Whitethunder46
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Well, it's done. 8 hours of labor with an hour of good help from my girl.
Background: It only has 35,000 miles on it but it seems like it has 200,000.
Payment: $110 It is a family truck and is my late grandfather's. Normal charge would be $225.
Process: (Exterior)
Wash with NXT and APC+ 10:1 in some areas. White Shmitt on some areas, black wheel shmitt in others. 2 bucket method with pressure washer.
Front end I use a combo of Stoner's tarminator and Megs Body Solvent, really worked quite well with the black wheel shmitt. I also used this method on the bottom of the rear bumper behind the wheels.
Running boards I used DP's Gel wheel cleaner since they were an uncoated aluminum.
Wheels received Megs Wheel Bright 4:1, tires Purple power 1:1, and fender wells.... well, they pretty much got everything I had (tarminator, APC+, body solvent, purple power, Armor All tire cleaner, etc.)
Tires dressed with Megs Hot shine Gel
Windows cleaned with DP's Krystal Vision
Wheels polished with #0000 steel wool and Mother's chrome polish. Also use this method on front bumper and rear bumper. Running boards also polished this way.
Side mirrors receive Klasse AIO used as a cleaner.
Front windshied polished with #0000 steel wool and Klasse AIO, followed by AIO on Blue edge pad via PC speed 5.5
All exterior black trim received 303 Protectant
Engine:
Cleaned with DP Engine cleaner on parts, and Purple Power 1:1 on others. Scrubbed with Megs Wheel brush.
Dressed with Zep All Around
Paint Polish:
Hood got XMT4 and yellow Edge pad via PC speed 6, followed by Edge orange and OP speed 6. Yea, it took about 45 min. I pretty much ran out of time, so I went ahead and used XMT 360 via PC Green pad for the rest of the truck. I mainly used it as a cleaner and it worked very very well.
Followed this with Edge orange pad and Pink Moose speed 5.
Semi-worked it in to clean the paint more. dDd the entire truck then buffed off.
Followed this with Souveran Paste.
Interior:
WOW! It was DIRTY!! Used APC+ 10:1 on the entire interior. On the floor mat I used a Black shmitt and just cleaned it like it was part of the truck. Dried with an old bath towel.
I tried some NXT Tire foam on some areas of the floor mat, didn't really do anything for me. So, I went with some 303 protectant. Holy crap, I have a new favorite interior dressing for semi-gloss looks. I usually use Optimum Protectant, which I love, but gives an extremely matte finish.
I also used 303 on the floormat.
Seats received Megs Leather cleaner/conditioner.
DG Oder removal and in air vents
Now for ALL the pics!!
Before:
AFTER:
Background: It only has 35,000 miles on it but it seems like it has 200,000.
Payment: $110 It is a family truck and is my late grandfather's. Normal charge would be $225.
Process: (Exterior)
Wash with NXT and APC+ 10:1 in some areas. White Shmitt on some areas, black wheel shmitt in others. 2 bucket method with pressure washer.
Front end I use a combo of Stoner's tarminator and Megs Body Solvent, really worked quite well with the black wheel shmitt. I also used this method on the bottom of the rear bumper behind the wheels.
Running boards I used DP's Gel wheel cleaner since they were an uncoated aluminum.
Wheels received Megs Wheel Bright 4:1, tires Purple power 1:1, and fender wells.... well, they pretty much got everything I had (tarminator, APC+, body solvent, purple power, Armor All tire cleaner, etc.)
Tires dressed with Megs Hot shine Gel
Windows cleaned with DP's Krystal Vision
Wheels polished with #0000 steel wool and Mother's chrome polish. Also use this method on front bumper and rear bumper. Running boards also polished this way.
Side mirrors receive Klasse AIO used as a cleaner.
Front windshied polished with #0000 steel wool and Klasse AIO, followed by AIO on Blue edge pad via PC speed 5.5
All exterior black trim received 303 Protectant
Engine:
Cleaned with DP Engine cleaner on parts, and Purple Power 1:1 on others. Scrubbed with Megs Wheel brush.
Dressed with Zep All Around
Paint Polish:
Hood got XMT4 and yellow Edge pad via PC speed 6, followed by Edge orange and OP speed 6. Yea, it took about 45 min. I pretty much ran out of time, so I went ahead and used XMT 360 via PC Green pad for the rest of the truck. I mainly used it as a cleaner and it worked very very well.
Followed this with Edge orange pad and Pink Moose speed 5.
Semi-worked it in to clean the paint more. dDd the entire truck then buffed off.
Followed this with Souveran Paste.
Interior:
WOW! It was DIRTY!! Used APC+ 10:1 on the entire interior. On the floor mat I used a Black shmitt and just cleaned it like it was part of the truck. Dried with an old bath towel.
I tried some NXT Tire foam on some areas of the floor mat, didn't really do anything for me. So, I went with some 303 protectant. Holy crap, I have a new favorite interior dressing for semi-gloss looks. I usually use Optimum Protectant, which I love, but gives an extremely matte finish.
I also used 303 on the floormat.
Seats received Megs Leather cleaner/conditioner.
DG Oder removal and in air vents
Now for ALL the pics!!
Before:
AFTER:
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