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2004 Black Suburban
AudionutMike and I and our 2 teenage apprentice sons were given this 2004 Suburban to perform an "Ultimate Detail."
After a wash and claying, we found we had our work cut out for us:
Check out our clay bars after claying 1/4 of the hood each:
After some rather extensive testing, we found that our process would be:
Paint:
M105/So1o heavy cut wool pad/Rotary @ 1700
M83/LC White pad/Flex @ 6
M80/LC Blue pad/Flex @4
Nxt/LC black pad/Flex @ 3
Interior:
Meguiar's Leather conditioner on leather seats
APC+ @ 10:1
Meguiar's Natural Shine Rubber and Vynil protectant
Stoner's invisiglass on windows
Meguiar's QuickOut carpet stain remover
Little Green Machine extractor, water in tank
Engine:
APC+ 10:1
No touch tire care (works good on plastic and rubber engine parts)
Wheels:
No Touch tire care in the wheel wells
Meguiar's Endurance tire gel
Blue Magic chrome polish (trying to use it up to get some Nxt all metal polish)
Floor Mats:
Pretreated with orange blast @ 4:1
Heavier stains pretreated with Meguiar's QuickOut stain remover
Pressure washed
Extracted with LGM (water in the tank)
All exterior trim treated with Meguiar's trim detailer
Here's our test areas:
We really love using D151, but in this case we couldn't get it to finish up without hologramming, so we went with old faithful 83/80 combo.
Here's some befores and afters:
Hood before:
Hood Afters:
Tailgate before:
Tailgate after:
Cockpit before:
Cockpit after:
Backseat before:
Backseat after:
Cargo area before:
Cargo area after:
Wheels before:
Wheels after:
And some final shots:
Total time spent: 38 man-hrs.
Thanks for looking
After a wash and claying, we found we had our work cut out for us:
Check out our clay bars after claying 1/4 of the hood each:
After some rather extensive testing, we found that our process would be:
Paint:
M105/So1o heavy cut wool pad/Rotary @ 1700
M83/LC White pad/Flex @ 6
M80/LC Blue pad/Flex @4
Nxt/LC black pad/Flex @ 3
Interior:
Meguiar's Leather conditioner on leather seats
APC+ @ 10:1
Meguiar's Natural Shine Rubber and Vynil protectant
Stoner's invisiglass on windows
Meguiar's QuickOut carpet stain remover
Little Green Machine extractor, water in tank
Engine:
APC+ 10:1
No touch tire care (works good on plastic and rubber engine parts)
Wheels:
No Touch tire care in the wheel wells
Meguiar's Endurance tire gel
Blue Magic chrome polish (trying to use it up to get some Nxt all metal polish)
Floor Mats:
Pretreated with orange blast @ 4:1
Heavier stains pretreated with Meguiar's QuickOut stain remover
Pressure washed
Extracted with LGM (water in the tank)
All exterior trim treated with Meguiar's trim detailer
Here's our test areas:
We really love using D151, but in this case we couldn't get it to finish up without hologramming, so we went with old faithful 83/80 combo.
Here's some befores and afters:
Hood before:
Hood Afters:
Tailgate before:
Tailgate after:
Cockpit before:
Cockpit after:
Backseat before:
Backseat after:
Cargo area before:
Cargo area after:
Wheels before:
Wheels after:
And some final shots:
Total time spent: 38 man-hrs.
Thanks for looking
This is the first Suburban we've worked on and we really enjoyed it. The panels were mostly flat and buffer friendly. The sheer size of it made it alot of work. It was a LOT of sheetmetal to buff 4 times 
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