Mirror Detailing - F150 - Not everything needs a repaint

[MirrorDetailing]

Did this bartering for a fathers day gift...or at least some contruction work. Worked all day friday...then came home to find this sitting in my driveway. Started on it around 9:30pm. Wanted to get the exterior paint shining in comparison to what it was. Since I was bartering for work and it needed to get done by tomorrow morning...I settled with doing a heavy cutting AIO and heavy cutting process while still being able to finish down. Finished up around 1:30am.



It was amazing how many scratches actually came out and how much color it brought back to the paint.



Truck was already cleaned and clayed when it came to me. Just needed my attention to the paint. Like I said speed and outcome was the goal with one cut.



Process: KBM w/ GG DA - Many LC Orange Pads - Meguiars Cut & Cream

LSP: BFWD



Before:

50-50 Wow....

After:

Here is a reminder of what this side looked like to start with...

 

[The Wraith]

Awesome :xyxthumbs I love the red dash, too!

 

[Ryan Paymaster]

Great work especially for the time frame! What's awesome is if the owner was to sell that truck before you had it he'd get way less for it too. An average person would have viewed that as a total repaint.



I was just thinking about some minor wet sanding on a 2001 F150 we picked up to tow to the race track. It was maintained well by non-auto owners but it has insane swirls and some nice RIDs but the fingernail really doesn't catch in them.



Looking at the condition of what you just did it's at least 3 times worse than what I'll be dealing with. Seems like the PC, many pads, and M105/M205 should work wonders especially with unlimited time.

 

[MirrorDetailing]

Awesome :xyxthumbs I love the red dash, too!

Yeah its burgundy everything on this truck.

Great work especially for the time frame! What's awesome is if the owner was to sell that truck before you had it he'd get way less for it too. An average person would have viewed that as a total repaint.



I was just thinking about some minor wet sanding on a 2001 F150 we picked up to tow to the race track. It was maintained well by non-auto owners but it has insane swirls and some nice RIDs but the fingernail really doesn't catch in them.



Looking at the condition of what you just did it's at least 3 times worse than what I'll be dealing with. Seems like the PC, many pads, and M105/M205 should work wonders especially with unlimited time.

Oh yeah, I told the owner that really for a few hundred bucks and a weekend wet sanding this whole truck would really make a huge difference. I was surprised at how well for the condition of the paint it corrected.

 

[Bimmerdude]

I love it when you can remove marks/paint transfer from a previous accident.....that makes them think you're a true magician!