160 Pictures - December 13th, 2025 1-Day Paint Correction and Ceramic Coating Class in Stuart Florida

Mike Phillips · Dec 17, 2025

160 Pictures - December 13th, 2025 1-Day Paint Correction and Ceramic Coating Class in Stuart Florida

Last Class for 2025!
I'd like to say a HUGE thank you to everyone that attended this class just a few weeks before Christmas. This was our last car detailing class for the year 2025 and all three cars came out freaking amazing!

Certificate Graduation Ceremony
At the end of the class, it's time for certificates and you can see by all the pictures, each one of these people earned it!

Tom - Eugene, Oregon - 3,179 miles travelled one way to take this class

Kathie - Beaverton, Oregon - 3,172 miles traveled one way to take this class.

Tom - Sarasota, Florida - Travelled 150 miles to take this class

Marvin - Georgetown, Kentucky - Travelled 980 miles one way to take this class

Victor - Stuart, Florida - Travelled 10 miles to take this class

Aaron - Macomb, Michigan - Travelled 1,323 miles to take this class

Thank you everyone for attending this class and staying focused on the topics, tools, techniques and just as important - the cars!

More pictures to come...

Mike

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The first day of our class covers the 3 most popular and profitable topics.

1: Show Car Detailing - Multiple-Step Process
2: 2-Step Paint Correction and Ceramic Coating
3: Budget 1-Step Ceramic AIO Paint Correction

Besides the above paint correction approaches or packages, we also cover multiple other topics, depending upon the needs of the car. When it comes to our classes, the cars change, but the classes stay the same and that is, the most hands-on car detailing training classes on planet Earth.

And in our classes, you train on actual cars. There is ZERO training on demo hoods or test panels. Before you sign-up for any other class, look to see what the topics are and look to see if they show you what you're going to train on.

We show you BEFORE you sign-up so there's no mystery or let downs. Click the link below, select a date that works for you and get signed up.

The 2026 Class Schedule for Stuart Florida

We make it easy to get here and stay here!

Airports - Hotels - Restaurants - Plus things to do in Stuart Florida!

Thank you for signing up for one of our detailing classes here at Dr. Beasley’s O. R. - We do everything we can to make it as easy as possible to get here and have a great time! This includes getting you accurate information about the nearby airports with the correct airport codes and the closest and best hotels to stay at while you're here.

Shop Location
Dr. Beasley's O.R.
7934 SW Jack James Drive
Stuart, FL 34997

Airports

The closest and thus fastest and easiest to get to Dr. Beasley’s O. R.

West Palm Beach Airport - Airport Code: PBI
Approximately 30 minutes from Dr. Beasley's <--Closest airport to Dr. Beasley’s O. R. Straight shot on I-95

Fort Lauderdale Airport - Airport Code: FLL
Approximately 2 hours away from Dr. Beasley’s O. R. - Straight shot on I-95

More Florida Airports - Further away from AutoForge.net

Miami Airport - Airport Code: MIA
Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes away from Dr. Beasley’s O. R. with great traffic conditions - Straight shot on I-95

Orlando Airport - Airport Code: MCO
Approximately 3 hours away from Dr. Beasley’s O. R. with great traffic conditions. - Must take multiple highways and/or toll roads but doable.

Hotels

Note: Pricing is dynamic and varies by dates.

These first two hotels are the closest to our training center. They are literally right down the road.

Courtyard Stuart
7615 SW Lost River Road
Stuart, Florida 34997
772-781-3344

There is an in-house restaurant, Starbucks and full bar. The Cracker Barrel, McDonald's and Chevron Gas Station/Mini Mart are right next door.

Holiday Inn Express - Stuart Florida
7900 SW Lost River Road
Stuart, FL 34997
772-287-2522

Dunkin Donuts and La Forchetta - an Italian Restaurant are both right next door in the same parking lot. I highly recommend La Forchetta - superb, authentic Italian food. Wendy's is also on the entrance road.

Continued
All other hotels are going to be a few miles down the road but still and easy drive on Kanner Road.

Comfort Suites Stuart-Hutchinson Island - (The name is misleading as this hotel is smack dab in the middle of Stuart, not on Hutchinson Island)
3423 SE Federal Highway
Stuart, FL 34997
772-888-2424
Note: I have not stayed here but past class students that have all say it's really nice and more affordable than the Courtyard Stuart. There is no in-house restaurant or bar.

Quality Inn Downtown Stuart
950 SE Federal Highway
Stuart, FL 34997
772-287-3171

Note: I have not stayed here and have no info about it. It is right next door to a very popular local restaurant Flanigan's, which does have great food and drink.

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First up - Show Car Detailing - 1963 Corvette Stingray

BEFORE Condition - Documented
We show you the cars and their condition BEFORE you sign-up for any of our classes. This 1963 Corvette looks like it was washed with a lawn rake.

TEST SPOT - Before and After Results

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We start EARLY because we cover so many topics, techniques and tools that the only way for you to take it all in is to start early.

It's Go Time!
We start at 7:30am sharp, and keep in mind, before the class can get started, they need to prep each car. In this case, we used NanoSkin Clay Towels to remove all the contamination with Dr. Beasley's Prep Wash. Afterwards, we covered the interior to protect it from any accidently compound and polish splatter. We also carefully removed the wiper arms and the hood grills.

Step 1 - Cut paint hard to remove years of neglect using rotary polishers with Dr. Beasley's NSP 95

This is the first time Kathy has used a rotary polisher, and she quickly picked up on how to correctly use it.

Here's Kathy doing EDGEWORK with an 8" wool pad on a rotary polisher.

See the chrome latch?
She's removing the swirls and scratches right next to the latch. Sure you could do this with a 1" pad on a RUPES Nano in Rotary Mode, but I teach people how to do the job in front of them with the tool ALREADY in their hands. Both options work and of course, I show everyone how to use the RUPES Nano and the FLEX PXE-80 with 1" pads in rotary mode for doing edgework. Your choice.

FLEX Prototype PE-150 Rotary Polisher from 2017
FLEX sent me their first cordless rotary polisher as a prototype to test and provide feedback. This polisher is now 9 years old, and it's been used by me and our classes to literally buff out hundreds of cars and boats and it's still going strong!

Step 2 - Remove holograms and perfect the finish using foam pads on orbital polishers with Dr. Beasley's NSP 95

Here's Aaron using the original FLEX BEAST to do the second machine polishing step and to also restore the shine to the chrome trim around the windshield.

Here's Marvin using the FLEX Supa BEAST

Here's Tom testing out the Griot's Garage G9
This is a 9mm free spinning, random orbital polisher. The primary difference between this type of tool and any of the gear-driven orbital polishers is you must CONTINUALY look to see and monitor if the buffing pad is rotating and oscillating, or stalling out and simply jiggling or vibrating against the paint - which is wasted time.

Here's Kathy testing out the FLEX Supa BEAST and Victor is testing out the original, FLEX XC 3401 VRG aka the BEAST.

I was surprised and IMPRESSED that Aaron was buffing out the small area in scoop. Any type or brand of free spinning, random orbital polishers would stall out, but with a gear-driven orbital, it's all BRAWL - ZERO STALL.

Here's Tom testing out the RUPES Mille
The Mille is a 5mm gear-driven orbital polisher. Just to note, FLEX said they measured the orbit stroke for the RUPES Mille and when they measured, the orbit stroke was 4mm.

Here's Tom testing out the Harbor Freight Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher

You can watch my video and read my blog article for this tool here,

Review: Harbor Freight HC109B Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher by Mike Phillips

The Rolls-Royce I used to test and review this polisher was in pretty bad shape before I started.

Click the link above to see all the before, after and review pictures plus the video - this is one of the best reviews I've ever written.

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Next up, installing the Dr. Beasley's Nano-Resin 2.0 Ceramic Coating

This is a 2-part system with the first part applying the Paint Coating Builder.

Next up, the class installs the Nano-Resin 2.0 Ceramic Coating

Inspecting for High Spots
Here's Kathy using an inspection light to inspect for any high spots so they can be removed before the coating hardens.

Here's Victor installing the ceramic coating.

Here's Marvin installing the Nano-Resin 2.0
If you look at the side of the fender carefully you can see the coating flashing with a rainbow shimmer to it.

Final Results!

Here's the team that made the magic happen!

Awesome work everyone and I'm pretty sure after this first training car, everyone is now warmed up and ready to move onto the next training car!

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2-Step Paint Correction and Ceramic Coating - 2013 Corvette Grand Sport

BEFORE Condition

Let's check out the current condition of the paint on this 2013 Corvette Grand Sport

TEST SPOT
Before class, I did a little test spot to see what tools, pads and product will be required to remove the swirls and scratches and get the paint back to a black mirror.

That looks much better!

Detailometer Measurements
Here's the Detailometer before measurements.

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2-Step Panit Correction Process & Ceramic Coating
The class will be using their choice of orbital polisher, and my strong admonition is to test out all the gear-driven orbital polishers first, and then test out any free spinning, random orbital polisher they're' interested in. For pads we're using the Buff and Shine maroon foam cutting pad with NSP 150 followed by the white foam polishing pads with NSP 95. To seal the paint, the class will be using the Dr. Beasley's Nano-Resin 2.0 Ceramic Coating.

Here's Marvin testing out the RUPES Mille

Here's Tom testing out the Harbor Freight HC109B Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher with the Buff and Shine EdgeGuard MAROON cutting pad.

Here's Tom testing out the RUPES Mille

Out back Victor is revisiting the FLEX BEAST

Kathy using the FLEX Supa BEAST, which is the lighter, quieter, cooler and smoother version of the original XC 3401 VRG aka the BEAST.

Small Backing Plate with Large Pad
If you look carefully, we're running 7" Buff and Shine EdgeGuard foam pads on the smaller 5" backing plate on the RUPES Mille. The larger footprint works to SMOOTH OUT the feel of the RUPES Mille making it easier to guide over different shaped body panels or when moving from one plane to a different plane.

Just to note, there is a 6" backing plate option from RUPES for the Mille, here's link,

Rupes Mille Backing Plate | 6" 150mm | For Gear Driven Polisher LK900E

Here's Kathy testing out the original FLEX BEAST!

Here's Aaron also using the BEAST

The RUPES gear-driven, 5mm Mille

Here's Tom testing out the Harbor Freight HC109B Forced Rotation Dual Action Polisher with the Buff and Shine EdgeGuard WHITE polishing pad.

The BEAST - All Brawl, Zero Stall!

I finally got a picture of Yancy, our video guy and my assistant for this class doing actual work. LOL

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Time to seal the deal, that is time to install the ceramic coating. First the class applies the Paint Coating Builder.

Next, the class installs the ceramic coating.

Here's the Final Results!

Here's the Detailometer BEFORE measurements

Here's the Detailometer AFTER measurements

Machine vs Man
Interesting thing is that even though the paint was totally swirled out, it still had good gloss and distinction of image with low haze. In the after readings the measurements improved only slightly, but to the HUMAN EYE - the before and after results are incredibly dramatic and that's what the class was aiming for, incredible results!

Here's what the numbers mean,

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1-Step Ceramic AIO - Budget Detail - 1966 Corvette Race Car

Patiently waiting for her turn...

Another opportunity to practice with a rotary polisher
Normally, I bring in car with only minor swirls, scratches, water spots and/or oxidation. This is the type of paint condition that works best for doing, or in my case, teaching how to do a 1-step paint correction process that seals the paint at the same time.

But the paint on this 1966 Corvette Race Car was so badly filled with swirls and scratches, I let the class hone their rotary polisher skills as a first step, and then we used the Dr. Beasley's NSP Z1, which is a ceramic all-in-one or AIO. In the old days these were called cleaner/waxes. Dr. Beasley's Z1 uses ceramic for protection instead of wax - that's the big difference.

It would be hard to find a car with worse, but savable paint.

Mike

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Test Spot
Here's before and after results for the test spot using only a rotary polisher. After the class gets going, the class will follow the rotary step with an orbital step using foam pads and Z1