Dr. Beasley’s Beginner’s Guide to Detailing: Car Wash Preparation. How to properly prepare your car before a car wash.
There’s been a severe lack of rainfall and water shortages going on in California and other parts of the west coast. It’s become very apparent how much that’s impacting our industry. People are getting fined for washing their cars in their driveways and are urged to not wash their cars at all, even in recycled […]
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 […]
The latest edition of our Beginner’s Guide to Detailing segment, on polishing. We also cover the difference between paintwork correction and paintwork preservation, as well as which is best for your paint long-term.
A beginner’s guide to claying your car.
Choosing the right machine to polish a car’s paint is essential to getting the best results. Yet there are so many different machines on the market — random orbital, forced rotation, rotary — it can be hard to know what to use and when. Our Chief Education Officer Mike Phillips recently covered this topic in […]
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 […]
Polishing the paint on a car’s hood and door panels is easy — but what about those hard-to-reach areas and tight spaces? In this condensed reel from one of my recent livestreamed detailing classes, I show several methods for polishing out the nooks and crannies using a rare 1964 Amphicar as my test subject. Watch […]
The Science Behind Dr. Beasley’s Adaptive Buffer Technology™ Every product we retire teaches us something. Sometimes it means the product wasn’t good enough, and sometimes it means we’ve found a better way to solve a problem an existing product already solved well. pH Neutralizer falls firmly into the second category: it worked exactly as intended, […]
This blog came from a real question. Aaron Kirk of Clean Me Mobile Detailing in Duluth, MN, one of our authorized detailers, is excited about the liquid PPF products showing up from a few manufacturers, and he asked for my take, given my science background: does this stuff actually perform like real paint protection film? […]
