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Old 06-27-09, 09:07   #1 (permalink)
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Horizon Detailing: 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee

This Jeep is my Mom's daily driver, and it has been used like one. The paint was beat-up, has never seen a detail before or a wax. It is a blast to drive with the 325 hp and 370 hp. I was going for about 98% correction, all swirls gone with just a couple RIDS left that were just way too deep. Not too many befores and some of the pictures are iPhone pics, so sorry in advance.


Wash:
Meguiars Gold Class (Before)
Majestic Solutions Ultragloss (After LSP)
2BM
Sheepskin mitt
Uber red and blue WW drying towels

Clay:
Riccardo
Adam's Quick Detailer
Uber red towels

Paint:
Makita 9227C/3M Perfect-It backing plate
Step 1: Lake Country Purple Foamed Wool/M105
Step 2: Uber Blue Polishing Pad/3M Ultrafina
Areas that weren't so bad: Uber Green Polishing Pad/ Menzerna P203S
CG's Monster towels
Uber Original MF Towels
M105 inside handles

LSP:
2 coats of Collinite 915
Uber Red notched applicator
Uber No Name Super Plush towel

Misc:
303 Aerospace
Various Brushes and MF towels
P21S wheel Gel
Folex
Meguiars Hyper Dressing
Meguiars APC +
Stoner's More Shine Tire Shine
Leather Master's Vital Reconditioning Cream
Leather Master's Strong Cleaner
NXT 2.0 In Door Jambs
Surf City Grime Destroyer
Stoner's Tarminator
Meguiars All Metal Polish
0000 Steel Wool
Poorboy's Wheel Sealant

Start with wheels: 4 Years of brake dust required steel wool and metal polish to remove.




After:

No Dressing:



Paint: All kinds of messed up in different areas, even permanent etching from windsheild washer fluid and some kinds things that ate through the clearcoat. Lot's of RIDS. I had pictures of the correction of the RIDS, but my Mom deleted them to make room for vacation pictures. All were removed or significantly diminished, save for one that was extremely deep, down to the metal. I had a hard time capturing swirls because of the metallic.

Hard time capturing how bad it was:


Corrected:


Before:


Corrected, look at the flake!:


Before:


50/50:


After:



Where the bad swirls were before, don't mind the polish that I didn't wipe away yet:



After, Reflection shots. Took it to the closest parking lot that was somewhat nice. LSP was 2 coats of Collinite 915, 24 hours apart. I think it came out pretty well, I was very happy with it. Notice the great glow











This Picture shows one of the spots where the clear coat had been permanently etched through by something:


And my favorite:


Total time: ~20 hours

Comments/criticism appreciated. Thanks for reading!
 
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Old 06-27-09, 09:14   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Horizon Detailing: 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Looks great, details on the steel wool procedure?
 
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Looks great, details on the steel wool procedure?
Thanks! I used steel wool on the rims and the exhaust since nothing else would fix them. I'm assuming you mean for the rims.

I throughly cleaned the rims with P21S, which left me with only the caked on brake dust, then I just used Meguiars All-Metal Polish along with the finest grade steel wool(0000) on the rims and with some scrubbing, the brake dust came off. I then followed up with M105, but to be honest it didn't really do anything. I then finished with 3 coats of Poorboy's Wheel Sealant.
 
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looks great darkstar!
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looks great darkstar!
Thanks man!
 
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