2018 GMC Sierra

[Jeremy5431]

I finally got a chance to detail my new truck (bought new in 2018). It’s amazing how buying a new house can take up your weekends.

I knew that I would be detailing the truck so I have avoided soft touch and tunnel washes since I got it. However living in Minnesota I use touch less washes in the winter (primarily for the underbody wash). I wish someone would come up with a better touch less wash!

Anyway back to the detail! Here’s the process

Washed with MTM foam cannon and black fire foam soap ( new purchase! Thanks autogeek)
Clayed with mother’s clay bar (using up what I had laying around) and Carpro immlube
Rinsed again

Taped up then the fun part! I got to break I my birthday present to myself! Rupes LHR 15 mark 3

After my test spot I found that the rupes yellow pad and polish. I did 1 section pass

I’m amazed at how much quicker I was able to polish using the rupes vs my pc7424 took about 4-5 hours for the whole truck.

Next I used Carpro Essence extreme gloss and Carpro gloss pads

Finally it was time to apply my first coating. Carpro uk3.0. It expired in December so I was a bit nervous using it but it applied easily and a breeze to remove. I did use three towels just to make sure I got all of it off.

I’m going to let it sit for 24 hours then hit it with some reload. - what towels are people using for reload?

The pics:




And the reflection shot


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[Sizzle Chest]

Nicely done! Cool you got to use your new machine! Truck\color looks good.

[SNP209]

Nice lookin truck, you got that blue to really pop. Nicely done.

[dman68]

Very well done, Nice looking truck!

[JDGolden]

That blue is electric!

[Jeremy5431]

So as I said this was the first time I have worked with a coating other than Marine31. I just poured a bit of water on my hood and I was blown away at how quickly the water sheeted off

I have just enough left to coat my jetski. I can’t wait!


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[eaglefan]

Nice job and truck! Last Tuesday I just picked this one up. Stone Blue Metallic. Is that the name of your color?
SLT Z71, still trying to figure out all of the features

[Jeremy5431]

Yes that’s the color! I swear it changes color depending on the day. I’ve gotten so many complements on it.


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[eaglefan]

First blue vehicle Ive ever owned. I did the interior last week. Last 2 days I did all the exterior plastic with the Black Label coating. This weekend it gets corrected and coated.
Avalanche fit in the garage but this doesn't. Not that there is room in there, wife's caddy and my road glide occupy it.

Was the clear pretty hard? I have a Flex, not a Rupes.

[Jeremy5431]

First blue vehicle Ive ever owned. I did the interior last week. Last 2 days I did all the exterior plastic with the Black Label coating. This weekend it gets corrected and coated.
Avalanche fit in the garage but this doesn't. Not that there is room in there, wife's caddy and my road glide occupy it.

Was the clear pretty hard? I have a Flex, not a Rupes.

It’s not as hard as my F150 was. I was able to correct it with the Keramik yellow polish and yellow pad.

I’ll qualify that statement with the fact that I was using my pc on the ford and it took compounding with menzerna

I’ll be interested to hear what you think of the paint

Make sure you gave good lighting. It’s tricky to see the high spots. So far I have only found two.


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