StuDLei
08-18-2013, 11:39 PM
Yesterday I detailed my brother-in-laws 08 Silverado. It's black and it was FILTHY. He works in construction so it's understandable. :)
He had quite a bit of black plastic trim on his bumper, handles, the part underneath the front bumper (not sure what it's called) and what used to be a black spray-on liner in his bed. I used Optimum Tire Shine on all of these surfaces and it made them black again fairly easily, which is a tremendous feat in my eyes considering a lot of these parts were turning white. I was especially impressed with how well it worked on the spray-on liner. Unfortunately I ran out of product so I wasn't able to put it on as thick in the bed as I would have liked, but it still worked quite well.
Here's where my questions come in. I washed the truck thoroughly first. In fact I did it twice. I rinsed with the hose first, then washed with an ONR, OPC combo, then rinsed again. I did not dry. I pulled it into my garage and did a normal ONR wash on what was now a pretty clean surface. Oh, I clayed while I did this as well.
So at this point, the truck was as clean as I could get it. It probably wasn't as surgically clean as Mike Phillips can get a car, but it was close. I spent hours just doing these steps. His tires, rims and wheel wells took my two hours alone.
Now that the truck was "surgically clean" I dressed the trim. When I did this I tried my best not to get in on the paint, but in my experience it is almost impossible to do this. Do you guys have any tips when it comes to this? I got some Tire Shine on paint, around all the edges of the trim. To take care of it, I ONR'ed those areas once or twice. What I'm really curious about is how do you guys go about this sort of thing? Did I do it right or is there a better/ more efficient way?
When I was done with all of that, I applied Opti-Seal, just in case any one is curious. He's bringing the truck back to me, hopefully this week, so I can actually use my Flex on it now. The paint is swirled to hell and back, so I'm really excited to go at it.
I took before pics and I'll take more befores of the clean but swirled paint when he brings it back. I'll try to get a 50/50 shot too, along with after pics.
Thanks for your help. Sorry, I got needlessly in depth there.
He had quite a bit of black plastic trim on his bumper, handles, the part underneath the front bumper (not sure what it's called) and what used to be a black spray-on liner in his bed. I used Optimum Tire Shine on all of these surfaces and it made them black again fairly easily, which is a tremendous feat in my eyes considering a lot of these parts were turning white. I was especially impressed with how well it worked on the spray-on liner. Unfortunately I ran out of product so I wasn't able to put it on as thick in the bed as I would have liked, but it still worked quite well.
Here's where my questions come in. I washed the truck thoroughly first. In fact I did it twice. I rinsed with the hose first, then washed with an ONR, OPC combo, then rinsed again. I did not dry. I pulled it into my garage and did a normal ONR wash on what was now a pretty clean surface. Oh, I clayed while I did this as well.
So at this point, the truck was as clean as I could get it. It probably wasn't as surgically clean as Mike Phillips can get a car, but it was close. I spent hours just doing these steps. His tires, rims and wheel wells took my two hours alone.
Now that the truck was "surgically clean" I dressed the trim. When I did this I tried my best not to get in on the paint, but in my experience it is almost impossible to do this. Do you guys have any tips when it comes to this? I got some Tire Shine on paint, around all the edges of the trim. To take care of it, I ONR'ed those areas once or twice. What I'm really curious about is how do you guys go about this sort of thing? Did I do it right or is there a better/ more efficient way?
When I was done with all of that, I applied Opti-Seal, just in case any one is curious. He's bringing the truck back to me, hopefully this week, so I can actually use my Flex on it now. The paint is swirled to hell and back, so I'm really excited to go at it.
I took before pics and I'll take more befores of the clean but swirled paint when he brings it back. I'll try to get a 50/50 shot too, along with after pics.
Thanks for your help. Sorry, I got needlessly in depth there.