Defining Details: F150

[DefiningDetails]

2007 F150



Products Used:



Blackfire clay

Optimum no rinse

Chemical Guys rim cleaner

Megs 105

Optimum Polish II

Bissell Carpet clean solution

Obsessive Details Silk Shine dressing

VRP Dressing

OD All purpose cleaner, diluted 4:1 and 8:1 for heavy and light cleaning

OD Wet Wax

Stoners Invisible Glass



Equipment Used:

PC 7424

Orange and white pads

Toothbrush

Lots of MF towels

Little Green Cleaning Machine

Wet/Dry vac

Tire scrub brush



Process. Washed truck with ONR followed by claybar using ONR diluted to lube. Wheels were then tackled using 1.5:1 rim cleaner solution as the brake dust was BAD. Spent 2 hours cleaning the chrome wheels with a toothbrush.



Washed the car with ONR again, then tackled the interior. Scrubbed the entire interior with 8:1 APC, followed by an application of Silk Shine dressing. Vacuumed out all the loose debris, followed by applying spraying down the carpets / upholstery with bissell solution, extracted using LGCM. Sprayed down again with pure water, extracted again, and repeated with water 1 more time. Cleaned windows with Stoners Invisible.



Once the interior was completed, I moved to polishing the paint. Truck was spot-compounded with M105/orange in places that needed it (not enough time to 2-step the entire truck). Once the spot compounding was completed, moved on to polishing entire truck using Optimum Polish II on a 4" white pad. I tried M205 first, but it just didnt have enough bite on a white pad to remove the surface marring and swirls entirely. OPII did a great job and finished out fantastic for a 1-step.



Once the polishing was complete, washed the truck again, applied OD Wet Wax and VRP dressing to all the black exterior trim. Polished chrome bumpers and step rails using M205 on a 4" orange pad.



Client then took the truck to show off to his buddies at baseball (where the parking lot is gravel / dirt). LOL.



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After:

Left polished, right pillar not.

[trhland]

very nice detail!!!! love thoses f150s

[jordanrossbell]

Excellent work, how hard did you find this paint?

[Cashezo]

Beautiful man. This was the best style of the F-series truck Ford made.

[Chicagoareanew]

Wow - you did that with a little green cleaning machine? I`ve seen those in stores, and people have talked about them here, but I had no idea they could do that. I`ve been renting rug doctors for that kind of thing, and since it`s 25 dollars each time (plus more for the upholstery tool) I should look into that. Do those things get messed up if you don`t use the Bissle shampoo?

[alowe]

Very nice. +1 for the LGM cleaning power!

[OCDinPDX]

My buddy just bought a used `06 F-150 in this IDENTICAL style except it`s got the chrome-clad steel wheels and it`s white.



Nice work!