04 jeep wrangler

**Barry Theal** · 05-25-2009, 07:25 PM

Well this customer conatacted me about a month and a half ago, and finally between schedules any distance. I finally got to correct his jeep. Ill admit i went a little overboard trying to bring some gloss to this one. The owner is a active military soldier and me a vetern wanted to help him out. go figure it was finished on memorial day. This jeep actually had a lot of passion go into it!

The Process

Decontamionation

Ardex - new wave degreaser

Stoners- tarminator

Claymore- Aggresive

Meg gold class soap

Paint prep

Micro surface - 4000 threw 12000

3m tape

Compounding

Ardex 1000 meg maroon wool rotary

m205 meg yellow wool rotary

Polish

m205 egde 6 inch green foam rotary

ultrafina 3m ultrafina pad rotary

alcohol wipes after each step

LSP`s

Ardex nano sealent

wolfgang fuzion

Dressing

Ardex new concept, Trim was mothers back to black

NOw some before pics

**V_Eight** · 05-25-2009, 07:29 PM

Does he have new decals or does he plan on leaving them off?

(sorry to post in between your picture posts!

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**Barry Theal** · 05-25-2009, 07:32 PM

Nw at this point the car was cleaned up and ready for pictures, i go pull the jeep out and get ready to take the photos and turn my camera on and it gave me a focus error so low and behold after an hour of messing with i got pissed and went and bought a brand new nikon d40 dslr. this camera was recomended to me by a felow autopian, and some one who has gave me nothing but great advice so far so i trusted him and ill tell ya what. he was right again. this camera is amazing so here are the afters!

and my favorite was save for last this is my son. the reason i do this!

Thanks for looking and god bless!:2thumbs:

**Barry Theal** · 05-25-2009, 07:48 PM

Have a great holiday!

**V_Eight** · 05-25-2009, 07:50 PM

Originally Posted by OTG Vinyl

Does he have new decals or does he plan on leaving them off?

(sorry to post in between your picture posts!

)

.. :secret

**Barry Theal** · 05-25-2009, 07:56 PM

He wanted to keep them off

**imported_Ol' Red** · 05-25-2009, 08:19 PM

That is an awesome looking TJ. Great work on it. It looks like it has a brand new paintjob. I am a little biased towards Jeeps though haha

**ohiostate** · 05-25-2009, 08:37 PM

WOW..... Good work like always Berry!!!

**Barry Theal** · 05-25-2009, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by Ol` Red

That is an awesome looking TJ. Great work on it. It looks like it has a brand new paintjob. I am a little biased towards Jeeps though haha

thanks ol red

Originally Posted by ohiostate

WOW..... Good work like always Berry!!!

thanks mike! you got to come down sometime!

**TSC17** · 05-26-2009, 04:24 AM

Ah, so that`s the beast you were telling me about. As always, you knocked that one out of the park!

**white gecko** · 05-26-2009, 05:09 AM

Great work Barry! That Jeep looks awesome.

I have the same camera. Good choice, pics look much better.

**imported_sal329** · 05-26-2009, 06:08 AM

Looks awesome, lol my son has that same shirt

**D Tailor** · 05-26-2009, 08:11 AM

Great job Barry! Looks so wet and I love that you went the extra mile for him. Love the pic with your son too....very cool.

How did you handle polishing all of the hinges and external hardware? Did you use a spot buff, by hand...? I`m a curious cat.

**Barry Theal** · 05-26-2009, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by TSC17

Ah, so that`s the beast you were telling me about. As always, you knocked that one out of the park!

Thamks todd for all the kind words

Originally Posted by gofast908z

Great work Barry! That Jeep looks awesome.

I have the same camera. Good choice, pics look much better.

thanks go fast the camera will be nice once i play with it

Originally Posted by sal329

Looks awesome, lol my son has that same shirt

thanks sal lol small world huh

Originally Posted by D Tailor

Great job Barry! Looks so wet and I love that you went the extra mile for him. Love the pic with your son too....very cool.

How did you handle polishing all of the hinges and external hardware? Did you use a spot buff, by hand...? I`m a curious cat.

thanks david i used a 3 inch air polisher ill send ya a link!