Beat Black Suburban w/ pinstripe removal

[imported_MBenz]

This detail i did a few months ago and i am finally getting around to posting a tread on this one. This suburban is owned by a friend of mine and it is a 2001 w/ 248xxx and it has never been garaged or waxed. It was a challenge to say the least because in addition to a full detail, he wanted me to remove some dying pinstriping, tackle his pitted aluminum wheels, and a few other odd jobs. It was my first full rotary job and a good vehicle to practice on.



Exterior:

Degrease and power wash engine

Power wash Mud and oil out of undercarriage

Clean tires and Wheels with E1 AWC

Wash with Dawn and powerwasher

Clay with Meguiars clay and QD

Dress engine with cd2



Paint:

Remove pinstriping with rubber wheel on electric drill

Spot compound with M105 Megs wool cutting pad

Megs #83D DACP w/ megs yellow polishing pad

Megs #82 w/ megs tan finishing pad

KAIO green ccs

2x KSG

Collonite 476s

Aquawax



Interior:

Vacuum

Power-wash mats

Clean all plastics with Extreme green APC 1:4

Carpet Spoted with Stainx and cleaned w/ zep traffic lane cleaner

Extracted with Shop vac

Seates cleaned with wolliet 1:10 and extracted with shopvac

Aerospace 303 on all plastics

IG on windows

Organize a lot of junk



Other odds and ends:

Quick fix on the fog light

Repaint rusty tow hooks

Tried to polish out wheels



And here we go:

The fog light lens had fallen of and the owner asked me to glue it back on. There would be no point in gluing it back on if the light could not properly reflect so i too some reflective aluminum tape and did a quick fix and glued it back on. Afterwards i polished out the lense with m105 then plastix. The last picture was before polishing, i forgot to get a better after shot. It actually turned out really well, but i would still replace the light.

 

[imported_MBenz]

Washing with Dawn

Eagle one all wheel cleaner

Yellow traffic paint. I hate removing this stuff.

The side rubs where really nasty, they polished up well though.

Here is the engine after pressure wash but no dressing. Forgot that final picture.

The front tow hooks where really rusty so i wire brushed them really quick and shot on some simple rustolium.

During the polishing stage

These nasty chips in the clear coat show up after compounding with m105 :think:



It was after that i decided that paint might be too worn out to compound.

Notice that the right side was compounded and the left was not. Already some preexisting chips, but new little cracks where starting to show up so i decided to just leave it alone.

 

[imported_MBenz]

Final shots



The sun would not cooperate so these pictures turned out pretty crappy and it was threatening to rain so i didn't spend to much time on these. It took 4 days worth of work to do a little resto/detail on this beast and i think that i turned out well all things considered.

If you want to check out 2 other threads on this suburban that i had to ask you all here for help here they are on the paint and wheels



http://www.autopia.org/forum/car-detailing/109556-these-aluminum-wheels-too-far-gone.html



http://www.autopia.org/forum/car-detailing/109527-compounding-causing-crows-feet.html

 

[P1et]

Some nice work mate, that's a LOT of paint!

 

[Joshs2013MSAltimaSL]

Nicely done.

 

[mojo1111]

My 99 Suburban had the same cracks, I believe they are stress cracks and they showed up after a good buffing, I ended up having the hood repainted, only place that it showed up was on the hood. Good job on the truck!

 

[imported_smprince1]

Looks like a great effort to try to reset the clock on that beast ... huge improvement :2thumbs:

 

[dmw2692004]

Thats a alot of paint!



Great work, the hood is a bummer, it showed up on my 2002 Yukon that had highway rock chips all over the place, after i tired to compound the whole thing.



Awesome turnaround, none the less!

 

[BHARE]

Some nice work mate, it was trashed..great turn around!

 

[scaswell27]

looks like a new suburban

 

[RedClipse]

Any fading due to sun etc left in the wake of the pinstripe?

 

[timannnn]

That was a lot of work. Looks excellent. That engine was naaasstttyy. Would of like to have seen the after pic.

 

[imported_MBenz]

Thank you all for the replies

Any fading due to sun etc left in the wake of the pinstripe?

If you looked closely you could see some color difference, but the polishing got rid of it. In sections where it had naturally worn off, it was much harder to remove than the stronger areas. odd how it behaves that way.

 

[tom p.]

This is a home run!! Looks great and removing that pinstripe takes years off the vehicle's age. Nice job!!