93 Bronco makeover...

[Tom Weed]

I did a 93 Bronco this weekend that took me 2 full days to do inside and out and since it's parked outside and wasn't driven all winter, it was in dire need of some work.

I didn't get any good interior pics, so I will just go over the exterior, my steps were to wash, clay the paint glass and wheels, then I used the rotary with a polishing pad and #80, I then followed that up with #82 and the PC. I then topped it with #21x2 8 hrs apart. I dressed the topper with #38 and the trim. The wheels were clear coated accept for the center caps which were rusted, I used steel wool followed by never dull on the caps and topped with NXT all metal polish, which I also used on the exhaust tips, step bars and the front and rear bumpers. The tires wear All Seasons Dressing and the wheel wells have Hper dressing at 1:3. Using #80 on the rotary really brought the paint back to life on this thing and it made for some good before and afters...

[Tom Weed]

The afters...

[Ash Erickson]

What an amazing trasformation! Great job.

[Dee]

Tom, Awesome JOB! It doesn't even look like the same truck:-)
Quick question, can you tell me why you chose to use the #82 over #83, and secondly, when you washed and clayed the truck, did the paint come off on your mitt? Just curious. I just received my PC for Christmas, so I really don't have a lot of experience with it, and I'm trying to learn. Once I've got a good grasp on it, I will have to catch one of Mike's classes to learn how to use the Rotary, because I don't think this job would have come out quite as good without that Rotary:-) Again, great job!

[Mike Phillips]

Hey Tom,

Does that Bronco have a single stage paint or is the clear coat oxidized?

Looks like it's a single stage paint because clear coats usually don't uniformly oxidize and look like paint in this picture; usually you'll see clear failure on the horizontal panels by the time the vertical panels look like this.

[Tom Weed]

Thanks guys,

Dee: I chose 80 on the rotary because it was less aggressive than 83 and IMO easier to work with, my approach was to go less aggressive to see if what combination would work. If 80 wouldn't have cut it, I would have used 83 or Optimum Compound. I used 82 on the PC after the rotary work because it's less aggressive than 83 and 80 and I wanted to make sure I removed any holograming I may have caused from the rotary work, especially on black. I very easily could have used 80 again with the PC, but 82 looked great when I finished with it. The numbers are a little misleading, in the 80 series, 85 is the most aggressive, followed by 84, 83, then 80. 82 is below 80 and similar to #9. 81 is just a pure polish with no cutting ability, similar to #7.

Mike: it's got both, he's had some body work done on it, so the drivers door and drivers back panel were SS, rest of it was BC/CC, some in better shape than others. It sits outside all the time, he didn't drive it for almost a year, so it looked the part...

Tom

[mini44]

Awesome job

[J. A. Michaels]

All I can say is wow. That is one awesome transformation. The Bronco looks like it has been taken care of for years. Not sitting for a year. great job.

[OhioCarBuff]

Tom,

Awesome job!! Do you think it's possible you could have produced as good results if you only had the PC and not rotary (assuming you worked with 83 and PC and time was not an issue)?

Matt

[Hemin8r]

That is one heck of a transformation. I was wondering the same thing as mike on the single stage paint. Great job!