Horizon Detailing: 2005 Jeep Grand Cherokee

Darkstar752

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This Jeep is my Mom's daily driver, and it has been used like one. The paint was beat-up, has never seen a detail before or a wax. It is a blast to drive with the 325 hp and 370 hp. I was going for about 98% correction, all swirls gone with just a couple RIDS left that were just way too deep. Not too many befores and some of the pictures are iPhone pics, so sorry in advance.





Wash:

Meguiars Gold Class (Before)

Majestic Solutions Ultragloss (After LSP)

2BM

Sheepskin mitt

Uber red and blue WW drying towels



Clay:

Riccardo

Adam's Quick Detailer

Uber red towels



Paint:

Makita 9227C/3M Perfect-It backing plate

Step 1: Lake Country Purple Foamed Wool/M105

Step 2: Uber Blue Polishing Pad/3M Ultrafina

Areas that weren't so bad: Uber Green Polishing Pad/ Menzerna P203S

CG's Monster towels

Uber Original MF Towels

M105 inside handles



LSP:

2 coats of Collinite 915

Uber Red notched applicator

Uber No Name Super Plush towel



Misc:

303 Aerospace

Various Brushes and MF towels

P21S wheel Gel

Folex

Meguiars Hyper Dressing

Meguiars APC +

Stoner's More Shine Tire Shine

Leather Master's Vital Reconditioning Cream

Leather Master's Strong Cleaner

NXT 2.0 In Door Jambs

Surf City Grime Destroyer

Stoner's Tarminator

Meguiars All Metal Polish

0000 Steel Wool

Poorboy's Wheel Sealant



Start with wheels: 4 Years of brake dust required steel wool and metal polish to remove.

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After:

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No Dressing:

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Paint: All kinds of messed up in different areas, even permanent etching from windsheild washer fluid and some kinds things that ate through the clearcoat. Lot's of RIDS. I had pictures of the correction of the RIDS, but my Mom deleted them to make room for vacation pictures. All were removed or significantly diminished, save for one that was extremely deep, down to the metal. I had a hard time capturing swirls because of the metallic.



Hard time capturing how bad it was:

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Corrected:

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Before:

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Corrected, look at the flake!:

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Before:

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50/50:

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After:

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Where the bad swirls were before, don't mind the polish that I didn't wipe away yet:

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After, Reflection shots. Took it to the closest parking lot that was somewhat nice. LSP was 2 coats of Collinite 915, 24 hours apart. I think it came out pretty well, I was very happy with it. Notice the great glow



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This Picture shows one of the spots where the clear coat had been permanently etched through by something:

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And my favorite:

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Total time: ~20 hours



Comments/criticism appreciated. Thanks for reading!
 
Hithenameisbj said:
Looks great, details on the steel wool procedure?



Thanks! I used steel wool on the rims and the exhaust since nothing else would fix them. I'm assuming you mean for the rims.



I throughly cleaned the rims with P21S, which left me with only the caked on brake dust, then I just used Meguiars All-Metal Polish along with the finest grade steel wool(0000) on the rims and with some scrubbing, the brake dust came off. I then followed up with M105, but to be honest it didn't really do anything. I then finished with 3 coats of Poorboy's Wheel Sealant.
 
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