O.C.Detailing and Hill City Auto Detail - 2000 Dodge Durango 5.9 R/T

[O.C.Detailing]

John and I got asked to do the 3rd car for one of our garage buddies. We did his wife's 745i, his M6 and now this 2000 Dodge Durango 5.9 R/T. He's already had us wash and lightly detail the interior on the 745i since we polished it out and we've been asked to wash and do a heavy interior detail on his M6 sometime early next week. This car is his Sea-doo truck.

As you'll see in the befores, the paint was in REALLY bad shape. TONS of swirls and major scratches in the form of a keying that went from the rear of the truck to the very front of the truck. There was quite a bit of wetsanding and a TON of polishing. I had to go over some portions of the vehicle 2-3 times to get the defects out.

PROCESS:

- Wash via Super Suds car wash and dried with absorbers.
- Clayed via Griot's Garage Clay kit. Also had to sacrifice 2 older claybars to remove some SERIOUS road paint spatter inside all 4 of the wheel wells.
- Wheels cleaned with Meg's Wheel Brightener and aggitated with several brushes.
- Correction done via Meg's 105 on orange (Griot's) and yellow (Flex) CCS pads.
- 105 was followed up with 205 on White 6.5" CCS pads.
- LSP was Wolfgang 3.0 Sealant
- Tires and fenders dressed with Meg's All-Season Dressing
- Plastics dressed with 303 Aerospace protectant.
- All wetsanding was done with 1" square pieces of 3M 2500 Wet-or-dry paper using Showroom Shine detail spray as lube and then polished out via M105 on orange 6.5" CCS pad on the Griot's DA.

Now ONTO THE PICTURES!!!!

Pre-wash BEFORES:

Filthy!
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0560.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0561.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0565.jpg

A couple of the scratches that needed to be wet-sanded out. Some did not come out completely.
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0562.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0563.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0566.jpg

DEFECTS:
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0568.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0570.jpg

Start of the scratch that went from the back to the front of the vehicle
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0583.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0572.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0571.jpg

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0573.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0574.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0577.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0578.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0580.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0581.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0586.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0587.jpg

A bit of wet-sanding for the fans!
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0584.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0588.jpg

SERIOUS water spots on the windows with befores and 50/50:
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0589.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0592.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0593.jpg

[O.C.Detailing]

AFTERS:

http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0600.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0601.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0602.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0603.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0604.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0605.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0606.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0608.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0609.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0610.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0611.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0613.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0614.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0616.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0617.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0618.jpg

SUNSHOTS!!
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0620.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0621.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0622.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0623.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0624.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0625.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0626.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0627.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0628.jpg
http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk116/adrock2003/2000%20Dodge%20Durango%2059%20RT/IMG_0629.jpg

And that's all I've got. I'm sure John will post his up with his better camera. :D Comments and criticisms appreciated. Thanks for looking!

[jmp09fg2]

Once again, thanks for letting me come see this get done. And thanks for the tips and tricks! This puppy turned out to be b-e-a-utiful ('cept for the rock chips :D).....

[O.C.Detailing]

lmao No problem Jonathan. Thanks for hanging out and thanks for the compliments. Nice "Liar! Liar!" reference. :P

[sullysdetailing]

Great job!!!!

[Rsurfer]

Nice job. Why a less aggressive pad with the Griot using 105 (Flex-yellow)?

[O.C.Detailing]

I didn't need the yellow to get the correction I was looking for. I did the driver's side and John did the passenger's side. Thanks for the kind words.

John used the yellow pad because he liked the correction better. I was able to remove all of my wetsanding marks AND the defects that needed to be removed with my Griot's, a 6.5" Orange CCS pad and M105. Didn't need to go more aggressive than that. Just keeping in line with the thought of the least aggressive method that gives the desired results. We initially tried 205 on orange, but it didn't get rid of the very heavy swirls and scratches. For me, the 105 on orange and 2 passes gave me the results I was looking for.

[Rsurfer]

Yellow or orange it came out great.

[O.C.Detailing]

We really appreciate the compliment Rsurfer. Thanks!! :D

[VR8]

Adam, Adam, Adam. Sometimes you are so transparent. :)

I can't post pics now, I'm watching the Olympics!

[O.C.Detailing]

lmao Been watching them since I got home. Watching Harry Potter now though and posting here and on Autopia.

Oh, and I wasn't making any hidden statements. Just relaying the process used. :P You wanted to use Yellow and I didn't. I have a hard time removing the marring left by it after using the Griot's.

[SRHTX]

Nice turn around guys!!