Explorer from Hell

Jesstzn

Jesstzn

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This Explorer has had some poor repaint done on it and suffers from clear failure .. but he wanted me to do the best I could .. I think he is trading it in.



The interior was a mess with a coffee stain down the side of the tranny hump that had been there since March .. ScottWaxs' Woolite formula did the trick.. the carpets came out great.



I used DACP on it and 3M SMR and then was going to give NXT or ColorX a shot to see how it looked. Unfortunatly both left white deposits in the clear checking and looked terrible.



So what I did next was not very Autopian but it worked.



Someone gave me a bottle of the Turtle Wax colored wax a long time ago sooooooooooo.. I tried it. Big suprise.. it did a nice job of filling the checks and all the other little messes in the paint.



I topped it with #16 and left it at that.



Here are a few pix .. and yes I detailed the wheel wells later.



Rear fender before



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Rear fender after ( Sorry no mathcing pix the sun wouldn't cooperate )







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Read Door Before



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Rear Door After



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Hood .. no before but it was worse than the sides



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Rear



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Reflection



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WOW! What work you did there! Looks like new, atleast on photo. Was that with a PC? And interior, you got an extractor to do your work? You know you got swirls when it's dirty and you could still see them. Keep it up!
 
Excellent job, Dee! :up



Laquer checking is a real pain to deal with, almost everything will dry white in the cracks. Good thing you had the Turtle Wax laying around!
 
Sorry .. Just had at add these 2 shots .. I take lousy pix and these were one of my best accidents.



Rear Window

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The real scene in the window

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