Quick clean up

[wytstang]

Well I bought this truck last week from a guy who's step father used it in his lawn/tree service business. The paint is so scratched up there is no way to get close to 80% scratch free (just not possible). So my mission today was to reduce as many of the scratches as I could and remove the oxidation from the paint giving my paint that dull boring green look. I started @7am and finished @1:45pm. Being my new (to me) work truck and the condition of the paint I didn't go full tilt and skipped some steps to save my back and time.
Products used:
Optimum No rinse soap Menzerna Super Intensive Polish Blackfire Wet Diamond Sealant
Tools:
Flex 3401 polisher Lake Country Orange pad Polishing Pal w/red foam pad (for apply wax/sealant by hand)
Before Shots: Scratches
Oxidation from months/years of neglect

Poor reflection




A dull boring green ranger


Now after a few hours of some elbow grease, quality products and a now sun burned neck I am much prouder to drive my truck.
Here is a 50/50 shot showing how oxidized the paint was in:

Left pass. door polished and pass. fender how it used to be

I found this interesting, the next two pictures were taking no more then 4 minutes apart. Yet the before shows the sun the size of a quarter and the after (4 mins after) shows the sun the size of a penny.
That's how scratched up the clear coat was, it would cause the light to "bounce" around more causing the sun to look larger. With 70+% of the scratches removed in that one spot the sun is much more defined and "to size" sort of speak.
Full sun shot afters:

Flakes popping

I'm very happy with the end results. I'll be attacking the interior Sunday morning or Monday morning, it is pretty filthy.

[mwoolfso]

Nice job, nice color. Good luck.

[DogRescuer]

Looks great! Work truck or not you can be proud of all your hard work. One question, it looks like you live in a apartment/condo/townhome developement, if so how did you get electricity out to your truck?

[sproketser]

Great work mate ! These PUs are tough .

[wytstang]

how did you get electricity out to your truck?

A very long extension cord running from the front of the building to that parking spot.