Jeep Grand Cherokee

[malypb]

The whole weekend we worked together with Colin on twelve years old Jeep Cherokee. This giant car looked not too bad from a distance, but upon closer inspection, it turned out that ‘he’ is in a really bad shape. The paint was covered with a dense network of scratches and hundreds chips from stones. After two full days we were able to remove most of the scratches (so about 80-90%), but the chips stayed – to get rid of them a repaint of the hood and the lower part of the doors is needed.

The work started with a thorough cleaning, which took a couple of hours. The wheels were the worst because of the dirt collected over several years, and their shape. Then the car was thoroughly dried and we started work on the paint. Some panels required a few hits with the machine and very strong compounds. After the step of removing scratches, we polished the entire car again using the soft pads and lightly abrasive polish to give maximum brilliance and clarity to the paint. At the end the paint was protected by an excellent wax produced in Japan called Naviwax. Of course we did not forget about the other elements such as seals, plastics, windows, chrome parts and tires, which have also been secured by the appropriate products.

Unfortunately we were unable to finish properly a few details, such as polishing the windows (which are also covered with a grid of fine scratches) and polishing the exhaust and fuel tank cover. I hope that we will have the opportunity in the near future to improve these little things, when car will come again for the interior cleaning.

We used the following products and tools:

Wash:

Meguiar's Wheel Brightener (1:4)
Valet Pro Bilberry Wheel Cleaner
Valet Pro Advanced Neutral Snow Foam (about 300ml to 700ml of water in foam lance with Karcher)
Meguiar's All Purpose Cleaner (1:4)
Chemical Guys Bug Bugger and Tar Remover (as shampoo)
CarPro IronX (with a sponge)
Prickbort MAC124 tar&glue remover (with a sponge)
3M Clay
Dodo Juice Born Slippy Concentrate (1:5 as a glide for the clay)
4nano Glass Shine (1:90)
Karcher K5.700
Metro Vac Air Force Blaster

Paint correction:

CarPro Eraser
IPA (1:3)
Meguiar's #101
Meguiar's D300
Optimum Hyper Polish (spray)
Lake Country Purple Foamed Wool pads
Meguiar's DA Microfiber Cutting pads
Chemical Guys HexLogic white, black pads
Flex 3401
Rupes LHR15
Chemical Guys Metal Shine Extreme Polish & Protection

Protection:

Zaino Z-AIO (roof), Chemical Guys Black Light (others panels)
Naviwax Ultimate (2 layers)
Chemical Guys New Look Trim Gel (tires, rubbers, plastics)

Please, look at the pictures and videos from these exhaustive two days.

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While working on the car.

Generally...

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Best regards

[malypb]

...and several 50:50 (some made before finish - you can see delicate micromarring)

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Jeep Cherokee at Auto Spa - the effects of a two-step paint correction - YouTube

And the end result - NO images have been retouched in any way!
I only reduced the size using IrfanView.

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Jeep Cherokee at Auto Spa - YouTube

Best regards

[blackasta]

Awesome - the before and after pics look like a different shades of blue!

Question from a noob - IPA and Eraser - how did you make the call when to use either?

[Mike@DedicatedPerfection]

Wow beautiful work! That blue pops now!

[KS_Detailing]

Wow! Great turnaround :dblthumb2:

[malypb]

Question from a noob - IPA and Eraser - how did you make the call when to use either?

Because IPA is a very poor lubricant I use it after compounding and only on medium, hard paints and Eraser after finish or during all steps on soft paints.

[jankerson]

Looks great. :)

[DetailedTaco]

Wow looks awesome! That blue really pops when its clean. The rims looks spectacular as well.

[Electro]

The after shots are incredible! Looks like an entirely different car!

[Alby]

That blue looks deep as the ocean! Looks Awesome

[statusdetailing]

Wow, the paint looks like it is glowing. My wife drives a 97 Jeep grand cherokee. I love these vehicles. They are big and fairly difficult to work on. Excellent work.

Couple questions. . .

I'm thinking about a metro blaster. Does it live up to the hype?

I'm guessing for the heavier defects you used the foamed wool pad on the flex with 101. For the rest of the vehicle and as a follow up after the wool, you used the mf pads on the rupes with 300. Is that right?

[dpk20x]

Very nice work on that Dub!

Any idea how much paint you removed? I have an 02 WJ that I've been reluctant to really hit hard with any compound. But I know that paint is relatively hard and fairly thick from what I've read, so I might try to use some M101 on it in the spring.

[malypb]

Any idea how much paint you removed?

We measured the car before correction and an average was well over 100.
And then we did not care too much. So, I do not know how much paint we removed. Probably no more than 10.


I'm thinking about a metro blaster. Does it live up to the hype?

It's in my opinion: MUST HAVE :)
Very powerfull, very useful.


I'm guessing for the heavier defects you used the foamed wool pad on the flex with 101. For the rest of the vehicle and as a follow up after the wool, you used the mf pads on the rupes with 300. Is that right?

We acted in different ways on different panels, experimenting to achieve the best effect. We mixed methods, pads and compounds. On some panels / sections wool was needed, sometimes two or three hits. On another MF with #101 was enough or even MF with D300 using Rupes. After wool D300 on MF improved finish or not. Etc. Etc.

Our "motto" is: try it, test it ;)

[LatinFG2]

That looks awesome!

[TopThatDetail]

Fantastic job!!!:dblthumb2: