Pictures from 2018 Mobile Tech Expo

[Mike Phillips]

Pictures from 2018 Mobile Tech Expo


Now that the dust has settled from this year's Mobile Tech Expo I've taken the pictures off my phone and my camera and whatever I had is down below with comments....



Signing books in the demo booth...





This is Marques Samuda, owner of Samuda Mobile Detailing in Frederick, Maryland




This is Guy, past Competition Ready Alumni and Professional Detailer




Guy presented me a very special medallion...




Always great to see Chris West from Solution Finish...




This is William and Caridad from Catala's Auto Detailing in Puerto Rico and Alumni students of our Competition Ready Detailing Classes




They are way too kind and always bring me special gifts from Puerto Rico - Thank you!







Signing my RUPES how-to book for Geoff Howell a PDR Tech from Maple Ridge, British Colombia, Canada





This is Joseph Jordan from Ardex Labs in Pompano Beach, Florida

[Mike Phillips]

Continued....

Below are some pictures I took while Jeff McEachran was speaking our GYEON Coatings Class. Happy to say all of my classes were full and standing room only!










Here's Jeff, Jason and myself after the GYEON class...





These are shots from my Tool Technology Past, Present and Future class....







Good times....

[Mike Phillips]

Continued....

Renny Doyle was the Keynote Speaker this year and gave a POWERFUL presentation!

[Mike Phillips]

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New at Mobile Tech Expo this year was the Exhibitor Demos in the Pavilion. For our demo I pulled an EXTREMELY oxidized hood of a Nissan of our local Snake Road Salvage yard and then put our new BLACKFIRE One Step to the test to see if in one step it could bring back the shine. After doing a test section I turned the polishers over to guys in the crowd and let them do the polishing work and I think the pictures speak for themselves.



Before




Set-up for the demo at MTE






One guy using the FLEX 3401 and another guy using the RUPES BigFoot 21





Results....















Incredible results no matter what tool or pad is used, BLACKFIRE One Step is a KILLER Cleaner/Wax!






On Autogeek.com

BLACKFIRE One Step




Before




After

[mc2hill]

Hey Mike and the AG team, thanks! I attended the Tool Technology class and it was very interesting!
For those of you have never seen Mike at one of these events, he always has a crowd around him at the test panel! In the 15 minutes I was there, he taught one person to machine polish for the first time, and worked with a few other attendees to try upgrades to their current machines, and engaged everyone that was watching the demonstration.

[Mike Phillips]

Hey Mike and the AG team, thanks! I attended the Tool Technology class and it was very interesting!

Heck..... I put the class together and I even found it interesting...

Thank you for attending Mike. That class was packed to the walls!!!!!

For those of you have never seen Mike at one of these events, he always has a crowd around him at the test panel!

I think that's because so many people new to car detailing attend these shows and they are looking for quality information. Most the people I talk to let me know they've either read my articles on this forum or one of my books and usually both and then they have questions that they would love to ask me in person.

In the 15 minutes I was there, he taught one person to machine polish for the first time,

And it's easy to teach people how to polish paint if the products used have great abrasive technology. My demo hood is black so everything be it good or bad - is going to show up and when doing live demos at a show, a person better be sure of their product's abrasive technology.

and worked with a few other attendees to try upgrades to their current machines,

That's one of the cool things about this show... that is I have most of the current tools at our booth and available for anyone to test out.

Happy to say I had the NEW FLEX Cordless tools, sorry to disappoint people that I did not have the new RUPES tools...

and engaged everyone that was watching the demonstration.

That's how I roll...

I love doing two things in this industry...

1: Detail cool cars.

2: Show others how to do it right the first time.


Just check out what I share in my interview with Dennis Gage a few years ago on TV...


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It shares my passion comes from being empathetic to others because I've been in their shoes.

[scottmoyer]

I missed the Expo this year. I was planning on going to meet up with many of my PDR buddies, but couldn't make it. Maybe next year.