I've decided NOT to get an H2. EVAAARRRR!!!

Jngrbrdman

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Yeah, I don't think I'll ever be getting an H2. There is more real estate in paint on that thing than both my vehicles combined. Waxing that roof is like waxing a basketball court. I'm glad I'm tall and have long arms or else I wouldn't be able to pull it off. I'm going to have to fashion some microfiber booties and knee pads if I ever have to do one of these suckers again. Blech!!! Alright, I'll just let the pictures do the talking. The process was a wash, clay, light polish, and the hardest wax to buff off known to man.

Ohh, I have to tell you about how I obtained this concrete they call wax. I was at my local Checker (Kragen to some people) and noticed that they had a clearance table way in the back corner of the store. That is a lousy place for a clearance table, but it probably worked out best for me. Everything on the table was marked $2 bucks. I picked up three bottles of Meguiar's Quick Wheel Detailer for less than what one bottle usually costs. :) That was a good thing. They also had some of those DuPont "teflon" products that I figured for $2 bucks it was worth a shot. I got the spray wax and the liquid wax. The shine is really good on it, but it is ridiculously hard to buff off. I ended up having to put a white Edge pad on the PC, soaking the panel with QD, and then buffing with that. Then I wiped with a microfiber and went over it again with another microfiber. It was a pretty crappy process. It took an hour to buff this muck off. So that is a big NO to the DuPont teflon wax if speed is a concern.

The truck was dropped off at 4:00 and I finished it up at 9:00, so the sun was pretty much gone when I finished, but he was a good guy and brought it out to my office this morning so I could do a final detail on whatever I possibly missed last night and also get some pictures. It was a full interior, exterior, engine job because he is turning it back in from his lease on Saturday. This was a big (and I do mean BIG) project that probably didn't earn me nearly as much as it should, but he was a relative of a good client and I was cutting him a good deal in the hopes of future referals. So anyway, here you go...

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Whew!!
 
Great job. I'd probably die of exhaustion from a beast that big.

By the way I like the whole but about:

"He was a relative.."

I'd disown him from the family too for owning that ;)
 
Believe me, that was an option after this mess. lol I finally found a guy who was willing to work as hard as I am that I hired and trained to work with me. He did the interior and I did the exterior. So this was a 4 1/2 - 5 hour job with two people workin on it. I really just about did this supid thing for free for what I charged him. It would have been good money if I had accomplished it all by myself, but I basically only charged him for the exterior and threw in the interior for free. My guy still needs the practice, and although it looked nasty, it really wasn't anything that someone with experience couldn't get cleaned up in a couple hours. He got $20 bucks an hour and free pizza out of the deal, so he really can't complain. :)
 
Oh, and it doesn't help that we had dust from hell on Monday and then two days of snow after that. I don't know where all this dust came from, but visibility was like a mile or something. Gearhead can back me up on this. It was really nasty outside. Then it snowed/rained for two days and deposited all that dirt right on our cars. This truck has been sitting at the airport for a week, so that accounts for the condition.
 
Good job! That was some turn around. I really like the before/ after engine detail. Very nice. What a beast of a vehicle too!
 
Yep, I've been saying it for a while. Hummers are among my least favorite vehicles to do.:passout:

:idea I think all Hummer owners should have to do their own vehicles.:D

I bet Hummer sales would drop dramatically if that ever happened.:notme:

Nice job by the way. :bigups
 
Excellent job, that thing was dirty and like you said huge...

Did the fact that the hood tipped forward make that portion of the detailing any easier?
 
You know, having the hood pop down like that really did make the hood much easier. I wish all the hoods did that. lol I can't imagine how tough it would have been to reach across that thing otherwise. I would have had to stand on the tire and hope I don't slip.
 
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