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Regularly washing and waxing your vehicle is a good habit to have, but if you want your car to look like it just rolled off the lot, you’ll have to kick your cleaning up a notch. No, turning your hose up to full power won’t do the trick, either.

The more you focus on detail, the better results you’ll get, but if you don’t want to take your car in to get it professionally cleaned, there are ways you can make your car shimmer in your very own driveway. Here are a few tips for your DIY detailing.

Tires

You probably brushed over rims with a sponge and called it a day, but cleaning this area thoroughly is necessary for making your car look brand new. After you’ve hosed down the rims, use a brush or spray to apply wheel cleaner. Try to get all of those hard-to-reach places, and once you’re finished, dry the rims with a cloth.

Headlights

If your headlights are dirty or foggy, your car won’t just look a little off — it might be dangerous to drive because the light won’t be as powerful at night. It’s important to keep your headlights clean, and to do so, you generally have to do more than wash it off with a sponge. Popular Mechanics offers a step-by-step guide that only takes about half an hour.

Rust Spot Removal

Doityourself.com recommends you use a 150 grit wheel and a handheld grinder to smooth out the surface and remove the rust.To remove the rust, carefully use a metal grinding wheel. Don’t overdo it or move too quickly or you’ll end up with a bad situation. For the rest of the rust, use sandpaper and hand buff it. Afterward, apply three coats of primer, waiting 10 minutes in between each coat. Apply the color similarly, but wait 2 hours between each coat. Wait overnight and then wax and wash the spot so as to ensure it blends with the rest of the paint.

Conclusion

Even if you need to clean the toughest grit from your car, it will pay off when you aren’t forking up extra money for a professional cleaning service. Tires, headlights, and rust removal are just the tip of the iceberg. You might consider giving detailing tools as gifts for car enthusiasts, mentions 21st.com. With a bit of a research, who knows what kind of projects you can take on to make your car look better.

Welcome to Earth in the way, way, far off distant future. Here, all advertising is done by using neon and holographic signs and all music is distributed by two guys who roam the streets in a De Tomaso Pantera. This is apparently the premise of Nero’s (they’re a band) music video as these are the main ingredients in their newest flick, “This Must Be the Feeling”. Granted the music is not my taste, but hey, there’s a Pantera in it, so what the hell right?

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Rat Fink. He’s the character that was created by Ed “Big Daddy” Roth back in the 1950′s as the “Yang” to Mickey Mouse’s “Ying”. He was everything Mickey wasn’t and then some. Rat Fink was first featured back in 1963 when he appeared in the pages of “Car Craft Magazine” and since that time he’s been the symbol of hot-rodding the world over. Back in 2006 a band called “The Sadies” put out a very cool animated video that payed homage to the little hot-rod critter and although it’s a bit macabre you’ve got to admit that it does kick some serious ass.

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I remember as a kid that every time we used to take the golf carts out at our local country club that the first thing we’d do was wedge a golf T in the governor to make them go faster. As I got older this streak continued. We’d add big exhausts to mopeds, intakes and headers to muscle cars, and nowadays it’s tuning programs to the cars computer system. Now while the technology has changed one thing has remained the same… the need to constantly go faster. What you are about to see is a 70 mph mobility scooter that was built by Colin Furze. Gone are the scooters original rechargeable batteries and in their place lies a 125cc engine that’s been pilfered from a dirt bike. The result is one of the coolest (and most socially irresponsible) play toys on the planet. Click through and enjoy.

Hat tip: Autoblog.com

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In this day and age it’s so painfully rare that you come across an individual who does something simply for the sake of making others feel good. 88-year old Johnny Barnes however is such a person and truth be told, if everyone was like him, the world would be a better place. You see Mr. Barnes does one very simple thing every morning between the hours of 6 am and 10 am on his home island of Bermuda. He stands on the roundabout in his town and tells passersby that he loves them. He wishes them well and a wonderful day and because of this act he’s become somewhat of a local icon. To the residents of Bermuda old Johnny Barnes is a fixture and a way to start their day and in my opinion, he does more for everyone who sees him then a cup of coffee ever could.

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If there is one guy out there who knows how to get from point A to point B quickly, it’s Alex Roy. You see back in 2007 Roy and co-driver David Mahr ran from New York to Los Angeles in an astonishing 31 hours and 4 minutes. The run was completed in a BMW E39 M5 which was outfitted with everything from radar detectors and jammers to night vision. In Roy’s new series, Live and Let Drive on Youtube’s DRIVE network he discusses that while you may in fact have some of these items in your own vehicles, they’re all completely useless unless you know how to use them properly. Click through and enjoy.

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I suppose every man wants to be James Bond in some way. He’s an international super-spy, gets all the best toys and after he kills everyone, he almost always gets the girl. James Bond has been around for 50 years and in that time he’s cemented himself as the premier authority on what to do with super expensive techno-gadgets. The following video is not exciting, nor is it action packed. What it is however is a quick video overview of Bond’s greatest gadgets as exhibited at the Beaulieu Motor Museum in Hampshire, England. Click through and enjoy.

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When Old Man Winter belches hoarfrost over the land, it’s only natural to seek solace in a nice set of studded snow tires. The grinding metallic paws provide a sense of security. They just feel like they’re slicing through the ice, delivering life-saving stability and grip. Au contraire mon frère! Studded tires are terrible. They provide less grip in frosty conditions than their specialized studless counterparts and they pulverize pavement, turning roads in to rutted moonscapes. Stop buying studded tires. They suck.

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Combine Doc Brown’s DeLorean from “Back to the Future”, a Porsche 911, a Syd Mead-esque future scape and a full-on frontal collision and you’ve got the makings of a great introduction for the Limousines new music video, “The Future”.

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Live to ride, ride to live. That’s been the mantra of the Harley-Davidson motorcycle company for more than 100 years. That mantra however doesn’t just apply to those who ride big v-twins, but more so to everyone who rides a motorcycle. We all ride for different reasons, but within those reasons one thing remains constant. Riding is something we do for ourselves as it’s a selfish and personal pleasure that those who don’t ride will never know.

Click through for the video to see what I’m talking about.

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