imported_themightytimmah
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My uncle picked this up at a county auction for long rides - his truck was killing him on gas. Anyway, it's a 2004, 103,000 miles, looks like it was formerly owned by Sheriff Roscoe P. Coletrane... the entire car was swirled up and muddy when I got it (interior was a mess). Sorry no befores, I started work at night - but pretty much every surface was covered in tunnel wash swirls, and the entire passenger side was a repaint (one of the worst I've ever seen - color match was perfect but under the mirrors there were 60 grit marks from body sanding that were not sufficiently filled with primer... and they showed into the clear..
Process:
FK1 Decon Wash
Presta UCCL/Edge Green Wool/1800rpm on paint, headlights, and taillights
Foamgun wash to remove compound and wool pad linting(I don't even bother to wipe it with a towel after each panel anymore, I just make a big ol-mess and foam it off)
XMT360/Edge Doubleprecision foam/Cyclo
PlastX/White LC/2000 -> 900rpm on headlights and tails
OS x2 on paint
OS on trim, wheels, glass, doorjambs
Wells got dressed later (lol I noticed my oversight when I looked at the pics)
Grape dressing on tires
Interior:
10:1 APC on plastics
Eagle One Nano to dress plastics (I *love* this product)
Folex/Cyclo brush on carpets
LGCM with hot water/Zep Extractor Shampoo on carpets and seats
TOL odor bomb into air conditioning ducts (this helps a ton)
I got 90-95% correction, not quite swirl free but he wasn't willing to pay for another step. In an ideal world, I would have wetsanded the repaint with 2000 and hit the whole car with Yellow Wool and UCCL followed by Green Wool and UCCL (at lower RPMs than I did) and 1Z MP on the Cyclo.
Process:
FK1 Decon Wash
Presta UCCL/Edge Green Wool/1800rpm on paint, headlights, and taillights
Foamgun wash to remove compound and wool pad linting(I don't even bother to wipe it with a towel after each panel anymore, I just make a big ol-mess and foam it off)
XMT360/Edge Doubleprecision foam/Cyclo
PlastX/White LC/2000 -> 900rpm on headlights and tails
OS x2 on paint
OS on trim, wheels, glass, doorjambs
Wells got dressed later (lol I noticed my oversight when I looked at the pics)
Grape dressing on tires
Interior:
10:1 APC on plastics
Eagle One Nano to dress plastics (I *love* this product)
Folex/Cyclo brush on carpets
LGCM with hot water/Zep Extractor Shampoo on carpets and seats
TOL odor bomb into air conditioning ducts (this helps a ton)
I got 90-95% correction, not quite swirl free but he wasn't willing to pay for another step. In an ideal world, I would have wetsanded the repaint with 2000 and hit the whole car with Yellow Wool and UCCL followed by Green Wool and UCCL (at lower RPMs than I did) and 1Z MP on the Cyclo.
touche!