Detailed : 2010 Toyota Tacoma

[Duy]

Had the opportunity to work on a friend's truck over the weekend. The Tacoma has about 150k miles on it and it was showing signs of age. It had been used to transport growing 6 and 3 year old boys and unfortunately kept out in the AZ sun 24/7. He came to me to make the truck look presentable again. During the consultation, I could tell that i would have some work cut out for me. Signs of oxidation was evident on the hood, no shine or reflection what so ever. It had spread to parts of the fenders, a pillars and doors. Here is my document on bringing life back to the Taco.


Headlights

Started off by taking care of the headlights. Tools used, Porter Cable with 3.5" Lake Country Grey Thinpro pad and McKee's 37 All In One Headlight Polish.



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Engine Bay

Up next was the engine bay. Plenty of dirt had accumulated over the years. Pressure washed most of the dirt off, degreased with Meguiar's Super Degreaser and agitated with multiple brushes before rinsing off. Dressed with Meguiar's Hyper Dressing.

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Exterior


Car was washed, Iron X and clayed before moving onto correction.

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Products used for the correction.



The hood was the worst of the panels. What it looked like fully decontaminated and prepped for compound and polish.



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During, polished all the glass with correcting polish and orange pad



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Removed and in some cases leveled various scratches all over the car, this was the worst of it.



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Dressed the tires

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Finished Result

Truck was sealed with Wolfgang Paint Sealant 3.0







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The owner was thrilled to see the condition of the truck and I was relieved. I did the best I could on the hood with the condition that it was in and I was worried he wouldn't be happy with how it turned out. If anyone has any tips on extreme oxidation, please feel free to share. Anything to speed up the process would be awesome. I hope everyone enjoys the document, if there are any questions, please let me know. Thanks for taking the time to read this article, til next time. Duy out!

[SKorch630]

Which product(s) did you use for the bumper plastics?

[jkrig]

Great work!! Excellent turn around. Just gotta test the panel find your best combo/process....differs from car to car, lotta variables. With oxidation and scratches I prefer to under promise then try to over deliver......tempering expectations sometimes is your best/safest route. I try to tell the owner up front that there may not be much I can do to fix/restore but I will do my best, it can kinda give you some flexibility on how much time you want to spend trying to fix/correct. If you can fix or at the very least make it look reasonably better then great.....if not then at least you've had that conversation.

[JKDesign]

Great turn around!

[LEDetailing]

That was one heck of a turn around. Amazing results, especially the engine bay, head lamps and hood!

That clear coat looks like it is a couple AZ summers away from failure. I think you guys down south get clear coat failure in half the time as up north. A garage and a good LSP are a necessity to you guys

[Bobby B.]

Great job! The Toyota Tacoma looks awesome.

[Paul A.]

The bottom line? The customer loved the results!

There has been some discussion here lately of scratch repair, how aggressive to go, paint thickness and the importance of PTG's. That hood would've been the perfect application of taking some PTG readings and going from there however you did a great job of extracting as much shine as you could safely. I also practice jkrig's approach and never promise the customer anything more than "I'll see what I can do".

How did you find the difference in M105 and Jescar's compounds? 2 different abrasive tech's and haven't tried Jescar yet. Also, what LSP did you finish with?

Again, the customer was happy. That's really all that matters. Nice work!

[LSNAutoDetailing]

Nice work indeed... one of the best transformations I've seen in a while!

[Desertnate]

Wow! That's an amazing turn around.

How did the Jescar polishes perform on the soft Toyota paint? They don't get discussed much and I often forgot they are on the market.

[Marc08EX]

Great work!

How long did it take you? What did you use on the side mirror covers?