1st post-worthy detail; 2009 Ford Ranger

Laura

Laura

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Santa brought me a PC, and my step-dad let me practice on his Ranger daily driver. I wasn't after perfection; just improvement for the truck and knowledge/experience for me. After 21 hours and that many MF towels, here's the result:

Wash
Foam gun w/DP Xtreme Foam and 1 cap of ONR
Boars Hair Brush
Guzzler

Wheels, Wheel wells, & Tires
PB Wheel & Tire Cleaner
Daytona Speed Brush and small tire brush
Wolfgang Black Diamond Tire Gel

Clay
Wolfgang Poly Clay & Lube

Engine
DP Final Gloss on painted surfaces
DP Cleanse-All Exterior Cleaner on everything else I could reach

Interior
Metro Vac-N-Blo (I love this little vacuum!!!)
DP Total Interior Cleaner on all plastic surfaces

Paint
Pennicle XMT Swirl Remover2
Klasse AIO
Wolfgang DGPS
Dodo Juice Hard Candy

Windows
Stoners Invisible Glass

Here the general before condition:
Before_fullview.jpg


It had these spots on the hood and cab:
Before_hood.jpg


Door handle before & after:
Before_doorhandle.jpg

After_doorhandle.jpg


Interior before & after:
Before_side_interior.jpg

After_side_interior.jpg


Before_full_interior.jpg

After_full_interior.jpg


Engine before & after:
Before_engine.jpg

After_engine.jpg


Wheel well before & after (could have spent a little more time on this, but I didn't):
Before_wheelwell.jpg

After_wheelwell.jpg


And those rewarding after shots:
After_fullview.jpg


Hood reflection in the garage (no more spots!):
After_bike_reflection.jpg


And finally, my favorite:
After_car_reflection.jpg



All feedback or questions are welcome! Thanks for looking!
 
Truck looks much better, very nice first post you may want to think about using a water based dressing on your engine jobs. Just a suggestion, something like PB Bold & Bright or even CD-2 engine detailer from auto zone though CD-2 is not water based. check out the difference here No touch engine detail! - DetailCity.org - Auto Detailing & Car Detailing Forum
I was a total newbie when I did this engine and now would not reccommend the use of gunk engine bright.
 
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:applause: Very nice work. 21 hours is quite a bit of time. I just finished detailing a Nissan Frontier yesterday and took a bit over 10 hours to finish, but your results look better. Good job.
 
Good job...was this your first full detail? If so, you did a damm good job.
 
LDJaxon said:
Engine
DP Final Gloss on painted surfaces
DP Cleanse-All Exterior Cleaner on everything else I could reach

Engine before & after:
Before_engine.jpg

After_engine.jpg
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May I make a suggestion about the dressing on the engine? You might look at using Stoner's More Shine. That is what I dress my clients engines with.

From THIS:

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To THIS:

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You still have done an awsome job on the Ranger!! :dblthumb2:
 
great job! my first detail took like 20+hours to. i was so nervous using the pc. took my time and the job came out great. now i'll work on speeding up.
 
kronos said:
:applause: Very nice work. 21 hours is quite a bit of time. I just finished detailing a Nissan Frontier yesterday and took a bit over 10 hours to finish, but your results look better. Good job.
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Rsurfer said:
Good job...was this your first full detail? If so, you did a damm good job.
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flb18r said:
wow you did better than my 1st. Im jealous!!! hehe
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cooksnj said:
great job! my first detail took like 20+hours to. i was so nervous using the pc. took my time and the job came out great. now i'll work on speeding up.
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Thank you very much. This was my first post-worthy detail, and the first time I did everything together. Until now I had only done pieces of the exterior or the interior of either our cars or my parents'. The time was spread over 4 days while the whole family was home, so there were stops and starts and interuptions; plus, I worked pretty slow. I hope the next time it will be quicker!


tuscarora dave said:
Truck looks much better, very nice first post you may want to think about using a water based dressing on your engine jobs. Just a suggestion, something like PB Bold & Bright or even CD-2 engine detailer from auto zone though CD-2 is not water based. check out the difference here No touch engine detail! - DetailCity.org - Auto Detailing & Car Detailing Forum
I was a total newbie when I did this engine and now would not reccommend the use of gunk engine bright.
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SRHTX said:
May I make a suggestion about the dressing on the engine? You might look at using Stoner's More Shine. That is what I dress my clients engines with.
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DLB said:
You did a great job! That looks wonderful.

Since everyone is throwing in their $.02 on the engine - I like 303.
Here's some links - don't want to take away from your thread.
http://daltonblevins.com/autogeek/Blevins Trailblazer/eng06b.JPG
http://daltonblevins.com/autogeek/Blevins Trailblazer/eng06a.JPG

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I couldn't decide what to do about the engine. I didn't have any products that seemed fitting, and I was scared to just take the hose to it. After spending time wiping everything down, it's not quite as intimidating as when I first started. I'll definitely spend some time researching products to use in the future.
 
Very nice work. You put a lot of sparkle back into the paint finish. The rest of the truck is just as nice now too. :dblthumb2:
 
Great before and after pictures of your detail. Keep up the great work.
 
Looks great! Night and day difference! Way to go! :xyxthumbs:
 
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