Dodge Ram Clear Coats?

[ajnavo61490]

How hard/soft are the new Dodge Ram 1500 CC's? The truck i looked at had severe buffer trails on the hood since the front end was worked on recently. Owner wanted them taken out when I detail it in the next few weeks. This truck is an 06-08 model.

[slicknickis3]

In my experience, the clear coat on Ram's has been anywhere from medium to soft. I've never had one that was difficult to work on though.

I removed HEAVY swirling on a 1500 with a combo of IP on orange and 106ff on white.

[hockeyplaya13]

Ah, well my truck is pretty darn hard. I use a PC, 5" orange pads and IP to cut through the big stuff (only done this once), and white pads and 106ff for the light swirls twice a year. SIP would probably knock them out no problem though.

[toyotaguy]

on the other hand I have done a dodge E series van and it laughed at rotary/yellow/PG...

hopefully the trucks are different....

[slicknickis3]

It's really crazy to see the variance in everyones experiences.

I used IP on an orange pad at about 1400 RPM's
I followed that up with 106FF on a white pad at speed 6 UDM.

That combo cleared up some severe swirling.

[ajnavo61490]

Originally Posted by hockeyplaya13

Ah, well my truck is pretty darn hard. I use a PC, 5" orange pads and IP to cut through the big stuff (only done this once), and white pads and 106ff for the light swirls twice a year. SIP would probably knock them out no problem though.

thats good... i have SIP

ill try a test spot of SIP via rotary w/ white pad and see that i come up with