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Nick (Tuck91) reminded me I hadn't posted this yet, so here it is.
On December 28, 2010 after 31 years of accident free driving I did this:
The president of the company I work for and I have known each other for over 30 years. We're like brothers so when he heard of my misfortune he handed me the keys to the company errand runner and said to use it as long as my baby was in the body shop. This is a 2002 Mercury Mountaineer. It has about 120,000 miles on it. It was a sales rep's car and then a former company exec's car. It sits in our parking lot 24/7/365 until someone needs to run an errand.
It hasn't had ANY love whatsoever the past couple of years. So besides keeping it gassed up I decided the least I could do was to put some of my talent, time and Meguiar's to some use.
The first weekend I had it home I gave it an ONR bath drying it with Meguiar's Water Magnets. I then clay barred it using Meguiar's white clay and ONR at clay lube ratio. This was followed by M205 on a CCS white polishing pad on the hood only. There were two rather nasty swirls caused by the incorrect method of removing a bird bomb. The vehicle was then given two thin coats of NXT 2.0 on a gray CCS pad. Wax was removed using Supreme Shine Mf towels. I followed up the next AM with a wipe down using UQD not because it needed it but because I needed garage time....
^The vehicle here was just in from the pouring rain. The area that appears to still have wax protection is one of the scars. I'm not sure what was used, but it left an oily residue and major swirling.
Here is the other spot after I corrected it and applied two thin coats of NXT 2.0.
Here are a couple out in the driveway before I put her away for the weekend. Of course we got snow the following week, but another ONR wash followed by UQD and she's back to beautiful.
The windows were cleaned inside and out with Meguiar's Xmas box glass cleaner (I love that stuff.) They were then treated to Rain-X. The interior was vacuumed and cleaned using APC at 10:1 using old MF towels and a toothbrush for the steering wheels and door handles. YUCK. The plastic and vinyl then got a coat of QID.
The water running down the vehicle is from the garage door dripping.
The hood came out real nice considering the vehicle is 9 years old and sits outside all day. I plan to bring her home on a warm weekend this spring to polish and wax her.
The clear coat on the wheels is shot, so they were cleaned with ONR and left alone. Exterior plastics and tires got Hyper Dressing the following AM.
I picked my baby up this past Tuesday,
sorry no pics. No wax for at least 90 days on the freshly pained passenger side. 
With all the snow we've been getting it may be a while before she gets a good bath 
On December 28, 2010 after 31 years of accident free driving I did this:
The president of the company I work for and I have known each other for over 30 years. We're like brothers so when he heard of my misfortune he handed me the keys to the company errand runner and said to use it as long as my baby was in the body shop. This is a 2002 Mercury Mountaineer. It has about 120,000 miles on it. It was a sales rep's car and then a former company exec's car. It sits in our parking lot 24/7/365 until someone needs to run an errand.
It hasn't had ANY love whatsoever the past couple of years. So besides keeping it gassed up I decided the least I could do was to put some of my talent, time and Meguiar's to some use.
The first weekend I had it home I gave it an ONR bath drying it with Meguiar's Water Magnets. I then clay barred it using Meguiar's white clay and ONR at clay lube ratio. This was followed by M205 on a CCS white polishing pad on the hood only. There were two rather nasty swirls caused by the incorrect method of removing a bird bomb. The vehicle was then given two thin coats of NXT 2.0 on a gray CCS pad. Wax was removed using Supreme Shine Mf towels. I followed up the next AM with a wipe down using UQD not because it needed it but because I needed garage time....
^The vehicle here was just in from the pouring rain. The area that appears to still have wax protection is one of the scars. I'm not sure what was used, but it left an oily residue and major swirling.
Here is the other spot after I corrected it and applied two thin coats of NXT 2.0.
Here are a couple out in the driveway before I put her away for the weekend. Of course we got snow the following week, but another ONR wash followed by UQD and she's back to beautiful.
The windows were cleaned inside and out with Meguiar's Xmas box glass cleaner (I love that stuff.) They were then treated to Rain-X. The interior was vacuumed and cleaned using APC at 10:1 using old MF towels and a toothbrush for the steering wheels and door handles. YUCK. The plastic and vinyl then got a coat of QID.
The water running down the vehicle is from the garage door dripping.
The hood came out real nice considering the vehicle is 9 years old and sits outside all day. I plan to bring her home on a warm weekend this spring to polish and wax her.
The clear coat on the wheels is shot, so they were cleaned with ONR and left alone. Exterior plastics and tires got Hyper Dressing the following AM.
I picked my baby up this past Tuesday,
sorry no pics. No wax for at least 90 days on the freshly pained passenger side. With all the snow we've been getting it may be a while before she gets a good bath
This was flawless before they got a hold of it. Come warmer weather I'll do the rest of the vehicle. I have to wait 90 days to do anything beyond washing on the passenger side. 
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