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In my experience, when applied with the hex-grip Tire Shine doesn't add any more "shine" than SVRT, it just smells tastier LOL. I save the SVRT for the Mustang, and only use the Tire Shine on my wife's car but with how often I get to wash it this bottle will probably last another 2 years.

Grrrrrr 

I was in a rush the other day and had to leave the house about an hour after I applied Tire Shine.  I thought it was dry the whole way.  It was not     

This was actually before a little road-trip on Tuesday but oh well.

Tried to use up all my "old" APC on the engine compartment, then wiped everything down with the new Interior Detailer.  Exterior saw some Wash & Wax, chocolate mint Detail Spray, Invisible Undercarriage and Tire Shine.  The old girl shines up pretty good for being 5 years old and having over 90,000 miles.

I need the blueprints for woodshop class next year

Haha sorry, I'd gladly share them if I had any but I just kinda pictured what I wanted in my head and started cutting wood 

Just showing off some of the goods. I have a small-ish plastic tote for my towels.

Aaaand we're done.

1. The casters may be too small for the irregularities of my haggard driveway, we'll have to see.

2. I couldn't get the bedliner to turn out evenly, and after going through $30 worth I decided to live with it.

3. My idea was to leave the bottle divider just sitting in place, that way I can just cut a larger one out if this gets filled up. Unfortunately when I roll the cart around the whole thing slides towards the towels, so I'll have to throw a screw or 2 in to keep if in place.

All in all it was a fun project and a good excuse to buy a few new power-tools, I just wish I had enough time each day to get it done in less than a week.

2 fixed casters and 2 swivel casters. So far this morning I got those installed, and attached the top shelf to the legs. I also attached some supports to one side of the bottle divider, and painted that again. It's humid as hell so that's probably going to take the rest of the day to dry.

The towel-rack is a good idea, I'll have to include that on rev-2 along with hooks for tools and a rack for my foam gun.

On Wednesday I got the bottom shelf attached to the legs, and this morning I built the top shelf. She's in the paint-booth now so the next pics will be of the finished product.

Yesterday was tough. I got the legs put together then realized the way I envisioned them attaching to the shelves wasn't going to work. I spent most of my time experimenting and deciding how to proceed.

So far today I drilled/attached the mounting blocks for the caster's, attached the legs, and built the bottom shelf.

2 small issues have popped up. One set of casters ended up sideways, but that's fine because it can be the pair that swivels. Also, the shelf sides didn't turn out 100% square, but it's close enough to where I can just clamp it in the right spot when I attach it.

I was worried about the legs being too wobbly side to side, so I decided to rip the legs in half, that way I can glue/screw them together forming a 90-deg angle to give more stability. Of course that meant I had to go out and buy a table-saw. I also got the sides of the shelfs cut out.

Tomorrow I plan on sanding the shelf sides, pre-drilling all the screw holes and painting the pieces.

Didn't make a ton of progress tonight but it's shaping up nicely.

Top and bottom shelves are 1/2" MDF, bottle-divider is 1/4" MDF and the sides/posts will be 1"x4"s. It will be 16"x32" and around 32" tall with the casters. I think I'm going to use Duplicolor spray-on bedliner to give it some extra toughness.

ETA: When I started drilling the holes I had a fully-charged battery, but it was dead by the time I got done with the 24th hole.

For the love of god (and my checking account)...can we lay off the new products for a while?!?! Hahahahahahaha!

I just started building my own detailing cart, maybe I need to plan on cutting more bottle holes in it 

Had to lay down some Brilliant Glaze over the Liquid Paint Sealant earlier....

I see them...

Awesome, thanks 

I rehosted my pics, could someone let me know if they're working again?

Anything I can reach with a sponge would get SVRT, and all the nooks & crannies would get In & Out. Or in your case the diluted SVRT.

So everyone loves the "matte, like-factory" finish Interior Detailer leaves behind right? I was cleaning up the engine-bay and decided I wanted the same effect. Usually I wipe/brush down everything with Waterless Wash and then follow that up with a combo of SVRT and In & Out, but this time I stopped after everything was clean.

In the video he used brilliant glaze to clean, not to dress the stripes. I would recommend cleaning the stripes with revive hand polish, APC or brilliant glaze to remove the hazing and then dressing with VRT or matte detailer.

1. SVRT is waaaaay too shiny in my opinion.

2. It would take a week to mask all the edges lol.

No, I've run into that issue before, usually down low along the rockers when I'm trying to rush for whatever reason. That looks totally different than what's happening with my Strip Wash. I think frosty350 and red94chev are on the right track. The dirt is suspended in the soap and as it dries while I'm washing other parts the dirt gets left back on the paint.

APC to the rescue!



Went out and hit the splotches with APC first thing this morning and it pretty much disappeared immediately. Wiped down that area with Detail Spray and it looks just as good as the rest of the stripes now. I don't know why Coating Prep didn't have any effect but oh well. Guess I'll have to pick up some Matte Detailer during the next sale.

Plenty of posts here regarding the use of Brilliant Glaze on matte stripes, the solvents it contains (theoretically) clean the matte vinyl and give it an even and deep black look.  And as I said it worked fantastic on the matte black stripes on my Charger.  There's even an "official" video from Dylan back when he was still on the payroll where he recommends the practice.

I'm wiling to try APC, and I saw another post here suggesting Ceramic Boost for this situation.....

I was using the Strip Wash as I was going to be applying Liquid Paint Sealant afterwards. Are you saying I should have washed with Car Shampoo before using the Strip Wash?

If I had any I'd love to give it a try. I held off on ordering it because I had such good luck with the Brilliant Glaze for this application in the past.

Up until today I was a huge fan of Brilliant Glaze on matte black stripes.  I had them on my Charger and after applying it they looked perfectly deep and black, no streaks whatsoever.  Tried it today on my Mustang and the results were less than stellar.

As you can see, the bottom half of the center stripe looks like doo-doo.  I used Detail Spray on the remainder and it looks wonderful.  In trying to even them out I tried more Brilliant Glaze, Detail Spray, Waterless Wash, Coating Prep and as a last resort Glass Cleaner.  None of them had any effect.  Does anyone have any suggestions?