Black Lincoln Navigator - Full detail and Navi install

[Orinda Auto Detail]

I did this thrashed truck at my other shop in walnut creek. It came in for a navi/bluetooth/backup camera/drop down over head DVD/blue tooth ect... Basically making it more modern with some tech upgrades. After finishing the install on the electronic upgrades I had a customer reschedule for another job so I had some extra time and it desperately needed a detail.

Inside the everything was cleaned with P&S Enviro clean APC 20:1, magic erasers, an assortment of little brushes, my amex, some general purpose MF towels, and carpets were extracted using MYTEE after some spot cleaning with APC.

Exterior got washed traditional way. Decon was done with Iron-X and a speedy prep towel. Exterior was corrected using M105/BF SRC compound/ BF SRC Finishing polish. All with my dewalt 849x. Seal with Klasse HGSG all my other waxes were in Orinda and I had this in my car soooo work with what you got lol.

Before it was touched

Paint was ruff....

After riping the dash out for the navi and installing all the modules to make everything work. Sat/BT/Back up camera/steering wheel controls/DVD interface. You know all the modern goodies

Even guide lines on this Alpine unit. Pretty cool eh?

50/50 of the steering wheel it was gross.

APC wasn't touching this so I used a Magic Eraser and it worked like magic!(pun intended)

hmmmm gonna be a long night, customer needed this done at 8am

Hood had a lot of etching and some oxidation

After SRC compound/Finishing polish. M105 was used in a cpl places mixxed with SRC compound for more bite to save steps.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpWoeE-0u5w]Black Fire SRC compound vs swirls - YouTube[/ame]
This is a video of the door after just SRC compound. Give it up to Black Fire! It is pretty aggressive and leave almost 0 halo's with a rotary!

After one pass it required a second to get it perfect.

Pillars got dialed with one pass SRC Finishing polish.

Getting there!

I ran outta of SRC finishing polish I had with me so I used 3m ultrafina on all the bottom plastic. It sure does make it shiny I wanna do a side by side vs SRC Finishing. I have a feeling I'll see that it fills way more than Blackfire.

The paint was done at this point and it was almost 6am. I took a quick break and ran to the store for red bull. I got back and finished up with wheels/tires/nit picking ect...

Out in the sun at 730 am. The customer called me and told me he wasn't gonna pick it up till saterday... I missed a night of sleep for this lol.:wall

Thanks For looking
Joseph Torbati
Dark Side Detail

 

[Jeff1x]

nice job that was trashed

 

[Custom Care]

And that Sir, is why $125/hour is fair for you!!! Great save and I definitely respect your commitment to getting the job done and getting it done right.

 

[dd1101]

Amazing job Joe, thats pure perfection.

 

[Orinda Auto Detail]

nice job that was trashed

Thank you!

And that Sir, is why $125/hour is fair for you!!! Great save and I definitely respect your commitment to getting the job done and getting it done right.

Thank you, and that was an intense night. At one point I thought I wasn't gonna make I had a real hard time with the roof that thing... It was really messed up and I buffed the whole thing with a 3'pad because I was worried about burning something up there with all the little ^___^___^ I dont know what those are called but it looked like that lol.

Amazing job Joe, thats pure perfection.

Thanks D! I try!

 

[dc52nv]

Awesome save there. Great work on the tech install as well.

 

[Pats300zx]

Nicely done Joe...

 

[mjlinane]

Fantastic work Joe!

 

[Orinda Auto Detail]

Thanks guys!

 

[Addicted2Bling]

Looks great man

 

[Custom Care]

Thank you!

Thank you, and that was an intense night. At one point I thought I wasn't gonna make I had a real hard time with the roof that thing... It was really messed up and I buffed the whole thing with a 3'pad because I was worried about burning something up there with all the little ^___^___^ I dont know what those are called but it looked like that lol.

Thanks D! I try!

Lol at first I thought you were bleeping out a set of cuss words then I realized you may have been creating a picture of the roof racks? Not sure if that's what they're called but they're hard plastic or something similar that you can put luggage and stuff on top of "without" scratching the paint. Even though stuff just sags between the pieces and scratches the crap out of the hood when they drag stuff across it.

 

[Orinda Auto Detail]

Lol at first I thought you were bleeping out a set of cuss words then I realized you may have been creating a picture of the roof racks? Not sure if that's what they're called but they're hard plastic or something similar that you can put luggage and stuff on top of "without" scratching the paint. Even though stuff just sags between the pieces and scratches the crap out of the hood when they drag stuff across it.

Not the racks lol I took those off its the groves on the roof its not flat it looks like


/T\___/T\___/T\


The "t" is just to make the top line :rofl

 

[Custom Care]

Ah, well whatever they are they sound like a PITA!!!

 

[Reality33]

As always Joe, awesome work!

And I hear you on those stupid SUV roof rain channels (the only thing that makes sense??) things. I don't know what they all have them, but they sure are a royal pain.

 

[polisher]

i loved the navi. i know when it 1st came to market and i test drove it. I really loved it a lot. Tons of luxury