Joe in PA
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- Aug 30, 2010
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Just a few pic of a recent detailing I did on my 2004 Grand Cherokee. The vehicle is a daily driver that is driven hard and put away wet. The odometer shows nearly 120k miles and it was in need of some serious love.
The headlights needed a little work and I shined them up by wet sanding through 2000 grit, followed by buffing with M105, M205 and hand polishing with plastx.
Before
After
The engine compartment had not been cleaned in some time, so I turned my attention there next. A little cleaning with meg's APC+ and an assortment of brushes, followed by a little 303 protectant had things looking much better.
Before
After
Unfortunately, I do not have any good before pics of the over all paint quality but it had a nice collection of swirls and scratches. I used a combination of megs ultimate compound w/ LC orange light cutting pads, M205 w/ LC white polishing pads, blackfire's high gloss polish w/ LC blue finishing pads to get the paint back into decent shape. To protect the paint, blackfire's wet diamond sealant was applied using LC blue finishing pads and dodo juice's supernatural wax was applied by hand.
After UC & M205
After blackfire wet diamond sealant
After DoDo super natural wax
The rubber and plastic trim were cleaned/treated with a combination of Mother's back to black (hard plastic) and 303 protectant (soft trim and rubber seals). The windows were then cleaned up with stoner window cleaner and the tires dressed with stoner tire dressing. The powder and clear coated wheels were dressed with a little poorboy's natty blue wax.
With the outside finished, I turned my attention to the interior where it took no more than a solid vacuuming aided by a stiff bristled interior brush, a few mf towels and a bottle of meg's quick interior detailer to spruce things up a bit.
With the Jeep looking its best, I took a short drive over to a local memorial for those who have given all in the middle east and snapped a few quick glamor shots. It was a very fitting setting for a Freedom Edition of an American auto legend.
The headlights needed a little work and I shined them up by wet sanding through 2000 grit, followed by buffing with M105, M205 and hand polishing with plastx.
Before
After
The engine compartment had not been cleaned in some time, so I turned my attention there next. A little cleaning with meg's APC+ and an assortment of brushes, followed by a little 303 protectant had things looking much better.
Before
After
Unfortunately, I do not have any good before pics of the over all paint quality but it had a nice collection of swirls and scratches. I used a combination of megs ultimate compound w/ LC orange light cutting pads, M205 w/ LC white polishing pads, blackfire's high gloss polish w/ LC blue finishing pads to get the paint back into decent shape. To protect the paint, blackfire's wet diamond sealant was applied using LC blue finishing pads and dodo juice's supernatural wax was applied by hand.
After UC & M205
After blackfire wet diamond sealant
After DoDo super natural wax
The rubber and plastic trim were cleaned/treated with a combination of Mother's back to black (hard plastic) and 303 protectant (soft trim and rubber seals). The windows were then cleaned up with stoner window cleaner and the tires dressed with stoner tire dressing. The powder and clear coated wheels were dressed with a little poorboy's natty blue wax.
With the outside finished, I turned my attention to the interior where it took no more than a solid vacuuming aided by a stiff bristled interior brush, a few mf towels and a bottle of meg's quick interior detailer to spruce things up a bit.
With the Jeep looking its best, I took a short drive over to a local memorial for those who have given all in the middle east and snapped a few quick glamor shots. It was a very fitting setting for a Freedom Edition of an American auto legend.
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