Yvan has to be the most informative detailer i follow not ti mention he is cool as hell and he just has a coil look but he is so direct and diwn to earth with his explanations he is what i am striving to be like in this detailing world! Big ups to him🎉

another great video. I thought the higher speed would polish better, creating a higher gloss than the slower speed. This is exactly why I listen to you both. I learn so much. Thank you for giving so much back to the DIY industry.

these dudes really go inside baseball, It really goes to show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

This is phenomenal …thank you guys for continuing to put forth information that is both purposeful and applicable to anyone in the detailing world!!

As someone who has worked in the optical polishing world for 40yrs, I’m amazed that in the past 5-10yrs, more and more of our basic techniques and terminologies have been picked up by the car detailing world. Orange peel, (polishing) slurry, marring, sleeks, arm & spindle (basically dual action), polish ‘break down’, etc, are all optical polishing terminologies. Next, you guys will be using Zygo Phase Shift Interferometry to check the polished surfaces. 😂 I love it. 👏👏👏

Woah! I finally realized how important the different pads are, if you can use just ONE polish to do the job! Put money in pads, not 6 different compounds? Revolutionary to me! I also liked the profound philosophies that all went in one direction : don't overthink it, experiment a little, keep it simple!

If ever you can get your hands on a Jeep Wrangler I would love to see how Nick and Yvan handle the intricacies of the body. Hinges, grill, fender body crevice.

I could listen to you guys all day. So much detailed information Keep up the great work

Great job guys. The Knowledge you guys pass is amazing.

Great video. The most informative polishing vids I have ever watched.

great info Guys! long overdue for this type of platform (DYI) Thanks Nick and Yvan for going beyond in every area.

Very informative and will definitely help when I am polishing my car. Thanks 🙏

Thanks for the tips. I only do this as a hobby but nontheless I still want the cars to come out as good as possible. I continue to learn and improve thanks to you guys. Great products and great advice.

Man, this was some good info in this video. Definitely learned some things! Love your videos! Keep them coming! Just subscribed to the Facebook page to get some more detailing-goodness!

Great video! Always learning something new!

Very helpful - thanks for putting out this info!

This was such an informative video. Thanks guys, I learned a good bit.

Thanks for all the knowledge! You guys are great.

I build acoustic guitars either shellac/French polish or a water based instrument finish. After the build process you wet sand to level and polish. I can see the mistakes I have made now. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge much appreciated

Always learning, thanks guys 👍😁

Great information guys! 👍🏼

Working on my just painted El Camino. I didn't know about using a moist foam pad. It makes perfecr sense

Thank you guys for the excellent video a lot of knowledge that I learned today.

Many thanks for these golden tips! I learned a lot of it!

I've been agonizing over which polisher to buy so this was a refreshing video for me. I think I will settle with a random orbital DA polisher anyway because I've seen videos of newbies burning their paint with compact orbitals and forced rotation polishers. I have a Prius which completely lost it's clearcoat on the hood, roof, and tailgate that i'll be using as a test.

Nick looked cool on the thumbnail! I always enjoy these podcasts and it never hurts to learn and relearn. Yvan will understand this saying by a famous race car driver Fangio…..”The secret is to drive as slow as you can and still win the race.” This was my formula in racing and it worked. This philosophy applies to polishing too but you just have to have patience. Thank you guys for all you do!

Excellent info! Thank you! 🙏🏻

thank you for the help. Now I can begin on the black Accord.

Great info as always. Thank you!

Excellent information as always.

Use the analogy of a drill. A cool drill cutting slowly will remove metal as nice curly shavings. If you speed up the drill bit and it gets hot, the drill stops working.

So informative, thank you!!

Thank you, like another said, great detailed information.

As usual very good video. Can also the glasses do with regular polish to have smooth surfaces and remove water spots?

Guaranteed I made all these mistakes. You value them more when you find solutions. ❤

Great channel which I've just found so I've got loads to catch up on.

Thanks for the info. I’m getting ready to polish my car next week to put on a ceramic coating. I’m a little nervous as it’s my first time but I think I can do it.

Thanks......very good informations.......best for you both....

Do you have a complete video of how to prep including removing existing protection before ceramic?

Such an informative video Nick and Yvan!! Definitely earned a sub from me!

Thank you this was very helpful.

100% spot on !!!! Yvan u are the man

I love this stuff it’s like having free dessert 😂 nice job guys keep up the good work 👍

Awesome, informative and just a pleasure to watch your guys' videos! Thanks for the great content. The damp pad with the LC 4000 in combo with your gold standard spray polish is just a game changer! I agree, I always do a test spot. I was just curious to know if there was an average of thickness removed on the wool vs yellow waffle pad but I get it's tough to answer. Would be a cool test to see though. Kind of like the test you did 3 years back with the rag company on which machine will burn through first. Do you ever use your yellow waffle pad on the rotary now that you have the red jeweling pad? Thanks again. I really appreciate that you respond to everyone's comments. Does the wool pad clean glass more effectively then the yellow waffle pad?

I thought it was nonesense, but having a test panel made such a difference in my learning curve. Everyone needs one when they first start

Great tips again from Yvan the ‘glistening guru’

Thanks guys! I just got the Lake Country Pad cleaner bucket like you all use. Can I clean your wool pads with it in the same method as a foam pad? Thank you.

Great tips guys👍🏾💯

I would love for Yvan to design a diydetail rotary polisher ..I know u guys are coming out with DA polisher . Can’t wait to get my hands on that

I learned so much thank you

Thanks guys you answered all my questions. Im a new student. Thanks

just subbed....Thanks for the tips!

What about for the final polishing step with red pad, would you still only go up to speed 3-4 on the DA polisher? I had the misconception that you can finish at a higher speed and with quicker passes when using a finishing pad.

Hi from Finland😊 I have been doing a bit of detailing, not much, but I at least have a basic understanding for most of the stuff, and I would like to learn more. I have for quite long time wanted to start a detailing business, but have unfortunately not gotten there yet. But I have a lot of questions, and some of them popped up in my head watching this video, thanks for great content by the way😃 1. Hypothetically maybe, since the paint should stay as cool as possible to get the best cut, can the temperature in the shop make a difference in speed, lets say, keeping it at 15˚C vs 20˚C? Yeah, I know, that might have been the sillyest question, but still curious, I think I have yet undetected adhd😆 2. You say, the slower speed, the more cut, there is probably a minimum speed tho? 3. For a basic polish, like a one step quick polish, how thorough should I be? Yes, I know, one answer is that it depends on how much I charge and so on, but I have a hard time stopping myself from trying to get into every little corner and it easily gets time consuming, where should I draw the line for a basic polish? What does a basic costumer expect and how can I stay close to that? 4. You put ”NoRinse” in the pad cleaning water? Just any kind or a specific? What dillution? 5. Since the pad should be damp, could I assume that I can start polishing a car while still slightly wet from washing procedures? Will some water on the car mess with my polishing process? Am I better off starting with a bone dry car? 6. When you polish, do you also polish the lights? Front/rear? Same polish and pad? I’m not asking for headlight restoration, just if you do passes over them to enhance gloss a bit? 7. Does not nessecearly belong here, but when it comes to pressure and heat, I’ve been working with Carpro Ceriglass a few times and done a few windshields, but in that case I suppose that pressure is good and maybe speed too, but its hard to be certain, because regardless of how I try to do it, every time doing a windshield feels like an eternity, so have you guys done windshields and what method in that case seems to work best for you? Maybe I’ll stop here before you ban certain Finns😅 but thank you in advance for your answers😊

What about lighting? What is the best range of color? Also can u recomend best of the affordable clear coat messure device?

Nick, when you burned through, did you have to have a repaint done? I've done it myself when working at a dealership may years ago. At the time though, the dealership actually armed us with what was top shelf products of the time. I just messed up or overdid it. The client didn't notice and I avoided a bullet. Issue is, I of course knew as did my manager.

Thank you, 👍👍

Can you please explain how to ceramic coat over hard plastic like on a 23 WRX? Another question how do you go about reapplying a fresh coating after the 3 years is up?

I remember in a earlier video about coating a car that has a few year old coating on it you guys said if I remember right that polishing is needed to get the old coating to accept the new one. My question is if I polished a door panel does that old coating acceptability for accepting a new coating only last a hour or two or longer

You talk about the pad washer with foam pads but what about microfiber and wool? Do you recommend using the pad washer for those pads after each section?

I already apply 5 year coating and maintaing with your ceramic spray, can I apply Swiss 40% Carnauba wax just for the fun of it , anytjing adverse ?

You guys said you can use a orbital sander for polishing your paint. So could use my Milwaukee M18 orbital sander? It has variable speed. I use don’t want to damage anything. What speed would you recommend?

Will this polish work on paint that is heavily oxidized? Its black paint that has some milky type spots.

Tap into the wisdom of Yvan. i just ordered your polish, rinseless, pads and a lotta other stuff on Black Friday deal. Thanks for the discounts.. or id probably have not ordered as many. NOW, Im gonna polish my truck and put a Ceramic coating on it. Gonna be my first ever polishong and ceramic coating.

Hi I'm thinking of starting to machine polish my own vehicles at home and deciding what machine ect to start with. Being a painter and decorator I own a makita BO6050J sanding machine which gives you options of both sanding styles including random, my question is could I by the polishing plate for it and use it on my vehicles instead of buying a new machine ? TIA

Great and very very informative podcast!! 1 question on your polishing system. When you refered to the diminishing "rocks" in the polish and the combination of a DA and it's pad size, can we say that slow 21mm DA with the woolpad means the most aggresive cut? Did I get that right? I'll be a little proud of myself if I came to this conclusion and it's right 😂Thanks for the continuous free knowledge!

Great job Gentelmen👍🏽

I just bought a polisher. Seems I should have seen this video first!😂

Im obsessed with the red jeweling pad, also purchased DIY rotary. I started with a DA Bauer yellow standard. Now i have a whool pad and use the DA to cut 20mm. Im just confused on the speeds. Rotary with red jeweling is speed 1(rotary) . The yellow and whool pad do i use the DA speed 3? I know for deep scratches 5 5 5 method. But for normal 2 step?

Great video! I do have one question: What speed do you recommend for the gold standard on a rotary? The lowest mine will go is 600 rpm, I believe.

Thank you!!

Great video, thank you! Currently trying to finish out soft black paint using a forced driven da8 with yellow Rupes da foam pad and Koch chemi fine compound. It looks really amazing but in direct sun there’s tiny little swirls or ticks as you mentioned, which are extremely hard to see even with my Scangrip but in the sun it’s driving me crazy. So I tried Rupes da white foam pads and their uno pure and I just can’t seem to be able to get rid of these tiny swirls, do you have any advice? Am I putting too much polish? I’m putting 4 small pea dots, Am I running too fast? I’m using speed 3, or is it my machine? Am I moving to fast or slow, what speed do you recommend? Thanks!

You ever think about selling your spray bottles? I've thought a couple times that it would be nice to have matching bottles for when I mix all clean or rinseless as a touch-up. Maybe I'm just weird and OCD

Great video as always. I'm a diy and want to polish my full size truck. How many sections would you break the hood up into?

I'm looking into a budget friendly rotary, it says the minimum speed is 1500 RPM...in your opinion is that too fast for gloss enhancement? Could 1500 work with fewer passes? I have an 8mm DA and your GSP system, should i just stick with that or go for that particular rotary?

Merci! Yvan pour les précieux conseils, j’espère que vous allez ouvrir une boutique de distribution DIY au Québec pour pouvoir profiter des ventes de vos produits. Bonne année à toi ta famille et ton partenaire de travail.

Before I go and buy a polisher, how often should you actually polish your own car? If it’s just the initial treatment do I really need to purchase a polisher when I’m just doing my own car? I haven’t watched the video yet. You may have already addressed this question.

Ok guys that first point is absolutely what I needed to hear. I get really frustrated when doing corrections on my car and I can’t get the perfect finish with some slight scratches that can only be seen at the perfect angle. I thought I was doing something wrong.

Could you give the link from the video how to clean the pad without the bucket ?

Man y'all got me wanting to do my truck.

What size backing plate do use on that rotary?

so the wool pad is good for Dual action or rotary

Do you need to ceramic coat after polishing?

What is the name of the small round polisher that you were using. Thanks

Can I use any old polish in a spray bottle to use less polish and work a larger area?

“Stop overthinking” lol I’m the poster guy for that. That my precious paint is a finite resource is so intimidating! “Don’t half-ass it then cover it with semi permanent ceramic” is where I’m at ☹️

I have a sticker like decal on the back of my car, from the dealer, how do I get that off?

First time catching a premieres🚀

Hey guys I ordered my package a week ago and its supposed to arrive today. The tracking number given is not working and I cant see if it shipped or not. Really could use some help!!

You mention a lot about using slow speeds for the best results. I"m new to polishing and just bought a rotary polisher (after watching your videos and recommendations). It has 6 speeds but the lowest speed is 1600 RPM.Is this going to be too high of a speed?

Even though I done three step polishing, those scratches are not removed, what can I do for that?

I was hoping you might mention when it's time to change pads and when to throw out your pad.

Using a larger backing plate than the pad is just dangerous snd itresponsible. As soon as the backing plate comes into contact with the surface, its going to scratch. You may want to revisit the part where you talk about using any size pad with a rotary plate. I know thats not what yiu meant but thats the way it came across.

I remember when I use to wet sand and cut an buff when I was young, I went thru hell because I didn’t have anyone to tell me what I was doing wrong, especially black cars.

Can anybody explain why a polishing machine comes with different coloured foam pads? Cheers

I polished my whole car with a light polish, did the glass because the bottle said I could, now if there is glare off of a traffic light I can see small swirls in it, is this just the nature of glass polishing or did I do it wrong because I’m not using cerium oxide and a super abrasive polish?

I love listening to you both. It is a given friction is heat. Rub your hand together and add pressure and speed even more heat. Thank you guy I have been afraid of trying because people always talk about burn threw the clear no pressure and low speed I'm going to give it a shot thank you.

So ANY polishing of paint will take off clear coat? Makes me not want my new car polished unless it's an absolute must. In Michigan we close to 400ppm in our water, so I get SO many water spots from washing at home and really cant afford getting a DI system just for 1 car. Not sure what my best alternative is...

Got my first polishing machine today. The pads were fixed via Velcro and one came off mid spin. I’m yet to retrieve said pad but my guess is it’s in our orbit. I have now purchased safety goggles.