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Sorry the pictures are crappy...spent way too long getting the summer wheels and tires on my cars last night and after the quick application of Soveran on the A4 I was about 30 minutes late for where I needed to be. Coilovers will be on the M3 sunday at which point I'll do a proper cleanup and...

This was one of those cars that at first glance I thought wouln'd be bad at all...but ended up kicking my butt. Car was swirled but nothing that I thought that I couldn't handle...well it's driven quite a bit and it looks like winter ice storms had their way with this black paint. In the end the...

Hey guys...havn't posted here in awhile but business is finally picking back up here in Ohio. Had a pretty good march but most of my photos have been relegated to indoors due to inclimate weather. Finally got a little sun on a day I did a detail so I took some photos and thought that I'd share...

I'm nearly out of both Optimum Car Wax (OCW) and quick detailer. logic tells me that I should order a gallon of OCW and a gallon of some detailer...BUT there's part of me that says I could probably use OCW for both and just forget about the QD all together. Thoughs on doing away with QD from...

Hey guys I'm almost out of the bottle of Optimum Car Wax that I bought before taking the plunge on a full gallon and now its time for more. I also need more REALLY plush REALLY good towels. Previously I've been using Autofiber Elites and Pakshak Ultrafine towels and I'm hoping someone here can...

A client of mine purchased a Black Porsche 968 off of e-bay and the car looks like it was driven through a war. My best guess is that the owner never waxed it and it sat outside all of the time (clear is dry and cracking), used sense of touch when parking and occasionally drove it through the...

Picked her up last tuesday but finally got around to spneding time with it in the garage this weekend. The exterior shots are from the origional owner as I ran out of time and daylight yesterday to get any good exterior shots of my own. I think that I'm addicted to this car...it's been a...

Does anyone here have experience with removing clear bra. I'm looking at purchasing a white car and the car is in extremely good condition but has clear bra all over the car for protection. Normally this would be a good thing but it's a white car and the clear bra has discolored considerably and...

I'm somewhat mixed on this. As a detailer I hate detailing a white car. when you're done they look great but they're a pain to work on and when a white car is placed to a dark car in similar shape the dark car will always look better. Regardless..I think that white cars are particularly sexy...

Finally got a couple of hours to spend on my own car for a change the other day so I thought that I'd play with some of my Autogeek giveaway items that I recieved. (thanks Autogeek!) About a month ago it got a single coat of UPP and another coat 3 weeks prior to that. I didn't have enough...

First off...sorry for the poor lighting in the photos...These cars were all done at a local speed / race shop over the past week and they're very good to me so sometimes I make due with poor lighting and space limitations....that and I'm horrible with the camera...I tried to slow down the...

This summer I've done probably 50-60 cars in the first official year of Detailing for Profit as a secondary source of income. Many of the topics and processes learned here at Autopia are extremely helpful BUT the one that I absolutely live by is the least agressive approach first when polishing...

When working in a LSP with the PC and a finishing pad (black in this case) is there any advantage to going slow? I noticed that once the pad got saturated with product that I can go quite fast and still get product pretty evenly on the surface but is there an advantage to going slower and really...

Trying to determine If there was really any UPP left on the surface of my Audi yesterday. I returned from my wedding a few weeks ago and my car had been sitting under a tree at my parents house (thanks mom and dad) and had some tree sap on it AFTER I had already Zaino prepped it for winter. Well...

Detailed both of these black beauties on Sunday...sorry for the lack of light in some of the Mustang pictures as I was running out of sunlight. First Car 996 Cabriolet. Wash with Z7 Clay (clay magic blue) SSR2.5 with white pad on PC @ 6 SSR1 with white pad and PC @ 6 UPP by hand S100...

I'm looking for a QD that's comparable to Z6. I like the Z6 alot but hate that I cannot purchase it in bulk. I'm wondering what else is out there that's a great QD that I can buy in bulk. I'd prefer recomendations without any caranuba in them so i can use further layers of sealants on top of the QD.

I've used UPP now on 2 cars, one was 7 days old (Escalade) and had absolutely no paint defects at all, the other was a black BMW that I detailed and spent numerous hours polishing a couple months back so again the paint was real good to begin with. I'm trying to figure out if UPP has any...

After reading the hype on 4* UPP I was hoping that this would be a product that I could use instead of using a sealant followed by a topper and I could combine both of them into 1 step with this sealant that is supposed to have the look of a caranuba. Also I'm looking for something that I can...

Unfortunatly I'm not writing a review on this one. I'm very curious to see if anyone can give a review of #80 against these other 2 products. I currently have both IP and SSR1 but I'm getting low on both products and I see that Scottwax uses #80 with very impressive results (of course I'm sure...

I really havn't posted any of my work here for a lack of picture taking ability and well frankly for some time I just didn't feel worthy I suppose with all of the talent here...SOOO...besides my personal cars here is my first post with customer cars as I finally got a couple of good examples to...