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While my neighbor has been on vacation I have spent a few hours every night since Sunday giving his Toyota Tundra an exterior correction. It has 33,000 miles on the clock and is his daily driver. It also gets used to haul a riding mower, Golden Retriever, etc to their property out in the corn fields to our west. It usually gets hand washed and dried by one of the local car wash merchants. The paint had the expected light toweling swirls and a few bird bomb scars on the hood. The trim all around was dry and the driver's side door handle was two colors: gray and blackish gray. Also of note is that it had some minor body work done this last winter. Sorry, no before or during shots, I'm old and I forget things. 
On Sunday I washed it using 2 buckets/grit gards and Dawn to get all of the old wax/sealants off. Tires and wheel arches got cleaned with brushes & APC+ @ 4:1. Needless to say the tires had a lot of shiny stuff residue and got a second APC+ cleaning because of it.
Monday night was clay bar night. I used some clay bar from mom's company and their detail spray. I did NOT like the scent of their detail spray. (The local Farm & Fleet had Mom's clay bar kit like $7.00 cheaper than what the Meguiar's kit usually is, plus no Meguiar's kit on the shelf...) I still had need of the Meguiar's OTC clay bar as some of the old bug splats weren't coming off. Note; I had used some APC+ on them first.....they were fossilized! I took Tuesday night off to be with all 3 of my girls.
Wednesday night I taped off, polished and waxed the back end. I used M205 on a white CCS pad. Most areas were OK with two separate passes. The tailgate took four passes and should probably have been done first with M105, but you live and learn. Wax was NXT 2.0 liquid applied with a red CCS pad.
Thursday night was the cab's night for tape, polish and wax. I did the same as the bed, but I was not happy at all with the results on the hood. There were three separate spots where birds had bombed the hood and one showed scars from it being cleaned off. I decided to do the hood the following night with M105 on an orange CCS pad. Waxing was done same as bed.
Friday night it's raining! AAARRRGH! This truck barely fits in the garage and is backed in. I do not want to be standing in water while using a power tool. I also didn't feel like testing the GFI outlet! Oh well, the trim got Hyper Dressing @ 3:1 applied with MF pad. Also did the grill, gas tank opening and mirror backs. The backs of the mirrors and door handles literally sucked it up as soon as it was applied. I gave it a second dose and then did the glass with Meguiar's Glass Cleaner from the 2009 X-mas box (got 1 bottle left). At this time I decided to experiment with another companies carnauba wax. I loved what I saw and did the whole vehicle except the hood.
Saturday AM and it's pouring rain! AAARRRGH! Gave the door handles and mirror backs another dose of Hyper Dressing, wiping it off moments later. Looked great so I left it and went to the office for the morning. This afternoon I attacked the hood with M105 on the orange CCS pad followed by M205 on a white CCS polishing pad. BINGO! The hood is near flawless. A quick coat of NXT 2.0 liquid by hand and outside for wheel arches and tires to get their Hyper Dressing, again @ 3:1. Wheels got NXT 2.0. A little detail spray and I almost forgot about layering the wax on the hood. Americana applied and off to the house for my camera. Total time in the correction was about 12 hours.
I was so happy with my work I phoned my neighbor on his vacation to make sure he could access the interweb. I sent him the first photo. 
While I was getting the info for the above pic I saw that Nick (Tuck91) also did a pickup truck, an F250.
Sorry, no sunshine for the light of truth pic and it was too bright for the flash.
M105 followed by M205 just can't be beat!
That blue sky in the chrome reflection was from when I was driving home.
On Sunday I washed it using 2 buckets/grit gards and Dawn to get all of the old wax/sealants off. Tires and wheel arches got cleaned with brushes & APC+ @ 4:1. Needless to say the tires had a lot of shiny stuff residue and got a second APC+ cleaning because of it.
Monday night was clay bar night. I used some clay bar from mom's company and their detail spray. I did NOT like the scent of their detail spray. (The local Farm & Fleet had Mom's clay bar kit like $7.00 cheaper than what the Meguiar's kit usually is, plus no Meguiar's kit on the shelf...) I still had need of the Meguiar's OTC clay bar as some of the old bug splats weren't coming off. Note; I had used some APC+ on them first.....they were fossilized! I took Tuesday night off to be with all 3 of my girls.
Wednesday night I taped off, polished and waxed the back end. I used M205 on a white CCS pad. Most areas were OK with two separate passes. The tailgate took four passes and should probably have been done first with M105, but you live and learn. Wax was NXT 2.0 liquid applied with a red CCS pad.
Thursday night was the cab's night for tape, polish and wax. I did the same as the bed, but I was not happy at all with the results on the hood. There were three separate spots where birds had bombed the hood and one showed scars from it being cleaned off. I decided to do the hood the following night with M105 on an orange CCS pad. Waxing was done same as bed.
Friday night it's raining! AAARRRGH! This truck barely fits in the garage and is backed in. I do not want to be standing in water while using a power tool. I also didn't feel like testing the GFI outlet! Oh well, the trim got Hyper Dressing @ 3:1 applied with MF pad. Also did the grill, gas tank opening and mirror backs. The backs of the mirrors and door handles literally sucked it up as soon as it was applied. I gave it a second dose and then did the glass with Meguiar's Glass Cleaner from the 2009 X-mas box (got 1 bottle left). At this time I decided to experiment with another companies carnauba wax. I loved what I saw and did the whole vehicle except the hood.
Saturday AM and it's pouring rain! AAARRRGH! Gave the door handles and mirror backs another dose of Hyper Dressing, wiping it off moments later. Looked great so I left it and went to the office for the morning. This afternoon I attacked the hood with M105 on the orange CCS pad followed by M205 on a white CCS polishing pad. BINGO! The hood is near flawless. A quick coat of NXT 2.0 liquid by hand and outside for wheel arches and tires to get their Hyper Dressing, again @ 3:1. Wheels got NXT 2.0. A little detail spray and I almost forgot about layering the wax on the hood. Americana applied and off to the house for my camera. Total time in the correction was about 12 hours.
I was so happy with my work I phoned my neighbor on his vacation to make sure he could access the interweb. I sent him the first photo. While I was getting the info for the above pic I saw that Nick (Tuck91) also did a pickup truck, an F250.
Sorry, no sunshine for the light of truth pic and it was too bright for the flash.
M105 followed by M205 just can't be beat!
That blue sky in the chrome reflection was from when I was driving home.
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