Detailing How-To Book and Detailing How-To E-book

[Mike Phillips]

Detailing How-To Book and Detailing How-To E-book by Mike Phillips (http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/ask-expert-featuring-mike-phillips/64360-detailing-how-book-detailing-how-e-book.html)




Video Intro inside the ibook version

The Art of Polishing Paint

Here are the links to get the book from the ibook store as well as the paperback and e-book versions of the second edition of my detailing how-to book.

The Complete Guide to a Show Car Shine

Now available on the Apple iBookstore!
http://www.autogeekonline.net/gallery/data/715/ibook.jpg
Click here to order your copy! (http://www.autogeek.net/ibook.html)





Video Intro for the paperback and ebook versions

The Art of Polishing Paint


Also in paperback form!
Have it by your side in the garage...

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Click here to order your copy! (http://www.autogeek.net/how-to-create-a-show-car-shine-book.html)



Ebook Version too!
Interactive interface...
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Click here to order your copy! (http://www.autogeek.net/complete-guide-to-shine-e-book.html)


The e-book version has hundreds of clickable links to products and articles on the store, forum and YouTube...



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[shaffer]

Thanks this is a must! all the info is overwhelming to a rookie like myself! everyone has been so eager to help! im really looking forward to getting my feet wet as im a perfectionest and love to see the results of a job well done.Thanks again! I'm sure I'll have alot more to ask!

[T3 AutoDetails]

Hey Mike,

I have your first book and a few other books also Renny Doyles book. Great reads. My question is, Is this just a revised version of your first book or is this a totally different book?

[Mike Phillips]

Hey Mike,

I have your first book and a few other books also Renny Doyles book. Great reads. My question is, Is this just a revised version of your first book or is this a totally different book?

Revised version with new chapters and information.


The perfect gift for the detailer in your life!

Detailing How To Book

ibook Version (http://www.autogeek.net/ibook.html) - Paperback Version (http://www.autogeek.net/how-to-create-a-show-car-shine-book.html) - Ebook Version (http://www.autogeek.net/complete-guide-to-shine-e-book.html)



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[T3 AutoDetails]

Revised version with new chapters and information.


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Sweet, I got about another 2 weeks worth of inventory and i'll throw it in the next order love reading your books :dblthumb2:

[Radarryan]

Hi Mike,

Forgive me if this has been asked/answered many times, but I could not find it (though my mother did say I was a terrible looker!)

Will your book be offered as a Kindle book from Amazon or as a book from Apple's iBooks library? I would love to get your new book, in addition to your previous, but I have so much money in both Amazon credit and iTunes Store credit. Everything else being equal, I'd like to use up that credit (and then spend that money on new products to try)!

Thank you for all your continued help as well as everything else you do. It does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.

[Radarryan]

:bump:

Sorry! I need new "by the pool reading"! Unless it's on my iPad, then it's inside while thinking about by the pool because of the "awesome" (can't let those PC people win!) reflection from the sun.

Really looking forward to reading your new book, Mike. :urtheman:


:birthday: United States of America. I hope our founders still find us worthy of this great gift to the world...

[Mike Phillips]

Hi Mike,


Will your book be offered as a Kindle book from Amazon or as a book from Apple's iBooks library?




Behind the scenes we're working on this...


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[Jpatchley]

Any luck behind the scenes?


Behind the scenes we're working on this...


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[Mike Phillips]

Any luck behind the scenes?


Yes. I'm not sure the status but their is forward movement.



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[TorqueKing]

This book is a fantastic reference item- I read it over the weekend but will continue to pull it up for the numerous links in the months and years to come.

Congratulations, Mike- you are an icon in the industry and this book is an awesome visual that cuts myths like butter. Thanks for being so objective WRT products!

I would like to see a future book focused on the REST of the car- tires, engine bay, interior vinyl/plastic/rubber, glass, etc.

Cheers to a great book that I'll look at frequently!!!!

[Mike Phillips]

This book is a fantastic reference item- I read it over the weekend but will continue to pull it up for the numerous links in the months and years to come.

Congratulations, Mike- you are an icon in the industry and this book is an awesome visual that cuts myths like butter. Thanks for being so objective WRT products!

I would like to see a future book focused on the REST of the car- tires, engine bay, interior vinyl/plastic/rubber, glass, etc.

Cheers to a great book that I'll look at frequently!!!!




Thank you.


Sometimes it seems like a long and winding path some starting out as a young car guy in a logging town in Oregon.


I have to passions in in life as they relate to my work profession and that is,


I like to make cars shiny
I like to show other people how to make cars shiny


And the reason for the second one is because when I had my first car painted back in High School and then blew up the engine, the brand new piant job sat outside uncovered and oxidized while I rebult the motor.

When she was back on the road it was time to undo the damage done to my brand new paint job and everyone I asked for information told me the same thing,


Rub the paint out with rubbing compound
Follow the rubbing compound with polishign compound
Apply a coat of wax


This advice damn near ruined my brand new paint job.

When I think back to those days and how it was so hard to get good information it makes me empathetic to others in the same shoes I was standing back at that time.

So I understand where people are coming from when they have something nice that they like but it doesn't look good. They want to make it look good but they're not sure how?

Now days with the Internet, there's LOTS of people telling us "how" to detail our cars. I just try to keep it accurate, simple, helpful and understandable.


Here's the car that started it all for me and one of the few pictures I have of my high school car...

1948 Plymouth Coupe painted 1976 Ford Truck Bright Red Enamel

http://archive.meguiarsonline.com/gallery/data/500/2PlymouthCoupe.JPG



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[TorqueKing]

Very cool story! I knew you were fully trustworthy when I saw one of your videos on detailing truck tires that came about because you were doing some suspension work on your old Chevy. My fire for detailing grew from a love of old beater trucks. If you can drive a paid-for, 300+k beater with truly clean, glossy paint despite past abuse it speaks volumes to the idiots driving $50k vehicles with waterspots all over them. Detailing is preserving history.

I'm a gearhead to the core and would spare no effort to preserve anything mechanical that I own- why not the paint?

Also, I love that you're a classic "systems thinker"- there's no product that can bend your objective "what's in the bottle" analysis, even though you sell some of the products. That's noble and rare. Some of the marketing in the detailing business is just nausiating.

Again, well done on this book- it leaves room to expand your knowledge showcase further around the car in the future and I'll buy it sight-unseen.

Aloha,
John

[Djreversal]

Im definitely a rookie when it comes to detailing, just picked this book up a few minutes ago, plan on reading it.. Just ordered all my gear to get me started. Looking forward to seeing the results, i tend to pick up on things quickly, lets hope this is one of them :)

[Mike Phillips]

Im definitely a rookie when it comes to detailing, just picked this book up a few minutes ago, plan on reading it.. Just ordered all my gear to get me started. Looking forward to seeing the results, i tend to pick up on things quickly, lets hope this is one of them :)




Thank you for your business... I'm confident you'll pick up on machine buffing without a hitch...


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