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2 / 28 / 14

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Glare – Put To The Fire Test (Don’t Try This At Home!)

Hi, this is Ben Smith with BLS Auto Detail, and today we’re going to talk to you about Glare. Now Glare is the most technically advanced paint protection system on the market today. We highly recommend it. Tesla Motors, as a matter of fact uses Glare exclusively on their new cars. We’re gonna do a demonstration for you today and show you just how well Glare will protect your vehicle finish. Why does BLS Auto Detail recommend Glare to all its customers? Because it’s simply the best product on the market today.

Glare is a glass-based product that offers superior protection against the elements because it bonds to your paint. Not to mention, it offers the best possible shine on the market today. Today we’re going to do a demonstration of just how good that durability is for your vehicle. So, now we’re going to do a series of demonstrations to showcase Glare’s protection ability. Here we have a hood that we purchased from a junk yard yesterday. As you can see this side has been washed and this side has a five-step protection process on it, the last stage being Glare. So, we’re going to light this side on fire and then this side and let’s see what happens.

Kids do not do this at home, it’s very dangerous.

As you can see after we wipe this thing off, the paint’s discolored. The paint looks like it’s about to start failing here, it’s got a little bit of bumps here. It’s not smooth, it’s the paint in the metal starting to come off here. You can see these little bumps here. It’s gonna start bubbling off. But it’s definitely damaged for sure from the heat and no protection on the hood at all.

We’re going to do same thing on the other side with the protection, the Glare protected and let’s see what happens.

Don’t cook marshmallows on there.

Now obviously, your paint is not… That’s not going to happen, if you car gets on fire, it’s not going to protect it. But this is demonstrating how it’s going to protect against the heat, especially the summer time black hoods can get 250 degrees in the summer when the direct sun, so this is showcasing how that’s going to protect against that. As you can see, this side shows little if any damage or whatsoever, it’s a little hot right here, it’s a little discolored, the paint’s still super smooth and we could polish all this out. This will polish right off. This side on the other hand, it’s discolored bad and the paint is discolored, this stuff won’t polish out and the paint is, got little bit of bump to it, it’s not super smooth. It’s little hard to see obviously, but as you can see on this side, there is no damage or whatsoever. It’s a little discolored but this will polish out.

Now, we’re going to take our Glare products, specifically our Glare polish and we’re going to polish this stuff out really quick and show you there is no visible damage. Then we will go on to our next demonstration. So, here we go.

Okay, now as you can see this paint is protected from the fire. Basically, there’s no damage whatsoever, the paint is perfectly smooth and shines back like nothing ever happened.

2 / 21 / 14

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5-Steps To Optimal Paint Protection

Hi. This is Ben Smith of BLS Auto Detail, and today we’re going to talk to you about why paint protection is so important for your car. I purchased this hood just the other day at a junk yard. What we’re gonna do is we’re gonna wash one side and show you the difference between… With just washing the car, how much better the paint is going to look. So, now we’re going to wash this side of the hood. The purpose of this is to get the dirt and grime off as you can see.

The next part of the process, the second part, is the clay process. Now, what this is going to do is it’s going to remove all the… It’s going to extract all the embedded pollutants and contaminants out of the paint surface that washing can not take off. And claying is important because it smooths the surface out and enables the polishes in the next steps and the protectants to adhere better and in turn, the protections last longer. As you can see, as we’re claying this car, all this stuff is oxidation, it’s black… These streaks are all the embedded pollutants that are in the paint surface itself that it’s extracting. You can see, this is all the black paint that’s coming off. That’s all the oxidation or a lot of the oxidation, and it’s the embedded dirt that’s in the surface of this hood.

Now we’ve washed this side, and this side has been clayed. As you can notice, this side is shinier slightly. It’s got a little deeper clarity and shine on it. This side is a little more faded. Next step we’re going to do is we’re going to buff this side. What that’s going to do is remove more of this oxidation, these streak marks, and the shine is gonna get deeper and deeper on this side, and you’ll start noticing that.

The next stage we’re going to do here is the buffing stage. This is important because it removes all the scratches, the deeper scratches, the surface scratches. Now, that being said, your paint might not need that. If you take care of your paint and/or it’s a new car, the buffing stage might not be necessary. But if the paint’s been neglected and you haven’t taken care of it, this stage might be necessary. You can see a remarkable difference now. It’s… The paint shine is getting way deeper. Now, you can see the clarity now that’s beginning to show. You can see my hand here. Here you can barely see anything. Okay, this is the fourth stage in the process here, and we’re gonna polish this. And that last step was a buffing process. This is the polishing process. Each process can be… I made an analogy to sandpaper. So, we’re going to a finer and finer grit basically. So, this is a finer grit than the stage before. So, we’re just gonna keep going finer and finer until it’s all done.

The shine is… The clarity is getting better each step we do. You can see the colors now. The reflection is getting deeper. And the paint is smooth as glass. So, this is the fifth and final stage in the protection process. This is the sealant protection stage. And you’ll see when we’re done here… This is the stage that protects your paint from the environment, from bird droppings, from tree sap. Also this is the stage which makes the water bead up. You get those nice beads when it rains. So, we’re going to go ahead and get started. Now, we’re going to go ahead and wipe this off, and it’s going to be a pretty remarkable shine.

Now you can see, notice also now the reflections are even a little bit deeper. The clarity is pretty much as good as it can get. Unfortunately, this hood has been repainted. I purchased this at the junk yard, and not knowing what I’m getting, this is the results. So, but you can see that even, once we strip away the layers, even if you had a poor paint job, we can still restore the shine and the clarity to your paint.

2 / 18 / 14

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What I’ve Learned As A Auto Detailer Over The Past 20 Years

Hi, this is Ben Smith, founder of BLS Auto Detail. The number one thing I’ve learned in 20 years of detailing cars is that most car owners don’t know whether their paint is protected from environmental contaminants. Most people think that the spray wax applied at the car wash offers protection. Well it doesn’t. Even a hand applied wax lasts only a few months in the elements.

Here’s a simple way to tell if your car’s paint has any protection. Simply run your fingers across the hood with medium pressure after you’ve freshly washed your car. Any drag or resistance indicates a lack of protection. The more drag you feel, the more your paint’s at risk. Simple grime and droppings will embed themselves in the paint at a molecular level making them very difficult to remove.

To learn more, visit the Paint Protection section of the website. There, make it a point to watch the videos on Glare, the absolute best paint protection on the market. I hope you’ve learned something today from your visit. The purpose of this site is to educate you, the consumer. If you have any questions, contact us at the number above or shoot us an email. Thank you very much for watching.

12 / 2 / 13

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Headlight Restoration, Remove Oxidation

BLS Auto Detail and today we’re going to do a demonstration on the headlights. If you look over here, you can see these headlights are extremely dull and oxidized, and this is an extreme safety hazard because you can’t see the lights.

What we’re going to do is, we’re going to clean these up and be able to see again and this is a pretty valuable, so watch this. Going to put this stuff on here like this, going to rub it around, and let it sit on there, and after a few minutes the lights are gonna be clear, and you’ll be able to see again.

Here we go. You take this towel, we’re gonna buff the stuff on here.

Right before your eyes, it’s 90% better. How’s that look?

This is Ben Smith at BLS Auto Detail and there’s your tip for the day.

11 / 25 / 13

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The Egg Test – Don’t Try This At Home Kids!

Hi, this is Ben Smith of BLS Auto Detail and today we’re going to do a demonstration of why it’s important to have a good protective wax coating on your paint. Today’s date, as you can see, is November 12, 2013, and what we’re going to do is do a demonstration with an egg. The product we use is a very high end wax. It’s actually a glass coating called “Glare”. And you’re going to see right now, we’re going to do a demonstration with this egg and this is going to protect our paint.

Now, as you know, eggs are very acidic, like bird droppings, and eggs do a lot of damage. So, if this is left sitting on a car, most likely it wouldn’t protect it if there was no protection on the paint or a wax. It would do damage to the paint, it would crack the paint, and that spot would have to be repainted. So, our stuff will protect this car and we’re gonna do this demonstration right now. So, we’re gonna take this egg and crack it on the hood of this truck back here, and we’re going to leave it sit there for a couple of days, let it harden, and then we’re gonna wipe it off, and there will be no visible damage to the paint surface. Alright, we’re going go crack this egg now on the hood. Here we go.

Yeah, I don’t… I don’t recommend doing this if you do not have a good protective coating on your car, especially our stuff “Glare”. I’m having to actually hold the egg in place because the protective coating is so smooth, and the paint is so slick, it’s not sticking to the car. So, that’s a good sign. So, we actually have to hold this egg right here. If this car wasn’t waxed, it would just stick right there instantly. But as you can see, it’s rolling around, and we’re gonna let it kind of just roll off the side right now.

There’s a piece of shell right there, obviously. This is just the egg white. We can take some of, I guess, the yolk off the ground here, and maybe wipe it on the car, let it sit there like that. So, now you can see that that’s the yolk. So, we’re just gonna let that sit on the car. And that’ll stay right there. Obviously, the rest of the stuff slid off.

Now, we were going to come back in a couple of days to show you that the paint is still intact, that there’s no damage visible. But this stuff is literally flaking off before our eyes, and we’re gonna blow on it right now and show you. Look at that. It just… This is the egg white, it’s just flaking off the paint. I can go like this, and it’s just wiping right off, with no damage at all. Now this is the yolk part. We will still come back in a couple of days and show you that, but I’m guaranteeing that’s gonna be fine too. That’s kind of sticking there. But the egg white is literally flaking off before our eyes, so there might not be any egg white left when we come back in a couple or days, but the egg yolk should still be there.

It’s been two days since this egg has been on the car and here’s the date right here. It’s now Thursday, November 14, and it’s been baking on the car here for two days in the sun. You can see it’s cracked, there’s other residue here. As you’ve noticed, this stuff is… It’s almost washed off from being foggy and stuff, and the dew. That’s how nice it works. So, here’s the moment of truth, we’re gonna now wipe all this stuff off like this. So, we’re gonna take this towel here, it’s called microfiber towel and this is a silicone-based solution. It’s just kind of, like, just to be able to kind of make it a little easier to get the stuff off. So, we’re gonna wipe this off right now. And here comes the egg, it’ll just come right off. Bye-bye.

If we did the same test on an unprotected paint finish, the damage would have been severe. Basically, all the spots where it landed on the car, and sat on there, would have compromised the paint, and it would have actually eaten through the paint coating right there, and it would have to be either sanded down or refinished. Since it was protected, see there’s no damage at all. And so, that’s what it would do if it wasn’t protected. It would damage your paint to the point where it’d have to be repainted. Ben Smith, BLS Auto Detailing, thank you.

7 / 10 / 13

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Why Wax Your Car?

Ben Smith from BLS Auto Detail (SAnta Rosa, CA), and here is your tip for the day.

This car, as you can see my employee here, he’s claying it with the material. This paint is really rough from not being waxed in probably its whole lifetime. If you can hear this… Come here. You can hear this, this is how you know the car needs wax. Hear that drag? It shouldn’t drag like that making that noise made by friction stuff, it needs to be smooth. You can hear that… That’s how you know a car needs wax really bad.

He’s cleaning it right now to smooth all that out, then we’re going to wax it. Then, come over here… This is what a car looks like that’s been waxed and polished. You can see how shiny it is. See that? And you can… I’ll run my hand across it. You can’t get that noise even if I tried to get that noise, I can’t because the paint’s smooth. So, I’m rubbing the same way I rubbed the other car, but it’s not making that noise because there’s wax, there’s protection on the paint. So, that’s the difference.

Ben Smith, BLS Auto Detail.

6 / 25 / 13

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Why Care For Your Car Rims?

Hi, this is Ben Smith from BLS Auto Detail, and here’s your tip for the day. These are rims on a Mercedes, I think it’s an ’01. And you can see how dirty they are here, and this is from lack of care. This car hasn’t been washed in at least a month to have this much brake dust on them. The problem with this is that brake dust is corrosive. When it gets on your rims, it will pit them. So, when the rim, tires spin, it heats up. The heat and any kind of moisture will basically cause corrosion. These are really dirty.

Now, a lot of this will come off when we wash it, but some of it won’t. Then, what will happen? There’ll be these little black dots everywhere that are left behind. They’re actually embedded into the rim. The only way to get that out is to refinish the rim.

These rims might cost a $1000 for a set of four, and you can avoid this by just washing your car on a regular basis. You wash it once a week, keep the rims clean, and that stuff doesn’t happen.

This is Ben Smith with BLS Auto Detailing.

4 / 18 / 13

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Is Your Cars Paint Protected When Going Through A Car Wash?

Hi, this is Ben Smith with BLS Auto Detail in Santa Rosa, CA. Here is your tip for the day. Most people when they go to a car wash, assume the car wash is cleaning the car, which it is. The problem with a car wash is this; the harsh aggressive chemicals they use to clean your car quick and fast, strip off most of your protection on your car, the wax. When you pay for the upgraded wax, I guess sealer they call them or something on it. They have different names sealer wax on the menu, that’s… What that do is shine the car, but it’s not adding protection.

When your car comes out, it’s all shinny and nice. You think it’s protected, it’s really not, it’s just shinny. Then that’s gonna last about maybe three or four days. A good quality wax will last you three to four months, and there’s also exclusive lines on the market that could last up to two to three years. And those products will have to be buffed into your paint job. To maintain the look and feel of your paint, make sure you use a quality wax that not only makes your paint or your car look good, but will protect it as well.

3 / 18 / 13

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How To Clean Car Windows

Hi, this is Benjamin Smith of BLS Auto Detailing and here is your tip for the day. When you clean [car] windows, all you need is what’s called microfiber towels, and you can get them at Walmart, Kmart, any of those places, and you need distilled water.

All of these window cleaners they sell 409 and all these spray stuff, these foams and all these different things, you don’t need those. All you need is distilled water, spray it on the window like so, and just wipe it off. Go on one direction on the outside so you know where the streaks are. See, I’m going in one direction. And on the inside [go other direction]. See, with the purified water, this will dry perfectly clear. ‘Cause there’s no minerals in the water and there’s nothing in the water to make it spot. So you’re not using city water on the inside. You will just go in the opposite direction ’cause that way you know where the streaks are. And then you just take another towel or turn this towel over and just dry it off. That way, you save money. You don’t have to buy window cleaner, all that stuff which is pretty much a waste of money. Now, if you look at the window… Pretty good.

Now, also on this tip, I’m gonna show you something. Coming out closer. This trim, this car has been to the car wash, probably the touchless car wash. And the detergents they use are very aggressive to get the car clean, since there’s no brushes touching or anything touching the car. Basically the soap has to basically melt the dirt off. In the process, you can stain the trim because the soaps are very aggressive and way too harsh for the paint. The paint usually can take it, but the plastic trim as you see here is stained and damaged, as well as the plastic trim here too. Because this is very porous and it’s just a gloss coating over it and that’s what happened. So, if you want to go to car washes at all costs, the best ones are the handwash and there you go.

This is BLS Auto Detailing. Thank you very much.

1 / 10 / 13

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Why Wax Your NEW Car or Truck?

Hi, this is Ben Smith with BLS Auto Detail and here is your Tip for the Day. This is a brand new GMC truck. You can see the license plate. It’s a Envoy or something like that.

Most people… A myth is they think that if there is wax on the car, the car is protected. If you don’t pay for some kind of protection package, chrome plating or what have you, there really is nothing on your car. Sometimes you can be able to hear the drag on these things, the resistance. This one, you can kind of feel it, you can’t see it.

So, what we’re gonna to do is throw a towel across just so you can see how it doesn’t really slide all the way across. It kind of stops there. Okay. So, we’re gonna wax this hood and show you the difference of the kind of slickness of the paint. So, we’ll wax this really quick. And then you can just see how the towel slides right across it. But when there is nothing on the paint like this, the consumer thinks “Oh, the car is protected,” but tree sap gets on here, bird crap gets on here or something like that, it can actually damage the paint because there is no protection between the paint and the elements. So, anything that gets on there will in fact damage the car.

This paint is a lot smoother and sleeker now. Okay, now we’re gonna throw… Do the towel test. Okay, watch this. Lot less resistance, the paint is protected. Good bye.

This is Ben Smith, BLS Auto Detail.