Tired of paint trick stories that don’t apply to your situation? That’s why we worked with Steve Moots, Cheryl Freymuth and Jack Moots of Showroom Levels Detailing to address the issue of paint problems. Few of us do our own paintwork, and those of us who do would rather make what we have last rather than paint our cars regularly.
The concept of this article is to help you develop good habits when it comes to solving the 25 common problems and provide information on car care products available from Top Of The Line. We chose to work with Showroom Levels because we immediately recognized that the company offered more than just detailing services. The company experiments with car care products to add that extra touch to make a car look even better.
However, before we begin, we want to offer a few general rules.
1) Most car care products exhibit the best results when applied wet and removed wet. A dry product can become an abrasive and cause more harm than good.
2) In the wax and polish stage, try to work in a stable environment with no more than an 11-degree change in temperature. Ideally, you should be finishing as it gets warmer. Paint expands when warm and contracts when cold. If you finish when it’s cooler, those swirl marks you worked so hard to eliminate will reappear when the paint expands in the heat.
3) For best results, work between 52 and 94 degrees Fahrenheit.
4) In the final stages of polish and wax, ground your vehicle. That means tamp a copper rod into the ground and connect it to the frame of your car via copper wire. This is done to prevent static electricity from attracting dust to the car while you work on it. That dust is an abrasive and can create hairline scratches when you polish or apply and remove wax.
Now, to see our 25 solutions to common problems, select from the sidebars below.