Black Ford F-150

[golfdude]

While detailing a Lotus Elise a while back, the owner of this F-150 came along and asked to have his truck detailed. He never called me back when I gave him my card. But, recently, when I went back to detail the same Elise again, this guy came along and this time the sale was executed. Here was the process:

-wash

-clay bar

-OHC and edge 2000 orange foam via metabo rotary (I used the "Zenith"??? technique I recently read from a forum member, thank-you forum member. It suggests a gradual increase then decrease of rotary rpm`s between 600rpm`s and a max rpm, about 1800rpm for this truck I believe). It`s supposed to help break-down the polish better and create less surface imperfections to clean-up. It took longer to do but I feel it worked well. I broke down the optimum polish really well with this technique

-OP via pc and edge 2000 Green foam pad

-PS via pc and edge 2000 blue foam pad

-OS

-Collinite 476S for protection, as the owner wanted max protection

-wheel wells cleaned with PB bug squash and dressed with AA tire foam

-bleach white cleaned the tire`s, black magic tire wet dressed them



Here are the before pictures...it looked good after a wash and clay bar, right??? WRONG!

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During...passenger`s side polished, driver`s side untouched:

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Passenger`s side hood polished, side panel not

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Hood polished, side not

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Paint complete:

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Me, taking the picture into the paint, and the best detailing partner and friend!

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Walking away saying goodbye:

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[golfdude]

Oh yeah...WOO WOO for tripods! I got one and it certainly has helped my picture-taking abilities.

[Skimoab]

Beautiful. How long did it take?

[Bigpoppa3346]

Nice turn-around. I am also curious as to how long it took.

[golfdude]

Thank-you all for the comments. We arrived at 9am (~60mile drive), and left at about 8:30pm. We took about an hour and a half in breaks and stuff. This was the fastest vehicle to have it`s body washed and clay-barred, and it`s wheels, wheel wells, tires cleaned, and completely dry as well. It took us about an hour and 15 minutes to do all of that. By myself it would of probably taken minimum 2.5 hours. The interior was also vacummed, the panes were wiped-down with an mf to remove dust, and the upholstery was spot-cleaned. Now, playing around with all sorts of products and stuff takes time to figure out what works best as well. I noticed on the forum many people go from a cutting pad and polish straight to a finishing pad and finishing polish. I tried all sorts of products and machines, but this longer process seemed to have produced the best results. I am very slow with foam and a rotary, which hurts my time significantly. The Edge wool pads which are much easier and faster that I purchased very recently, well, I forgot them!!!! Oh well, you do what you can do.

[Brian_Brice]

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now that`s a money shot! Great work.