When it comes to cleaning your car, just say NO to windex. Go with quality car care products and car cleaning products.
Professional and DIY car detailers alike LOVE using electric blowers to dry cars. With a blower, you don’t have to worry about inflicting swirl marks in the car’s paint with drying towels — you can dry the whole vehicle without touching the car once. The Problem with the EGO Stock Nozzle One of the most […]
When is the last time you cleaned your engine and engine compartment? In fact, when’s the last time you even opened the hood? Let me share five reasons to clean your own engine compartment. One, it’s actually easy and there’s no special tools required. Two, a clean engine compartment actually increases trade-in value or resale […]
TRANSCRIPT You know, the most common way we get swirls and scratches into the finish on our cars comes from the way we wash it and dry it and also anytime we wipe it with a microfiber towel. Now, I’ve already completely polished out this car. It has a scratch-free, a swirl-free finish. And I’m […]
Removing swirl marks is a little like cleaning up after yourself, or at least cleaning up after someone else’s mess. Swirls may be the professional detailer’s most despised surface flaw because they are almost exclusively caused by the detailer’s polishing technique. Because they are less visible in the shade but spectacularly obvious in sunlight, even […]
We’ve blogged about this topic on more than one occasion, but we still receive tons of comments and questions from our customers about scratched matte paint. Matte 101 There are some basic matte paint rules to know. Matte paint cannot be clayed, polished, or waxed. Ordinarily, these are the processes one would use to remove […]
A clay bar removes above surface bonded contaminants off the surface of your car’s paint to restore a clean and smooth surface. However, there is some confusion over the topic of how a clay bar works, why you should use one and what it does for a vehicle’s paint. Let’s take a deeper dive. Myth […]
Transcript When you hear the word Rupes—and by the way, that is the correct way to pronounce the name—the first thing that comes to mind is normally their amazing tools, like the long-stroke polishers, the Scorpio sanders, and also the Rupes Nanos. But something that a lot of people might not know is they also […]
In the world of car detailing, IPA stands for “Isopropyl Alcohol”. Detailers will typically talk about IPA in the context of an “IPA wipedown” or “IPA panel wipe”, a process for cleaning polishing oils and residue from paint before applying protection like a ceramic coating. Despite being a common topic in detailing, there’s a lot […]
The 3M dry sanding system is actually what I consider like one of the safest sanding systems out there and especially if you’re brand new to sanding. One of the cool things about this system is you can use it by hand or machine. They make these in sheets. This is the 3000 six-inch disc, […]
