Apollo_Auto
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Hi boys and girls! Despite being as naughty as I could possibly be last year, Santana Claus
brought me a nice, new detail wagon for Christmas (and the cheeky bugger financed it in my name!)! Anyway, my previous detail wagon, Deloris the Detailasaurus, was in pretty bad shape physically and I decided that spending more money on her wasn't worth it. I sold her to a buddy of mine that has time and patience to fix her so she's found herself a good home. After combing the internet for about a month or so and weighing the pros and cons of each style of truck I finally decided on a Fiat Dobló... and I found one that was just perfect for me. He's a 2005 model and he had 49,000 km on him when I took him in. I know these are original kilometers because the factory tires are still on them and they're balder than a cat's a$$. He'd been in an accident sometime before and from what I can see he's had the entire passenger side replaced. I don't mind though because that just means he's a survivor... after all he is Truck Norris. I got a sweet deal on him too... Allow me to introduce you all to my newest partner in grime, Truck Norris the Detailasaurus >>
OK I'm sure the owner had it detailed recently, but Truck was a very clean boy.
He'll need to have the windshield replaced soon.
The weather was complete crap all December and got down to -17!!!!!!, but then finally it cleared up on the 26th so I decided to "get sick" and pass on the annual, mandatory Christmas gathering at the relatives' that nobody likes; I was on mission... Imagine my anxieties after having Truck for 2 weeks and not being able to detail him!! Then once I'd washed and clayed him I settled on a combo for the side with the factory paint, which was a finishing pad and Insta Cut #30 (strangely soft for a white SS) and then it started to rain!! :wall:
But at least it wasn't -17 anymore
! What a temperature fluctuation, huh?
Polishing all done but I wasn't very happy with the results at all. Being a white car, the scratches aren't so noticeable, but being as anal as I am I, was getting nuckin' futz because of it. There were a lot of deep scratches and you could see where some tool with a tool scraped off the previous lettering on the car... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Anyway, the LSP for that day was Collinite 855. I didn't go with 845 like I'd planned (because the following week it would be removed anyway), because I put some on the front wing and then tried to remove it with a 1:1 mix of Super APC and it didn't budge even after rubbing it with a microfiber... That's the wax that Jesus uses on his hotrods, so God bless Colly 845.
Where it wasn't scratched...
The doors on Truck are pretty shallow so we (me and Misi) had to make a spacer to install my 5 1/4 components.
The template we made
Him funny...
On another day we made the shelves for the back, so I'll show those later.
I decided not to flush-mount the tweeters, because I just didn't want to cut stuff up. Instead I used an existing hole on the pillars to mount them.
I drilled a hole for the wire on the back side of the screw hole so if Truck and I ever part (don't foresee that happening) I'll be able to take my tunes with me and not leave any traces of it being there.
Mounted and in quite a good position I think.
Time to put some thump in my ride... I had a 12" sub (SAL is a Hungarian brand and very nice indeed... my component set is also SAL Pro Line) Box all ready to be carpeted. I had to sacrifice some airspace to fit it into Truck so it peaks a little higher now, but still sounds great. Just enough to rattle my teeth a bit.
Wires run and amp mounted under the passenger seat.
OK I'm sure the owner had it detailed recently, but Truck was a very clean boy.
He'll need to have the windshield replaced soon.
The weather was complete crap all December and got down to -17!!!!!!, but then finally it cleared up on the 26th so I decided to "get sick" and pass on the annual, mandatory Christmas gathering at the relatives' that nobody likes; I was on mission... Imagine my anxieties after having Truck for 2 weeks and not being able to detail him!! Then once I'd washed and clayed him I settled on a combo for the side with the factory paint, which was a finishing pad and Insta Cut #30 (strangely soft for a white SS) and then it started to rain!! :wall:
But at least it wasn't -17 anymore
! What a temperature fluctuation, huh?
Polishing all done but I wasn't very happy with the results at all. Being a white car, the scratches aren't so noticeable, but being as anal as I am I, was getting nuckin' futz because of it. There were a lot of deep scratches and you could see where some tool with a tool scraped off the previous lettering on the car... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Anyway, the LSP for that day was Collinite 855. I didn't go with 845 like I'd planned (because the following week it would be removed anyway), because I put some on the front wing and then tried to remove it with a 1:1 mix of Super APC and it didn't budge even after rubbing it with a microfiber... That's the wax that Jesus uses on his hotrods, so God bless Colly 845.
Where it wasn't scratched...
The doors on Truck are pretty shallow so we (me and Misi) had to make a spacer to install my 5 1/4 components.
The template we made
Him funny...
On another day we made the shelves for the back, so I'll show those later.
I decided not to flush-mount the tweeters, because I just didn't want to cut stuff up. Instead I used an existing hole on the pillars to mount them.
I drilled a hole for the wire on the back side of the screw hole so if Truck and I ever part (don't foresee that happening) I'll be able to take my tunes with me and not leave any traces of it being there.
Mounted and in quite a good position I think.
Time to put some thump in my ride... I had a 12" sub (SAL is a Hungarian brand and very nice indeed... my component set is also SAL Pro Line) Box all ready to be carpeted. I had to sacrifice some airspace to fit it into Truck so it peaks a little higher now, but still sounds great. Just enough to rattle my teeth a bit
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Wires run and amp mounted under the passenger seat.
... it was a makeshift straw to let the air escape. 
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