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

Video Intro inside the ibook version

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!

Click here to order your copy!

Video Intro for the paperback and ebook versions

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



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Ebook Version too!
Interactive interface...


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

[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!

ibook Version - Paperback Version - Ebook Version

[T3 AutoDetails]

Revised version with new chapters and information.

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

[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.

[Stephan@FamouslyHot]

Revised version with new chapters and information.

Hello Mike,

I am getting ready to place an order for the sweet deal today.

I have a similar question to your answer to the gentleman's question regarding your two books.

The art of detailing vs Show car shine...

I would like to purchase the combo book set with Mr. Doyle's book, and am having a difficult time choosing between The art of detailing or the Show car shine book.

With your answer above being it's a revised version of your first book, will I be missing information from your first book if I order the Show car shine book?

Thank you!
Stephan

[Mike Phillips]

Hello Mike,

I am getting ready to place an order for the sweet deal today.

I have a similar question to your answer to the gentleman's question regarding your two books.

The art of detailing vs Show car shine...

I would like to purchase the combo book set with Mr. Doyle's book, and am having a difficult time choosing between The art of detailing or the Show car shine book.

With your answer above being it's a revised version of your first book, will I be missing information from your first book if I order the Show car shine book?

Thank you!
Stephan

Hi Stephan,

The Art of Detailing is the first edition. It has tons of information.

The Complete Guide to a Show Car Shine is the second edition. It has everything that the first edition has PLUS more tools, products and techniques.

If you only get one book, then get the second edition. We stock the first edition for a number of reasons and one of the reason is simply because some people want the first edition and the second edition.

I've been posting how-to information on car detailing to the Internet since 1994. That's 20 years now and almost 21 years in just a few months. I don't know anyone else that can make that claim.

Here's a Toyota website that posted an article I wrote in 1994 to their website. Notice in the header, it shows not only the date, but where I worked at the time and that was Hewlett-Packard. I was on the "Internet" the masses even new what it was... and I was posting how-to articles on how to polish paint.

This article is kind of embarrassing because I typed this up in a software program that didn't have a Spell Checking feature and while I know how to spell I whipped this out and posted it to the Usenet Newsgroup rec.autos.misc, (most of you won't even know what this is), and someone at the MR2.com website snagged it from there and it's been on their website ever since. That's 20 years now....


How to polish paint by hand by Mike Phillips



So from my work, (showing guys how to make their cars look good using a keyboard), I've made friends with tens of thousands of people over the decades helping them to learn the art of polishing paint in specific and the craft of detailing cars in general and some of these people like my work and want both copies.


It can seem redundant to some but hey... one simple rule to marketing is give people what they want. One of my managers once taught me,

"Don't spend other people's money"


What he means by that is people know what they want so let them buy it. Don't try to make their decisions for them....


Just to note... I sent out both editions to a Product Manager for a HUGE corporation yesterday that is doing research into the detailing market. He's going to have his staff read both versions.

[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,

1. Rub the paint out with rubbing compound
2. Follow the rubbing compound with polishign compound
3. 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