Ford Thunderbird

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2002 Ford Thunderbird
Black, 42,166 miles
3.9 Liter 4 valves per cylinder DOHC V8
252HP/267TQ
31,368 produced

This is a new client who was a referral. They love this car; however, it really needed some love from me! The paint was full of swirls, scratches, etching, more swirls, some hazing, and some beginning stages of clear failure on some horizontal panels.

Average paint readings were 3-3.5mils, so my usual approach of being as conservative as possible while achieving the ‘most %’ of correction would be appropriate here.



The nuts and bolts:

2BW with SCG Pro shampoo.
GYEON mitt.
Clayed via medium clay mitt.
Sonax wheel cleaner. (Thanks Ron!)
Adam’s tire and rubber cleaner.
Misc. brushes.
303 top cleaner.
Dried via Griot’s PFM drying towels and Master Blaster.
Adam’s APC for engine bay.
DeFelsko PTG.
Flex XFE 7-15, Rupes MkII 21, Rupes iBrid.
Misc. foam and wool/MF pads.
Griot’s Fast Correcting Cream.
Griot’s Perfecting Cream.
Misc. MF towels.
Scangrip lighting.
McKee’s 37 Fast Metal Polish.
McKee’s37 Hi Gloss Tire Dressing.
Auto Finesse Glass Cleaner.
Beta Test glass coating.
Optimum Panel Wipe for final wipe down/prep for coating.
22ple Mistico Elemento Forte as the LSP.
IGL trim coating was used on the engine bay plastics.
Metro Vacuum.
Pinnacle leather cleaner.
Pinnacle leather conditioner.
Adam’s Interior Detailer.
Adam’s Odor Neutralizer.


Thanks for looking! This Bird is ready to fly now!




Before shots:

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During:

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Final shots:

[Ronkh]

Nice work

[GearHead_1]

Beautiful black paint.

[tropicsteve]

sweet, always liked that body style.

[Sizzle Chest]

Thanks guys!