This Jeep is my Mom's daily driver, and it has been used like one. The paint was beat-up, has never seen a detail before or a wax. It is a blast to drive with the 325 hp and 370 hp. I was going for about 98% correction, all swirls gone with just a couple RIDS left that were just way too deep. Not too many befores and some of the pictures are iPhone pics, so sorry in advance. Wash: Meguiars Gold Class (Before) Majestic Solutions Ultragloss (After LSP) 2BM Sheepskin mitt Uber red and blue WW drying towels Clay: Riccardo Adam's Quick Detailer Uber red towels Paint: Makita 9227C/3M Perfect-It backing plate Step 1: Lake Country Purple Foamed Wool/M105 Step 2: Uber Blue Polishing Pad/3M Ultrafina Areas that weren't so bad: Uber Green Polishing Pad/ Menzerna P203S CG's Monster towels Uber Original MF Towels M105 inside handles LSP: 2 coats of Collinite 915 Uber Red notched applicator Uber No Name Super Plush towel Misc: 303 Aerospace Various Brushes and MF towels P21S wheel Gel Folex Meguiars Hyper Dressing Meguiars APC + Stoner's More Shine Tire Shine Leather Master's Vital Reconditioning Cream Leather Master's Strong Cleaner NXT 2.0 In Door Jambs Surf City Grime Destroyer Stoner's Tarminator Meguiars All Metal Polish 0000 Steel Wool Poorboy's Wheel Sealant Start with wheels: 4 Years of brake dust required steel wool and metal polish to remove. After: No Dressing: Paint: All kinds of messed up in different areas, even permanent etching from windsheild washer fluid and some kinds things that ate through the clearcoat. Lot's of RIDS. I had pictures of the correction of the RIDS, but my Mom deleted them to make room for vacation pictures. All were removed or significantly diminished, save for one that was extremely deep, down to the metal. I had a hard time capturing swirls because of the metallic. Hard time capturing how bad it was: Corrected: Before: Corrected, look at the flake!: Before: 50/50: After: Where the bad swirls were before, don't mind the polish that I didn't wipe away yet: After, Reflection shots. Took it to the closest parking lot that was somewhat nice. LSP was 2 coats of Collinite 915, 24 hours apart. I think it came out pretty well, I was very happy with it. Notice the great glow This Picture shows one of the spots where the clear coat had been permanently etched through by something: And my favorite: Total time: ~20 hours Comments/criticism appreciated. Thanks for reading! :mounty:
Final pictures will be made larger, now I realize why the bulk uploader is faster on Photobucket. It makes the pictures smaller.
Yea, it's just set on normal. You can see the large ones I just used the normal upload, and the smaller ones were bulk so I assume that was the problem. I'm reuploading them, check back in 5.
Thanks everyone! I forgot to mention in the write-up, I polished the plastic around the windows and plastic trunk spoiler with P203S and it took all of the oxidation away, which I was happy with. I'm really mad I lost my before pictures, I had ones of the oxidised front bumper, and just before and afters of all of the RIDS. Thanks everyone, the compliments are what keep me working so hard :mounty: Question: I have no idea how to take pictures. I just point and shoot with my Mom's camera, but as you can see in some of the pictures, the reflections are extremely crisp, which is how they are in real life. In others, they reflection is hazy and it gives it more orange peel than it actually has. It's because the camera is focusing on stuff like the handles and chrome trim instead of the reflection. How do I fix this?
Looks great, big difference in the wheels. I take pictures tme way, the same way but I use my fiances point n shoot
