1998 Chevy Astro Van - Blah Brown and NAS-T - EHUTH1
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1998 Chevy Astro Van - Blah Brown and NAS-T - EHUTH1
Well it's been about a week for me since I've posted a S&S. Everyone looks to be pretty busy and hope things stay the same for them! I couldn't pass this one up, even though I wanted too after the first glance... I know I would have lost some customers in the long haul, so this was my chance to show out. This was a referral from someone who knows someone that I cleaned their vehicle..... Weird, yea I thought so too?
Time was about 11am today and I waited for this cream puff to arrive (tick-tock...) Ok they were 30min late, but no problem they were referred to me right... OK know that we all are figuring this out, and know I'm kinda getting sorta P'O'd that their late I'm just going to chill cause this is all I have to do today, no other appoinments.
Well, here they are rolling up. At first I was thinking oh great this thing is going to need 8+ hours... Then my attitude changed when I remember I haven't quoted a price just as of yet. So I took a look, and so will you >>>>>
Lets look around at this Supersized Lunch Box....
Well you and me both are thinking wow not to bad... until (duhhh nu nu nuhhhh < horror movie)
After rear seat removal
This is just what I expected a turn for the worse. I'm talking Koo-laid, mustard, tea, hell all of the food groups was in the floor of this beast. I'm going to go ahead and tell ya I hate doing one of these, but with this one will get me 10 more details. So lets regroup and fine pick the vehicle and set a price....
Oh here is the cracking clear on the hood
and the other side you didn't see.... straight blah..blah..and more fade
Well as you can see the work is going to be tedious and time consuming and being I'm probably going to spend at least 5-8 hours on this one I set the price @ $300 just because of the filth. Guess what.......
First we gotta hit the wheels, tires and wells with the new pressure washer This is a bad boy right here!!
Same one Justin uses and it has the juice to get loose, so I gotta be careful and only run it about half throttle during car washing. It's a commercial grade Honda 9hp with cat pump that puts out 3200 psi ! Foaming through this PW is amazing, bye-bye karcher
After I blasted the wells and all with B52 "The Brown Stuff" I moved onto foaming the Van. I let my dad do this, so that he can get some experience due to the fact that he wants to pick up on the new times and start doing a few on the side his self "Just Washes."
The soap was a mixture of DG901 50% / DP EXTREME FOAM 45% / Dawn 5%
After the wash and scrub with the long handle brush!
Next I moved onto dressing the tires and wells. The tires received some (DT) Street Appeal Tire Shine. The wells recieved AA tire foam. Oh yea I used some wire and chrome wheel acid on the exhaust pipes to bring the aluminum back to new too.
Next we worked on the inside and scrubbed and scrubbed..... I was beat after all the kneeling and bending, so I said lets just give the paint a quick work and see if it's going to need allday or a hour.... Needless to say I moved in with something different and decided I need to hold off on the MENZ and use alittle product thats been shadowed here for awhile called PB SSR3
After I cut the whole van down she became super slick. I clayed during the foam gun so if your wondering (yes I clayed *it is a 1998) Anyways I used the UDM with a orange E2K waffle and boy did it vibrate! I didn't care though it worked to good to call it quits! Once I finished the compounding and clean up I decided to stay PB and throw on some Polish w/Sealant. This stuff has really impressed me in the past and looked for it to do the same here on top of this SSR3. Lets take a closer look.
As you can tell there is no more blah and only waa-laah It wasn't the greatest turn around in history, but it came a long ways !!
Here is a shot of the interior DS, I'm going to get some more pics of the rear carpet and seats tomorrow. The carpet is being cleaned with my extractor and Folex is used for the pre-spotting. Here is a teaser. It started raining so I called it a day @ 3:45 so until tomorrow
Very nice process, I'm enjoying your write up very nice. I learned quickly that when you see vehicles like that and you decide to take the challenge you make sure the $ is there besides it's good to have a challenge once in a wile.
I'm looking forward to interior...the exterior looks wicked and the tires and wells lookd great.
As you can see I couldn't get all of it out but I tried everything from folex to woolite to APC and the extractor...... I thought about spray painting it, but they didn't pay extra for that
Anyways I got some shots of the final inspection and one pic of the hot pink koo-laid I couldn't budge! Thanks ahead and for the compliments already posted. This was a good refresher from all the new ones I've been doing.
Total Time - 7 Hours.
Oh yea almost forgot... Sorry for not taking a before, but as you know it was dusty and covered in filth.. The motor that is, but here is an after for you guys.
This is a bad boy right here!! 
It wasn't the greatest turn around in history, but it came a long ways !! 
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