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Engines, Practice and technology

So brush…

Op alfaIn this order, Adrie te Veldhuis, Bas Genesse and Ben van Eerdt are genetic cleaners. Their motorcycles always look showroom fresh and ready for competition. Of course they each use their 'own' brands and types of polishes, but their main tools...

Practice and technology

Car detailing. A kind of brushing ++

Car detailing. That used to be called 'cleaning'. And neighbor Peter - who is a perfectionist as a handyman - had damage to his bus. He treated that red thing quite unlovingly. The Fiat was kind of a pale blush with spots in the paint that a dermatologist would be concerned about.

Engines

Cleaning and cleaning

A well-groomed classic, car or motorcycle, should simply be showroom clean. And when you see him standing there, it doesn't even occur to you that he has been 'polished'.

Dolf Peeters
16 August, 2020
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Car detailing: Cleaning 2.0

Car detailing. That is different from washing the car. Giving a classic car a thorough wash and vacuuming it out does not make it clean. Real car detailers are professionals who restore your classic car with medical precision, craftsmanship and a lot…

Dolf Peeters
15 March, 2017

Practice and technology

Lacquers through the years

The finishing touch Car paints have been around for as long as there have been cars. Only the way they are made and sold has changed as much over the years as the cars themselves. We look back on 120 years...

Practice and technology

Anti blue for chrome

Chrome exhaust pipes and silencers cannot withstand very high temperatures. And the temperature of exhaust gases can be very high; a properly tuned four-stroke engine has an exhaust gas temperature of more than 600 degrees. If the fuel mixture becomes very lean, it will become much hotter... And the pipes will discolor, first to a beautiful dull gold color, then to blue.

Dolf Peeters
5 August, 2014

Articles

Poorboys World Black Hole

A product to give dark lacquers more shine

Dolf Peeters
25th April 2014

Practice and technology

Meguiar's thinks along!

Reconditioning the tired paint of your classic car? And you want to do that as quickly and effectively as possible? Top supplier of car care products Meguiar's now makes life very easy for you: with the purchase of a

Editors
June 4th, 2012

Articles

The better brushing

Cleaning specialist Meguiar's knows better than anyone how a dull and neglected paint can be reinvigorated and in an attempt this science

Editors
12 August, 2011