500 Pictures - February 2025 from the 2-Day Car Detailing Class in Stuart Florida with Mike Phillips and Dr. Beasley's

Mike Phillips · Feb 26, 2025

500 Pictures - February 2025 from the 2-Day Car Detailing Class in Stuart Florida with Mike Phillips and Dr. Beasley's

Working on the pictures from your class and they will all be posted here as well as the Dr. Beasley's Blog

Congratulations to everyone that attended this class and thank you for all your hard work to take 5 cars in various conditions and turning them ALL into SHOW CARS!

More pics to come, stay tuned.

Mike

Mike Phillips · Feb 26, 2025

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Here's the graduating class for the February 2025 2-Day 100% Hands-on Detailing Class!

NOTE: To everyone that attended this class, if you would like the full size resolution of any of the pictures in this write-up, just shoot me an email and I can get it for you. Full size resolution will print out best for framing and displaying.

Henrique from Margate, Florida!

Jonathan from Morristown, New Jersey!

Randall from Elkmont, Alabama!

Shawn from Stuart, Florida!

Veronika from Key West, Florida!

P from Rockledge, Florida!

Horacio from New Braunfels, Texas!

Balasz from Clearwater, Florida!

Dennis from Fort Pierce, Florida!

Dan aka The Detail Doctor from Del Ray, Florida! Dan is a professional detailer as well as a good friend and always ready to help others with his time and experience in the detailing world.

Craig from Palm City, Florida- Craig is a long-time friend of mine and total gear-head extraordinaire and always ready, willing and able to give us a hand for these intense classes.

Billy from Wellington, Florida! - Billy is a true professional detailer as well as an alumni student from past classes and always a ready to lend a helping hand for these classes!

GREAT JOB EVERYONE!

All 5 cars you detailed came out looking freaking amazing!

Mike

Mike Phillips · Feb 27, 2025

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4 Major Topics using 5 Training Cars in 2 Days!

Just to note, we covered a LOT more than 4 topics over the course of this 2-day class, but the major topics have to do with the different approaches for doing paint correction.

Three-Step or Show Car Detailing Paint Correction plus Ceramic Coating - 1941 Chevy Streetrod
Two-Step Paint Correction plus Ceramic Coating - 1977 Pontiac Can Am Muscle Car
One-Step Ceramic AIO or All-in-One Paint Correction - 2013 Mustang & 1970 VW Shorty Bus
Remove Orange Peel via Wet Sanding by Hand and Dry Sanding by Machine plus Show Car Detailing - 1934 Ford 3-Window Coupe

Final Results
I'll add all the action shots showing all the topics covered in our 2-day class, but below I'm putting the focus on the AFTER results and Group Shots. And if you're looking for a car or boat detailing class that is hands-on, not sitting in a chair looking at a PowerPoint presentation for hours - then know that ALL our classes look like what you're going to see in this recap article for the February 2-Day Class.

Next classes are,

April 12th, 2025 - Matte Car Detailing Class - Chicago IL - $249.95 - Instructor Christyan Velasquez

April 19th, 2025 - 1-Day Auto Detailing Class - Chicago IL - $295.00 - Instructor Christyan Velasquez

April 25th, 2025 - Intro to PPF Detailing Class - Chicago IL - $550.00 - Instructor Christyan Velasquez

May 2nd & 3rd - 2-Day Paint Correction Class at the American Muscle Car Museum - Melbourne, FL - $1,295.00 - Instructors Mike Phillips, Jason Rose & Christian Camurovski

June 7th & 8th - 2 Day Extreme Boat Detailing Class - Stuart, FL - $1,295.00 - Instructor - Mike Phillips

September 20th & 21st - 2-Day Paint Correction & Ceramic Coating Class - Stuart, FL - $1,295.00 - Instructor Mike Phillips

Now onto the final results and group shot pictures...

Three-Step or Show Car Detailing Paint Correction plus Ceramic Coating - 1941 Chevy Streetrod

Two-Step Paint Correction plus Ceramic Coating - 1977 Pontiac Can Am Muscle Car

One-Step Ceramic AIO or All-in-One Paint Correction - 2013 Mustang & 1970 VW Shorty Bus

2013 Mustang

1970 VW Shorty Bus

Remove Orange Peel via Wet Sanding by Hand and Dry Sanding by Machine plus Show Car Detailing - 1934 Ford 3-Window Coupe

While the above pictures are impressive, next up are all the ACTION SHOTS - these show you what YOU get to do when you take one of our classes.

Mike

Mike Phillips · Feb 27, 2025

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I always photo and video document the BEFORE conditions for the cars we use in our classes. Not just to show before and after but also because there's always some expert on social media that will say something like,

Here's the link to the before pictures.

Training Cars for the February 22nd and 23rd Detailing Class in Stuart Florida

Here's an example,

Mark Peak
Why don’t you get some cars that are dirty? Unless those have already been cleaned, but I got some turds you could teach them on. You can’t learn on clean cars.

See what I mean? You who took this class know better.

Mike

woodsjerry51 · Feb 27, 2025

Mike Phillips said:
Remove Orange Peel via Wet Sanding by Hand and Dry Sanding by Machine plus Show Car Detailing - 1934 Ford 3-Window Coupe

Awesome photos of my 34 Ford. Great job on getting the orange

peel and runs in paint.

I couldn't be happier with the way it turned out. It is amazing, like a mirror finish.

Thanks again,

Jerry

Mike Phillips · Tuesday at 3:58 PM

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Class starts at 7:30am sharp
First up we go over how to use Dr. Beasley's Prep Wash to do a waterless wash and then inspect the paint to see if the paint is contaminated and needs claying.

Show Car Detailing
The first topic Saturday morning is the topic of show car detailing or multiple-step detailing. This is where you basically do whatever it takes to turn a neglected finish into a show car finish. While the paint on all cars is different, my goal is to show a true, 3-step process and for this I brought in a 1941 Chevy Streetrod with a modern basecoat/clearcoat finish. This is the perfect TRAINING car to learn show car detailing because the paint is filled with the years of swirls and scratches, but there's also holograms from a rotary polisher and SANDING SCRATCHES everywhere in the paint.

Step 1: Rotary Training Time
It's now 8:30am, the paint is clean and ready for paint correction and the first tool the class will learn to use is the powerful rotary polisher!

Detailometer Readings
I got busy getting the class going and forgot to take Detailometer readings, not problem, this section on the hood has not been touched by the class yet.

So Important
Anytime you're using a wool pad on a rotary polisher it's VITAL to clean your pad OFTEN! Dirty wool pads put deeper hologram scratches into the paint, and this will require more time and work to polish out swirl free. Here's Veronika using a steel spur to clean or spur a dirty pad.

Window Frames
A tricky area to buff on any car are the window frames. The paint on the window frames looked just as bad as the paint on all the rest of the body panels. This means, in order to remove all the swirls, scratches and sanding marks, we'll need to buff these areas with the wool pad on the rotary with the Dr. Beasley's CoreCut NSP Primer.

Here's Veronika tackling the window frames like a BOSS!

Mike

Mike Phillips · Tuesday at 4:04 PM

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Step 2: Machine polish to remove holograms and swirls left by the rotary step.
For this the class is using Dr. Beasley's NSP 150 with yellow Buff and Shine EdgeGuard foam buffing pads.

Mike

Mike Phillips · Tuesday at 4:10 PM

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Mike Phillips · 2025-03-12T16:05:34-0400

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2-Step Paint Correction and Ceramic Coating
Now that the class has learned a 3-step process, (show car detailing), with the 1941 Chevy, next we're going to go over how to do a 2-step process. If you're a Do-it-Yourselfer, this would be a 2-step approach, if you're a professional, this would be your mid-range package. A package that is priced between your show car detailing package, and your budget package.

1977 Pontiac Can Am - Rare Muscle Car

I don't normally like to use white and light colored cars for detailing classes for 3 reasons.

1: Too difficult for the students to see DRAMATIC before and after results from all their hard work.
2: Too difficult to capture great before and after pictures.
3: Too difficult to capture great before and after videos.

And after this class and this car, I'll likely never use another white car, it's just not as effective as black and dark colored cars.

Hologram Video
As you can see from the video below taken with the car outside and the sun high overhead, the paint on this Can Am has been butchered by some other detailer and the misuse of a rotary polisher.

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Before Pictures
Like mentioned above, it's more difficult to get GREAT before pictures when photographing white paint, so here's the best I could do. The video of the car outside does a much better job of showing the holograms. The below pictures are still pictures of holograms, you just don't see the tell-tell signs that indicate holograms like shared in the video.

Limited PowerPoint Presentation
I don't use PowerPoints to teach in my class, I do that part. I do like to use a PowerPoint to simply share the process in a way my students can use to remember the cars, the process and the tools, pads and products used. Plus, I think it's cool and powerful that in some of the pictures, the car the students are working on is the same car in the PowerPoint. No other class ever does this but then most classes don't bring in this volume of cool cars for the class to train on.

CoreCut and CoreCut+
These are two brand new compounds Dr. Beasley's is launching in the spring of 2025. These use the same spherical abrasive technology except these cut incredibly fast. This was good timing as our Test Spot revealed this car and incredibly HARD paint. So, in order to remove the holograms from the other guy, using the new CoreCut and CoreCut+ enabled us to easily remove the holograms as well as all the other normal paint defects like swirls, scratches, water spots and oxidation.

Go Time!
It's shortly after lunch and after warming up on the 1941 Chevy, the class is ready to get back to it. For this first step, the class is using,

Dr. Beasley's CoreCut.
Buff and Shine Blueberry EdgeGuard foam pads.
FLEX BEAST and Supa BEAST 8mm gear-driven orbital polishers.

When is the last time you detailed a 1977 Pontiac Can Am?
Here's Veronika doing the paint correction to the air scoop on the 1977 Can Am. Also note the PowerPoint presentation on the wall behind her. A single slide per car, that's it. And what a lot of students do is take a picture of each slide to help them remember everything we used and everything we did to each car.

Here's Craig, (holding the swirl finder light), who is my long-time friend and total automotive gearhead. Here's Craig working with Dennis to inspect the results from his work.

FLEX PXE-80
When you need to buff out thin panels or work around different components, or in this case work around the vinyl graphics, it's hard to beat a micro-tool like the FLEX PiXiE in rotary mode with a 3" extension. When you take one of our classes, you get a chance to use a wide range of tools. This gets you hands-on time with tools perhaps you've never used before you ever make a purchase. This way you know what you like and what you don't like, and you can avoid wasting time and money.

Mike

Mike Phillips · 2025-03-12T16:06:58-0400

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Setec Astronomy · 2025-03-12T16:24:15-0400

Wait a minute--those Core Cut products are powders that you mix up as needed??

Mike Phillips · 2025-03-12T16:37:30-0400

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Second Paint Correction Step - Finish Polishing
The next step is to perfect the results from the first step while maximizing gloss and clarity.

For this step, the class switches over to,

Dr. Beasley's NSP Primer 95
Buff and Shine Yellow EdgeGuard Polishing Pads
FLEX BEAST, Supa BEAST and CBEAST

There are 66 - 110 volt electrical outlets in our training garage. We can power over 20 polishers at the same time and NEVER blow a breaker.

Ceramic Sealing the Paint
After all the polishing work, the class used the Dr. Beasley's Nano-Resin MX Ceramic Coating. This is a 2-part system with the first part being the application and removal of the Paint Coating Builder.

After removing the Paint Coating Builder, next the class installs the Nano-Resin MX Ceramic Coating.

When is the last time you ceramic coated a classic muscle car like this 1977 Pontiac Can Am?

Here's the final results...

Two-Step Paint Correction plus Ceramic Coating - 1977 Pontiac Can Am Muscle Car

And here's the team that did the amazing transformation!

Time for the Can Am to go home with the owner.

Mike

Mike Phillips · 2025-03-12T16:53:54-0400

Setec Astronomy said:
Wait a minute--those Core Cut products are powders that you mix up as needed??

Oh no... I have samples of the abrasive technology and the nanogel here at the Stuart, Florida shop for video work, trade shows and classes.

As someone that has taught a lot of classes, made a lot of videos and wrote a lot of articles in my life, I know it's a lot easier for people to WRAP their brain around something and better understand it when they can see it, touch it and feel it.

Stay tuned for a new video we're shooting in April on our abrasive technology and our new products, CoreCut and CoreCut+

The Dr. Beasley's manufacture plant is in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Beasley's is a true manufacturer and our products are formulated, created and packaged in Chicago. These are simply sample I had sent to me for the reasons stated above.

Great question, thanks for asking.

Mike

Setec Astronomy · 2025-03-12T17:06:55-0400

Mike Phillips said:
Oh no... I have samples of the abrasive technology and the nanogel here at the Stuart, Florida shop for video work, trade shows and classes.

As someone that has taught a lot of classes, made a lot of videos and wrote a lot of articles in my life, I know it's a lot easier for people to WRAP their brain around something and better understand it when they can see it, touch it and feel it.

That was my second guess, LOL

Mike Phillips said:
Great question, thanks for asking.

You give me too much credit--IIRC you said you didn't get to walk around SEMA this year, your old acquaintance Anthony Orosco was demo'ing a line of powder polishes that you mix up--so I thought maybe that was the new thing.

Mike Phillips · 2025-03-12T20:49:58-0400

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Saturday Night Meet & Greet
This is one of my favorite parts of these classes and that's to get out of the shop and enjoy some great food and while having the opportunity to get to know each other out of the work environment.

Kind of a tradition to get your picture taken in the Shark mouth!

Mike

Mike Phillips · 2025-03-12T20:55:10-0400

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First up Sunday morning, we go over Wet Wash Engine Detailing and Extreme Prep Wash.

Mike

Mike Phillips · 2025-03-12T21:00:28-0400

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1-Step Ceramic AIO Paint Correction

Mike

Mike Phillips · 2025-03-12T21:02:11-0400

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One-Step Ceramic AIO or All-in-One Paint Correction - 2013 Mustang & 1970 VW Shorty Bus

2013 Mustang

1970 VW Shorty Bus

Great work everyone!

Mike

Mike Phillips · 2025-03-12T21:03:41-0400