Category Archives: Exterior Detailing

Cleaning and maintaining a matte wheel without changing its finish
04
Sep
Exterior Detailing, Matte Car Care, Matte Wheels

How to Safely Maintain Matte Wheels Between Washes

Posted on by Jim Lafeber

Matte wheels need a different maintenance strategy than gloss wheels. The reason is simple: if you scratch a gloss wheel, polishing may reduce or remove the defect. On a matte or satin finish, polishing changes the surface texture itself — instead of restoring the original appearance, it can create a smoother, glossier patch that stands […]

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Microfiber towel wiping a car wheel during waterless wheel cleaning
03
Sep
Exterior Detailing, Guides & Tips, Matte Wheels

How to Clean Lightly Soiled Wheels Without a Hose

Posted on by Jim Lafeber

Your wheels don’t always need a full wash. If you’re dealing with a light layer of brake dust, fresh road film, environmental dust, or minor water spotting, setting up a hose, buckets, wheel brushes, and a complete wash process can be more than the job requires. That’s where waterless wheel maintenance makes sense. The key […]

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Mike Phillips demonstrating Dr. Beasley’s Wheel Detailer on a car wheel using the Spray & Wipe and Spray & Rinse methods
01
Sep
Exterior Detailing, Guides & Tips, How To, Matte Wheels, Tips

How to Use Wheel Detailer: Spray & Wipe or Spray & Rinse

Posted on by Victor Espeland

Keeping your wheels looking freshly cleaned doesn’t always require a full wheel-cleaning process. Sometimes, all you’re dealing with is a light layer of brake dust, environmental dust, fresh road film, or minor water spotting. That’s where Dr. Beasley’s new Wheel Detailer and Matte Wheel Detailer come in. Designed for maintenance between deeper wheel cleanings, these […]

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01
Sep
Dr. Beasley's News, Exterior Detailing, Matte Wheels, Press Releases

Dr. Beasley’s Launches Wheel Detailer and Matte Wheel Detailer for Between-Wash Wheel Care

Posted on by Victor Espeland

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE New maintenance sprays remove light brake dust and road grime while adding hydrophobic protection to gloss and matte wheels CHICAGO, IL (Sep 1, 2026) — Dr. Beasley’s, a Chicago-based manufacturer of premium automotive detailing products, today announced the September 3rd launch of Wheel Detailer and Matte Wheel Detailer, two maintenance sprays designed […]

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cleaning car wheel with flagged tip brush
28
Aug
Exterior Detailing, Featured, Guides & Tips, Matte Wheels, Tips

Wheel Detailer vs. Wheel Cleaner vs. Brake Dust Remover: Which Does Your Wheel Need?

Posted on by Jim Lafeber

If Dr. Beasley’s already makes a wheel cleaner, why would you need a Wheel Detailer too? Because not every dirty wheel needs the same type of cleaning — and the science behind why wheels get dirty explains why one product was never going to cover every stage. Why Wheels Get Dirty So Fast (and Why […]

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Blue sports car hood with black racing stripes
20
Aug
Ceramic Coatings, Exterior Detailing, Featured, Guides & Tips, Interior Detailing, Professional Detailing

August Sun: Does Ceramic Technology Really Protect Against UV?

Posted on by Jim Lafeber

Park a vehicle outside on a sunny August afternoon and you can feel what the sun is doing before you ever see it. The paint becomes almost too hot to touch. The dashboard heats up. Leather, vinyl, plastics, rubber and exterior trim spend hours exposed to sunlight and elevated temperatures. Do that occasionally and very […]

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17
Jul
Exterior Detailing, Featured, Guides & Tips, Interior Detailing, Professional Detailing

When Does Cleaning Chemistry Actually Stop?

Posted on by Jim Lafeber

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, […]

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Matte detailing class at Dr. Beasley's (September 2024)
16
Sep
Auto Detailing Training Classes, Behind the Detail, Dr. Beasley's News, Exterior Detailing, Matte Car Care, The Future of Detailing, Videos & Media

60+ Photos from Dr. Beasley’s Matte Detailing Class at Dr. Beasley’s HQ

Posted on by Victor Espeland

We recently hosted our first-ever detailing class devoted exclusively to matte finish vehicles and we’ve got the pictures to prove it! We’ve featured matte finish cars at countless detailing classes prior to this one, but this was the first we’ve hosted that focused on matte entirely. Led by our Authorized Trainer (and foreman for our […]

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Dr. Beasley's Matte Bead Hero
14
Apr
Behind the Detail, Ceramic Coatings, Exterior Detailing, Matte Car Care, Matte Ceramic Coating, Videos & Media

Matte Bead Hero is Now Available!

Posted on by Victor Espeland

Hot on the heels of our previous release, Bead Hero, we’re now proud to announce a new version for matte finishes, Matte Bead Hero, is now available! Matte Bead Hero is a new version of Bead Hero formulated specifically to protect and maintain matte finishes, whether it’s on paint, PPF or vinyl. So what makes […]

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