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Steps in a Complete Detail, Part 3

Steps in a Complete Detail, Part 3 By Prentice St. Clair, CD-SV, RIT Prentice St. Clair, CD-SV, RIT has been providing training and consulting for the professional automotive detailing industry since 1999, as well as providing detailing services to the motoring publ...
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Steps in a Complete Detail, Part 2

Steps in a Complete Detail, Part 2 By Prentice St. Clair, CD-SV, RIT Prentice St. Clair, CD-SV, RIT has been providing training and consulting for the professional automotive detailing industry since 1999, as well as providing detailing services to the motoring publ...
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Exterior Trim Care

By Prentice St. Clair, CD-SV, RIT Prentice St. Clair, CD-SV, RIT has been providing training and consulting for the professional automotive detailing industry since 1999, as well as providing detailing services to the motoring public many more years than that.  Pren...
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Wheel and Tire Care, Part III

(Author’ note:  This is Part III of a three-part series on Wheel and Tire Care.) The theme of this three-part series on wheel and tire care is to take advantage of the opportunity of making your car look better with clean, well-maintained wheels and tires.  In Part ...
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Wheel and Tire Care, Part II

(Author’ note:  This is Part II of a three-part series on Wheel and Tire Care.) As mentioned in the previous blog submission, clean wheels can greatly enhance the appearance of a vehicle.  Unsightly and damaging brake dust build-up can be prevented through proper wh...
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Wheel and Tire Care, Part I

(Author’s Note:  This is Part I of a three-part series on Wheel and Tire Care.) There’s no doubt that clean wheels can make the difference in the appearance of a vehicle, regardless of age.  Dirty, dull tires or brown wheels with caked-on brake dust just look old an...
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Chemical Contamination Removal

Chemical Contamination Removal The blog entries recently have been focusing on surface contamination on vehicle paint.  This refers to all the stuff that won’t come off with normal washing.  For example, that gritty, rough feeling that the paint may have after a com...
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Surface Contamination Removal!

Surface Contamination Removal! In the blog entry entitled “Surface Contamination!”, we identified the common phenomenon of a rough-feeling paint surface even after fully washing a car.  This is a result of “environmental fallout”, which is all of the solid particles...
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Surface Contamination!

Surface Contamination! Ever take the time to fully wash and dry a car, only to notice that the clean dry paint surface feels rough???  Sometimes you can actually hear the roughness as you slide your hand back and forth across the paint surface.  What is that stuff a...
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Washing Without Water

Washing Without Water Gone are the days of the driveway carwash with the free-running hose.  According to a study years ago by one of the larger car wash trade associations, the vintage-style do-it-yourself car wash used, on average, 120 gallons of water.  The typic...
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