2008 Escalade ESV Detail

Discussion in 'Show and Shine' started by bretster, Aug 16, 2011.

  1. bretster

    bretster Birth of a Detailer

    This car took a while to get done and as many of you know, using a PC7424XP takes a while to get a good correction done. The pictures i took of the before and afters when the afters still had the swirls is after the first go over, I rarely took second pass pictures except for at the end, but i'll let the reflections speak for themselves. Thanks for looking :)

    What was done:
    - Before pictures
    - Wheels hit with Sonax full effect but didn't work out very well so i followed with a meguiars wheel brightener and adams APC mixture, 2oz each and that mixture was diluted 4:1 with water
    - Tires treated with Adams APC and sonax tire gel
    - Engine cleaned with adams apc and in n out spray
    - exterior wash using lusso auto bathe + gilmour foam gun
    - door jambs cleaned as well as hood and trunk jambs
    - 303 aerospace on undercarriage
    - clayed entire exterior including windows
    - taped up
    - paint measurement
    - 3 step - m105 -> optimum poliseal -> menz powerlock
    - inspection with 3m sungun
    - rubber and vinyl cleaned
    - exhaust tips cleaned
    - windows clayed again and cleaned with prima clarity

    Interior:
    - vacuum
    - trims treated with 303 aerospace and in n out spray
    - interior glass cleaned

    Products used:
    Exterior wash:
    - Lusso auto bath
    - gilmour foamaster
    - Grit guards
    - Uber wool wash mitt
    - Blue microfiber wash mitt
    - Uber super drying microfiber towel
    - 303 aerospace on undercarriage
    - adams clay

    Engine:
    - Adams All purpose cleaner
    - Adams In n out spray

    Interior:
    - In n out and 303 aerospace to clean the trims
    - Prima clarity on windows and again over trims

    Paint correction:
    - Deflesko paint meter
    - 3m sun gun
    - Porter Cable PC 7424XP
    - Uber green and blue 5.5 pads
    - Surbuf pads 5.5
    - Megs 105
    - Optimum poliseal
    - Menz PO106FA
    - Menzerna powerlock

    Wax:
    - Sonax Nano Tech Wax

    Now for the pictures :)

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    it was so sunny outside it was hard to foam the whole car without it drying, let alone getting around to it with the wash mitt
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    corrected
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    rocker panel before
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  2. bretster

    bretster Birth of a Detailer

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    in n out on engine bay before
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    sadly it was raining outside so no ambulance reflection shots outside :( haha
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    thanks for looking :)
     
  3. Danny

    Danny Nuba Guru

    Nice work man, just some of your pictures are blurry in your write up not that that has anything to do with the correction just would have been nice if they were clear
     
  4. bretster

    bretster Birth of a Detailer

    Yeah i've gotten that comment before too. You got any advice on a camera? haha
     
  5. P1et

    P1et Official DB Moderator

    Mate you need to take that money you received from your detail and put that towards a nice digital camera!
     
  6. Danny

    Danny Nuba Guru

    This is what I want to get when I save up some more $

    D3100 from Nikon
     
  7. cnut

    cnut DB Forum Supporter

    Nice work on a beast of a vehicle!
     
  8. Kaban

    Kaban Welcome to Detailing

    You need some sun pics otherwise pretty pointless.
     

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