Mercury Mountaineer - Deluxe Interior & Exterior

Discussion in 'Show and Shine' started by JPerrydore, Apr 23, 2012.

  1. JPerrydore

    JPerrydore Birth of a Detailer

    This was my detail from Saturday. A friend of mine wanted to have his 2004 Mercury Mountaineer detailed inside and out. I went up to his shop and did the detail there.

    The interior plastics and leather were pretty dirty and the interior needed an overall thorough cleaning.

    Interior Process & Products


    • Interior thoroughly vacuumed
    • All plastics, vinyl, leather, etc was cleaned using Kleen APC diluted 8:1 (picked up at a local place, still testing it out) and race glaze detailing brush, and a vinyl & leather brush. Some of the hard plastics I used Kleen with a magic eraser.
    • Cup Holders, Vents, and carpets received a quick steam cleaning with my Vapor Clean Gaia
    • Plastics and leather were treated with 303 Aerospace
    • Windows cleaned with 2 Window MFs and Megs Window Cleaner
    • Gauge Cluster was cleaned with DP Plex-All




    The exterior was equally as dirty.

    Exterior Process & Products

    • Wheels/Tires rinsed with Karcher 2000psi pressure washer
    • Wheels sprayed with Iron-X - the drivers side rear wheel needed 4 cleaning with Iron-x and scrubbing to remove the heavy baked on brake dust.
    • Wheels agitated with Race Glaze XL wheel brush, lug nut brush, and soft wheel brush
    • Tires sprayed with Megs Super Degreaser dulited 4:1 and scrubbed with a stiff brush
    • Wheel wells received Megs Super degreaser and a scrubb with a wheel well brush
    • Exterior was pressure washed with the Karcher pressure washer then front and side mirrors were sprayed with Poorboy's Bug Squash diluted 3:1
    • Two bucket wash method with DP Xtreme Foam and Dawn mix. Used Chenille wash mitt.
    • Rinsed well, then sprayed with Iron-X left to dwell. I didn't include the Iron-x pics in the video, but here they are to show you the heavy contamination I was dealing with.


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    • Vehicle was rinsed well again
    • De-tarred and adhesive from a sticker on the rear hatch removed using Stoner's Tarminator and a MF
    • Clayed using the Speedy prep towel and ONR diluted to clay lube strength
    • Dried with Cobra Waffle Weave towel
    • Blackfire Wet Diamond paint sealant was applied via PC 7424 and LC Blue pad
    • Tires dressed with Pinnacle Black Onyx
    • Wheel wells dressed with Protect-All (another local pick up, similar to Megs 40)
    • Exhaust tip cleaned with Optimum Metal Polish, 0000 steel wool, and MF
    • Door jambs cleaned with ONR


    Now the video I put together. Thanks for viewing!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl09xZGvX24
     
  2. JPerrydore

    JPerrydore Birth of a Detailer

  3. Kaban

    Kaban Welcome to Detailing

    That's alot of iron on that paint there.
     

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