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How Pollen affects the paint on your car

How Pollen Affects Your Car’s Paint

Leave a Comment / Classic Cars, Prep Work, Restoration / Roger Van Brussel

Your sinuses aren’t the only thing impacted by the burst of springtime pollen. The moment pollen coats the surface of your car it starts working to erode the finish. How does pollen affect your car, and what can you do to ward off the springtime pollen blues?

American Dry Stripping™ & Xtreme Coatings helps guide people on how to maintain their restoration jobs. We are based in Milford, Connecticut and serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Contact us to learn more.

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Pollen On Your Car’s Exterior

We sometimes think with winter a memory, we are free to leave our cars on the driveway. But the exterior can be impacted even worse by pollen than by snow.

Pollen coats the outside of your car and may leave a sticky, dirty mess to clean up. The buildup will deteriorate the car’s paint job, potentially leading to chips, and eventually rust.

Pollen also coats the windshield making a challenge for wipers to clear. This will impact your visibility while driving. Make sure the wiper fluid is topped up and functioning properly, in order to keep the wipers working optimally.

Save Your Paint by Removing Pollen

Wash car to protect from pollen

The detail pros at Detailed Image encourage you to wash your car frequently during high pollen season. However, there are right ways to wash a car.

They recommend removing the pollen as soon as possible. Pollen may seem like granular dust, but it is designed to cling to bees and flowers. This means it also clings to the pores of the paint can damage it, and advance oxidation.

To help prevent this buildup, it’s important to wash your car using soapy water and light agitation. Soap will deactivate the pollen.

Also be sure to dry it. You can also use a wax coating to help protect the paint, but only after a soapy wash.

If your vehicle’s surface paint is already too far gone, call us. We will get started the right way in removing paint and surface build up from your car.

We offer a pick-up and delivery service.

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Prepping Jaguar XKE Restoration Firewall for Blasting

Leave a Comment / Automotive, Classic Cars, Restoration, Video / E. Howard

American Dry Stripping™ & Xtreme Coatings helps people with sandblasting and media blasting. We are based in Milford, Connecticut and serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Long Island, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Contact us to learn more.

Sandblasting and media blasting services

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A client brought us this beautiful Jaguar XKE restoration (incomplete) with the need to have only the firewall blasted.

When we prep a car for media blasting, it takes a great deal of time. We thought we’d share with you the precision process our team goes through to protect the exterior and interior of these rare vehicles.

Here you can see Jose and Miguel cleaning the metal to ensure the tape adheres. We want to ensure no gaps, leaving only the are that will be blasted exposed.

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Start Right to Restore Exhaust Manifolds

Leave a Comment / Automotive, Prep Work, Restoration / E. Howard

Nothing likes to gather rust and oil quite like the cast iron exhaust manifolds in your old car’s engine. So to make these look really great again — many times even better than new — bring them to our shop for restoration.

American Dry Stripping™ & Xtreme Coatings helps people with sandblasting, media blasting, and powder coating services. We are based in Milford, Connecticut and serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Long Island, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Contact us to learn more.

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Exhaust and intake manifolds

We offer a pick-up and delivery service.

What to do when you are ready to restore exhaust manifolds

Burn off. We use our high-temperature burn-off ovens for items like these V-8 exhaust manifolds. Baking them at a high temp effectively removes all surface grease and oils and any that may have, over the years, soaked into the metal.
Prep is key to finish. To finish, we media blast the manifolds inside and out to remove years of rust and grungy and add a profile to the surface for optimal adhesion of finish coat.

After blasting, all parts are stored in a temperature and humidity-controlled room until pick-up. Or we can ensure you get the right performance coating you want, right away after blasting.

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1986 Porsche 911 Dry Abrasive Stripping CT

It’s All About The Prep: Blasting A Porsche

Leave a Comment / Automotive, Classic Cars, Prep Work, Restoration / E. Howard

Here’s a job we are finishing up in the shop, blasting a Porsche, specifically this gorgeous 1986 Porsche 911 from a friend up the road.

American Dry Stripping™ & Xtreme Coatings helps people with all of their sandblasting and media blasting service needs. We are based in Milford, Connecticut and serve customers in metropolitan New York and surrounding counties, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts. Contact us to learn more.

Click the link below to see our car portfolios!

We offer a pick-up and delivery service.

You can see the paint was in pretty good condition originally, but the owner wanted something different. We take blasting a Porsche seriously (like any of our automotive service jobs), so there’s a careful method.

There’s many key parts to our process — the angle of the blast, determining the right media for the job, removing parts that need to be blasted separately, getting the optimum pressure and more.

But as you can see, one of the most important parts of our jobs when blasting a Porsche or any vehicle is ensuring the prep is completed thoroughly.

We want to ensure the Porsche’s interior, its tires and engine are all protected from dust as much possible, with zero possibility of any damage from the blasting itself.

These cars are labor intensive, but it’s worth the wait. The guys have gotten down to gel coat on this beauty.

If you want to read an original review of the 1986 Porsche 911 Coupe, here’s one posted on Cars.com by Leonard Kucinski in Pennsylvania. Goes to show a classic car doesn’t really lose its value.

Oh and just for fun, the new car he would have reviewed would have looked something like this. We expect the restored version (after our blasting) will look something like this.

1986 Porsche Carrera Coupe from Wikipedia — Just a random shot of a 1986 Porsche Carrera.

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How Pollen Affects Your Car’s Paint

Pollen On Your Car’s Exterior

Save Your Paint by Removing Pollen

Prepping Jaguar XKE Restoration Firewall for Blasting

Ready for resto work on your car?

Start Right to Restore Exhaust Manifolds

What to do when you are ready to restore exhaust manifolds

It’s All About The Prep: Blasting A Porsche

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