Fixed a badly detailed Jeep....a lesson in getting what you pay for

[gofast908z]

This forum member reached out to me after having an amateur detailer try to correct the paint on his Jeep. Not only was the correction performed badly, but numerous areas were not done at all. Detailing done cheap has its consequences.

Most of the exposed screws had heavily built up compound and/or wax residue. The textured satin top had been waxed despite the owner's request that it not be. This resulted in pretty bad staining, a good amount of which would not come out. The areas that had been corrected were heavily covered in DA micromarring as the previous detailer could not handle the hard clear on the Jeep. Other areas were not done at all. It was originally scheduled for a one step correction but once I saw its condition I knew it would not restore the finish enough. So I brought out Ryan to help me restore it as best as possible. We logged in a significant amount of time to fix this Jeep.





Upon arrival it was pretty dirty

Plenty of wax residue on the top.....

Considerable buildup in all the screws

After a full wash and decontamination

Staining survived through the wash and decon

The front end had been heavily corrected and heavily marred without being finished down. Much micro marring/haziness was present.

It was clear no correction work had been done here on the sides

Heavy waterspots on the right side

 

[gofast908z]

Wheels were tidied up

With most of the compounding finished, Ryan and I took it out in the sun for some pics

Waterspots on the glass still needed to be polished out

After final polishing

Final pics out in the sun after applying wax and touching up the final details

My favorite shot with the owner looking pleased at the freshly restored Jeep

Thanks for looking!

 

[PBergeronNH]

Looks great, what did you use to get the wax off of the hardtop?

 

[sharpreflection]

Nice job man as always!

 

[coqui]

Great job! How did you get off the white residue from the trim?

 

[Sicoupe]

Your work is amazing! great job my friend.

 

[Wheelzntoys]

Products? Machines?

Did customer approve extra charge?

 

[KS_Detailing]

Nice turn around :dblthumb2: I can't comprehend who thought it was a good idea to put wax on a plastic textured roof! Interested to know what you did to solve the problem.

 

[vet]

Great job!

 

[KillaCam]

Those hardtops suck, my girlfriend has one and there's not much you can do to protect it. Did you try mineral spirits to remove the wax? I figured that would work.
I'm also curious to which products were used.

 

[HateSwirls]

Outstanding work there.
Really did an awesome job on the Jeep.

 

[gofast908z]

Looks great, what did you use to get the wax off of the hardtop?

Had to use a strong solvent, but even that could not fully remove it. Owner is considering repainting the top.

 

[gofast908z]

Great job! How did you get off the white residue from the trim?

Stoner's Tarminator

Products? Machines?

Did customer approve extra charge?

Of course. I don't surprise clients with a bill they were not prepared for....thats just good business sense.

HD Cut, HD Polish, HD Poxy all by DA.

 

[noslef]

Nice fix! How long did it take?

 

[explorerlyon]

Looks great!!!

1. Why tape around the hard top and not just remove it? They come off in 10 minutes.

2. How did you compound and polish the tight areas like the rear quarter panel? Between the fender flare, gas cap, etc, there is just not a lot of room. I have Jeep Wrangler and find there is so much I cannot use a DA on becuase of all the tight areas.

 

[Pinpoint_Precision]

HD line I see. I too use a lot of the times because not only does a phenomenal job but it finishes it down perfectly and almost no dust at all, long working time. HD poxy is an amazing mountain wax. Great work. I just got a new favorite compound and that's the new Wolfgang Über 3.0, new version. Freaking amazing compound and I suggest you to try it out, if you haven't yet. Much better and improved than the last version.

 

[LatinFG2]

Awesome work!

 

[davet]

Nice work looks much better now.
We'll done

 

[RaskyR1]

Great save Jeff!

 

[oldmodman]

What did you do to remove the wax that was filling in all the spline head screws?

I had a trailer that had the same problem. I used a hot water pressure washer and it cleaned them right down to the bottom. Luckily the traier wasn't painted. The metal sheets were powder coated at the factory before assembly.