A Detailed Finish: 2006 F-150 brought back to new!

[ADetailedFinish]

This customer is also a friend of mine that has been wanting me to detail his truck for long time. When he first found out I was detailing full time he came to me and wanted me to just throw a wax on and call it good. I talked him into upgrading to a sealant and than more paint correction. So we set up a date, but it fell through. He finally called me back and told me his brother ran his truck through some sticker bushes and put some deep scratches in the bed of his truck. Well I told him I could take care of that for him and I picked it up the next day. This truck was a big pain for me, I had to work with the sun and the heat all saturday and saturday night. Than I got to it on sunday and started it early so the sun wouldn't get to me. Well i finished late sunday night so we had to wait till our schedules worked out again (following weekend) to get some good pictures. The customer washed his truck (after careful instructions on how to make it so he doesn't mar up his paint) and sent me some after pictures.



Prep Process-

Removed stickers on tail gate per customer requests

Wash and foamed with Griot's Garage Car wash

P215 TAW on front bumper for bugs

P215 Wheel Gel and EZ detail brush to clean wheels

Griot's Garage Clay bar with Griot's Garage Spray on Car Wash as lube

Taped off all trim and edge's



Polishing Process-

I used Flex Rotary with all polishes varrying 6.5" and 4" pads

Menzerna Powergloss with LC PFW

Menzerna Power Finish with LC Cyan

Menzerna Micro Polish with LC Black

IPA Wipedown with 91% IPA and blue DI multi-purpose MF

Menzerna Finishing Glaze with LC CCS Blue

Window's Polished with Griot's Garage Fine Glass polish and Window polishing pad

Tailpipe Polished with Mother's Billet aluminum polish and #0000 Steel wool



LSP-

Trim and black plastic was dressed with 303 Aerospace

Chrome was touched up by hand with menzerna Powergloss

2x BFWD

Windows were treated with Griot's Garage Sealant



When the truck first showed up

Some close up pics with the Brinkman Dual Xenon

The hood had a couple deep scratches and really bad water etching

The side of the bed had some deep scratches that came out pretty well with just polishing and no wet sanding needed to be done

The stickers removed shows how well the paint was from the factory and yes that is wax build up around the edges of the sticker

Other side

And after the sticker's came off

Notice the swirls, scratches in this picture

Passenger Front fender

And some close ups of the same panel

50/50 Shot of the front fender done and the door not touched (this is the only 50/50 shot I took because of time restraints..

 

[ADetailedFinish]

These are the after shots that the customer took for me

Notice that the scratches are all gone from the blackberry bushes!

 

[XL Advantage]

Nice work. Those front tires were jacked up.

 

[Labster]

Nice work. Those front tires were jacked up.

Great work. Those General Tires are awful. My buddy has em on his fx4 and they did the same thing.

 

[Thomas Dekany]

Beautiful work!

 

[ADetailedFinish]

Ya his tires are jacked. He actually has a set of 24" american racing wheels I sold him when I was in the tire industry. He's gotta pay some lawyer fee's right now, and he needs new tires for his 24's but once he gets new rubber he's bringing them back to me and I will treat the wheels and he wants me to make sure his truck stays this way every 6 months!

Thank you all for your support and happy detailing!

 

[trhland]

need to toss some bfg all terrain t/as on that boy! nice job by the way