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A couple months back I ordered the book "Ultimate Garages" but didn't open the package until Xmas Day yesterday. It was to be my little treat. Well, despite hearing some non-enthusiastic comments earlier here about it, I have to say I personally found it a great book. Inspirational even...

Over the last week or two I've added a few essential items to my garage, but I'm running out of space! Anyone who has been through this problem, and can suggest a solution for a tight space? Pics follow. Ken Silver -------------- 1993 Mercedes SL500, 1991 Daimler (Vanden Plas), 1992...

I studied this forum all ways and discovered questions that ask for the 'ultimate', the 'wettest', the 'most reflective' shine, and their answers. But none seem to tell me how to get the 'sharpest' shine. By this, I mean a highly reflective, deep black on my grey-black Mercedes. A crisp...

Hi all, I wish I had taken 'before, during and after' photos of my internal double garage because I've done such a lot to it over the last few months. Before I started it had a bare but polished concrete floor, unpainted and unstopped gib walls and ceiling, and two standard 60w bulbs at...

I've just bought a laser pointer for parking my Mercedes to get the roof accurately back on. I'm going to attach it to the garage ceiling so that it points on a defined spot on my car when it is positioned ready for the roof to be winched off. When I want to to put the roof back on, I can use it...

The other day I left my house in a hurry, pressed the remote as usual and didn't look back. You guessed it - when I returned about 20 minutes later, the garage door was up. When I tried again, it went back up and I had to lube the center rail to get it to close. Lucky my garage faces a...

My DIY garage floor is great except for three spots where I obviously didn't prepare the surface enough. Unfortunately these are under my tires when my cars stop and it's looking messy. Repainting the areas hasn't helped, and because I want to buy another place in the next year or two, I...

I've got a Powerbuilt small tool chest, red with silver trays, nice design and manufacture, very similar to many that I see in garages here in this section. And now I'm considering buying the larger matching bottom tool chest with trolley wheels. But the problem is I'm not a mechanic. In...

And it's really simple - I've discovered it all depends on the light source and viewing angle. I often wondered why my grey-black Mercedes looks better in some situations than others. I've been a fulltime photographer with our country's air force a couple of decades ago, and I always look for...

Did a clean this morning, the day after I got my Mercedes SL500 back from the independent MB shop where they had taken out the headlight wipers and motors. Heart sank. There was evidence that one headlight had been dropped on my brand-newly painted bumper - there were scuff marks over it that...

Can I overdo the daily cleaning stuff? I'm driving my month-old black '93 Mercedes SL500 almost daily. (Don't want to add miles - but heck, it's an irresistible vehicle I can't keep away from). Even a half-hour drive can leave the body with a thin film of the usual city dirt, while the...