{"id":84448,"date":"2006-10-19T14:04:37","date_gmt":"2006-10-19T05:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=84448"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:40:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:40:58","slug":"challenging-carguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20061019\/everyday-events\/challenging-carguard","title":{"rendered":"Challenging Carguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"decob-1393906283\" class=\"decob- decob-entity-placement\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/advertise\" aria-label=\"ad_sample_1456_180_1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png\" alt=\"\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1.png 1456w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-300x37.png 300w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-1024x127.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/04\/ad_sample_1456_180_1-768x95.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1456px) 100vw, 1456px\" width=\"812\" height=\"100\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_42654585_4.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_42654585_5.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_42654585_6.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/imp\/674393_42654585_7.jpg\" \/><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/> The oven finally arrived, so I decided to give carguard coating a try right away.<br \/>\nFirst, I strip off the old coating with sandpaper to clean it up. Then I degrease it and blow it thoroughly with compressed air before<br \/>\npopping it in the oven. I might need to run a temperature control test here first.<br \/>\nIt&#8217;s not flowing smoothly at all. The sandpaper grit is too coarse, and the temperature is rising too high,<br \/>\nso the finish ends up looking matte.<br \/>\nThe color is darker than the old carguard.<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve realized this is quite a labor-intensive job.<br \/>\nPhew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The oven finally arrived, so I decided to give carguard coating a try right away. First, I strip off the old coating with sandpaper to clean it up. Then I degrease it and blow it thoroughly with compressed air before popping it in the oven. I might need to run a temperature control test here first. It&#8217;s not flowing smoothly at all. The sandpaper grit is too coarse, and the temperature is rising too high, so the finish ends up looking matte. The color is darker than the old carguard. I&#8217;ve realized this is quite a labor-intensive job. Phew!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84447,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-84448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}