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Looking forward to the final results! :)

Happens to all of us... edges are the hardest things to not mess up. For thin panels you either have to hand sand or you need a small dual action polisher with a short orbit stroke. The bad news is - for the most part, all tool manufacturers jumped on the RUPES LONG STROKE Bandwagon. Thus no...

***Bump*** Cars all confirmed for this class. ;)

In my opinion and experience - water spots are one of the top worst types of paint defects to have to remove. Yeah - sanding on factory clearcoats is nerve-wracking. Outside of VERY LIGHT surface defects - I try to avoid it at all costs. Even when you do successfully sand and buff factory...

Looks GREAT to me! Apologies I didn't get back to you - was actually making a video on how to remove FRESH water spots. For water spot ETCHINGS like you dealt with - a mechanical method is the only answer. Mechanical meaning machine polishing and/or sanding followed by machine polishing. And...

The last time I saw water spot etchings this bad is when I buffed out a Corvette in Irvine, California while working at Meguiar's. I'm thinking these are Type 4 and that picture in Type 4 is the picture I took of the Corvette. Somewhere I have the original. Let me get back to you.

The different types of water spots Mike Phillips

Repair Book How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive Mike Phillips

Repair Book How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive Mike Phillips

Repair Book How to Keep Your Volkswagen Alive Mike Phillips

Continued... Remember the dirty tires? Here's the after results... Here's the video showing the process by Glen, my camera man and myself. The Mustang and the tires are now r-e-s-p-e-c-t-a-b-l-e. Mike

More... Installing a Ceramic Coating Next up - the class installs the Dr. Beasley's Nano-Resin MX Ceramic Coating to seal the paint while providing years of durable ceramic protection. Let's take a trip down Memory Lane! Here's the Final Results...

More... Test Spot The results from the Test Spot showed us a number of things, 1: The car was repainted with an inexpensive black single stage paint job. 2: The paint was on the soft side in the Hard Paint/Soft Paint spectrum. 3 There's a number of areas that no amount of buffing can fix -...

Continued... Rear Deck Spoiler The oxidation was super bad and even on the paint under the read deck spoiler and on the underneath of the rear deck spoiler. Luckily we were able to remove it in order to do the buffing steps. Mike

More... First thing Saturday morning - we dive headfirst into the first topic - Show Car Detailing - How to use the Rotary Polisher - (to CUT hard!) This is the PowerPoint slide - each training car gets a slide Training Car: 2006 Ford Mustang - Extremely Neglected Paint This Mustang is...

Review Best Car Detailing Classes - Real Cars - No Demo Hood - No Chairs - ZERO Sitting - Mike Phillips

Review Best Car Detailing Classes - Real Cars - No Demo Hood - No Chairs - ZERO Sitting - Mike Phillips