Coach Steve
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Last week I posted some pics of a neighbor's truck I was hired to detail this past weekend. After requests by some to start a thread with pics of the results, here it is.
My original post about this job and pics of the truck is located here:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/auto-detailing-101/74464-look-what-i-get-do-weekend.html
It took up pretty much the entire weekend give or take and while the results are stark and impressive, the truck is far from what I would consider to be a "nice ride".
Every newbie should have to take on a vehicle like this just prior to going pro because this one had it all... holograms, swirls, scratches of varying depth, road paint, water spots professionally baked-in by the Arizona sun, cloudy headlights, sun-bleached plastic trim pieces, severe clear coat fracturing/crow's feet on the lateral surfaces... you name it, it had it!
As for what I used, I kept it really simple in an effort to make at least a little $$ on this job. Oh sure, I could have used a specific product for each and every issue but that would have eaten away at any profit I was trying to make on this one. After washing and claying, I decided to put Meg's Ultimate line to the Ultimate test ( <----- see what I did there...? ). I compounded the entire truck with UC, then polished it with Ult. Polish and finished it off with 2 coats of Ult. Wax applied about 12-13 hrs. apart. Not surprisingly, the toughest issue I ended up facing was the years-old water spots. They were a ##### to remove. But with some persuading with some vinegar and heavy-handed compounding, I managed to remove 99% of them.
Here are the results...
Holograms left by the last "detailer" long ago...
Gone!
A good representation of the swirls that covered the entire truck.
Gone!
Hood
After
Some random shots before...
Some random shots after...
I'll take a few more later today and add them to this thread.
All in all it turned out pretty good although the scratches that remain are actually more like gouges but they don't stand out too awfully bad. At some point during the process it became personal and I stopped worrying about the number of hours it was taking and more about how good of a total transformation I could make it. I know the owner is going to be shocked when he sees it and that's what it's all about, right? I jsut hope I succeeded in accomplishing the goal he wanted - to get more for it as a trade -in than he would have gotten otherwise.
Thanks for looking!
Steve
My original post about this job and pics of the truck is located here:
http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/auto-detailing-101/74464-look-what-i-get-do-weekend.html
It took up pretty much the entire weekend give or take and while the results are stark and impressive, the truck is far from what I would consider to be a "nice ride".
Every newbie should have to take on a vehicle like this just prior to going pro because this one had it all... holograms, swirls, scratches of varying depth, road paint, water spots professionally baked-in by the Arizona sun, cloudy headlights, sun-bleached plastic trim pieces, severe clear coat fracturing/crow's feet on the lateral surfaces... you name it, it had it!
As for what I used, I kept it really simple in an effort to make at least a little $$ on this job. Oh sure, I could have used a specific product for each and every issue but that would have eaten away at any profit I was trying to make on this one. After washing and claying, I decided to put Meg's Ultimate line to the Ultimate test ( <----- see what I did there...? ). I compounded the entire truck with UC, then polished it with Ult. Polish and finished it off with 2 coats of Ult. Wax applied about 12-13 hrs. apart. Not surprisingly, the toughest issue I ended up facing was the years-old water spots. They were a ##### to remove. But with some persuading with some vinegar and heavy-handed compounding, I managed to remove 99% of them.
Here are the results...
Holograms left by the last "detailer" long ago...
Gone!
A good representation of the swirls that covered the entire truck.
Gone!
Hood
After
Some random shots before...
Some random shots after...
I'll take a few more later today and add them to this thread.
All in all it turned out pretty good although the scratches that remain are actually more like gouges but they don't stand out too awfully bad. At some point during the process it became personal and I stopped worrying about the number of hours it was taking and more about how good of a total transformation I could make it. I know the owner is going to be shocked when he sees it and that's what it's all about, right? I jsut hope I succeeded in accomplishing the goal he wanted - to get more for it as a trade -in than he would have gotten otherwise.
Thanks for looking!
Steve