Operation It`s Hammered! 2016 Tahoe

[Sizzle Chest]

2016 Chevy Tahoe
86,000 Miles
Black/Black
Operation Road Warrior/It’s Hammered!

Client brought me his ‘road warrior’ to clean up and get some ‘protection’ on it. It lives outside 24/7 and has seen better days. This vehicle is by far the worst paint condition I have had in to date. I was going to say it was in the top 3, but this one takes the cake.

Heavy swirling on every panel, the hood and leading edge of the roof were in horrendous condition. HEAVY defects scratching, gouging, etc were all over these panels with a little bit of clear failure beginning on the edges. The heaviest scratching was all in one direction (forward/backward in straight lines) over these panels as if it were abraded by something—I thought car wash, but it was only on these panels, and the rest of the roof was OK; perhaps someone used something in an attempt to clean it, or they used it to build sandcastles on…I don’t know! LOL

The heaviest/biggest guns in my arsenal cleaned it up a bit, but still would not correct. I tried a test spot with some sanding…still not avail. The hood is fiberglass, and some of the scratches were indented/gouges, but come on! It cleaned up and glossed up well, but the majority of the heavy stuff is still there.



The ‘details’:

Adam’s wheel cleaner.
Adam’s tire and rubber cleaner.
McKee’s37 Si02 hydro blue to seal wheels.
Adam’s strip wash.
Medium clay alternative mitt.
McKee’s37 iron remover.
McKee’s37 APC.
DeFelkso PTG.
Scangrip lighting.
Flex 3401.
Scholl Concepts S0 matting compound.
Scholl Concepts S3.
Griot’s Fast correcting cream.
LC Force Hybrid pads, from wool, grey HD to orange.
Optimum panel wipe.
SPS Graphene coating.
Adam’s tire shine.
Auto Finesse glass cleaner.
Metro vacuum.
303 interior protectant.

Thanks for looking!











DEFECTS:

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[Merlin]

WOW!



What a turn around!
Yes, an "Extreme Makeover" is a lot of work...but it is greatly satisfying!!!
It`s impossible to obtain "show car" results on something so neglected...
But it turned out 1000+ times better than when you got it!

GREAT WORK!

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^^Thank you Mike! I felt like I was chasing my tail for a while when chopping away at it! Appreciate the comment!!!

[PoisonTheWell]

Wow. Quite the transformation. If there was ever a time to use the word “revived” this would be it!

[Coatings=crack]

Nah..... don’t believe it..... gotta be 2 different Tahoe’s. Nice work Siz. Amazing turn around

That mutha was.....




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Thanks guys! Yes, MC Hammer could have danced on that hood/roof with sandpaper on his shoes! LOL

[Fishing]

WOW, talk about a test of skill,,, looks awesome, would have liked to have seen the look on the owners face when they picked It up.

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^^Thank you! Said it looked better than the day they bought it. Job done!!

[TTBear]

WOW. That is unbelievable work!!! I think that may well be the worst "before" condition I have seen on Autopia, ever!

THAT`S why I keep coming back here. These kinds of results are inspirational for a beginner, like me! Thanks so much for taking the time to post

[PoisonTheWell]

Do you feel like it was bad enough where if you couldn`t do anything to fix it, it was a repaint? I felt that when I did my mom`s Z3 that her brother gave her. It sat outside with feral cats for 20 years. The cool thing was it let me practice wet-sanding and a bunch of other techniques that I wouldn`t have been able to on my cars.

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Thank you TT! Happy to post!

Poison, yes, Exactly. The next stop would be the body shop!

[RTexasF]

Those surface pictures looked like "Revenge of a thousand cats"! I thought this one was beyond help, worst I`ve ever seen. You are indeed an artist.

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Thanks RT!!