Cleaned up my fathers truck this weekend!

DigitalN.

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Well it was my first attempt at anything but a wash/wax. So I think it went pretty well!



Products:



Optimum Car wash

Schmitt wash mitt

Canadian Tire buckets

Stoners IG

Rain-X

Megs UQG

Megs Gold Class wax

Megs Natural Shine (for the tyres)

Megs Mirror Glaze 28 Metal Polish



and probably some other stuff... anyways, here are the pics! (as you can tell, I was fascinated by the wheels! They came out awesome!)



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as you can see, the paint was near perfect. He never uses anything but the touchless wash, so all I had to do was a claybar to get rid of the micro dirt left, and I was good, there weren't many scratches whatsoever



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The wheels were in bad shape, but with a little elbow grease (1 hour per wheel, oy) they came out great



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The final stuff, all cleaned up!



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and one of the wheels, so shiny...



I am very pleased with this one, there are a few parts where I know I could have done better (the step bars were in BAD shape) however for what its worth, it turned out excellent. And the best part is that I now had 5 different people ask what I cost to detail their cars! Let me know what you guys think :)



I have one minor question to ask, what do you guys use for tar remover? He has some very tough tar on his exhaust tip (which happens to be chrome, go figure) that I just can't get off of there.
 
Yeah the wash bay is just down the street from my house at a coin op. They are awesome there, in the winter time I can spray down my vehicle, bring out some buckets, hand wash it, and spray it down again and take off. They definitely rock :)







I also tried turtle wax B&T, but it isn't very good for me, anything else?
 
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