I did this one about a month ago.
Client just bought the truck for his son. He wanted the paint cleaned up and a good sealant. He also requested that I remove the pin stripes. I really did not want to mess with the pin stripes, but the thought of his son have to drive around with the Miami Vice look worried me. :nervous2:
Nasty! :grrr
I pre treated all the lower panels with red hot APC 1:1. I then foamed with a mixture of Chem guys citrus wash, 2 shots of red hot and some Z7 in about 20oz of water.
I then scrubbed all the painted surfaces with the bug sponge. Pressure washed off and then a 2 bucket wash with Chem guys citrus wash and 4 hits of red hot in the wash bucket. I used an old MF mitt to wash.
I think most of the dirt is baked on the surface. I then clayed and that removed more of the dirt on the areas I rubbed really hard. The claybar did not pickup that much as I am sure the bug sponge got rid of just about everything, except for the "deep dirt"
Here is what it looks like after all that:
Got thing I have some old wool pads that are on their last leg.
Here is the hood after:
Yellow wool/Strada 1000/Metabo 1600
Green wool/P1500/Metabo 1500
White CCS/FPII/Metabo 1500
All that work and a crappy pic:
Then I did part of the pass. door with:
Green wool/P1500/Metabo 1500. Seems like that will do the trick!
I then started to think that the client's son is not going to be happy with the stripes on the truck.
I called the local Sherwin williams auto paint store and they had a wheel to remove the stripes with. The arbor on the decal removal wheel was a 5/16" and my air drill has a 1/4" chuck. So I had to use my 18v cordless Dewalt, good thing I have 3 batteries. A battery would last about 5 mins max with the pressure I was applying to remove the stripes. So this was consuming some time. This is a nasty job, wear a dust mask. I also did it outside and it happened to be 35° out that day. I knew that old ski jacket would come in handy one day. I finally got the stripes done and wiped down the leftover adhesive with 3M adhesive remover.
I polished over the areas where the stripes where with:
Yellow wool/Strada 1000/Metabo 1600
Green wool/P1500/Metabo 1500
While the batteries where charging. I vac'd the intetior, extracted the matts with my Mytee HP60. The interior was looking pretty bad, so I decided to go over the rest of the interior with the mytee. The owner did not request it, but I wanted to see how the mytee would do with just a few passes.
I pretreated the seats with and Ultra pac and used dry slurry in the extractor. Matts and carpet got spot treated with citrus solv and ultra pac and DS in the extractor.
Not 100% perfect, but much better.
I then finished the polishing with Green wool/P1500/Metabo 1500 and then ZPC on a white CCS pad and 1500 on the metabo.
I revac'd the interior, cleaned the glass and give the other areas a wipedown with IZ CP. A few areas with heavy grim got a APC 1:10 wipedown first.
The exterior got 3x of ZFX'd Z2pro and Z8.
Tires got Z-16.
Client just bought the truck for his son. He wanted the paint cleaned up and a good sealant. He also requested that I remove the pin stripes. I really did not want to mess with the pin stripes, but the thought of his son have to drive around with the Miami Vice look worried me. :nervous2:
Nasty! :grrr
I pre treated all the lower panels with red hot APC 1:1. I then foamed with a mixture of Chem guys citrus wash, 2 shots of red hot and some Z7 in about 20oz of water.
I then scrubbed all the painted surfaces with the bug sponge. Pressure washed off and then a 2 bucket wash with Chem guys citrus wash and 4 hits of red hot in the wash bucket. I used an old MF mitt to wash.
I think most of the dirt is baked on the surface. I then clayed and that removed more of the dirt on the areas I rubbed really hard. The claybar did not pickup that much as I am sure the bug sponge got rid of just about everything, except for the "deep dirt"
Here is what it looks like after all that:
Got thing I have some old wool pads that are on their last leg.
Here is the hood after:
Yellow wool/Strada 1000/Metabo 1600
Green wool/P1500/Metabo 1500
White CCS/FPII/Metabo 1500
All that work and a crappy pic:
Then I did part of the pass. door with:
Green wool/P1500/Metabo 1500. Seems like that will do the trick!
I then started to think that the client's son is not going to be happy with the stripes on the truck.
I called the local Sherwin williams auto paint store and they had a wheel to remove the stripes with. The arbor on the decal removal wheel was a 5/16" and my air drill has a 1/4" chuck. So I had to use my 18v cordless Dewalt, good thing I have 3 batteries. A battery would last about 5 mins max with the pressure I was applying to remove the stripes. So this was consuming some time. This is a nasty job, wear a dust mask. I also did it outside and it happened to be 35° out that day. I knew that old ski jacket would come in handy one day. I finally got the stripes done and wiped down the leftover adhesive with 3M adhesive remover.
I polished over the areas where the stripes where with:
Yellow wool/Strada 1000/Metabo 1600
Green wool/P1500/Metabo 1500
While the batteries where charging. I vac'd the intetior, extracted the matts with my Mytee HP60. The interior was looking pretty bad, so I decided to go over the rest of the interior with the mytee. The owner did not request it, but I wanted to see how the mytee would do with just a few passes.
I pretreated the seats with and Ultra pac and used dry slurry in the extractor. Matts and carpet got spot treated with citrus solv and ultra pac and DS in the extractor.
Not 100% perfect, but much better.
I then finished the polishing with Green wool/P1500/Metabo 1500 and then ZPC on a white CCS pad and 1500 on the metabo.
I revac'd the interior, cleaned the glass and give the other areas a wipedown with IZ CP. A few areas with heavy grim got a APC 1:10 wipedown first.
The exterior got 3x of ZFX'd Z2pro and Z8.
Tires got Z-16.
