Brand new fire truck, and a Lexus ES330

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SShine

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Ill start with the fire truck, its a brand new truck my dads fire dept got, and the county made it sit in some spot on their training grounds for like a month before they could take delivery, and it made the metal all pitted and whatnot. So they wanted a coat of wax on everything and all metal polished. the diamondplate had

'textured" diamonds on it, making it a PITA to remove the black residue from polishing. They had the explorers wash it for me before I got there lol.



Waxed with M26

Polished with Meguiars marine metal polish (works great for polishing metal in rather good condition)

Metal polished with PC and some low profile orange pads. (went through two, tore them up but I have so many I didnt care)

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Now for the Lexus. This lady called me up and is like "well im driving right next to you" (gotta love vehicle advertising), her car was trashed, covered in mud, interior was filty. Dont have any before pic sof the interior but it was bad. The paint had your typical swirling, but she only wanted to pay a set amound and not enough for a two step polishing so I decided to remove 75% of the defects and leave a real nice and deep finish, as most people are thrilled with that result anyways.



exterior:

Hyper-Wash

Mirror glaze clay

Megs wheel cleaner

Megs super degreaser for wheel wells and engine

Megs hyper-dressing on engine and wheel wells

Megs hot wheels for tires

106ff, white CCS via rotary

NXT 2.0 blue LC via PC



interior:

Megs APC for everything

Megs hyper-dressing 4:1

Zymol leather conditioner



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whiteg240 said:
Nice Job on the Lexus. How bad was it to get that scuff on the front bumper out?
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thanks, that lexus maroon paint really looks nice when polished.



For the scuff, first I applied some solvent to remove most of the white paint, but it didnt quite get the paint that was in the deep scratches (it has alot of deep scrapes). then I wetsanded with 2000 grit, polished with DACP on a yellow pad, then finished with the 106ff. it took care of it for the most part, nothing i could really do about all the deep scrapes.
 
I have been contacted by a couple Fire Departments for "show car" details on their trucks. Can you PM me with what you charged please (if its not too personal).



Thanks



Todd
 
WOW first Fire Truck that I see that looks so nice . The car came out terrific . Congratulation on a super looooong detail .



Cheers , Jean Paul
 
TH0001 said:
I have been contacted by a couple Fire Departments for "show car" details on their trucks. Can you PM me with what you charged please (if its not too personal).



Thanks



Todd
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Todd, fire trucks are actually easy to do ( I washed and detailed our rigs on the group back in the day!)... lots of nice, flat surfaces. Diamond plate can be a pain to deal with, but a Mother's powerball should make easy work of it. Be careful around the gold leaf lettering.. you will want to mask it off and polish those areas by hand only.
 
I did a few fire engines before, small ones, and they are alot of work. They had a show in beverly hills and wanted to show off their trucks. The pc with aluminum polish is necessay for all that diamond plate though for sure. And the red paint was not clearcoated on them either.
 
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