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Category Archives: Behind the Detail

How to Remove Bird Dropping Etching | Live Online Detailing Class with Mike Phillips

Bird droppings are a major annoyance for just about any car owner. They stain your paint finish, and if left to sit for long enough, eventually turn acidic, resulting in an etch mark or indentation in your paint that looks like a faint circle. At this point, only abrasive methods like polishing can level the […]

Dr. Beasley's Mike Phillips appearing at SEMA Show 2023.

Meet Mike Phillips at SEMA Show 2023!

Every year in Las Vegas, the Specialty Equipment Marketing Association (SEMA) hosts the largest trade show in the world for those working in the aftermarket automotive products industry — SEMA Show. We’ve exhibited at SEMA Show in the past, but this year we’ll be sending our new Chief Education Officer Mike Phillips to make some special […]

How to Remove Swirls w/ AIO | LIVE Online Detailing Class with Mike Phillips

When you’re polishing a car, you’re not always going to be doing a multiple stage paint correction followed by ceramic coating application. Sometimes you need results faster — and that’s where AIOs come into play. “AIO” stands for “All-In-One”, and it refers to products that can polish and protect paint in a single step. In […]

Side-by-side comparison of swirls and holograms in car paint.

The Difference Between Swirls & Holograms

Some people think the words swirls and holograms refer to the same type of scratch pattern you see in car paint under bright sunlight or with the use of a bright swirl finder light. This is a common misconception. Swirls and holograms are actually two distinct types of scratch pattern.  This is important to define! […]

Live discussion of orange peel with Mike Phillips.

Talking Orange Peel with Mike Phillips

What is orange peel? Recently, for our weekly live detailing class series, Chief Education Officer Mike Phillips did a solo explainer on the topic of orange peel — what it is, why it happens, how to remove it, and why you probably don’t want to if you’re detailing with an OEM (factory) paint system. There’s […]

Photos from Future of Detailing: Advanced Paint Correction Clinic — September 2023 @ Lake Country Manufacturing

On September 21 and September 22nd, 2023, Dr. Beasley’s hosted their second Future of Detailing: Advanced Paint Correction Clinic at Lake Country Manufacturing in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin for the first time with new Chief Education Officer Mike Phillips. The class was a major success, with a stacked line-up of instructors ranging from Rod Kraft of Griot’s […]

Removing Holograms | LIVE Online Detailing Class with Mike Phillips

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 […]

Removing Swirls & Holograms on a 1963 Chevy Impala SS Convertible

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 […]

Mike Phillips hosting a live online glass polishing class for Dr. Beasley's

How to Polish Glass | LIVE Online Detailing Class with Mike Phillips

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 […]

Announcing Weekly LIVE Online Detailing Classes with Mike Phillips

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 […]