Detailed: 2001 Toyota Tacoma (Red)

justin30513

Mobile Detailing Services
Well, it's nice to be using my camera again! This one belongs to one of my local bankers here in Blue Ridge. I've done some repo's for him and the bank in the past. This Tacoma will be given to his son, tomorrow, for his 16th birthday. I did more on this one than I should have but I had nothing else today and I wanted to learn Menzerna's Nano (106) some more.

Here's the process...........

Wash Cycle:
NXT Tech Wash & Purple Power Pre-Wash
(20 oz. of wash and 12 oz of the degreaser applied via foam gun)
This mix is my go-to pre-soak. It works well at cleaning bugs, tires, and rims. I let the foam soak for 5 minutes and then rinse. I follow with a DP Four -in- One rinseless wash. Drying is handles by a Guzzler.

Tires, Wells, & Engine Bay:
(Armor All Tire Foam after cleaning foam)
The bay, wells, and tires were coat in Armor All Tire foam and let sit. The engine was the started and let run for 20 minutes to bake. The tires and trim were then treated to a coat of Armor All Tire Gel. Looked nice on the fender flares.

Paint Correction:
Menzerna's PO106ff
(Applied with Cyclo and EDGE2K Yellow Pads)
Today was an experiment to try to handle the dusting that comes with this awesome polish. I first wet the pads with a QD mix of Four -in- One. I rubbed the solution into the pad. I then put two, tiny drop of PwS onto each pad. I rubbed this into the pad by hand as well. Ok. On to polishing now. When I came to each section of the truck (door panel, hood, etc.), I would use ONE dime sized drop of 106 per Cyclo pad (it has two pads). Guess what? No dusting and the polished wonderful abilities were not hindered at all! I want someone else to try this out and give me some feed back with this process. Use your own QD too. This polish is simply awesome. I don't see me using anything else for a long time.

Paint Protection:
Poorboy's EX
(Applied with Cyclo and EDGE2K White Pads)
I've had a sample of this for a while now (thanks supercharged) and have not used it. Someone told me I needed to try it out on red so here goes. Wow! The carnauba in EX really made it the red deepen and appear wet. Reminded me a lot of Souveran liquid. I'm pretty happy with this LSP. I will have to use up the remaining amount so I can get more!

The interior was in perfect shape. No pics required for it. Just a vacuum and wiped down.

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Afters...
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Some more shots........
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The headlights were done with 106 as well.........
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Some messy pad shots.........
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Very, Very Nice!

Love those Menzerna polishes...

PB's EX looks outstanding on that vehicle!

Again, nice job!
 
OK... couple quick questions, as I'm not familiar with the new ARMOR ALL products.

You mentioned that you used a "cleaning foam" on the engine compartment. What cleaning foam did you use?

Did you rinse the cleaning foam off with water and let the
compartment dry before you applied the tire foam to the engine compartment?

Which tire foam did you use?

Thanks
 
Great work and write up on the products and process...you did a very thrall job and that's what detailing is all about

One question?

Was it necessary to foam down the engine compartment? to me you run the risk of hitting a electrical component that might malfunction...in other words for me the less water that I use in the engine bay the less I feel I will harm the car....your also not the first one that I have seen do this, it would scary me
 
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