Category Archives: Exterior Detailing

14
Sep
Behind the Detail, Exterior Detailing, Guides & Tips, How To, Live Detailing Classes, Paint Correction, Professional Detailing, Videos & Media

Removing Holograms | LIVE Online Detailing Class with Mike Phillips

Posted on by Victor Espeland

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 […]

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Live discussion of orange peel with Mike Phillips.
04
Oct
Behind the Detail, Exterior Detailing, Guides & Tips, Live Detailing Classes, Paint Correction, Professional Detailing, Videos & Media

Talking Orange Peel with Mike Phillips

Posted on by Victor Espeland

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 […]

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16
Oct
Behind the Detail, Ceramic Coatings, Exterior Detailing, How To, Live Detailing Classes, Paint Correction, Professional Detailing, Videos & Media

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

Posted on by Victor Espeland

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 […]

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17
Nov
Behind the Detail, Exterior Detailing, Guides & Tips, Live Detailing Classes, Paint Correction, Videos & Media

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

Posted on by Victor Espeland

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 […]

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02
Jan
Behind the Detail, Exterior Detailing, Guides & Tips, How To, Live Detailing Classes, Paint Correction, Videos & Media

Showcar & Concours Detailing | Live Online Detailing Class with Mike Phillips

Posted on by Victor Espeland

Detailing cars for shows and Concours d’Elegance events can be intimidating — after all, you’re literallly being judged on your work. Thankfully, Mike Phillips is here to make it all accessible to even the beginner detailer. Watch this recording of a live detailing class Mike hosted covering showcar detailing on a unique 1960 Plymouth Valiant […]

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28
Jul
Behind the Detail, Exterior Detailing, Guides & Tips, How To, Professional Detailing, The Detail, Videos & Media

Removing Windshield Swirls, Scratches & Wiper Marks on a ’69 GTO with Dr. Beasley’s NSP GL by Mike Phillips

Posted on by Mike Phillips

Perfecting glass to match perfecting the paint I’m fortunate that I get asked to detail a lot of classic American Detroit Iron, cars built before the 1980s when a lot of changes took place, like chrome bumpers being replaced by color-matched plastic bumper covers. Blech. Most of the cars I work on are the kind […]

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Side-by-side comparison of swirls and holograms in car paint.
07
Oct
Behind the Detail, Exterior Detailing, Paint Correction, Professional Detailing

The Difference Between Swirls & Holograms

Posted on by Mike Phillips

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! […]

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09
Sep
Behind the Detail, Ceramic Coatings, Exterior Detailing, Paint Correction, Professional Detailing, Videos & Media

Removing Swirls & Holograms on a 1963 Chevy Impala SS Convertible

Posted on by Mike Phillips

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 […]

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1970 Plymouth Superbird Paint Correction by Mike Phillips
14
Jul
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1970 Plymouth Superbird – Paint Correction with Dr. Beasley’s by Mike Phillips

Posted on by Mike Phillips

When it comes to buffing out cool cars, so cool that you might only get to work on one of these cars in your lifetime, I call these Bucket List Cars. This is such an instance. This is a 1970 Plymouth Superbird but not just any Superbird, this is one of 58 built that came […]

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1965 Ferrari GTB 275 - Paint Correction Case Study from Mike Phillips
05
Aug
Behind the Detail, Exterior Detailing, Guides & Tips, Paint Correction, Professional Detailing, The Detail, Videos & Media

1965 Ferrari GTB 275 — Hologram & Deep Scratch Correction with NSPs by Mike Phillips

Posted on by Mike Phillips

“The most difficult paint correction job for any detailer is taking a finish that already looks good to an even higher level.” Abrasive Technology – the MOST important factor In the car detailing world, it’s both common and easy to take a severely neglected finish, do the necessary paint correction and show DRAMATIC before/after pictures […]

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