Todays Project: GX 470

[MS22]

Detailed an 03 or 04 GX470 today for my girlfriends bosses wife. I did the interior of his X5 this past weekend but it was nothing too bad, just espresso spilled all over he wanted cleaned up. Anyway, it reached a balmy 55 degrees today so the weather was absolutely beautiful. There are no before pics because I forgot my camera but luckily my girlfriend had to babysit their kids so I did get to take the afters. To give an idea of what I was dealing with they have three kids 9, 5, and 3; typical soccer mom in an SUV interior. The exterior had some nice scratches from a bull-mastif who was jumping on the car last weekend so that was a nice touch too. All in all the job was not bad since we have not seen the 50s since that fluke day about two weeks ago, felt great to be outside. Process was as follows:



Exterior:

- 4* car wash conc.

- Pinnacle wheel gel

- Poorboys clay (a new favorite)

- SSR2.5 @ 1500 (spot polish with some SSR3 on some nasty scratches)

- VM @ 1000

- Souveran (2x)

- Trim restore on exterior plastic

- Wolfgang on the tires/BnB in the wells



Interior:

- Woolite 6:1 on dash and leather

- NL on dash

- Pinnacle leather conditioner

- Mats and carpet by GSRStilez method



Engine (thank you Lexus for a detailer friendly engine bay):

- S&W to clean

- VRT to dress



Cant get pics to upload correctly so here is a link:

http://www.detailcity.com/showthread.php?t=10934

 

[Mad iX]

Funny, those cars are sold here under the Toyota brand, not Lexus. We have the LX470 instead.



Looks like a nice detail. That engine bay is one of the neatest I've seen, if only they were all that easy to detail.

 

[MS22]

Here in the US the GX430 is an SUV that bridges the gap between the RX300 and LX470 models. Yes, that engine bay is wonderful to work on, I do with they were all like that.