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i have the opportunity to detail a full collection of vehicles for someone...ranging from the '20's through 90's. here are a few quick shots to give you an idea of the challenges i have. please let me know what you think good products are for cleaning/protecting wooden wheels, large...

after numerous practice rounds with wetsanding, watching videos and reading other autopian articles, i have a few more questions. many people say to always sand in one direction (at least for spot touch-ups such as rock chips, etc). videos posted on here show the detailer going back and...

i'm looking for: HTEC (4-8 oz sample) Menz IP / FPII (4-8 oz samples) 3.5" and 5" flexible rotary backplates Edge 2000 rotary adapter and/or entire pad kit i have to trade: Zaino Z2 Pro Zaino Z6 Optimum Car Wax Four Star SMR Four Star LCC Four Star MCC Meg's #7 Show Glaze...

i am using 6.5" pads...LC and Meg's. current rotary backplate is a 6" meg's. i want to pick up a flexible bp and was thinking a 5" would be better for the 6.5" pads...but the closest i can find is a 4.75". i checked AG, Danase, and Excel. what is the best size bp to use w/ the 6.5" pads...

i searched and googled on this...maybe i'm missing the obvious, but... i have a meg's 6" backing plate with the self-centering cylinder in the middle. i just got the meg's soft-buff pads to try out that also have the alignment hole in the center of them. the problem is still centering the...

i've searched and not seen definitive solutions for this... what would you guys recommend for polishing stainless steel appliances (brushed stainless...not a mirror finish). all of my appliances are stainless and some have a few stubborn water spots/runs from something and i can't get it to...

i'm trying to decide what pads to get for my hitachi rotary. i've been using the LC 6.5" pads that i already had for my PC. i've found that the orange light cut pad seems too firm...i get a lot of grabbing and chatter with it...and the surface doesn't give good contact unless i use a bit of...

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what would you consider normal for bringing a finish back after wetsanding? obviously this is a general question with many things that can affect the outcome (hardness of the clear being the biggest one). i'm asking because today i decided to practice a bit more with my hitachi rotary and...

i posted a while back about my non-winter car being covered in salt after a road trip (~175 miles) a few weekends ago. http://autopia.org/forum/car-detailing/84879-things-autopians-suffer-through-women.html this was the first salt and snow the car has seen since i have owned it...i took...

i took my "nice" car out in the hideous cold and snowy roads yesterday...didn't want to make my date ride in the winter car. hahaha looks like i'm making the zaino earn its keep! it's so cold that all of the self service wash bays i've gone to are closed:(:( so i'll be posting my afters as...

i haven't had a chance to try out the Max Wax i picked up with my last big order of goodies...but was curious how it holds up. i've searched and seen some great aesthetic results from it, but nothing really mentioned about durability. this is pretty much only out of curiosity, since an...

...like a broken record... just took my winter ride to a self wash bay to spray off the ridiculous amounts of salt before doing an ONR in the garage. felt good to get under the car with the sprayer and clean off that nasty salt layer. as i was spraying i was reminded how great of a...

i've searched and not found anything conclusive on this... when i ordered my hitachi, it came with a 6.5" back plate. i purchased a meg's 6" to use with my existing 6.5" LC pads already used with my PC. the meg's back plate has the raised centering thing in the middle, but the LC pads i...

just got my hitachi sp18va this week...fired it up today and gave it a first try. victim was my winter car's trunk...92 accord. before pics: lots of marring and scratches remaining after doing all i could with my PC... during: i found i was really good at adding...

can anyone point me to some funny Acura (or Honda) vs. VW pics? i need a few to use on a friend that has a VW...just out of fun. moving gifs would be best...but regular pics would be cool too. thanks!

my hitachi SP18VA is arriving next week. i ordered a 6" backplate...after reading everyone's comments here it looked like 6.5" pads is the safer way to go for starters on it. i have a bunch of flat LC 6.5" pads i've used w/ my PC but am wondering if i should buy dedicated rotary pads as well...

after reading on here it seems the following two are very highly rated: --Metabo --Hitachi SP18VA with the big autogeek gift card sale going on (ending today:(), i thought i would jump on a rotary now...however they only sell the Hitachi. everyone seems to rave about the metabo because...

i know...no pics...but it's dark out now. i treated my TL to the following today: --303 treatment to all applicable external surfaces and door/trunk trim/gaskets --ONR QD spray on wheels...then 845 to protect --ONR QD cleaning of vehicle --Z6 wipedown to remove streaking from ONR (it...

i posted a few weeks back about the winter car i purchased (92 accord lx)...some of the trim on it was heavily faded. i've tried numerous products and recently had great success with the following: --clean well (i used ONR, but whatever you like) --apply Z16 tire dressing (fairly heavy...