I love stickers on race cars. But just adding stickers doesn’t make a car a race car. So do you add stickers or not? If headed to the track: absolutely. Stickers make you faster and can be used to hide all kinds of blemishes. But for your collector car? There’s always the risk that leaving …
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Taking advantage of the unusually warm weather over the holidays to take on some of the paint defects on the X5. This post shows how to tackle a deep scratch and bad touch-up paint job. When we got the 2013 X5 in 2017, the dealer had attempted to hide a deep scratch with a thick …
Automotive protective coatings have come a long way since your father’s can of Simoniz. (Which for the record is actually a different word than “Simonize” which is a recognized synonym for the transitive verb “to polish.” Who knew….) There is an amazing variety of coating and sealants available today with prices ranging from tens to …
I’m slowly getting ready for winter — not like I really have a say whether it comes or not. Winter wheels are out of the basement and on the car. The hose-mobile is in their place. The faucets are covered. So it’s time to figure out how to keep the cars clean(ish?) without running water. …
I’ve been obsessed with the idea of the foam cannon. I’m always looking for new products to feature in the store and sometimes I end up on strange journeys — this has been one of them. Strange but good. It started with a desire for a better micro fiber towel and ended up with snowy …
We started carrying Griot’s Garage products in the stop this month and as part of the dealer agreement, we have to be familiar with the full line of products. So dang, now we have to stay in the garage until everything is polished. I now completely understand why one of their kits is called “weekend …