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so what did you used to do, either before becoming a pro or while you were developing your business before you knew better? well before i knew better or even considered my self a car fanatic, i used to remove wax with a terry cloth towel.....oh what was I THINKING?!

Hello everyone, at my last gig a guy with a black 06 porsche cayman approached me and asked to have the whole car buffed. I feel like a freshman being asked out by a senior, a hot one too...my palms are all sweaty n' stuff now! Anyway, he mentioned something about the 06's have a different clear...

when you see it...you'll sh*t bricks this is one of those times where "dont freakin move" comes to mind....

Quiz time kiddos-the response that works best gets a percent of the profit I get off this job...:p

had a guy call me from citysearch.com stating for $350/month he could get me some good positioning on citysearch.com (pay per click) and that would also filter down to google/yahoo/msn organic searches too. anyone have any experiene with citysearch. He walked me through a few things...seemed...

my s10 blew a piston rod...:grrr

I've noticed that when I'm doing leather seats, particularly light colored ones, if I hose them down with cleaner, then start to brush, i'll get bleached-looking streaks and spots from the spray. why is this happening and HOW can i undo it? It seems like no matter how hard I scrub around them...

Windshield Wonder™ is the new window and glass cleaning product that works with water and special microfiber material to clean better than imagined! for $16 this is hard to pass up, but anyone know how durable they are or if they do/don't streak? How about getting into corners?

I've been thinking about summer-why not, it's only 17° out, right? So anyway. I want to have a nice 10x12 or so canopy that I can pop up and work on the car under shade with. I would love to have ts|s detailing graphics on it for obvious promotional reasons. Does anyone have any insight on where...

Hello, I need to do paint work on some custom engine covers my other company makes. I'd like to keep it in house as outsourcing to powder coaters has resulted in utter failure (not worth the story). I have an L-cove inside my garage that's about 6x4. The garage is dusty as **** and I'm...

Hi fellas! So now that spring is nearing, I've started gathering some info from local car forums. One in particular is asking for $500 for a year sponsorship. It's mustang forum with about 6000 members. TO me, I can't justify that cost. Especially if I only get 3 or 4 Stage 2 or better jobs a...

Very cool project my 'other company' was chosen to be involved with. The Jim Wangers GTO from Big 3 Performance is a 69 GTO refitted with all of todays modern performance and styling cues. They will be taking orders on 18 of these monsters at the begining of March, 2010; all including a...

Ya, you know what kinda "dirty" I mean. Anyone here ever detail some hot chick's car and gotten the booty? Pretty much been a fantasy of mine since I was cutting lawns @ 16.

Been pretty dead for me lately, so I decided to give the daily driver some TLC to keep my skills sharp + I wanted to experiment with just what kinda results I could obtain with a single-step polish treatment...you'll see from the pix, it was beyond what was expected! It was sunny and 25° today...

Most of my packages include a one-step polishing (now they are, i should say). I'm curious, what pad/chemical i should use out of my assortment to achieve atleast a 60% swirl reduction: Chemicals: Adams swirl/haze remover adams machine polish pads: yellow, orange, white, black Lake...

In the coming month or so, i'm gonna work over my black s10, full scratch touch up, wet sand and buff. I thought about taping off half of the tail gate (b/c it's hammered) and restoring the other half, then putting vinyl lettering on either side of the split to the air of "before and after"...

So this weekend I was approached by a powder coater who wanted to know if I could eliminate the orange peel on these covers. He shot them very heavy with PC red then PC clear. He said that PC is very tough and I could be extremely rough with it so I went at it hard with a 320 grit pad (dry)...

Despite it's luxury connotation, Is it reasonable to belive that we can leverage vehicle detailing as a business write off? I would think that it's right up there with maintenence services such as oil changes and new tires.

These are pinstripes applied over the clearcoat with "One-Shot striping enamel" Can I run over them with a DA or will it get torn up?

This is a 2006 Acura TSX, the color is difficult to capture-it's a very VERY dark midnight blue metallic. When I met the customer, it was obvious the car had a ROUGH life as a lease prior to him buying it. The paint was HAMMERED! Looked like it been washed with a hair brush every day. I met the...