Dr. Beasley’s Chief Education Officer Mike Phillips and his trusted video expert Yancy Martinez hosted another live detailing class this week covering how to remove holograms when polishing automotive paint. For those who don’t know — holograms are a unique type of scratch pattern with a 3D appearance, and they’re caused by improper use of […]
Category Archives: Videos & Media
Multimedia from our Detailing Experts.
09
Sep
Sep
Backstory So I get a phone call from custom car builder Jeremy Miranda of mirandabuilt.com – Jeremy tells me they brought in a high dollar custom 1963 Impala, a super favorite car among customizers with a lot of mechanical problems from another shop. Basically, they’re playing Doctor and repairing the original damage to the car […]
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Sep
Sep
Glass polishing is very different than paint polishing — it uses different pads, different techniques and can be quite messy. That’s why our Chief Education Officer Mike Phillips picked it as the first topic for our weekly series of live online detailing classes hosted at the new Dr. Beasley’s Operating Room in Stuart, Florida! For […]
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Aug
Aug
Calling all car enthusiasts and detailers! Dr. Beasley’s is proud to announce a series of exclusive live detailing classes led by the renowned Mike Phillips every Wednesday starting September 6th at 3PM CT/4PM ET/1PM PT. These online classes are FREE, stream to YouTube and Facebook and offer an hour of live, interactive instruction on a […]
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Aug
Aug
CHICAGO — Dr. Beasley’s Matte Paint Coating, the pioneering ceramic coating formulated exclusively for matte finish vehicles, was named “Best Matte Finish Care Product” in Pan The Organizer‘s 2023 Car Detailing Product Awards. Pan The Organizer, an influential YouTuber in the automotive detailing community, meticulously evaluated and scrutinized a wide range of car care products […]
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Aug
Aug
Taking good photos of a car while you’re also detailing it is a challenge. It’s hard to figure it out on the fly, especially when you’re in the middle of an intensive process like paint correction. So when it comes to sharing pictures of any cars, trucks, vans or SUVs you detail, here’s a few […]
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Aug
Aug
Sky’s The Limit Car Care recently published a new video demonstrating the hydrophobic performance of Dr. Beasley’s Bead Hero after six weeks on a daily driven Tesla Model Y that wasn’t washed until just before they started shooting. As you can see in the video below, the water starts beading up as soon as Cory […]
08
Aug
Aug
WARNING: Machine sanding, especially when dealing with glass, is an aggressive process and should only be undertaken by an experienced individual, whether enthusiast or professional. Proceed with caution if attempting. In Part 1, 1970 Plymouth Superbird – Paint Correction with Dr. Beasley’s, I shared the process I used to do all the paint correction and […]
05
Aug
Aug
“The most difficult paint correction job for any detailer is taking a finish that already looks good to an even higher level.” Abrasive Technology – the MOST important factor In the car detailing world, it’s both common and easy to take a severely neglected finish, do the necessary paint correction and show DRAMATIC before/after pictures […]
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Jul
Jul
Perfecting glass to match perfecting the paint I’m fortunate that I get asked to detail a lot of classic American Detroit Iron, cars built before the 1980s when a lot of changes took place, like chrome bumpers being replaced by color-matched plastic bumper covers. Blech. Most of the cars I work on are the kind […]