17' Bass Pro Shop Pro Crappie Pro Boat Detail - First Ever!

[05gpgtp]

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Here is the beginning of photos galore. This is a 2002 17' Bass Pro Shop Crappie 175 Pro I'm doing for a client. This is my FIRST boat detail. Now this boat is neglected like crazy. Come to me spider webs, interior trashed, exterior aluminum oxidized and dull and more....

As talking with the customer, they are wanting to sell the boat, so it's not a full hardcore show style boat detail. Now the polishing is hardcore, meaning it's hard and hurts my core, lol.

Mario from Please Wash Me Detailing turned me onto wool pads for the project.

I turned to Mike Philips at Autogeek/Marine 31 to guide to me a pad to fit my old Wen 7" Rotary. This thing is an oldie but still works. Oh and I've never used a rotary either or wool pads. Soo first time boat, first time alumnuim polishing, first time wool pad and first time rotary use.
We found such pad.

Understand also I'm not polishing everything like crazy, mostly removing the top oxidation.

Now I haven't used everything in the list below yet, since boat isn't even close to being done. Just listing what I will use.

Products used:

Lake Country Mfg 8.5 inch 4 Ply 100% Twisted Wool Compounding Pad
Marine 31 Finish Cut Metal Restoring Polish
Meguiar's APC+
Bissell Shampooer with cleaner
Meguiar's Tire Gel
Meguiar's Ultimate Polish on the motor housing with hand applicator
Meguiar's NXT on the Motor Housing with hand applicator


Here is just a few pictures of the boat itself and a couple photos of some metal polishing

Before anything done

Before Polished

After Polished

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50/50 Shot

After Polished by hand, 1 application

After Polished by hand, 1 application

Before Polished

50/50 Shot

After Polished by hand, 1 application

Before Polish

50/50 Shot

After Polish

 

[05gpgtp]

Here are a few shots of before and after 1 pass of buffing


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40/20/40 shot, lol

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After 1st pass

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MORE TO COME!! STAY TUNED!!

 

[HellaBroke]

awesome work so far! thanks for posting all the pictures along the way! hope you can share some lessons learned as you go through it all.

 

[Bunky]

Looks much better !

 

[05gpgtp]

Seats cleaned with Meguiar's APC+ and scrubbed then Applied Meguiar's Gold Glass Rich Leather/Vinyl Cleaner Conditioner

Motor housing polished with Meguiar's Ultimate Polish and finished with Meguiar's Gold Glass Quick Spray Wax (was going to use NXT)

SEATS

Drivers Seats Before

Drivers Seats After

Drivers Seat Upper half Before

Drivers Seat Upper half After

Passengers Seat Before

Passengers Seat After

Rear Seat Before

Rear Seat Center Cleaned

Rear Seat After

Front Seat Before

Front Seat After

MOTOR

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OTHER MOTOR AFTER SHOTS!!

MORE PICTURES TO COME - Interior and finished exterior pics

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Here is the beginning of photos galore. This is a 2002 17' Bass Pro Shop Crappie 175 Pro I'm doing for a client. This is my FIRST boat detail.

Congratulations on the first boat detail and a fun one at that...

As talking with the customer, they are wanting to sell the boat, so it's not a full hardcore show style boat detail.

And there's nothing wrong with not doing 100% of what you know your capable of as the first priority is to match your services to your customer, then always under promise and over deliver. That's exactly what this article is about...


A few tips on starting a part-time detailing business
Match your services to your customer


Thank you for taking all the before and after pictures and sharing them on the forum. I noticed you uploaded to the AGO gallery and that's cool as we don't have to worry abut them disappearing.

Please keep us updated also after your custom sales this boat and his thoughts on how your work helped to speed up the sale and increase the value.


:xyxthumbs:

 

[Mike PhillipsMike Phillips is verified member.]

Man those were some grungy looking seats, I like these before and after shots...

Reminds me of a couple seats I clean...


1975 Vinyl Seats - Extreme Makeover



:xyxthumbs:

 

[sproketser]

Gee that s crazy work mate ! Take days right ! Keep it on .

 

[05gpgtp]

Interior Pictures - This carpet was stained pretty severely in spots, not to mentioned mold. Not everything came out, but you can see the difference.

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After - not sure why all the shadows. I'm thinking I took it when it was still wet and bad lighting. I really does look better than this pic, lol

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FINAL PICTURES OF THE EXTERIOR COMING SOON!!!! STAY TUNED!!

 

[05gpgtp]

Ok final pics to post.

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1st pass - man it's all jacked up

Yes I used that! lol

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Other Side shots After - Note: Both sides were just as bad

Full Shots

 

[05gpgtp]

Ok final pics to post.

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Yes I used that! lol

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Other Side shots After - Note: Both sides were just as bad

Full Shots

 

[05gpgtp]

Oops not sure what happened there but the "OK Final Pics" posted twice. You may remove one if you wish.

and yes those seats were bad. That one with the center cleaned was also moldy, as what those black spots were on the front.

 

[eff]

Great looking job on that turn around. Probably added like $5k to the resale value!

 

[05gpgtp]

Thank you. I do hope they get a good buck for the boat. He had a few things to do to it before sale but I'm anxious to find out what he gets for it.

 

[Nick McKees37]

Excellent work!

 

[zmcgovern45]

I've just added 'boats' to the list of things I will never work on lol

Great work! How long did that take? Looks like a TON of work both inside and out!

 

[05gpgtp]

It was right around 14 hours.

 

[Setec Astronomy]

Ha ha, even though I know what it means, it's still funny to me that a company would name a model the "Pro Crappie". After looking at the before pics I'm sure plenty of other members think you got saddled with a "crappy" detail--great turnaround!

 

[05gpgtp]

yeah it was crappie for sure, lol. The name fit it's look!

 

[HellaBroke]

I've just added 'boats' to the list of things I will never work on lol

Great work! How long did that take? Looks like a TON of work both inside and out!

Hahaha



Good work it looks great. Im sure it will help in resale.

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