Ford Expedition......Pretty Rough Around The Edges

[jonnyboy]

Hmmmmm...... How do I explain this????

This was a rough one. This lady is a traveling salesperson and also a rancher who has over 10,000 cattle. She uses her vehicle year around 7 days a week. She also smokes 2 packs of cigarettes a day.

There was not only cattle poop all over her floors, but there was over a years worth of dirt and dust in every crevice of her vehicle. You can tell what the interior looked like by the picture of the steering wheel.

The exterior was even worse. She only takes her car to automatic car washes to clean it. There were carwash brush scratches beat into her paint. it had mud and dirt caked everywhere and all of her rubber was oxidized.

Her poor car was in need of some serious help.


Here is a breakdown of what I used:

Wheels & Wheel Wells

Amazing Roll Off -- tires and wheel wells
Meguiar's Wheel Brightener -- wheels
Meguiar's Hyper Dressing -- tires (light coat)
Griot's Undercarriage Spray -- wheel wells

Wash

Dawn Dishwashing Soap

Engine

Amazing Roll Off
Dressed with 303 Aerospace Protectant

Carpets & Upholstery

Folex -- spot treatment
Woolite 10:1 -- Cleaning
Bissell

Leather

Clean -- Woolite 10:1
Condition -- Leather CPR

Interior and Door Jams

Meguiars APC+ 4:1
Plastic treated with 303
Odoban (smell on inside of car)
Alcohol & Water 50/50 for windows
Also treated all of the rubber seals with 303 Protectant

Paint

Meguiars 105 w/ Yellow CCS pad -- 2 coats
Meguiars 205 w/Orange CCS pad -- 2 coats
Klasse AIO w/White CCS pad -- 2 coats
Collinite 845 w/Grey CCS pad -- 2 coats

Black Plastic on back bumper

Meguiar's Hyper Dressing -- 2 coats
303 Aerospace Protectant -- 2 coats


Before:

After:

Let me know what you guys think......

 

[Prowler]

Looks good. :dblthumb2:

Did you use Woolite on the steering wheel?

 

[jimmers]

Excellent job.....the steering wheel was the first thing I noticed too. It looks brand new now

 

[Birdhunter]

Nice turnaround!! :buffing:

 

[RTexasF]

Major work there no doubt about it. The car looks as new now. It looked ready for the scrap yard before.

 

[jonnyboy]

Looks good. :dblthumb2:

Did you use Woolite on the steering wheel?

I tried Woolite and it wouldn't take the gunk off. I ended up having to use Meguiars APC+ 4:1. That worked great. Then I applied Leather CPR.

Excellent job.....the steering wheel was the first thing I noticed too. It looks brand new now

That was a pretty amazing turnaround. The pictures don't even show how bad it was. It was almost completely black. Looks great now Thank you!

Nice turnaround!! :buffing:

Thanks!

Major work there no doubt about it. The car looks as new now. It looked ready for the scrap yard before.

I know! She trashes her car. Hopefully she will take care of it. But I doubt it. Oh well.....more business