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Pictures from Autogeek's Saturday Detail Clinic - April 21st
Pictures from Autogeek's Saturday Detail Clinic - April 21st
Today was our first Saturday Detailing Clinic that is replacing our Thursday night, "Autogeek's Car of the Week" clinics. These classes are free and because we have a full crew working in the warehouse if you find products, pads or tools you want and place your order before 2:00pm we can pull your order and you can take it with you when you leave.
(We couldn't do this during Thursday night clinics as there was no staff working that late)
Today Kevin, aka carshine drove in all the way from Merritt Island to Stuart, Florida which is almost 2 hours away, approximately 105 miles.
Kevin and his wife bought a brand new Mazda CX-9 in black and because they plan on keeping this car for a long time Kevin wanted to learn how to properly care for and detail their new Mazda. Patrick another forum member also joined us for this first clinic.
For this first clinic we basically went by the book that is my how-too book following through the chapters, step-by-step. We started out with a finish that was filled with swirls, scratches and road grime or surface staining plus some kind of contamination that had built up on the paint.
Kevin had never used any of the electric polishers that Autogeek offers so we gave him and Patrick a chance to test them all out and in the process we removed all the defects out of the hood on their Mazda and restored a factory new finish.
Here are the step we performed...
- Wiped clean using Detailers Rinseless Wash and Gloss.
- Clayed using Pinnacle Ultra Poly Clay and Pinnacle Clay Lube.
- Test Spot using Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish with a Tangerine Hydro-Tech pad on a PC 7424XP.
- Tested out all tools using Pinnacle Advanced Swirl Remover to remove all swirls, scratches, water spots and stains.
- Re-polished using Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish.
- Sealed the paint using Pinnacle Souveran Paste Wax by machine.
- Removed the wax by hand using microfiber gloves and Super Soft Deluxe Green Microfiber Towels.
Here's our project car for today's class, a Mazda CX-9 in black!
Teaching Kevin how to use a Brinkmann Swirl Finder Light to inspect the paint
The paint is filled with swirls, scratches, water spots and staining from road grime
In the next three shots you can see the swirls, scratches and stains...
In this shot, the whitish stuff is some type of stain from road grime that did not wipe off and would also not wash off...
Kevin learning how to properly using detailing clay to clay the paint, we also used the Baggie Test to check for above surface bonded contaminants.
Here you can see a brown tinge on the clay from whatever was on the paint...
Here's Kevin placing some painter's tape on the hood because I'm going to show him how to do a Test Spot
For the Test Spot we're going to take the least aggressive approach and try Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish with a Tangerine Hydro-Tech Polishing pad on a Porter Cable 7424XP
Showing Kevin how to mark a backing plate to easily see if the pad is rotating under pressure.
Here's I'm showing Kevin how to prime a clean, dry pad...
After the pad was primed we added the "working product"
Here I've buffed out a small section and demonstrated how to do "Section Passes"
Here's Kevin inspecting the before and after results using the Brinkmann Swirl Finder Light
Before side - Ugly swirls
Camera Flash centered on the tape-line
After side - Huge improvement but we decided to increase the level of aggressiveness by switching to the Pinnacle Advanced Swirl Remover for the rest of the hood.
I taught Kevin how to clean a pad on the fly using a terry cloth towel...
I also taught Kevin how to clean a pad using a nylon Pad Conditioning Brush...
More to come...
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Re: Pictures from Autogeek's Saturday Detail Clinic - April 21st
Mike after you did Test Spot using Pinnacle Advanced Finishing Polish with a Tangerine Hydro-Tech pad on a PC 7424XP, when you switched over to the advanced swirl remover did you also switch to a cutting pad or did you stay with the tangerine polishing pad?
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Re: Pictures from Autogeek's Saturday Detail Clinic - April 21st
Mike,
Thanks for posting all of those photos of me from our detailing 101 class today - Wow, the computer must put on on extra 10 lbs.... at least. haha!!!
Like we discussed earlier, I have been in the car care business for years, and I thought I knew a ton about detailing. Although I was already proven wrong by joining this forum a couple of days ago and reading a lot of posts by true experts, I was really proven wrong earlier today when I spent the morning learning directly from you. Thanks a lot for the instruction - it truly will come in handy.
I am fortunate to live about 1 1/2 hours away from the AutoGreek.com facility, and I happily took the opportunity today to attend Mike Phillips' Saturday auto-detailing 101 clinic. Other than professionally demonstrating to me what a detailing moron I really was, Mike was terrific. He took half his day on a Saturday to spend time and teach just one guy because the other attendees had show cars and they couldn't make it due to the inclement weather.
Mike introduced me to some great products and great detailing equipment and techniques, and he gave me hands-on instructions on how to properly use each item to gain the best benefits.
We worked on my 2011 black Mazda CX-9, which I bought new and owned for just 9 months. Until Mike pointed it out, I never realized the deteriorating condition of the paint as a result of the nasty environmental hazards in Florida. But, as poorly as the paint condition was, the new techniques that I learned from Mike easily got the paint looking like new again.
I now plan on doing a much better job caring for my car's finish, and I am confident the routine maintenance will keep the paint job in new showroom looking condition. It is one thing to read the articles by the experts, but it is something entirely better to get hands-on instruction.
If anyone has the opportunity to attend one of these classes, then please do yourself a favor and make sure you go.
Thanks again Mike.
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Re: Pictures from Autogeek's Saturday Detail Clinic - April 21st
looks like a fun and productive day. I'll have to make it up for one of these clinics soon.
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Re: Pictures from Autogeek's Saturday Detail Clinic - April 21st
Here's my experience: The photo essays and videos help a great deal, BUT you have to be there to gain the full benefit of Mike's expertise! (Do I dare say "Irvine" in this venue?)
Cheers!
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Re: Pictures from Autogeek's Saturday Detail Clinic - April 21st
Originally Posted by EPK711
looks like a fun and productive day. I'll have to make it up for one of these clinics soon.
It is definitely worth it, and you have no excuse being so much closer to the shop than I am
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Re: Pictures from Autogeek's Saturday Detail Clinic - April 21st
Originally Posted by frank s
Here's my experience: The photo essays and videos help a great deal, BUT you have to be there to gain the full benefit of Mike's expertise! (Do I dare say "Irvine" in this venue?)
Cheers!
Definitely better to learn with some real hands-on training... did a LOT of that for Meguiar's from 2002 until I left to come to Autogeek in August of 2009
I'm going to guess you've attended one of my Meguiar's Detailing 101 Classes or TNOG's?
It's all good...
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