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Drying automotive paint with a microfiber towel

How to Dry Your Car (Without Scratching the Paint)

Drying a vehicle is often perceived as a quick, final step after washing with little risk.  It is not. Drying is actually one of the highest risk steps in the wash process if your goal is maintaining paint clarity and preserving the clear coat long-term.  Although they are often called “wash marks”, most swirl marks, […]

10 Tips for Speeding Up Your Paint Correction Process

10 Tips for Faster Polishing from Expert Mike Phillips

Polishing the paint on a car can take a long time, especially if you’re a beginner. If you’re working from start to finish — washing, decontaminating, polishing and protecting — it can pretty much take up an entire day, sometimes even longer.  Don’t believe me? Let’s tally up the time it takes to do a […]

Detailing a car

Top 50 Best Detailing Tips for Professional Results

When it comes to keeping your car looking good, there are an endless number of different tips and tricks you should know. In this article I’ve written out 50 of the most useful tips I rely on when detailing my own cars or a friend’s. Take some time to read through them and educate yourself […]

The Biggest Questions about Touching Up Car Paint, Answered

The Biggest Questions About Touching Up Car Paint, Answered

When you have a chip or a scratch in your car’s paint, your first instinct might be to apply some touch-up paint. Applying touch-up paint to a chip or scratch in a car’s paint helps hide the blemish and protects the underlying body metal from rust and corrosion.  Sounds simple enough, right? Not quite. While […]

Carbon Fiber Spoiler Close Up

Polishing Carbon Fiber

Learn how to polish carbon fiber to make it as crystal clear as glass using a carbon fiber glaze. Polishing carbon fiber has never been easier.