Recent content by Anthony Orosco

I though did state such in my post. The Wheel Wash CAN be used on aluminum but it should not be sprayed on but rather brushed on. It is best though to err on the side of caution and use an aluminum safe wheel cleaner and then polish the wheels out. Naked aluminum is rather rare these days so...

yes it will come out. It takes some cleaning though and with the proper products. Smoke seeps into every nook and crannie so you need to deep clean the carpets, vinyl/leather and headliner. The best method, the one I use, is with a steam vapor cleaner and I then give it a "fog" treatment. The...

Lexol is OK but there are better products out there. I highly recommend Leathermaster http://www.topoftheline.com/aulekit.html They have a variety of cleaners and conditioners for all types of leather, even nu-buck. A leather glue and also a special cleaner for ink transfer BUT it is a strong...

I just throw my gym socks in that back seat.... :biggrin:

People, that NEW car smell is very hard to duplicate because it is a smell from all the adhesives and sealants used to put the interior together. This is called "gassing off" and the more technical mumbo jumbo would be Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC's). This is the same greasy film that builds...

Mix 6 parts water to one part Woolite Handwashable laundry detergeant. Works great and is not going to do any damage to your leather or vinyl. If you want a "system" that is tops then try Leathermaster products. I use their "Soft" cleaner and also their conditioners and they work on both coated...

Hello, Welll without seeing just what you are working on it is hard for me to reply in a direct manner. I can though respond in a broader range. For polish I would go with Optimum Polish. It is the best polish I have used in all 16 years of my detailing career. Little to no dusting, super...

P21S is overpriced and does not even compare in the cleaning power of Wheel Wash. I did a side by side with a Porsche owner who thought his P21S was the best stuff since canned beer. He was shocked to find out that I can spray the wheel then just rinse off the brake dust with the pressure from...

Man you guys stinkin work too hard at trying to keep your cars clean and detailed. No need to DAWN your car, if it is nice and smooth there is no need to clay. Also why in the world does everyone think they must wash, clay and then re-wash???? Why not wash the car, rinse off the soap and then...

Wow..my bad for overlooking your question and I apologize for not replying sooner. I introduced the swirls in this test hood to test a new compound being developed by Optimum Technologies, to compliment their Optimum Polish. Swirls were introduced with a wool pad and removed using mainly foam...

I purposely swirled up this Lexus hood, single stage paint, to demonstrate, visually, what swirls are, also called "halograms". Many people call every imperfection in their paint a swirl but this is not the case and if not careful one can attack their paint as if they have swirls but in reality...

rsf, Well in truth they only APPEAR to be circles. They are actually random surface scratches whos edges are catching the light and reflecting it back to you and they then take on the shape of circles. Here is a picture of a Jaguar XK8 hood that has both halo scratches and buffer swirls or...

Do the look like this? If so these are "halo-scratches". Called such because of the circle appearance they take on. These though are not cuased by a rotary buffer but rather caused by normal washing, drying and driving. These can be handled with an orbital polisher, like the PC or better yet...

Sorry, HD cleanse will not remove swirls. I have used it and it may clean paint well but it is so mild that it has little to no polishing properties unless you are working on paint that is already in great shape. And unless they reformulated it it does not work with a rotary and this is the...

Hey I am sorry for resurrecting thsi thread but I after a computer upgrade I lost all my car sites :frown: I am now trying to get caught up so I am sorry about that. I go to Austin and detail cars for people but they also pay me my regular fee plus "time" for the trip so it may be better to...