Dark Side Detail - Black Navigator correction and Electronics upgrades!

[Jsmooth]

I did this thrashed truck at my other shop in walnut creek. It came in for a navi/bluetooth/backup camera/drop down over head DVD/blue tooth ect... Basically making it more modern with some tech upgrades. After finishing the install on the electronic upgrades I had a customer reschedule for another job so I had some extra time and it desperately needed a detail.
Inside the everything was cleaned with P&S Enviro clean APC 20:1, magic erasers, an assortment of little brushes, my amex, some general purpose MF towels, and carpets were extracted using MYTEE after some spot cleaning with APC.
Exterior got washed traditional way. Decon was done with Iron-X and a speedy prep towel. Exterior was corrected using M105/BF SRC compound/ BF SRC Finishing polish. All with my dewalt 849x. Seal with Klasse HGSG all my other waxes were in Orinda and I had this in my car soooo work with what you got lol.
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/13C09893-3BE7-40C8-BA51-FC45CAA6E788-2758-00000130A4D93A86_zpsdbed3f5d.jpg
Before it was touched
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Paint was ruff....
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/5A904D24-6ACC-4450-9E86-E0F539C9C4F0-2758-00000130B9738204_zps6ff6788d.jpg
After riping the dash out for the navi and installing all the modules to make everything work. Sat/BT/Back up camera/steering wheel controls/DVD interface. You know all the modern goodies
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/305648A4-D493-4AC9-A7F5-DECE05672D5D-2758-00000130B672E8B5_zpsbafa4a27.jpg
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Even guide lines on this Alpine unit. Pretty cool eh?
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/D5D8CE00-9C00-4FA8-9E35-CF859F5AC60D-2758-00000130A8A2BD41_zps3822584e.jpg
50/50 of the steering wheel it was gross.
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/B521A9ED-AE48-4720-9196-6261A2166EF8-2758-00000130ABA37275_zps6956e018.jpg
APC wasn't touching this so I used a Magic Eraser and it worked like magic!(pun intended)
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/6DF96577-BC2D-4043-9681-4B32711F5600-2758-00000130A1A8BCDC_zpsc6431bfd.jpg
hmmmm gonna be a long night, customer needed this done at 8am
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/C51FB2A2-DEA4-4C4F-9599-A21BF865E090-2758-000001309EA80F20_zpsc8d2efad.jpg
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Hood had a lot of etching and some oxidation
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/AE19B982-EA96-44B5-BE63-63C2ED6980EC-2758-000001309BA1C9A9_zps3ce431ab.jpg
After SRC compound/Finishing polish. M105 was used in a cpl places mixxed with SRC compound for more bite to save steps.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpWoeE-0u5w]Black Fire SRC compound vs swirls - YouTube[/video]
This is a video of the door after just SRC compound. Give it up to Black Fire! It is pretty aggressive and leave almost 0 halo's with a rotary!
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/969D7AC8-A50C-4FB4-BAE6-AFCF8210F5CC-2758-000001308C25B8E7_zps4d5eb676.jpg
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/92E885B4-57AE-419D-B7B9-B0F09FDEA8ED-2758-000001308F3CFA1E_zps65ff93c9.jpg
After one pass it required a second to get it perfect.
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/65E2BF56-9108-4AD2-A5C9-FEA5BFFF5E8A-2758-00000130924C4CD4_zps50ddda94.jpg
Pillars got dialed with one pass SRC Finishing polish.
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/512BFD1A-2245-4FDB-B019-75F99A0176F8-2758-0000013088C64CF0_zps40ba685c.jpg
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/6AF1B17D-D8C1-448C-95C0-A579F44ABBCC-2758-000001305029D022_zps907fe18f.jpg
Getting there!
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/C9B215CE-180C-48C3-9AC6-10A1BE508BD3-2758-000001304D50CD0F_zps597cc116.jpg
I ran outta of SRC finishing polish I had with me so I used 3m ultrafina on all the bottom plastic. It sure does make it shiny I wanna do a side by side vs SRC Finishing. I have a feeling I'll see that it fills way more than Blackfire.
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/EE3A720A-A2BE-4496-9B6F-95C87BE1DBA0-2758-0000013045B1BB56_zpsa37a7960.jpg
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/78648C81-C62C-466E-B010-8F40C9FA86C8-2758-0000013037731983_zps0735c394.jpg
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The paint was done at this point and it was almost 6am. I took a quick break and ran to the store for red bull. I got back and finished up with wheels/tires/nit picking ect...
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/8C980E23-2215-4702-89D1-232D2916A513-2758-000001302D3AAACC_zpsd42e3397.jpg
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b479/gavsauto/AAC4D916-3F93-4B98-9721-1CBBE834354D-2758-0000013029A9927D_zpsd3d788a6.jpg
Out in the sun at 730 am. The customer called me and told me he wasn't gonna pick it up till saterday... I missed a night of sleep for this lol.:wall
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Thanks For looking
Joseph Torbati
Dark Side Detail

[cartman57]

That's a lot of work, spend all that time on it only to get a call it won't be picked up til saturday.
Nice finish, the whole truck looks great.

Are the 'B' pillars plastic covering over the frame or metal?

[Johny B]

Great job.

[Infiltrator]

What a great job. Always gotta love a super clean ride with new electronics.

[Hazcat]

Nice work.

[AC in OC]

That's a lot of work, spend all that time on it only to get a call it won't be picked up til saturday.
Nice finish, the whole truck looks great.

Are the 'B' pillars plastic covering over the frame or metal?

I also have a black Navi ('06). The 'B' pillars are metal.

By the way, it looks great. Very nice work, and the back-up camera is a great addition. Mine came w/ the back-up sensors in the bumper, but to have a view w/ some guidance is a bonus.

I need to attack my own ride. It's pretty clean, but the swirls hurt my eyes when I look at them.

[jvs1991]

Damn looks great. Is that the alpine ive w535?

[Pinpoint_Precision]

Nice turn around for sure.

[Jsmooth]

That's a lot of work, spend all that time on it only to get a call it won't be picked up til saturday.
Nice finish, the whole truck looks great.

Are the 'B' pillars plastic covering over the frame or metal?
Thank you and it did suck but I charged a lot to miss sleep because I had to be back at the other shop at 9am. So it worked out $$$$$. And not sure what they were I think I was half asleep when I was polishing them but SRC Finishing knocked out 95% of anything on them.

Great job.
Thank you!


What a great job. Always gotta love a super clean ride with new electronics.
Yeah if you don't want to buy a new spend a few grand and make get yours feeling like a new ride! I tell people that all the time


Nice work.
Thank you


I also have a black Navi ('06). The 'B' pillars are metal.

By the way, it looks great. Very nice work, and the back-up camera is a great addition. Mine came w/ the back-up sensors in the bumper, but to have a view w/ some guidance is a bonus.

I need to attack my own ride. It's pretty clean, but the swirls hurt my eyes when I look at them.
The roof will make you wish you were dead lol. I was on top of a latter with a 3' buffing pad on my dewalt for over 2 hours on that roof. It was in very poor shape though I got it like 80% better.


Damn looks great. Is that the alpine ive w535?
I'm not sure I know its an alpine unit but I wasn't paying attention to which one lol.

Nice turn around for sure.
Thank you!