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Old 02-27-2008, 06:01 PM
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Default Auto Detailing: Making Your Old Car New Again

The wear and tear of seemingly ordinary, day to day driving can take its toll on even the most cautious of drivers. Nicks, scratches, dents, chips, and the like, can etch the surface of your car like an acid, marring the pristine finish it had when you drove it off the lot. These unwanted (and yet inevitable) scars are the proud automobile owner's nightmare, but can be easily remedied by way of the talents of a professional auto detailer.

Those long bouts of highway driving we are all subjected to from time to time, can be as frustrating for the drone of the open road as much as they are for the caked layer of insects which inevitably grace the hood, bumpers, windshields, and grills of a once clean car. It's an annoyance most easily absolved through a thorough automobile detailing. A good auto detailer can polish, buff, and wax your car back into the condition you remember it, and the condition you deserve it to be in. Of course, you might say, professional automotive detailing is not a necessity, I can scrub and polish my own car, thank you very much." But this can be a dangerous misconception. Using the wrong equipment, or using improper techniques, or unqualified persons to work on your car can actually do more harm than good.

Cheap shampoos, soaps, scrub brushes and such, can wear down the quality of your automobile's paint job, leaving it more spotted, tarnished, and lusterless. Even hasty, careless work with something as seemingly inconsequential as a bristly old rag can leave nearly unnoticeable scuffs, slowly wearing down the shine of a once beautiful marriage of paint and wax. This is where the talents and experience of a professional auto detailer can save the day. In the hands of a good detailer, your car can gain back the brilliance it once had, and had subsequently lost through the trials and tribulations of everyday use.

And that's nothing to say of the interior. We all of us know how easy it is to stain, scuff, and generally wear down the carpet and upholstery of your car of truck's interior, leaving it a paltry version of its former self. And then there's the non-visible horrors of an unclean car: the smell. The tiniest of coffee spills or other such filth and dirt that can so easily be trudged into your car, can burrow their foul odor deep in the fibers of carpets and seat covers. And anyone who has ever taken their dog for a ride to the park knows that unmistakable canine musk lingers on well after the dog blanket and tennis ball have been removed. Such unpleasant odors area fact of your car's life, but are in no way a death sentence. A thorough auto detailing can exorcise even the most offensive aromas from that enclosed space where, behind the wheel, we spend so much of our time.

There's no need to go on driving a car that is slowly deteriorating away from its former glory. We can all recall that new car smell, that fresh-off-the-lot fragrance that has burned its way into all car drivers' memories; it's one of the saddest truths about regular car use that this smell represents cleanliness, and whose only hope of recovery can be through cleanliness. automotive detailing is your best bet to improving the look and feel of your car is by utilizing the efforts of a good detailer. A full auto detailing will appease that nagging guilt you feel whenever the sun comes out and all the blemishes of a once fine automobile are exposed for every prying eye to see. His expertise can do what the rest of us folk have neither the time nor the equipment to accomplish - and he might just have you, if not enjoying, at the very least, dreading that unavoidable rush-hour just a little bit less.

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Old 05-19-2008, 04:04 PM
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Buffing...

1. Dupont productive compound - for urethane finish
2. Dupont Finessing Cream - second step
3. Dupont Cera Polish - Wax and Silicone

for 3M user's

1. 3m rubbing compound - step 1
2. 3m paste compound - step 2
3. 3m liquid wax - 3rd step

Meguiars:

1, diamond cut compound
2. anti swirl
3. speed glaze

for engine detailing:

1st step - paint thinner
2nd step - meguires all purpose cleaner
3rd step - wash with water
4th step - spray with kerosine
5th step - wipe with cloth
6th step - spray with kerosine and wash with water
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Old 11-15-2008, 04:45 PM
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Question Did you do waxpol?

Waxpol is a super shiner for the car after all the touchups. It will bring a sheen that will make the car look new. You will soon stop longing for the day you brought home your car for the first time. I once tried it on my dad's fiat long ago. To this day I will not forget the gleam in my dad's eyes what happened to his car.
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I would suggest to polish andf trim the out side body where it is damaged. It will increase the after market.
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