GMC Farm Truck Clean Up

[Slate G8 GT]

A woman I used to work with that I Opti-Coated her new Durango a few months ago called me up and said her husband wanted me to clean up his truck before he went on a turkey hunting trip (Don`t ask me why b/c I didn`t). He`s a farmer and this truck gets driven thru rice fields and who know what else so needless to say it was pretty bad.

Here`s some befores










And yes the interior was just as bad, luckily he did use rubber floor mats









I first took the pressure washer to the wheel wells to knock off all the caked on mud, next I used bleche white on the tires and wheel brightner on the rims to cut thru the bad stuff. I then soaked the wells, tires, and rims with OPC and got to scrubbing, after this they were nice and clean.

Next I hit the lower panels with the PW and knocked all the mud clods off then foamed them with a mixture of Dawn and OPC and washed the sides of it to get down to all the tar I would hafta remove. A can of Tarminator and a lot of elbow grease later she was tar free. I opened up the doors and hit the jams with the pressure washer before pulling it into the garage.

Since it was so big and still pretty dirty i mixed up 4 gallons of ONR solution. I usually don`t ONR cars this dirty but it`s starting to heat up around here and even in the shade I have trouble with water spotting (bad city water) when doing a bucket wash. I hafta say I was really impressed at how well it cleaned!! I believe this is how I`m doing all cars from now on. It took all I had not to break out the new Flex but he just wanted "nice and shiny" . So I coated it with OCW and UTTG on the trim and moved on to the interior.

I first removed the floor mats and scrubbed them with OPC and set them out to dry. After a good vacuum I proceeded to clean the interior surfaces and door jambs with a MF soaked in ONR. I sprayed the spots on the seats with OPC, scrubbed, and then extracted with my LGM. Lastly I cleaned the interior windows and call it done.

Now the afters

[Nizmo]

Great turn around! Shame it will look like it did again within a week by the sounds of it.

[BIOLINK]

All that dirt tells a story, and you washed it all away.

I love a good clean red vehicle. Nicely done!

[Old Pirate]

Great rescue there, looks super!

[mrclean81]

Good job. This is the kind of stuff I enjoy seeing.

[mjlinane]

Great work!!

[SpeedFreak]

Very nice turn around.
I too like a really clean "Red" vehicle.....

[Todd@RUPES]

Wow excellent work all the way around. That looks SO much better now!

[Concours.John]

Great turnaround!

[tropicsteve]

nice save. that work truck never had it so good.

[Slate G8 GT]

Thanks guys. I was really impressed at how much the OCW made the red "pop" even with all the swirls and scratches in it!!