ObsessedDetailer

Hey guys, I have laded myself a big job. Its a husky airplane, I will attach an image but the customer wants me to come clean it. This is my first aircraft I've done, and hopefully it will lead into more so I want to be through. I would love all and any help with tips and tricks and pointers. Please be critical because I want to make an impression on this guy! I am traveling to him (30 minutes away) to his house, which has the hangar attached, which is attached to the runway... This guy is quite wealthy. And suggestions on price as well would be appreciated as well. Please comment any thoughts or advice. I would very much appreciate it. My thought on the way to clean the plane is use rinse-less wash, in a big pump sprayer with a wand and lots of towels because i know the underside will be covered with grease and oil. Let me know guys. Thank you so much! (Not his actual plane. Just the same model)

Hey everyone! I hope you're all doing well and trying to stay positive in this time we are currently living in. It feels like there has just been so much negativity lately, so I would like to try and organize a photo shoot in the surrounding area if anyone is interested. I have done this once before and it was a blast so I would like to try it again. I am in Centennial Colorado looking to shoot some cool cars, (shine courtesy of Adams of course) I would be willing to go to meet up pretty much anywhere in the surrounding areas. If anyone is interested, feel free to leave a comment or ask questions or PM me. I would love to get a group of some people, or do individuals as well. I would really like to get a few cars to shoot sometime in the fall down in Morrison, or over Guanella pass because those leaves are crazy beautiful. So sometime around the Pumpkin spice release would be great if anyone would be interested in that. Here are a few pictures I have taken!

Here’s my 2016 4runner SR5. Love this thing. So beefy

Thank you!

@Bscott94 Wow! those are huge! I am not sure if i could ever do that. I would go nuts with how dirty it would get. Thanks Rich! I am extremely happy with how it turned out. Next think I think I want to do is auxiliary lighting.. I already have the Baja Designs Squadron Pro Wide Cornering lights sitting in my cart. Just waiting to pull the trigger. Thanks buddy! And what do you mean by "Off road"? I heard the mall has some good spots 😉

Eric, cleaning this is very easy and simple actually. Take some Tire and Rubber cleaner, spray it on the tires, let it sit for 30-60 seconds and then spray off, and you're good as new! No scrubbing required!

Got some new wheels and tires for the 4 runner. I went with the Method 305NV in matte black (17x8.5). For tires I was between a few different ones. I had looked at the Toyo Open Country AT2's, the Nitto Ridge Grapplers and the Firestone MT2's. I decided on the Firestone's because I thought they looked the best and it really changes the whole look of the truck. I went with 285/70/17. Stock tires are 265/70/17 so it rubs a little bit at full lock, but not nearly as much as I thought they would. I was between 275 and 285 wide tires but I am glad I went with 285 because the fitment is nearly perfect. It sits almost flush if not exactly flush with the fender and that was my goal. I coated them with the Adams Wheel Coating. This was my first time doing anything like this so I was super excited to do it. I also did a few layers of Tire Armor on the back sides of the tires to help prevent the browning of them. I think it turned out great. Here are some pictures!

It could be your towels, Are you using older towels? I know mine tend to do that sometimes when I use Ceramic boost. Sometimes all it takes is to just use a new towel and retire the old one for other duties. Let us know if that changes anything. (This is just my prognosis, Im sure others will be able to shine more light)

Sweet! I will definitely how to try that! Thank you JR! I plan to do some more this weekend. ill add some more pics as I go along. stay tuned!

I was planning on just taking the actual door handle off of the door, that way I could get to it easily. Oh thats very smart! I might have to try that

I used my Adams micro polisher with the blue bad and compound!

A little update: Last week I got new tint the 4Runner. The driver and passenger tint thad been nicked with what seemed like the seatbelt a bunch of times from the previous owner. I got 15% on the driver and passenger and 50% on the windshield. Really makes a big difference from the outside. hardly looks any different from the inside. I also cleaned the wheels and they were pretty filthy. So I cleaned those with some Waterless Wash. And after i had gone around and cleaned the faces of all the wheels, i decided to just do a full wheel clean because the barrels of the wheels still were filthy. I have started polishing, I started with the door handles, and didn't get to do much more than that. Will do more this weekend. I cant wait to get this thing coated! I got to use my nano for the first real time on the door handles and I absolutely love it.. here are some pictures. I would like to take the door handles out to be able to polish the handle cups

Thanks Jeff! you bet, hopefully sometime over spring break i think when I have the most time to do all the prep work. (polish, prep all that)

@falcaineer We need to meet up at the warehouse sometime soon! I haven't seen you in a while!

Totally agree! @RayS thank you!! I can’t wait to get some wheels and RSG rock sliders on it. Just got it tinted today. 50% on the windshield and replaced the 15% on the front windows. They were kind of beat up