Pints and Polishing Auto Detailing Podcast

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub where we love to have a cold beer and talk about detailing cars.  In this episode, we have detailers from across the country share their experiences applying a ceramic coating.  How important are the surroundings when applying a coating? Many have spoken publicly about needing pristine conditions and not ever having any dust or wind around....but what abou...

Welcome to another episode of the Podcast! Today we talk about a lot of different things but start of by discussing the hardest things we run into in detailing. Let's talk chemicals and how they are misunderstood in detailing. Having a complete understanding of chemicals would be a great start to most of our careers but we don't really do it. Marshall and Nick discuss a broad range of stuff in thi...

Welcome to another episode of the Detailed Car Collection! Today we talk about paint correction and its relationship with ppf/ceramic coatings. David Fermani shared a very detailed post about how we shouldn't paint correct before applying PPF and serves as a jumping off point for todays episode. Drawing a line in the sand that you must always cut away paint before a service is putting many paint s...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub and in this episode we continue to discuss the prep process for applying a ceramic coating.  During your process, when you see a water spot what do you do? There are many different process and we would like to hear how you apply tire shine or how you chase water spots.  Interact with us at the hyperCLEAN Specialist Face Book Group but you know it would als...

Welcome to another episode and we have a crazy car wash story on a 2022 Range Rover. We hear about car washes all the time but how much damage can really be caused? Marshall shares a story of a brand new Range Rover and the massive damage done at a local car wash. Deep scratches, dents, and a destroyed interior make for a great discussion on the episode. Also, what about maintaining cars and the d...

Welcome to another episode of the Detailed Car Collection! Today we are discussing Gm recalling the brand new Hummer for a bad battery connection. We also shed light on this battery system having massive issues for other brands as well. Why did GM choose a battery system that they knew had massive issues? Plus lets talk about Ford Bronco announcing the heritage edition which is going to be super c...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub and in this episode we talk all things Ceramic Coating Prep.  How important is it? More important than the actual application of a coating? We enjoy some beers but get to have a deep conversation on removing contamination.  Your going to love the tab out question and so grab a pint and enjoy this episode 🍻

There are all kinds of ways to talk about protecting your windshield but how about an $11k broken windshield leading to a bigger business opportunity in your detailing business. On todays episode we talk about protecting windshields and glass in general. There are a ton of new realities around windshield glass and its starting to hurt consumers. So we discuss windshield film, ceramic coating glass...

Welcome to another episode of the Detailed Car Collection and we have a few topics of discussion this week. This week we worked on a 1995 Porsche Carrera 4 with 51k miles on the odometer. This car had to have a few pieces of PPF removed and some scratches and paint transfer to be dealt with on the car. This project also had a very tight deadline which made it a great challenge.  Next lets dis...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub, where the beers are cold despite the hot temps outside. Speaking of being hot...how do you clean glass during these high temps? What about dressing dashes that are sitting out in the sun? Those can create streaks and all kinds of problems but we want to know what you do. So go over to the hyperCLEAN Specialist group on Facebook to tell us your processes.  Mean...

We have all seen waterless and rinseless washing take off in the detailing world. But it isn't always the most efficient or easy option to wash a car until now! We talk about the sprayers we are bringing into the store and how its make waterless/rinseless washing so much more efficient. We have not always been sold on the pump sprayer craze but that all changed when we found the Marolex Sprayers....

Welcome to another episode of the Detailed Car Collection and we have a couple great topics to discuss. STEK has been forced to pull DynoFlex off the market for a second time as the product was failing too much. We are going to discuss the problem with this situation from the installer side of things. Is it time for installers to take accountability for the things they are putting on cars? A very...

Is your car life ever filled with anxious moments of slamming on the brakes and yelling at the guy who cut you off? Well we hope not but here on the Community 🍻 Pub we like having these discussions.  In this episode, we also talk through ways that people can wash cars outside in this summer heat but your going to love the tab out question. So grab a pint and enjoy 🍻

We have been told to be a professional in our business or life but what does that look like? How do we become professional? How do we address our weaknesses? These are really tough questions that everyone has to answer not only as a business owner but as employees as well. Nick and Marshall discuss their ideas and the things they have had to overcome to continue in business. We also discuss the br...

Welcome to another episode of the Detailed Car Collection! We talk about the huge deal that XPEL landed with the truck manufacturer Rivian that shook up the PPF world this week. What does it mean for installers? Also why are so many defending a move that is meant to cut them out of the installation of PPF? We also discuss a few vehicles we were around in the last week and the importance of profess...

Hope your enjoying the heat wave we all are getting to experience and welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub where we examine how annoying it is when products dusts...but also what's up with people cutting panel preps? Hey this is a fun discussion as we enjoy some cold beers and talk through our Car Life.  

Today is a very straightforward look at the question we get asked the most at hyperCLEAN. How do I build my packages? It's actually fairly simple yet has been made very difficult by many throughout the industry. Start simple and remain simple is the easiest way to look at this portion of the detailing business.  The market has been flooded with so called experts who have never been in your sh...

Welcome to another epsiode of the Detailed Car Collection and we have a really good episode today. We were brought in a project that was a complete train wreck and its not cost everyone involved a bunch of time/money. Porsche GT3 was taken into a shop for a full body wrap and the rest is history. You are going to find some value in this story we think. We also discuss falling prices in the auction...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub where in this episode we enjoy some cold beer while talking about waxing.  What do yo think...is wax dead? Or will we see a surge of more waxes being applied.  We also dive into a fun talk on emblem cleaning but it's the drunk munchies that will have you rolling on the floor.  So grab a pint and enjoy 🍻

We have an extremely fun episode that started with a post in the hyperCLEAN Specialists group. How do YOU tackle dirty carpets? Extractor, steam, elbow grease, and the list goes on. Everyone has their own techniques and we talk about them on the show today. Its super interesting how detailing is still stuck in this disaster detail world and we haven't started to push more maintaining.  The gu...

Welcome to another episode of the Detailed Car Collection! Today we discuss protecting the paint of cars and how the conversation has been hijacked in the industry. We all know that there are several ways to protect paint but it seems that some people look down upon certain ways to add that protection. We roll through how and why certain protections are used in different situations. We also talk a...

Welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub where we are discussion all things Ceramic Coating.  What's the hardest part of installing a ceramic coating...is it the prep work?  We dive into the discussion with hyperCLEDAN specialist but what gets interesting is the thoughts on if the cross hatching is necessary.  What do you think? Let us know in the hyperCLEAN Specialist group on Facebook.&nbs...

What a fun episode we recorded with Jamie The Cleaner on his Cleaner Cast and so we want to share it with the Community 🍻 This episode gets in-depth on the hyperCLEAN brand but your going to love the buy/sell that Jamie comes up with!

Welcome to another episode of the Detailed Car Collection! Nick sits down with Jason Killmer from KXK to talk about Paint correction and sanding. This isn't like most interviews with Jason that you have heard before because we actually talk technique and thoughts on sanding.  This is an action packed episode where we talk about attending trainings and how to get the most out of them when lear...

Hey welcome to the Community 🍻 Pub and in this episode we dive into all things tire cleaning.  The emergence of foaming sprayers has been a great evolution in the Detailing Industry and we especially love it with hyperCLEAN TRX...but what about you? Do you see the need to move to foaming sprayers since many are having issues with trigger sprayers? What about cleaning tires twice...do you do that?...