Charles Hahn

    Just a couple DACP+Z5+S100 pics...

    I'll take a pic of the whole car later, but here's a couple I just took while in the garage (cant get a good whole-car shot in there.)
  5. C. Charles Hahn

    Business Forms

    I've done a search and really haven't found a complete listing of what business forms are needed to run a detailing business. I'm starting to get more serious about doing cars, getting an increasing ammount of customers and want to go from doing things verbally to actually having a business-like...
  6. C. Charles Hahn

    My Garage Remodeled! PICS inside!!

    well, ok, only one pic for now. I've made my garage up using influences from many autopians' garages, using ideas I liked and then adapting some of my own in as well. I only have one pic to show at first, and the influence here should be rather obvious: More pics to come!!
  7. C. Charles Hahn

    DON'T get your car detailed by Ziebart...

    OK this is a bigtime rant as I just picked up my blazer from them, they re-did the gold shield rust protection and the package included a full interior/exterior detail. 1) When I pulled up, I immediately noticed that they had some of the rust proofing undercoat all over the tires, and the...
  8. C. Charles Hahn

    Hopefully I'm not too strange for this, but...

    this is my "happy birthday to you" thread for my 1998 Chevy Blazer..... one year ago today I purchased and took delivery of the vehicle. I've been overall happy with it, even though several times I've wished I hadn't bought it because of minor service issues that are big annoyances. But hey, so...
  9. C. Charles Hahn

    New Zaino Product Possible - Inside:

    Well guess what I just got off the rumor mill.... a new product potential from Zaino! Zaino Swirl Remover, to compliment their line. This is from one of the Zaino distributors who Sal uses to test his products. Take a look, I think it looks promising (although, I didnt see any before pics..)...
  10. C. Charles Hahn

    off roading experience today....

    so I'm on my way to a doc's appointment when all the sudden I see construction that I didnt know about.... I'm thinking, "oh great, now I'll have to wash my car..." when I see the road drop off. I slammed the brakes (I was the only car within a few miles and the workers had quit for the day or...
  11. C. Charles Hahn

    Car Wash Chemical Analysis

    For my college ChemLab, I had to analyze a product of my choosing and I chose Zaino Bros.' Z7 Show Car Wash. There will be some more in depth stuff later, this is just the portion I have done so far: Zaino Z7 For the Z7 test, I tested for pH, UltraViolet Protection, and surface tension...
  12. C. Charles Hahn

    Automotive paint on garage walls?

    the reason I'm asking is I was just thinking about this idea for my garage....... I'm going to be going with something of a "racing stripe" color scheming, but with a couple twists: 1) on the ceiling, flat white paint with some halogen lighting bounced off it for color, the rest provided by...
  13. C. Charles Hahn

    cool new topic!

    calling all "carguy"..... where's his excellent thread at about photography? - it should be the honorary first/stickied thread.
  14. C. Charles Hahn

    Pricing help for a truck the magnitude I've never done before....

    I have a friend who is a band director, and also owns a farm on which he breeds horses. His vehicle of primary use is a 2000 Black Ford F350 Crew Cab Dually, with the long bed and 7.3L diesel. It also has the tan leather interior. I've never done a truck this big before, let alone the fact...
  15. C. Charles Hahn

    How To: Concours Carpet

    Concourse Carpet For Your Car By C. Charles Hahn (Shiny Lil Detlr) The most basic carpet cleaning consists of vacuuming, spot cleaning, and occasional shampooing. However, with just minimal extra effort, you can have that "concours look" for the carpets in your daily driven vehicle. This...
  16. C. Charles Hahn

    Pics from my stable...

    forgive me, my wife's was dirty at the time I took these pics :rolleyes: (when isnt her car dirty anyways??) a few more of her car: See, proof Zaino Z5 even shines thru dirt!! :bow
  17. C. Charles Hahn

    Sweet Towels Deal Alert!!

    I just got some towels from K-Mart that are actually worth the money!! 4/$7 at the local Big K. Made by westpoint stevens, 100% cotton in the USofA Pic below:
  18. C. Charles Hahn

    Thank goodness for Zaino!!

    My wife hadn't washed her car in over a month and a half. It had one coat of ZFX/Z5 on it the last time I ever did anything to it. Today I took the car and washed it, all of the crap (literally,, there was bird crap, and other miscelanious bug guts, stains from dirt, sand, etc. on it, ground...
  19. C. Charles Hahn

    How far would you go??

    To protect your car, that is (or atleast avenge its intentional, avoidable dammage while you witness it??) I'm wondering because I was out getting pizza for dinner, and just as I had gotten back in the car with the pizzas, this car full of 20-some year olds (not too much older than myself)...
  20. C. Charles Hahn

    Mobil 1 Oil Fill Cap??

    Does anyone here with a car equipped with the LT1 or LS1 engine have the Mobil 1 Oil Fill Cap on their engine?? if so, does anyone know the dimensions and the thread pattern on it (pics perhaps??) I'm looking to put one of these on my 4.3L Vortec V6 in my 98 Chevy Blazer and wondering if one of...
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