Polished the new ride! 2005 Ford Taurus SE

[Shane731]

For those of you who don't know, I first mentioned this car in this thread: http://www.autogeekonline.net/forum/off-topic/69440-i-got-new-car.html. I was able to give it a full detail, including interior, jams, engine, trunk area, glass, trim, and paint. I did pay somebody to shampoo the seats and carpets, as the previous owner did not use floor mats, so they were pretty bad and required the use of an extractor. Looks tons better, but I am considering carpet replacement in the future. Also on my wish list are new speakers (driver's side front speaker needs to be replaced anyway) and window tint. Will also be painting the steel wheels some time soon. Anyway, for the purposes of this thread, I am going to primarily focus on the paint and trim. Besides, that's pretty much all I took pictures of. Process is as follows.


Tires, wheel covers, and wheel wells
Meguiar's Super Degreaser
Assorted brushes

Glass
Clay with Meguiar's blue clay and Last Touch 1:1
Detailer's Pro Series Glass Restorer
IPA wipedown
Opti-Glass glass coating

Trim
Cleaned with APC and IPA wipedown
CarPro DLux

Paint - Wash and Decontamination
Dodo Juice Crudzilla on lower portions
Blackfire APC 4:1 with assorted brushes and tools in emblems and crevices
Wash with Chemical Guys Wash and Clear
Iron X with Lake Country blue sponge
Meguiar's blue clay and Last Touch 1:1

Paint - Correction
Meguiar's Ultimate Compound with Lake Country orange CCS pad on Flex 3401
D300/CarPro Fixer with Optimum Microfiber pad on Flex 3401 on hood and trunk lid

Paint - Protection
Dodo Juice Iron Gloss Paint Sealant (2 coats, 24 hours between coats)



Before pics

grime and faded trim

scratches in the hood

Iron X working on the hood

roof

trunk

rear

bloody runoff

cleaned and decontaminated and waiting to be polished

 

[Shane731]

RIDS and swirls on trunk lid

more RIDS

all gone!

faded trim

faded smooth door trim before

after Meguiar's UC with 4 inch LC orange CCS pad on Flex 3401

other side

polished quarter panel

polished roof

scratches on hood; dull reflection

after

fingernail scratches

after Ultimate Compound with a microfiber applicator

all polished - no LSP

 

[Shane731]

After Dodo Juice Iron Gloss Paint Sealant

Afters

a little road grime here - took a couple of these after pics after some driving

Sorry this was not a better writeup. I really forgot to focus on taking good before and after pics - got more involved with the detailing than I did with pics. Just to note - Dodo Juice Iron Gloss Paint Sealant was very easy to use. I applied to the whole car, let it sit for about 45 minutes, and then removed. It came off effortlessly and left a very nice shine and a slick finish. Working on some beading testing - I will try and take some video next time I wash it. Couldn't find any beading or sheeting videos of this product online, so I guess mine could potentially be the first. Sweet! Im the MAN Also forgot to mention that I painted the front grill with plastic trim paint, but didn't get any pictures of that. Thanks for looking! As always, comments, constructive criticism, and suggestions are welcome!

 

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Lookin good Shane. There was a bit of contamination on there.

I'm sure the difference with the painted grill looks much better than before.

 

[Shane731]

:bump:

 

[hernandez.art13]

Good job. Yeah I've been working on taking good before and after pictures. I always get caught up on Detailing lol.

I really like the CarPro Dlux. In the future I might get it. There are other Detailing equipment taking it's place of the Dlux for the time being.

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^ you can also crop the pictures for it to concentrate on the specific area too. For future pictures.

 

[Vegas Transplant]

I love silver paint.
Excellent work and write up.
Metal flake is POPPIN'!

Congrats on the new ride hand rops: