Frontier Tailgate

SilentSamurai

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Heres somethin i did this morning just to keep me off the computer for a few hours and have my little workout for the day before i goto bed this morning. (i work nightshift. Sleep during the day)



So its a 2005 Nissan frontier. The bed is just covered in ORANGE PEEL. Its beyond the warrenty so I cant just hand it back. So i'll live with it for now and get that worked out at a later date. For now i'll just keep it swirl free.





Products of choice:





Megs Gold Class Wash

Megs Claybar w/ Megs NXT Quick Detailer



wait for surface to cool (meaning make breakfast)





Prima Swirl with White LC Pad at speed 5

Prima Epic with Black LC pad at speed 3



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1st step: Prep





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2nd)As you can see here. The tailgate isn't exactly swamped with swirls but a nice noticeable amount.





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3rd)Test spot on left side of tailgate: There wasn't a great amount of swirls and the paint is great to work with. (except the orange peel of course) but white pad was all i needed





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4th) The first pass with the white pad got them about 80% The 2nd pass cleared up the area perfectly.





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5th)time to goto town on the rest of the gate. Here is the Start to finish results I got on the entire project after 2 passes at speed 5





Before:



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First pass:



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Second Pass:



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6th step) Take out into the sunlight to triple check my results. I got a nice 95-96% correction after two passes on the entire tailgate. Which means I must be doing something right.



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I blame the orange peel for now showing the proper reflection on my trucks bed. The sun came out at like 7 this morning. Almost makes the tailgate look primered huh







Results in sunlight before epic was applied:



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After waiting a bit. It was finally time to apply the Prima Epic. This stuff is amazing. Very easy to use and the smoothness of this product once finished is great!







After 30 minutes: 1 coat



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Out in the sun:



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Thanks for lookin. Sorry for such a long write-up on such a small part of the truck. But i get into this stuff hah





Adam





If your interested in seeing what the whole truck looks like. Here it is:

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I like it, don't really mind the peel as long as it looks that slick. I mean for the effort it would take to fix. Good work!
 
Thanks guys. Seeing that it does hit the off-road trails every once in awhile, I'm not too worried about it.



It seems the bed is the only section thats orange-peel'd. Maybe thats just how they come.



Cheers,

Adam
 
Adam, in that case, sand the living hell outta it!!! :lol it wont take you long and it's a great practice bed. Of course you should definitely have a rotary handy so you may want to scratch that.



The wheels really pull that truck together too btw, looks great and not different from many I have seen on the road.
 
Why thank you. Yes. I think i've pretty much got the feel for the PC and would like to step up to rotary. But because my truck registration is $285 due in april, and i probably owe about $1k+ in taxes in april as well. that wont happen anytime soon.



I've done quite a few paint job's in my day and think i can handle the sanding. Its the rotary im not used it. So once i can afford that, i'll goto the junk yard and pick up a hood.



Thanks again for the comments guys.

Adam
 
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