Before and After - What you learn to do in our Detailing 101 Class

[Mike.Phillips@Autogeek]

Before and After - What you learn to do in our Detailing 101 Class


Below are some pictures showing what you will learn how to do at Autogeek's Detailing 101 Classes...

You can use the skill you learn to restore a show car finish on your own cars or start a part time detailing business and earn a few dollars restoring a show car finish for fellow car enthusiasts...


Here's our demo car, Rob's 2006 Mustang GT Convertible


Rob purchased this from a local dealership withe the DISO already installed at no extra charge.


DISO = Dealer Installed Swirl Option


Here's a few shots taken in the sun. Note how the swirls in the paint closest to the windshield have an almost floating or 3D effect, this is where the term hologram comes from in the context of talking about swirls instilled by a rotary buffer.



Here's a section of the above photo cropped out and in full size...




Mustangs are beautiful cars but not when the paint shimmers with swirls... the paint is supposed to shimmer with shine....



Here's the same car but now were use the flash from our camera to reveal the horrendous swirls...




I don't think I've ever seen a car so swirled out by the mis-use of a rotary buffer...





The zillions of swirls in the clear layer make the paint look hazy and blocks your view of the black paint under the clear top coat.




In this shot we've actually only buffed out just the passenger side of the hood... after getting some before and after shots we then buffed out the driver's side.



Here are the end results...






And here's Rob, the happy owner in his swirl free black Mustang...

[Mike.Phillips@Autogeek]

Learn the art of polishing paint...

The above results were all accomplished using the techniques we teach in our Detailing 101 Class, Introduction to Machine Polishing.

There's a Detailing 101 Class coming up on Saturday, September 18th here at our Show Car Garage Studio in Stuart, Florida.


Information Threads

Detailing 101 - Machine Polishing - Saturday September 18th

Detailing 102 - Wetsanding, Cutting and Buffing for a Show Car Finish - Sunday September 19th

Process your registration fee here...

Process Registration for Detailing 101

Process Registration for Detailing 102

Or call 1-800-869-3011

[Impressions]

awesome class for beginners, covers alot of great information

great job on the pony mike!

[SATracker]

Mike, I am SO looking forward to the trip to Florida. Hey, no hurricanes...all right????

[VIP Reflections]

Wow that Stang was swirled up really bad. came out great in the end. now the owner just needs to pick up a side view mirror and he is set!

[Bonifax]

DISO= Dealer Installed swirl option LOL

[Stype4life]

A great Post Mike.

[Mike.Phillips@Autogeek]

Originally Posted by VIP Reflections

Now the owner just needs to pick up a side view mirror and he is set!

And part of getting the mirror replaced was first removing the paint transfer...


How To Remove Paint Transfer

Paint Transfer is a term used to describe when the paint off of some other object is transferred onto you car's finish usually by some kind of accident.

My friend Rob is a Fitness Instructor at the gym I work out at and someone, somehow sideswiped his 2006 Ford Mustang GT and in so doing took off is side mirror and transferred some white paint onto his car's finish along with instilling some marring and scratches.