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Hey everyone,
I'm currently working on my first paid customer, one of my co-workers who wanted me to bring out some shine in his 2005 F-150. Let me say that this truck has some massive real estate on it!
Anyways I started last Wednesday on it, I can only work on it when he's running out of our station so the next time will be on Friday.
I told him that I'd do it for $50, I'm already at work getting paid plus he has hooked us up with lunch plenty of times so I thought I'd pay it foward a bit. Plus it makes slow days go by!
So far I've washed with GC Gold, tires and wells were cleaned up with Purple Power, wheels cleaned up nicely with All Wheel, clayed with Meg's blue clay w/Quik Detailer and 1 coat of NXT 2.0 due to time constraints.
Now heres where I'm hitting a dead end. The truck sits outside all day and night, the paint is blue and it appears to be in excellent condition for sitting outside. My co-worker said that it's never been waxed since he bought it new so I'm positive that it's never had a proper detail done on it. All I've been able to identify is some bug etching on the front bumper and some RIDS here and there...nothing too serious. Swirls are light and can't really pick them out under normal lighting conditions.
Now I was thinking about maybe going back with SwirlX or M205 to clean up the paint a bit and thin out the swirls to bring out the color some. I'm also thinking about adding a coat of M16 on top of the NXT....well 2 coats as the NXT will probably go bye bye if I clean the paint up more.
I'm going to hit up the interior with the tried and true M39/40 combo as it really needs some TLC!!
With winter weather already here I'm not quite sure how to further approach this.
Any thoughts and advice would be greatly appreciated!!
I'm currently working on my first paid customer, one of my co-workers who wanted me to bring out some shine in his 2005 F-150. Let me say that this truck has some massive real estate on it!
Anyways I started last Wednesday on it, I can only work on it when he's running out of our station so the next time will be on Friday.
I told him that I'd do it for $50, I'm already at work getting paid plus he has hooked us up with lunch plenty of times so I thought I'd pay it foward a bit. Plus it makes slow days go by!
So far I've washed with GC Gold, tires and wells were cleaned up with Purple Power, wheels cleaned up nicely with All Wheel, clayed with Meg's blue clay w/Quik Detailer and 1 coat of NXT 2.0 due to time constraints.
Now heres where I'm hitting a dead end. The truck sits outside all day and night, the paint is blue and it appears to be in excellent condition for sitting outside. My co-worker said that it's never been waxed since he bought it new so I'm positive that it's never had a proper detail done on it. All I've been able to identify is some bug etching on the front bumper and some RIDS here and there...nothing too serious. Swirls are light and can't really pick them out under normal lighting conditions.
Now I was thinking about maybe going back with SwirlX or M205 to clean up the paint a bit and thin out the swirls to bring out the color some. I'm also thinking about adding a coat of M16 on top of the NXT....well 2 coats as the NXT will probably go bye bye if I clean the paint up more.
I'm going to hit up the interior with the tried and true M39/40 combo as it really needs some TLC!!
With winter weather already here I'm not quite sure how to further approach this.
Any thoughts and advice would be greatly appreciated!!
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