SeaJay`s Detailing - Mercury Mountaineer

[SeaJays]

This was my detail from Saturday. A friend of mine wanted to have his 2004 Mercury Mountaineer detailed inside and out. I went up to his shop and did the detail there.



The interior plastics and leather were pretty dirty and the interior needed an overall thorough cleaning.



Interior Process & Products

• Interior thoroughly vacuumed
  
• All plastics, vinyl, leather, etc was cleaned using Kleen APC diluted 8:1 (picked up at a local place, still testing it out) and race glaze detailing brush, and a vinyl & leather brush. Some of the hard plastics I used Kleen with a magic eraser.
  
• Cup Holders, Vents, and carpets received a quick steam cleaning with my Vapor Clean Gaia
  
• Plastics and leather were treated with 303 Aerospace
  
• Windows cleaned with 2 Window MFs and Megs Window Cleaner
  
• Gauge Cluster was cleaned with DP Plex-All
  

The exterior was equally as dirty.



Exterior Process & Products

• Wheels/Tires rinsed with Karcher 2000psi pressure washer
  
• Wheels sprayed with Iron-X - the drivers side rear wheel needed 4 cleaning with Iron-x and scrubbing to remove the heavy baked on brake dust.
  
• Wheels agitated with Race Glaze XL wheel brush, lug nut brush, and soft wheel brush
  
• Tires sprayed with Megs Super Degreaser dulited 4:1 and scrubbed with a stiff brush
  
• Wheel wells received Megs Super degreaser and a scrubb with a wheel well brush
  
• Exterior was pressure washed with the Karcher pressure washer then front and side mirrors were sprayed with Poorboy`s Bug Squash diluted 3:1
  
• Two bucket wash method with DP Xtreme Foam and Dawn mix. Used Chenille wash mitt.
  
• Rinsed well, then sprayed with Iron-X left to dwell. I didn`t include the Iron-x pics in the video, but here they are to show you the heavy contamination I was dealing with.
  

• Vehicle was rinsed well again
  
• De-tarred and adhesive from a sticker on the rear hatch removed using Stoner`s Tarminator and a MF
  
• Clayed using the Speedy prep towel and ONR diluted to clay lube strength
  
• Dried with Cobra Waffle Weave towel
  
• Blackfire Wet Diamond paint sealant was applied via PC 7424 and LC Blue pad
  
• Tires dressed with Pinnacle Black Onyx
  
• Wheel wells dressed with Protect-All (another local pick up, similar to Megs 40)
  
• Exhaust tip cleaned with Optimum Metal Polish, 0000 steel wool, and MF
  
• Door jambs cleaned with ONR
  

Now the video I put together. Thanks for viewing!



Mercury Mountaineer - YouTube

[Underdawg736GTC]

Nice vid and Awesome job on the Mountaineer SeaJay! My boss has a black one and ohhhh man whoever detailed it went to town on it with a rotary.....swirls still there, buffer trails galore and whatever they tried to do with it to make it look good failed...miserably. I don`t think they even tried using a filler to hide the hack job!

Luckily the owner of the one you did won`t suffer the same fate! Excellent job!!!

Where abouts in Mass are you?

[SeaJays]

Thanks!



I`m in Billerica.