Rasky's AD: 1998 Lincoln Navigator Extreme Makeover

[RaskyR1]

One of my more involved details...

10 years, 4 kids, 3 dogs, 1 horse, a long dirt road, and a vehicle that has never been detailed.

This vehicle belongs to my girls' parents. She was between cars and needed a vehicle, so they let her borrow it. My girl bought a new car a week later and I've had it the last few weeks at my disposal. She wanted to clean it to show her appreciation...I though it made for a good extreme makeover.

Total time invested was about 22 hours.

Process:

Wash - Gold Class
Clay - Aggressive Clay
Step 1 - M105 Via rotary and wool cutting pad
Step 2 - M66 via flex and W8207 pad
Wax - NXT 2.0
Exterior cleaning - APC+
Wheels - Wheel Brightner
Interior Cleaning vinyl/leather - APC
Carpet - APC+ (Hand scrubbed, followed with LGM)
Leather conditioner - Gold Class
Engine/Wheel Well Drsesing - Water Based Dressing
Tires - 303 Aerospace
Interior dress - 303 Aerospace
Weather stripping - 303 Aerospace
Tail/Head lights - M105 followed by PlastX
Chrome - Hot Rims Chrome polish

Before

Major spillage...I removed the front seats to get at it better.

Interior was dusty

Seats were pretty dirty and the dye was wearing off the front ones

 

[RaskyR1]

Door panels were not too bad but the speaker grills have gotten dirty over the years.

Back center console

Exterior

Visible paint scuffs

Balck trim was oxidized

Rubbers on the back were brown from the dirt road

Tires/wheel wells...dirt road evidence

Engine

All taped up...

Tail lights

 

[RaskyR1]

Door jambs all dirty

It was very hard to capture the true condition of the paint but you should get the idea. Some RIDS remained but without a PTG I wasn't going to push it.

50 / 50 shot

After 105/M66

After

Seat racks were cleaned

Lether turned out good. We were going to have the front seats dyed but the guys wanted $200+ so we left them as is.

 

[RaskyR1]

Speaker grills turned out good

Engine

Exterior

Chips were brush touched but the owner picked it up just as I finished so no pics of that.

Black trim turned out nice

A little paint work on the hitch

Tire/wheel

The MN winters combined with the dirt road have taken their toll on the wheel wells. The under coating was weathered and cracked. I figured it was going to get dirty again real soon so left them like this.

Side by side plastic polishing

After

Jambs were cleaned and weather stripping dressed

Thanks for looking!
Rasky

 

[flash gordon]

:dcrules After that mess, I,m sure tha girls parents will be glad to call you there son-n-law. Great work duuude.:dcrules

 

[CharlesW]

:bigups:bigups:bigups
Great transformation!
That is what detailing is all about as far as I'm concerned.
No disrespect intended to those that work on the newer cars or those of us that maintain a vehicle on a regular basis, but.....
A vehicle that has been used and more or less neglected for 10 years is a true challenge. A challenge that you handled quite well.:bow
Congratulations on a great job!

Oh, and welcome to DC.

 

[RaskyR1]

:dcrules After that mess, I,m sure tha girls parents will be glad to call you there son-n-law. Great work duuude.:dcrules

Indeed!

Thank you!

 

[RaskyR1]

:bigups:bigups:bigups
Great transformation!
That is what detailing is all about as far as I'm concerned.
No disrespect intended to those that work on the newer cars or those of us that maintain a vehicle on a regular basis, but.....
A vehicle that has been used and more or less neglected for 10 years is a true challenge. A challenge that you handled quite well.:bow
Congratulations on a great job!

Oh, and welcome to DC.

Thanks Charles! Nice to see some familiar faces (screen names) here.

 

[Troy@Protekt]

This was definitely a nice turn around but I'm still drooling over that Vette you just posted.

Great work.:bigups

 

[GearHead_1]

Nice to have you on the site. You do good work.

 

[jaybs02]

Beautiful turnaround

 

[TLMitchell]

One of my more involved details...

Understatement! Great work as usual, Chad. Must make you cringe thinking about it going back to dirt road duty

TL

 

[RaskyR1]

This was definitely a nice turn around but I'm still drooling over that Vette you just posted.

Great work.:bigups

Thanks Troy!

Wait until I get ahold of his '66! :bigups

Nice to have you on the site. You do good work.

Thanks GearHead! :howdy

Beautiful turnaround

Thank you!

Understatement! Great work as usual, Chad. Must make you cringe thinking about it going back to dirt road duty

TL

Thanks again!
I actually saw it the other day and they have kept it up pretty well so far...not that it ever gets driven much now.

 

[OCDinPDX]

Reps to you sir! That is a fantastic turn-around; the 'gator looks brand-new again!

 

[RaskyR1]

Reps to you sir! That is a fantastic turn-around; the 'gator looks brand-new again!

Thanks!

LOL, I've never heard of them referred to as the "gator" before....that's awesome!

 

[Playr]

I like your interior detail work. Good job!

 

[Autogeek]

Wow...I think I would have dropped dead half way through this detail. Great work and it was nice meeting you this past weekend.
-Matt

 

[RaskyR1]

I like your interior detail work. Good job!

Thank you! :howdy

 

[RaskyR1]

Wow...I think I would have dropped dead half way through this detail. Great work and it was nice meeting you this past weekend.
-Matt

Thanks Matt! It was nice meeting you as well. I was very envious of your Vette BTW! :bigups

 

[Clean Dean]

Nice work !!! That interior was a real pigs dive !!!