My customer has a black Porsche Panamera. He says that he recently drove over a wet fog line stripe and the white paint splashed up on his car. Obviously he brought the car to me and asked me to...
Oh yeah - My wife thanks the class for the help detailing that nasty dirty Prius I drove to class. I would never have done a rinseless wash on a car that dirty but we...
So you're saying that if I took a towel and some polish to a door jamb, the paint color would transfer to the towel (no clear coat)? I've never seen that happen.
All an inexpensive paint gauge can give you is a rough idea of what's going on with a base coat/clear coat paint job. Most new cars seems to measure out around 5 mils of total paint thickness. Mike...
I live just a few minutes from the Griot's headquarters in Tacoma and I've been there for events and training more times than I can count. But taking Mike's Roadshow class there was a treat. Not...
Not all cracked leather requires a visit to the upholstery shop. Some damaged leather can be sanded, filled, stained and sealed to look like new. I agree with Mike that Griot's Leather Rejuvenator...
Guys, correct me if I'm wrong here but it's not that a coated car will get spotted in a situation where an uncoated car won't. The situation is that when a coated car gets water spots, they are a...
My vote is to make sure the paint is coated or waxed and the interior is detailed with something with UV protectant and then roll with no car cover and a sun shade in the front window. Why? I've...
$#%^ it Bob!!! Why did you have to go and read the instructions? ;) Nope, I'm not attacking the PPF with that polish. Unless I get better advice between now and Saturday, we're all going to find...
I've seen coatings that say you can apply it to anything including trim. But I've got Wolfgang Uber Ceramic sitting in front of me. The product write-up mentions painted surfaces, glass, and...
Look, if you're using an extractor, you're shooting a high pressure stream of liquid into the carpet. Sure, you're following right behind it with a strong vacuum. But you're putting a LOT of liquid...
I have only one area of caution with Mantilgh's advice. Drying seats by sitting on them undoes much of the cleaning that was just done. Let's face it, if a fabric seat is really dirty, no matter...
Natron is spot on and I'm surprised there is so much talk on this forum about extractors and so little about other methods. Completely trashed cars are regularly cleaned without extractors. In my...
Craigslist doesn't have a lot of rules but you seem to have violated their guidelines. First, their Terms of Service are very loose but they do say that by posting on CL you agree to, among other...
When I used the extractor, I pre-sprayed the seats and/or carpet with HydraMaster FabricMaster Heavy Duty Upholstery Pre-Spray. It has a high PH (around 11) but is self-neutralizing. I would brush...
A good customer dropped off a Lincoln Zephyr at the shop today. I think it's a '37. It's been converted to a street rod, complete with a Ford Lightning engine. I've worked on this guy's cars...
A customer brought a Porsche 928 into the auto repair side of our shop this week. The interior is so moldy that the mechanics won't get into the car. I predict that on Monday, I'll be asked to give...
