Ford Escort - THE WORST OF THE WORST

**03k20a2** · 08-13-2008, 10:55 PM

This car belongs to my mother`s friend. She just got it from her mother who well lets say was an absolute slob. The car only has 26,000 miles but seems like it has 226,000. The original plan was to focus only on the inside and not worry about the outside. She didnt even want me to wash it but I did anyways. After I washed it, the paint was absolute death. This was the worst oxidation that I have ever seen, it looked like chalk and felt like a chalkboard. I called her and said I could buff it just to make it shine and she agreed. I tackled the interior first, which took me about 6 hours. I finally gave up on my LGCM and I boiled water and stuck my MF towels in the boiling water and placed them on the carpets and it worked great. The outside was terrible, after each pass I had to use my brush on the wool to remove all the dead paint. It was a nightmare. My goal was to just make it shine.

Process:

Pressure Wash Exterior

Dawn Wash

OHC w/ Wool Pad @ 2100rpms

OHC w/ Yellow Pad @ 1500rpms

Megs #83 w/ White Pad @ 1500rpms

OCW by hand

Interior:

Vacuum, Vacuum, Vacuum....

Pretreat carpet with Folex

Agitate and vacuum

DP Carpet and Upholstery Cleaner (generous)

Boiling Hot Water and MF Towels soak on carpet

Extract with Shop Vac

All interior pieces cleaned with Megs APC (3:1)

Dressed with Armor All

Windows got Stoners Invisible Glass

ONTO THE PICS:

Exterior Befores:

*The whole car looked like this*

*PRESSURE WASHED OFF*

Exterior Durings:

*AFTER ONE PASS*

*YELLOW PAD AFTER ONE PASS*

Interior Befores:

*AFTER VACUUM*

**03k20a2** · 08-13-2008, 10:59 PM

Exterior Afters:

Interior Afters:

**qwertydude** · 08-13-2008, 11:14 PM

What is the black stuff? It doesn`t seem like oxidation. This is a job for NuFinish, why waste a good polish when NuFinish makes a good first step for that lol.

**AuAltima3.5** · 08-13-2008, 11:17 PM

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wow

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**imported_advs1** · 08-13-2008, 11:23 PM

good lord, did she live in that thing?? 26k and it looked like that?? she needs a vinyl interior, with plastic covers on everything.

great turn around, the interior looks awesome

**03k20a2** · 08-13-2008, 11:27 PM

idk what that black stuff was - i couldnt scrub it off when washing it but it came off with the pressure washer. i really didnt care about the paint, it needed some more work but she just wanted to make it shine

thanks for comments

**Holden_C04** · 08-13-2008, 11:27 PM

You weren`t lying

Nice transformation.

**03k20a2** · 08-13-2008, 11:28 PM

Originally Posted by qwertydude

What is the black stuff? It doesn`t seem like oxidation. This is a job for NuFinish, why waste a good polish when NuFinish makes a good first step for that lol.

i first tried Klasse AIO on a white pad and it was doing pretty well but was taking forever and i tried out the OHC on my wool pad and it made it 10x easier and faster

**agazmi** · 08-13-2008, 11:39 PM

WOW that is unbelievable, are u sure that the odometer didnt turn over back to 26k? Good job on the transformation though, i wouldn`t have even tried lol. My daily driver is exactly like that one same trim and color except the interior is blue, I keep mine as clean as new i got 64k on it.

**mr.ikon** · 08-13-2008, 11:49 PM

Man that is one of the worst cars i`ve seen and i`ve seen some pretty nasty ones. Hell of a job and you are the man for tackling a mess like that. Awesome work.