This one has about 70k miles on it. It is used at times to pull a 5th wheel horse trailer.
On arrival:
After a good rinse with the pressure washer:
Then it was time to get out the lance and foam it up. I wanted a strong soap mix for this one as it was still pretty dirty.
2oz CGCW
1oz Z-7
2oz AM Red Hot APC
27oz of water
This is 4-5 mins after the foam was applied:
I had sprayed some AM Red Hot APC 1:1 on the tires, wheels and wells.
You can see how the dirt starts to "bleed out" on it own from the Red Hot APC:
I still cleaned the tires twice with the Red Hot.
Wells where scrubbed with a bug sponge and tires cleaned with an old MF mitt.
I rinsed away the foam with the pressure washer. I then refoamed and went over the lower panels/front with the bug sponge. I did a 2 bucket wash with a sheepskin mitt. Rinsed again with the pressure washer. I then clayed the truck use a capful of Z7 to 12 oz of water as lube. Rinsed truck again.
Interior-I had actually done the interior the night before, but will show that now. The client has the husky matts in the truck so they keep the carpet very nice.
Carpet already vac'd in these pics, seats not touched yet:
In under 2 hours:
Vac
APC/steamer/MF wipedown on all hard surfaces.
APC/MCME/Steamer/MF wipedown/Duragloss leather conditioner on all leather.
Glass got IG.
Interior finals:
Polishing-I was wanted to one step the truck, so I did a test panel w/ SIP and a orange CCS pad at 1700 on the metabo. I backed it off to 800 to finish it out, hoping for a hologram free surface.
It appears that I removed allot of the defects, but the lighting is not showing the RIDS that are still left, plus will there be holograms or not? No sun out at this time as we finally have some rain. So as usual I revert back to using wool for the cutting step as it will be much faster.
I tried my "trusty" green wool/P1500/1600 on the metabo but that was not cutting the deep RIDS out either. Time to step it up and go with the heavy hitter:
Yellow wool/3M extra cut/Metabo 1800.
I settled on ZPC/Orange American Buffing Co 6" pad/PC6 to finish it out.
Finally got some sun outside to inspect my work with.
This is a untouched area:
This area had 1x of the yellow wool combo and was followed with the PC:
That is not going to cut it in my book.
Hood after wool x2:
Hood after PC:
So I go back in and use the wool over the truck twice everywhere.
Yellow wool/3M extra cut/Metabo 1800
Then follow with:
ZPC/Orange American Buffing Co 6" pad/PC6
I worked the areas with allot of pressure making sure I would leave no wool marks or holograms.
I blew off the truck with compessed air to get rid of most of the wool shedding, I then did a Z6 wipedown. I wiped down all the door jambs.
2x of Z2pro with ZFX
Applied Z-16 to the tires.
ZAIO to the wheels and glass.
I then called it a night.
The next day I applied 1x of ZCS and followed a few hours later with Z8.
Did a quick polish on the nerf bars with some blue magic and a MF
Did the exposed exhaust tip with blue magic and some 0000 steel wool.
No direct sun at first:
Then it started to peak out:
On arrival:
After a good rinse with the pressure washer:
Then it was time to get out the lance and foam it up. I wanted a strong soap mix for this one as it was still pretty dirty.
2oz CGCW
1oz Z-7
2oz AM Red Hot APC
27oz of water
This is 4-5 mins after the foam was applied:
I had sprayed some AM Red Hot APC 1:1 on the tires, wheels and wells.
You can see how the dirt starts to "bleed out" on it own from the Red Hot APC:
I still cleaned the tires twice with the Red Hot.
Wells where scrubbed with a bug sponge and tires cleaned with an old MF mitt.
I rinsed away the foam with the pressure washer. I then refoamed and went over the lower panels/front with the bug sponge. I did a 2 bucket wash with a sheepskin mitt. Rinsed again with the pressure washer. I then clayed the truck use a capful of Z7 to 12 oz of water as lube. Rinsed truck again.
Interior-I had actually done the interior the night before, but will show that now. The client has the husky matts in the truck so they keep the carpet very nice.
Carpet already vac'd in these pics, seats not touched yet:
In under 2 hours:
Vac
APC/steamer/MF wipedown on all hard surfaces.
APC/MCME/Steamer/MF wipedown/Duragloss leather conditioner on all leather.
Glass got IG.
Interior finals:
Polishing-I was wanted to one step the truck, so I did a test panel w/ SIP and a orange CCS pad at 1700 on the metabo. I backed it off to 800 to finish it out, hoping for a hologram free surface.
It appears that I removed allot of the defects, but the lighting is not showing the RIDS that are still left, plus will there be holograms or not? No sun out at this time as we finally have some rain. So as usual I revert back to using wool for the cutting step as it will be much faster.
I tried my "trusty" green wool/P1500/1600 on the metabo but that was not cutting the deep RIDS out either. Time to step it up and go with the heavy hitter:
Yellow wool/3M extra cut/Metabo 1800.
I settled on ZPC/Orange American Buffing Co 6" pad/PC6 to finish it out.
Finally got some sun outside to inspect my work with.
This is a untouched area:
This area had 1x of the yellow wool combo and was followed with the PC:
That is not going to cut it in my book.
Hood after wool x2:
Hood after PC:
So I go back in and use the wool over the truck twice everywhere.
Yellow wool/3M extra cut/Metabo 1800
Then follow with:
ZPC/Orange American Buffing Co 6" pad/PC6
I worked the areas with allot of pressure making sure I would leave no wool marks or holograms.
I blew off the truck with compessed air to get rid of most of the wool shedding, I then did a Z6 wipedown. I wiped down all the door jambs.
2x of Z2pro with ZFX
Applied Z-16 to the tires.
ZAIO to the wheels and glass.
I then called it a night.
The next day I applied 1x of ZCS and followed a few hours later with Z8.
Did a quick polish on the nerf bars with some blue magic and a MF
Did the exposed exhaust tip with blue magic and some 0000 steel wool.
No direct sun at first:
Then it started to peak out:
