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Hi. After polishing and waxing a car, after a few days on the paint appear some strange white residue like some scratches. It is easy to remove them but it's a anoying situation especially on a customer's car. What do you know about this? I remember i read long time ago about some waxes that...

Hi. I thought i could emprove a keyed car, tryied, but no luck there... I used a solvent to get rid of any wax or other stuff and very gentle used a thin brush to apply paint in several coats. Funny thing here, because after 5-6 coats, I could see the scrach thru paint just applied. Any...

Hi all. I had a customer who said after the detail, after a week, on the paint he saw some white spots and small lines maybe from polish. I'm thinking, althou I used masking tape, in the crevices remained some polish left, and from the pressure wash it came up on the paint. I heard some...

Hello! Do you have some sort of an algorithm or plan for 2 workers detailing a car? I mean I want to optimize the work of 2 people on a car. Thanks.

Hi. What do you professional guys wear when detailing? I mean, do you have custom equipment with the name of your bussiness etc?

Hello. I want to start a detailing business in my town and I want to know if it's good to start by my own with a moderate facility, but grow in time and invest more, or to get an associate who can invest and start with somewhat bigger, with big working space, but splitting the profit on two...

Hello. I don't have at my dispozal Zymol, Poorboys, MEguiar's or whatever products that you all recomend, I only have Automagic products. I have some holograms on my car made by me :( . Now I have to remove them. I have 1 wool pad, 1 medium cut pad, 1 lightcut pad, 1 fine pad all from...

I have a rotary polisher and I want to maintain it in proper working state for long time. How should I keep it and what tasks should I complete in order to have it for many years?

I have a rotary (Silverline - orange one) and Automagic pads and products. I gave a try yesterday on this stuff: first I clayed (Clay Magic and Body Shine as clay lube), then with a wool pad I used New car glaze then with a moderate cut pad (yellow one), the Magic Glaze with green pad (light...

I know, the theory says that those insect marks will come off with clay. Well, It didn't work. Any ideeas? It didn't come off also with solvent. Maybe vinegar? Help.

Do any of you use sonax pads? are they good?

I tried to polish a car with some "scrach remover" and a rotary with a polishing pad, I put some product on the pad, sprayed it a little with water and started buffing. But I got a lot of splattering. why?

I have a tube of Autosol Metal Polish, and I remembered I saw something like I can use a metal polish on glass. It is ok to use this polish on windshiled, or on fine scraches on glass? I spoke with a local detailer and he said that a polished glass will have a "magnified glass effect" (...

Did any of you heard of concept chemicals? It's a UK company Any opinion about their products? www.conceptchemicals.com

What gives a pad it's destination(cutting, polishing, finishing)? I mean usually finishing pads are softer (less firm), and polishing pads are more firm? what gives the pad his attribute? it's firmness? or the pors in the sponge? I don;t know if i'm being coerent....

How do you guys dillute your stuff? I mean, I have a #713 Special Cleaner Concentrate from Automagic, and I have to use different dillutions for different tasks. For ex: 1/4 for cleaning tires, 1/30 general purpose interior cleaning. But if I have some spots on the interior, I have to dillute...

Hello. Does any of you uses a tent of some sort to perform a detailing action? If yes, what kind? thank you.

A friend of mine asked me to detail his car, but he is going to repaint a side of it. The car is almost new, so he will have a clearcoat on the side that he will repaint. If we have a clearcoat, how long must I wait until polishing (detailing) his car?

I have a Peugeot 307 french car which have a plastic trim but is painted like the rest of the car. Maybe a dumb question, but is it meant to be buffed with a rotary? I mean, because I saw a guy on other detailing forum that used Meguiar's PlastiX on such sort of a trim (it was from a golf car).

Hello. Here is a link to a pad that is glued to it's backing plate. How do you clean this? I don't think that will work sinking them in a bucket with dish soap... Only with pad brush? http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=8048717854&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWN%3AIT&rd=1