O.C.Detailing
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- Jul 24, 2009
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John and I got asked to do the 3rd car for one of our garage buddies. We did his wife's 745i, his M6 and now this 2000 Dodge Durango 5.9 R/T. He's already had us wash and lightly detail the interior on the 745i since we polished it out and we've been asked to wash and do a heavy interior detail on his M6 sometime early next week. This car is his Sea-doo truck.
As you'll see in the befores, the paint was in REALLY bad shape. TONS of swirls and major scratches in the form of a keying that went from the rear of the truck to the very front of the truck. There was quite a bit of wetsanding and a TON of polishing. I had to go over some portions of the vehicle 2-3 times to get the defects out.
PROCESS:
- Wash via Super Suds car wash and dried with absorbers.
- Clayed via Griot's Garage Clay kit. Also had to sacrifice 2 older claybars to remove some SERIOUS road paint spatter inside all 4 of the wheel wells.
- Wheels cleaned with Meg's Wheel Brightener and aggitated with several brushes.
- Correction done via Meg's 105 on orange (Griot's) and yellow (Flex) CCS pads.
- 105 was followed up with 205 on White 6.5" CCS pads.
- LSP was Wolfgang 3.0 Sealant
- Tires and fenders dressed with Meg's All-Season Dressing
- Plastics dressed with 303 Aerospace protectant.
- All wetsanding was done with 1" square pieces of 3M 2500 Wet-or-dry paper using Showroom Shine detail spray as lube and then polished out via M105 on orange 6.5" CCS pad on the Griot's DA.
Now ONTO THE PICTURES!!!!
Pre-wash BEFORES:
Filthy!
A couple of the scratches that needed to be wet-sanded out. Some did not come out completely.
DEFECTS:
Start of the scratch that went from the back to the front of the vehicle
A bit of wet-sanding for the fans!
SERIOUS water spots on the windows with befores and 50/50:
As you'll see in the befores, the paint was in REALLY bad shape. TONS of swirls and major scratches in the form of a keying that went from the rear of the truck to the very front of the truck. There was quite a bit of wetsanding and a TON of polishing. I had to go over some portions of the vehicle 2-3 times to get the defects out.
PROCESS:
- Wash via Super Suds car wash and dried with absorbers.
- Clayed via Griot's Garage Clay kit. Also had to sacrifice 2 older claybars to remove some SERIOUS road paint spatter inside all 4 of the wheel wells.
- Wheels cleaned with Meg's Wheel Brightener and aggitated with several brushes.
- Correction done via Meg's 105 on orange (Griot's) and yellow (Flex) CCS pads.
- 105 was followed up with 205 on White 6.5" CCS pads.
- LSP was Wolfgang 3.0 Sealant
- Tires and fenders dressed with Meg's All-Season Dressing
- Plastics dressed with 303 Aerospace protectant.
- All wetsanding was done with 1" square pieces of 3M 2500 Wet-or-dry paper using Showroom Shine detail spray as lube and then polished out via M105 on orange 6.5" CCS pad on the Griot's DA.
Now ONTO THE PICTURES!!!!
Pre-wash BEFORES:
Filthy!
A couple of the scratches that needed to be wet-sanded out. Some did not come out completely.
DEFECTS:
Start of the scratch that went from the back to the front of the vehicle
A bit of wet-sanding for the fans!
SERIOUS water spots on the windows with befores and 50/50:
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