00 tundra, 06 mdx, 05 silvarado white on black overspray

[imported_Grouse]

00 Tundra, Polish Seal and Clean. This vehicle had never been detailed. It required more than just a polish. I ended up doing a light cut with 106ff and finished out with 1z metalic polish.



In the first set of pics you can see the heavy water etching, swirling and marring.

After Claying, taping and now checking paint with halogens, Leds and sun gun.

Some work with 106ff and 1z metalic polish. To be truthfully honest, it only removed about 60% of the marring.

You can see the difference between the two panels. Left side is 106, right is nothing

Here is the difference between a sungun and a set of halogens. As i said this only removed about 60% of the marring. You can see some of the deeper marring remaining around the sungun light. If you look at the halogens they don't show the marring. The truck was used to build several homes. It would likely take a couple more passes with sip or another heavier polish.

Afters

interior

 

[imported_Grouse]

The mdx.



The wash was normal 1z glanz with p21taw. Scrub down plastic, wheels, tires, wheel wells, engine bay and roof rails.



After the wash was the claying with the clay pad and taping. From there we moved into inspection of the paint.



This first shot is SIP. It wanted nothing to do with the cold damp day. It hazed, gooped, and gummed up. Time to move onto another product that is more workable in weather extremes.

Here is the panel after finishing down with HGP and 1z metalic polish.

Interior cleaned. Vacuumed, blown with air compressor, vacuumed again. Wood Klasse AIO'd. Carpets cleaned with prochem ultra pac and dry slurry. Leather cleaned with LM soft cleaner, and conditioned with 1z leather phledge. Blitz on plastic finished with cockpit premium.



Before

After

Finals

 

[imported_Grouse]

O5 silverado with 8k on it. It was sprayed over 3 days with a high solid polyurethane. I was contacted with getting the over spray off. I contacted Ron Ketch at auto international to help be define the best coarse of action to take. After filling him in about the specifics as best as i could, he helped me come up with a procedure to help me remove the overspray.



As you can see appearances can be deceiving.



Before shots.



Hood out of the light.

Hood in the light of a sungun. What you see is actually the largest particles. Most of overspray could only be seen if you were looking at it under magnification or from 4-6inches from the car.

Preliminary test of how to remove the overspray. Trying a more traditional aggressive clay.

Looks good right?

Here is a full res shot of the overspray after claying and a little buffing.

Well that process helped remove 60% of the overspray it did not remove it all. We moved on to implementing Ron Ketches plan. As i had much more success with doing it on the hood.



Using Ketches process we started the heavy claying and prepwork.

Overspray on the side pannels

it took us 3 claying passes using this process, but the results improved greatly

Again it looks good out of the light, but the marring and pitting from the high solid paint and heavy claying remain.

This is the first pass with HGP on a yellow edge pad. It left alot of micro marring and buffer trails. It was needed to clean up most of the heavy marring and minor pitting.

Marring with out the HGP

HGP finished down with Blue Edge pad

Tonnaue cover

stg IIs4 applying 1z glanz wax

After wipe down.

Total time 8:30 am till 11pm. Total time claying 8:30 till 3:45 pm.

 

[red4.8]

Very nice, that's a long detail on the silverado but came out nice..

 

[SpoiledMan]

My arms would have fallen off with all that claying! Excellent work on all 3.

 

[imageautodetail]

looks like you about burnt up that sponge on the silverado

 

[Scottwax]

:wow: You went pretty nuts on that Silverado! Very impressive!

 

[imported_Grouse]

nah the clay pads held out. We used 4, swapping them out to a bucket of cold ONR wash. This way they were a little less grabby and popped the overspray easier.

 

[imported_Grouse]

My arms would have fallen off with all that claying! Excellent work on all 3.

LOL mine did, can you send me a new pair, But it was not the claying but the polishing. It was taking for freaken ever.

 

[optimusp517]

Man I would've hated to work on that truck knowing that I walked into a mess! I would've said 2 day time frame instead! One for claying and interior, other for paint correction and lsp.

 

[imported_Grouse]

well that was 2 guys 14.5 hours or so. Exterior only. The HSPE has actually in the door seams, gaskets, and hinges.