How-To Articles: Tips & Best Practices — Auto Detailing Supplies
How Often Should You Wax Your Car and Why?
The most common question about waxing your car goes like this, How often should I wax my car? The answer depends on two things. 1: How do you use your car? 2: How do you wash your car? Let me address both of these variables in two segments. 1: How do you use your car? What this means is, what kind of environment is your car exposed to? Do you drive your car back and forth to work Monday through Friday? Or do you work from home? Or are you retired and no longer driving your car back and forth...
How Often Should You Wax Your Car and Why?
How to remove stubborn water spot stains from your cars paint and glass
4 types of water stain spots There are different types of water spots when it comes to water spot stains and etching on car paint and car glass. These include, Type I Water Spots – Mineral deposits on the paint surface. Type II Water Spots – Imprint etching in the paint. Type III Water Spots – Crater etchings in the paint. Type IV Water Spots – Whitish discoloration stains on and in the paint. Type I water spots are simply called hard water spot stains. This means that there were dissolved minerals in the water and after the water evaporated,...
How to remove stubborn water spot stains from your cars paint and glass
The only car detailing kit you'll need! The Best Car Detailing Tools
I’ve been detailing cars since the late 1970s. I am the only detailer in our industry that has had 2 TV shows, authored 5 car detailing books and 1 boat detailing book. Have written over 1000 articles on the topic of car and boat detailing and have taught and documented more car and boat detailing classes than any other detailing class instructor on planet Earth. So, for what it’s worth, below are my favorite and must have car detailing tools. Tools for detailing the exterior of your vehicle The FLEX XC 3401 VRG aka the BEAST - All brawl, zero...
The only car detailing kit you'll need! The Best Car Detailing Tools
Ultimate Car Detailing Supply List for a Professional
I’ve been detailing cars for over 30 years. That’s a long time and I’ve seen a lot of products come and go and I’ve also seen a lot of products endure the test of time. With the introduction of the Internet and the World Wide Web, we all have access to the latest and greatest products around the world. The downside of the Internet is there are just as many mediocre products as there are truly great products and sometimes the only way to separate the good from the bad is to either purchase and use the product yourself or...
Ultimate Car Detailing Supply List for a Professional
Liquid Wax vs Paste Wax? Which Shines the Longest?
Question: Which shines the longest, a paste wax or a liquid wax? Answer: If you choose a quality brand of wax, the shine will last about the same time no matter what form the wax comes in. The more important question is how long will the wax last? And the answer to how long any wax will last comes down to how well was the paint surface prepared to accept the wax? Just like getting a custom paint job for your car, the final results always depend on the prep work performed before applying the wax. If you’re working on...
Liquid Wax vs Paste Wax? Which Shines the Longest?
How to do a Cosmetic Engine Detail in 5 Easy Steps
Before After Cosmetic Engine Detailing When it comes to most modern cars, when you open the hood you don’t see an engine but instead, see lots of plastic covers and cladding that cover the engine. For the most part, due to better technology, the engines don’t become covered in oily sludge like they did in the old days, thus there’s nothing to clean or degrease. The plastic covers and plastic cladding inside the engine compartment does become dirty and neglected looking over time but the good news is - it’s fast and easy to clean and then restore that factory...
How to do a Cosmetic Engine Detail in 5 Easy Steps
How to Wax Your Car: Step-by-Step Guide
The most important thing you can do to protect your car’s clearcoat finish as well as maintain that just detailed look with a deep, wet shine is to regularly wash and wax the exterior paint. Before we dive into how to wax your car, my own personal teaching style is to not simply teach people how to do a task but to also teach them why to do it in such a way. Let’s begin! There are two basic categories of waxes. Cleaner waxes Non-cleaning waxes 1: Cleaner waxes Cleaner waxes also called AIOs, which means, All-in-One, are waxes that...
How to Wax Your Car: Step-by-Step Guide
Wet Wash Engine Detailing – How to Clean and Detail your Engine Compartment – 9 Easy Steps | 3D Car Care
Clean engines run cooler and are easier to diagnose when there’s problems Keeping your engine and engine compartment clean is important because it helps to keep the engine and engine compartment cooler as heat is one of the top enemies to your engine and drivetrain. Keeping the engine and engine compartment clean also helps to identify and locate problems like leaks or broken components simply because it’s easier to see problems when the engine is clean versus covered in a layer of oily grime and sludge. Wet Wash Engine Detail versus Cosmetic Engine Detail There are two different ways to...
Wet Wash Engine Detailing – How to Clean and Detail your Engine Compartment – 9 Easy Steps | 3D Car Care
What is Ceramic Coating & Is It Worth It | 3D Car Care
What are Ceramic Paint Coatings? Ceramic paint coatings are defined as any paint protection product that contains nano-sized particles of SiO2 or Silicon Dioxide. True ceramic paint coatings use nano-sized particles of Silicon Dioxide to create a paint protection product that dramatically outlasts and out-protects conventional and traditional car waxes and synthetic paint sealants. Due to their pure concentrated form and the fact when exposed to air they will solidify, most real or true ceramic coatings come in tiny glass vials. What is SiO2? SiO2 is the abbreviated element name for Silicon Dioxide, and it is one of 118...