Haynes Detailing Manual

[Becciasm]

This isn't an advertisement, but has anyone read this one?

Automotive Detailing Haynes Techbook (http://www.haynes.com/products/productID/43)

Looks like they've had a head start on detailing how-to books..

Will Mike have some competition? j/k haha

[Setec Astronomy]

Yeah, that cover picture looks great, looks like how I used to put wax on when I was 17....I think that wax was still stuck in the trim and emblems 21 years later when I junked the car.

[tw33k2514]

That book is very outdated. I would stick to Mike's book.

[OCDetails]

As mike's book points out, paint has changed a lot in the last twenty years. Anything written pre 1990 is going to be very outdated. Hell, anything written pre 2004 VOC changes is going to be outdated at this point.

[FastZR1]

Good find. I wonder what could be written about coin-operated carwashes? Or even the three hour pro detail? That's what I need. I couldn't find the date the book was publised though.


Table Of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Body Exterior
Chapter 3: Buffing
Chapter 4: Using the coin-op carwash
Chapter 5: The three-hour pro detail
Chapter 6: Exterior details
Chapter 7: Paint repairs
Chapter 8: Interior detailing
Chapter 9: Engine detailing
Chapter 10: Chassis
Chapter 11: Tires/Wheels
Chapter 12: Long-term protection

[diablojota]

Published in 1994
Amazon.com: Automotive Detailing Manual (Haynes Techbook) (0038345021138): Haynes: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Automotive-Detailing-Manual-Haynes-Techbook/dp/1563921138)

[Becciasm]

Published in 1994
Amazon.com: Automotive Detailing Manual (Haynes Techbook) (0038345021138): Haynes: Books (http://www.amazon.com/Automotive-Detailing-Manual-Haynes-Techbook/dp/1563921138)


That book is very outdated. I would stick to Mike's book.


As mike's book points out, paint has changed a lot in the last twenty years. Anything written pre 1990 is going to be very outdated. Hell, anything written pre 2004 VOC changes is going to be outdated at this point.

:whs:Clearly. I had thought the joke would be obvious.. :awman:

[OCDetails]

Sorry.... My sense of humor has been eroded from years of sniffing wax. :D

[Becciasm]

Sorry.... My sense of humor has been eroded from years of sniffing wax. :D
:dblthumb2:

[SameGuy]

1994 was a later reprint; I've had that same book since the mid-80s. :D

[TLMitchell]

Yeah, that cover picture looks great, looks like how I used to put wax on when I was 17....I think that wax was still stuck in the trim and emblems 21 years later when I junked the car.

How much you wanna bet that's Kit or Rally they've got slathered all over that fender?

TL

[timaishu]

They sell kit at my local o'reillys.

Never heard of rally.

[Setec Astronomy]

How much you wanna bet that's Kit or Rally they've got slathered all over that fender?

Yeah...Kit in the yellow can...my first wax...how did they sell that, "the pre-softened paste wax!"?

[BobbyG]

A stroll down memory lane! :laughing:

[BillE]

A stroll down memory lane! :laughing:

I was thinkin' the very same thing...

Bill