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I went up to the cool pines in North Eastern Arizona to escape the nuclear fission-like temperatures down in the valley last weekend. I brought my detailing gear so I could spend Saturday relaxing in the cool temps and detailing my Dad's 2000 Pearl White Ford Explorer.
For a 9 year old truck it's in really good shape, but the paint has never been polished and it needed a good cleanup after it's first snowy winter.
After a good 2-bucket washing and claying, here's what we found:
Since this is a daily driver, we decided the best approach was to safely remove about 90% of the defects. I tested initially with 151 but the swirls just laughed at that. I ended up with 95 and a solo maroon wool pad on the rotary, followed by 205 on a 5.5" green pad via PC.
This was my process:
- Wash w/ Gold Class soap and 3 bucket method
- Cleaned wheels w/ All wheel cleaner and APC+ in the wheel wells
- Clay with Smooth Clay Kit
- Washed Engine with APC+ @ 4:1
- Dressed Engine w/ No Touch Tire Care
- Compounded w/ M95 on a Maroon Solo pad via Rotary @ 1700/1200/900. Thought I'd try the "Kevin Brown" method with 95, even though it is not SMAT technology it worked very well and finished up excellent!
- Final polishing w/ M205 via PC @ Speed 6, finishing @ Speed 5
- M16 (This was gift from VoicesInMyHead, and I was anxious to finally test it out - Thanks Ron!!)
- Headlights polished with M95 via PC on a 4" LC yellow pad speed 6
- Followed up with M205 on via PC on a 4" LC green pad speed 5
I was very pleased with M95 as this was my first time using it. It cuts as well as M105 and using the "Kevin Brown" method it finished up nearly LSP ready.
M205 is always a pleasure to work with and adds more gloss and "pop" than any other product I've used. Pearl and metallics just leap off of the surface of the paint after polishing with M205.
M16 is as good as everyone says it is, the gloss is unbelievable!
Here's the befores and afters:
Passenger side Quarter:
Hood:
50/50:
After Compounding:
Finished:
Passenger Side Door:
Wheel:
Engine:
Headlight:
Taillight:
B-Pillar:
And some final afters:
That's it
Thanks for looking!
For a 9 year old truck it's in really good shape, but the paint has never been polished and it needed a good cleanup after it's first snowy winter.
After a good 2-bucket washing and claying, here's what we found:
Since this is a daily driver, we decided the best approach was to safely remove about 90% of the defects. I tested initially with 151 but the swirls just laughed at that. I ended up with 95 and a solo maroon wool pad on the rotary, followed by 205 on a 5.5" green pad via PC.
This was my process:
- Wash w/ Gold Class soap and 3 bucket method
- Cleaned wheels w/ All wheel cleaner and APC+ in the wheel wells
- Clay with Smooth Clay Kit
- Washed Engine with APC+ @ 4:1
- Dressed Engine w/ No Touch Tire Care
- Compounded w/ M95 on a Maroon Solo pad via Rotary @ 1700/1200/900. Thought I'd try the "Kevin Brown" method with 95, even though it is not SMAT technology it worked very well and finished up excellent!
- Final polishing w/ M205 via PC @ Speed 6, finishing @ Speed 5
- M16 (This was gift from VoicesInMyHead, and I was anxious to finally test it out - Thanks Ron!!)
- Headlights polished with M95 via PC on a 4" LC yellow pad speed 6
- Followed up with M205 on via PC on a 4" LC green pad speed 5
I was very pleased with M95 as this was my first time using it. It cuts as well as M105 and using the "Kevin Brown" method it finished up nearly LSP ready.
M205 is always a pleasure to work with and adds more gloss and "pop" than any other product I've used. Pearl and metallics just leap off of the surface of the paint after polishing with M205.
M16 is as good as everyone says it is, the gloss is unbelievable!
Here's the befores and afters:
Passenger side Quarter:
Hood:
50/50:
After Compounding:
Finished:
Passenger Side Door:
Wheel:
Engine:
Headlight:
Taillight:
B-Pillar:
And some final afters:
That's it
Thanks for looking!
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