Surface science begins with understanding clear coat, paintwork, and scratch identification. Here’s everything you need to know about the science behind car scratches and the different ways to remedy them.
Transcript Have you ever wondered if you can polish vinyl graphics? Well, I’m here to tell you you can. And we just took a Detailometer reading of the vinyl graphics, the before. And what I’m going to do is I’m going to show you how to carefully restore graphics like these. This is a 1999 […]
Part 1 Transcript Mike Phillips here and I am the CEO, or Chief Education Officer, for Dr. Beasley’s and we’re here in our Stuart facility where we teach all of our intensely hands-on classes. We recently shot a video called Beginner’s Guide to Car Polishing. And that video, out of all the videos on the […]
Harbor Freight recently came out with a forced rotation polisher that’s almost an exact copy of the Flex XC 3401 VRG. The only thing they didn’t copy? The price! The Harbor Freight Hercules Forced Rotation Polisher retails for around $100, while the Flex gear-driven polisher runs at about $400. So how do they stack up […]
TRANSCRIPT Over time your car becomes filled full of swirls, scratches, water spots, and oxidation. And if you’re a beginner—you’ve never machine polished before—trying to fix this can be kind of intimidating. Let me show you how, and I’ll make it easy. In this video, I’m going to show you how to remove swirls and […]
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 […]
Freshly polished cars look beautiful, gleaming like a mirror in the sun. Unfortunately, over time — especially if the paint isn’t protected — scratches, contamination and oxidation will dull the shine. So how often can you polish the paint to get it back to shiny again? That’s what we’ll be answering in this article. How […]
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 […]
