Ever done a car hauler/trailer?

Luv-N-It

Luv-N-It

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I've been asked to do a Featherlight trailer that a guy huals his street rod in from car show to car show. If you have done any in the past what products and pads did you use? Maybe by the condition it is in you can suggest anyway.

Conditon is fair. Reason I say fair is because the (1)metal panels are oxidized and chalky. (2)The rivets are oxidized too. (3)It has diamond plate/checker plate on the front bottom as a shield from small rocks as protection and this needs brought back to life too. Thanks in advance for the advice. Type away! :)
 
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I did a diamond plate truck box with the white pad that came with the PC and PB Pro Polish then sealed with EX-P.
 
Funny you brought this up. I just did one on monday nite. I used a foam polishing pad and the guy only wanted to do a 1 step since he was helping (somewhat) I went with PB EX and it worked well.

DO NOT use and abrasive's at all and use the smoothest pad needed. The paint on these are total single stage and very thin. I also used a pc instead of my rotary. It came out looking real nice. I wanted to do a 2 or 3 step , but he did'nt want to spend the time or money so I picked out several item for a 1 step cleaner and protectant. EX did the trick.

I did the diamond plate with some Adams alum. polish that I had laying around and wanted to use up. It came out much better but still not like new.

I blew 2 pad's because of going across the rivets.
 
Did it have a chalky residue on it too?

I got off the phone with a detailer who provided his phone number to me, through this website, and while talking with him, he read this, before you posted and said I should take some great caution because I could take off the paint.

Guess that is why you are suggesting PB EX, no abrasives, and the smoothest pads?

Thanks.
 
AIO is non abrasive, and should be able to remove that chalky llok without eating into the paint, then top with a sealant
 
If you perform a search on Clean Dean's posts, I think its called . "Biggest job ever done" he detailed 3 Mack trucks and listed his procedure.

Should be a good place to get info.

good Luck
 
My grandfather just bought a 05 full custom frightener race truck and trailer that he uses to tow his race cars in. It has everything in it. The truck has a full bathroom with 3 bunk beds and 2 fold out couch beds. Also two TVs with surround sound in it. The trailer has a lift for two cars to go on top and down bottom it has full cabinets and work stations in it. Its by far the coolest rig I have every seen.


Here is a pic of the new truck.

picmanufapage.jpg


My uncle is the one that sells the rigs and has the web page. I'll get some pics from him and post them at a later date.
My grandfather also had a 1997 Rig that he just sold or my uncle sold.
Here is a link to the old truck I use to have to clean.

http://www.racetrailersales.com/97international.htm


Well, what I was getting to was that the rigs are really nice and my grandfather is really anal about keeping it clean. Oh yeah I work for them so that's where I come into the picture. I have to wash the whole rig every week after we take it to the races. When I first started washing these thing I had no idea what I was doing. But now as 2 years have gone by I have learn a whole lot. How to wash it the best. How to get the dead bugs off of it which it is a magnet to bugs. I also have learned how to wax it or how to keep the chrome to shine and these rigs have a lot of it. How to polish everything. How to keep the tires shine the best and I have found the best stuff ever for that. How to clean anything and everything inside of the rigs. The 97 rig that he sold looked brand new right before we sold it.

Some pointers.
-First when waxing you have to be really careful because on the trailer the paint is super thin. Use a every soft compound and soft pad.
-To get black streaks off there is some special stuff you can get a RV places that works great but its kinda expensive and might not have a place near by. I use Fantastic. They use to have a a purple kind that was the best but they don't make it anymore well at least around where I live you can't find it. I now use the orange fantastic which works pretty good like the purple kind. The good thing about these two products is that they will not hurt the paint at all.
- To get the dead bugs off that fantastic stuff works the best.

I have a lot more info I could give you if you want it but there is to much to list on it. So if you have any individual question let me know and I'll try to answer them.

Billy
cbrf5018@aol.com
 
Luv-N-It said:
Did it have a chalky residue on it too?

I got off the phone with a detailer who provided his phone number to me, through this website, and while talking with him, he read this, before you posted and said I should take some great caution because I could take off the paint.

Guess that is why you are suggesting PB EX, no abrasives, and the smoothest pads?

Thanks.
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It did have some chalky oxidation on it but was not real bad. It had alot of black streak's down the side's from the galvanized roof. The PB cleaned it well. I've had 2 call's from this guy raving about how good and brite it look's .
 
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