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Don't Polish Blindly: The Importance of a Paint Depth Gauge in Preventing Clear Coat Damage
This is why no polisher will ever touch your car's paint without us using a paint depth gauge on it first! And as you can see in the photos, paint thickness can vary from car to car and even from panel to panel on a single car. We need a starting point, and using a paint gauge is it. A paint gauge can help us determine that starting point. The downside is that the gauge shows us the thickness of everything, primer, base coat, and clear coat. It doesn't show us just the thickn
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Ceramic Coatings Are The New Norm
Ceramic coatings are the best way to preserve and protect your car's surfaces. Most people wax their car, and either they do it once or twice a year or not at all. It's one of those things that people quickly realize has to be done all the time and becomes a chore then rarely gets done. If you live in colder areas that get snow, most protective products like waxes and sealants won't make it through the winter. And reapplying a wax or sealant in the winter is not something I w
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7-Step Exterior Details
7-steps? Yup, you read that right. But don't you just wash, rinse, and dry? What else could there be? Lots more! So this 7-step process...
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The Ugly Truth About Your Car's Paint
You don't have a lot of it! I remember reading about this about 4-5 years ago when I was just starting in auto dealing. Auto manufactures were talking about going thinner with paint. Why? Cost savings. We all understand being able to stretch a product can save money, right? That's the case here. Cars used to have 4-5 mils (thousandths of an inch). Now 3 mils is becoming more common, especially anything from 2017 and newer. This amount is compromised of the primer, paint, and
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