Category: Detailing How To’s

  • Should we try Wipe New? Review to follow

    Should we try Wipe New? Review to follow

    As we are now back in full swing at OTC Detailing, we have seen Canadian Tire promoting a product that you see often at night on informercials. The product is “Wipe New Trim Restorer”. It is intended to make all your greyed out plastic on the exterior look new again with the Black or Grey […]

  • Canadian Tire detail like a Pro Flyer available!

    Canadian Tire detail like a Pro Flyer available!

    A nice little flyer found on the Canadian Tire site this morning title “Detail like a Pro” – with of course using Over the Counter Detailing products 🙂 They go through the various stages of cleaning your car for a more thorough and quick OTC Detail. You can go to their weekly flyers page here. […]

  • 17 Steps to Keeping your Car Clean! The Detailing Guide Infographic

    17 Steps to Keeping your Car Clean! The Detailing Guide Infographic

    We just create an infographic to show the 17 Steps to Keeping your Car Clean! Not much to write, as you can read everything right on this image!

  • Wiper Arm Cowel Restoration Project

    Wiper Arm Cowel Restoration Project

    Today’s post is a resurrection of a post I did for another blog I started way back a few years ago. It shows me using Meguiar’s PlastX Clear Plastic Polish and Mothers Back-to-Black to restore the dull grey wiper arm cowel on my car, which is supposed to be a nice rich black!! Thanks to the […]

  • Deep Swirl Mark removal with the Meguiars DA Power System?

    Deep Swirl Mark removal with the Meguiars DA Power System?

    Today’s post will be short and sweet. We were getting out of the car and took a  look at our roof in the sun. We knew our paint has not had a full detail in a very long time and has just finished a long and snowy / salty winter. This is what we saw: […]

  • Meguiars DA Power system to polish a Playstation 3? Incredible!!

    Meguiars DA Power system to polish a Playstation 3? Incredible!!

    And here we though the new Meguiars DA Power system is meant only for cars! A user shows how they used it to polish out sanding marks on a BMW plus how they cleaned and detailed their PS3 black cover!! Incredible to see the results and for taking the thought of using the system to […]

  • Quick List of all types of Car Detailing Products

    Quick List of all types of Car Detailing Products

    Any store carrying automotive detailing products are what we refer to as Over the Counter Detailing Products. You can walk in, buy and walk out. No need to purchase online or wait for product. But where do you start? You can find shelves of products – a bit overwhelming for some. Let’s first see common […]

  • Polishing your Headlights real quick

    Today, we will show some products you can find over the counter that will polish up your old hazy yellow headlights to clear shine. First things first. Let’s name the products we will be using: Mothers Powerball (the original red ball, not to be confused with the new powerball 4 paint) Megiuars PlastX A Terry […]