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SHOW PREP DETAIL: Custom Ford F150 Raptor
The subject belongs to Nicoletti Motorsports and they reached out to us to give this recently modded truck a little love before it headed off to the Denver Auto Show this week.
Quick walk around showed a fair amount of light swirling. The wrap had more significant damage that wasn't going to addressed on this detail. Heavy water spotting on all the glass. Since it hadn't seen any offroad use yet the undercarriage was still in pretty good shape and didn't take much to clean up. Interior was in good shape, but clear it hadn't been thoroughly cleaned since purchased (5k+ on the odo)
Goal was an overall cleanup, correction of light paint defects, and applying protection to all the surfaces to get it ready for display/show.
BEFORE:
'
PROCESS:
Wheels Cleaned with
Adam's Deep Wheel Cleaner
/
Trim & Lug Brush
/
Wheel Woolies
/
Boars Hair Wheel Brush
Tires Cleaned with
Adam's All Purpose Cleaner
/
Adam's Deep Clean Tire Scrub Brush
/
Fender Brush
Exterior Wash with
2 Buckets
/
Grit Guards
/ 2
Wash Pads
&
Adam's Car Wash Shampoo
Contamination Removed with
Adam's Clay and Detail Spray
Rewashed with
Adam's Car Wash Shampoo
Dried with
Master Blaster
/
Great White Drying Towel
/
Detail Spray
Correction done with
Flex 3401 & PE14-2
/
White Gen4 Pad
/
Fine Machine Polish
Hand Polish on wheels and hard to reach areas with
Revive Polish
and
Blue Hex Grip
Sealed with
Quick Sealant
Topped with
Brilliant Glaze
/
Red Gen4 Pad
Tires Dressed with prototype tire coating
Under Hood and Exterior Trim dressed with
Super VRT
/
In & Out Spray
Interior vacuumed with
Metro Compact Wall Mount
All surfaces cleaned with prototype Interior Quick Detailer
Glass Cleaned with
Glass Cleaner
/
Glass Towel
/ Sealed with
Glass Sealant
Undercarriage Dressed with
Invisible Undercarriage Spray
UCA's polished with
Metal Polish #1
Bed liner dressed with 1:1 mix of
Super VRT
and
water
Tires cleaned up with
Deep Wheel Cleaner + assorted brushes
. Tires hit with APC and tire brush
Exterior was foamed and 2 bucket washed
Drying off with Master Blaster thanks to Mr. Matt Butcher
Not wanting to interfere with the newly applied wrap all edges were masked.
NOTE FOR ALL YOU ASPIRING DETAIL BUSINESS OWNERS - Document damage before starting! You don't want to inherit something another shop did.
Dressed trim with Super VRT
Attacked some deeper scratches with the PE14-2 first. (not pictured)
Swirl & Haze Remover
+
Orange Pad
to address severely spotted windows
Then started attacking the rest with the 3401 and the same pad/polish combo
Spent a lot of time on the tubular bars polishing all sides
After a coat of quick sealant I topped it off with red pad and Brilliant Glaze
AFTER:
Took a break to geek out on the lighting setup
Outside for some all done shots
Bedliner treated with 1:1 Svrt looks great!
Thanks for looking.
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