richy
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- Mar 27, 2007
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My father is 80 years old and used to build hotrods when he was a kid. He's lowered this truck and had custom made fender skirts for it. Very unique looking truck as a result!
I coated his truck at least 3 years ago. It was due. It also had some bad scratches in it from using the wrong thing to remove snow. I had filled in the scratches a few weeks ago. I wasn't going to be leveling any of them. This was a case of make it look better, not perfect. The hood was badly scratched and received the most work, but here it is as it arrived:
I was also doing the interior, specifically targeting this back seat carpet stain:
The wheels were done with the wells being cleaned by LATA, the tires by Zep 505 and the barrels and faces cleaned with Zep Citrus using various brushes and 3D Pink Soap. The trim was cleaned with LATA and agitated with a brush. The paint was cleaned, foamed and clayed with a clay towel.
The hood was compounded using Flex 3401 and M100 and a black wool 3D pad. I found the sweet spot for removing defects was about speed 4. Anything higher did not result in more correction but did generate dusting. At 4 it was not dusting, but yet was correcting the defects.
There were some other areas that needed that stage as well, but I tried to limit the time spent chasing bad defects. My goal was to dramatically improve the paint, with no illusions of perfection. That's also why I steered him to Ceramic and not Self Heal Lite....didn't make sense on this one. Any defect removal was followed up with a yellow B/S pad + M205. The rest of the paint just got the M205 stage. It was doing remarkably well at getting the paint to glow although I was having to clean the pad at least once a panel as it was pulling a lot of crap out of the paint. The chrome bumpers got polished with the Flex and 205 as well. The running boards were hand polished with M205 as well. I used Ceramic to coat the boards, chrome and all, and all of the remaining trim. Ceramic does very well on trim.
The interior was vacuumed first and then I used my Mytee Lite extractor after spraying the carpet with Zep carpet cleaner and agitating it with a DA and a carpet cleaning attachment. The leather seats and plastic door grabs were quite dirty and were cleaned using my interior cleaning pad and Optimum Power Clean. That was followed by using UWW lightly misted on the seats and then wiped down well with a dry mf. That got them clean and smooth to the touch.
Here it is 19 hours later with both inside (at night) and outside shots:
Thanks for looking. We was very, very pleased, which made me proud.
I coated his truck at least 3 years ago. It was due. It also had some bad scratches in it from using the wrong thing to remove snow. I had filled in the scratches a few weeks ago. I wasn't going to be leveling any of them. This was a case of make it look better, not perfect. The hood was badly scratched and received the most work, but here it is as it arrived:
I was also doing the interior, specifically targeting this back seat carpet stain:
The wheels were done with the wells being cleaned by LATA, the tires by Zep 505 and the barrels and faces cleaned with Zep Citrus using various brushes and 3D Pink Soap. The trim was cleaned with LATA and agitated with a brush. The paint was cleaned, foamed and clayed with a clay towel.
The hood was compounded using Flex 3401 and M100 and a black wool 3D pad. I found the sweet spot for removing defects was about speed 4. Anything higher did not result in more correction but did generate dusting. At 4 it was not dusting, but yet was correcting the defects.
There were some other areas that needed that stage as well, but I tried to limit the time spent chasing bad defects. My goal was to dramatically improve the paint, with no illusions of perfection. That's also why I steered him to Ceramic and not Self Heal Lite....didn't make sense on this one. Any defect removal was followed up with a yellow B/S pad + M205. The rest of the paint just got the M205 stage. It was doing remarkably well at getting the paint to glow although I was having to clean the pad at least once a panel as it was pulling a lot of crap out of the paint. The chrome bumpers got polished with the Flex and 205 as well. The running boards were hand polished with M205 as well. I used Ceramic to coat the boards, chrome and all, and all of the remaining trim. Ceramic does very well on trim.
The interior was vacuumed first and then I used my Mytee Lite extractor after spraying the carpet with Zep carpet cleaner and agitating it with a DA and a carpet cleaning attachment. The leather seats and plastic door grabs were quite dirty and were cleaned using my interior cleaning pad and Optimum Power Clean. That was followed by using UWW lightly misted on the seats and then wiped down well with a dry mf. That got them clean and smooth to the touch.
Here it is 19 hours later with both inside (at night) and outside shots:
Thanks for looking. We was very, very pleased, which made me proud.
