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Thanks for the input guys. Sounds like I'll increase my first figure a little bit. Plus, I may get the word around that I am detailing and get a little side business going, charging more for people I don't know and as I get experience. I am not touching the wheels or wheel wells, even though they need it. I'll ask him, though. I can do those at the house.

Nice car! My sister has a Focus like this but it's the Titanium. I told her to get the ST but she didn't listen, and now wants one. They are pretty awesome. Paint looks nice as well.

First off, I hope I never have to make another topic like this as I am sure that there are many of them posted all the time. However, I need advice on how to approach this. I have detailed my TBSS, Cobra and other family/ friends vehicles, but overall do not have a ton of experience. I had a friend (not a super close friend, but still I know the guy well enough) that just bought a Dodge Ram sport (single cab). It is the dark metallic green color, and is a 2011. He bought it from a used car place and they "buffed" it. There are swirls in the paint from this over the whole truck. As stated in my other thread, I have horrible water at my house and cannot wash anything. So he is going to wash the truck and I am going to clay/polish/seal it. I am guessing it's got about 8 hours worth of work with a PC to get it nice, so basically my entire saturday. Since I'm not washing it, I'm not going to use a horrible amount of product, just both polishes, sealant, VRT, and detail spray/clay. So, how should I charge him? I'd do it for free but it's my saturday and there are a lot of other things I'd rather be doing/need to do than detailing his truck. I'm thinking $150 is pretty fair for a correction, I KNOW I can get it looking nice though. What do you guys think I should do in this situation?

My apc did that, the 32 oz one and I spilled all of it in my driveway. Oh well

Is your comma button stuck?

APC seems to be fine for wheels on daily driver cars with regular brakes. Used it on my sister's new focus last weekend and it did fine, they had about 3 months of brake dust on them lol but it's very light colored dust and not as heavy or sticky as brake pads with more metallic content. I tried the DWC on one wheel, pretty much nothing except the brake disc turned purple. Her wheels had more dirt and road grime than brake dust. On the other hand, my TBSS's wheels look worse in 3 days than the Focus's do in 3 months. They look black right now. APC works alright, but the deep wheel cleaner made them spotless and yes it turned purple. However, I barely have to use the APC even on the tires on my weekly wash because I don't pick up as much road grime as I do brake dust. So moral of the story, asses your condition. You could use the APC only, or APC + DWC on a higher performance vehicle.

Nice job! Where did you get the headlights?

Dude. Get an F150 Fx4 package. I've seen used 2011s with the 5.0 for $33,000 and pretty low miles. I'd get the 5.0 over the ecoboost.

Got to try out my last shipment of Adams stuff on my Cobra and my buddies 13 GT500. All these photos are with my iPhone and I think they came out nice. I used brilliant glaze and Americana wax on the Shelby. I waxed the cobra last weekend but I used deep wheel cleaner and quick sealant on the wheels, really did amazing work on the front wheels and they pop like the gloss black is supposed to Super VRT and in n out spray doing WORK

Also I did not have to use as much product on the wheels as other OTC stuff I've used (and looking at the Sonax videos on youtube I'm guessing that too)... And this is my daily I used it on so it was pretty caked in brake dust.

It works well. As far as the smell, I took the little red cap off and it had some product, left it in the box all my stuff cam in in my room and just that small amount of product stunk up my entire room! But it worked extremely well on my SS's wheels and they look better than ever! Got them spotless and hit them with some spray sealent... Great product and extremely effective. When the weather doesn't suck I will hit the cobra and GT500 with it. Winner in my book

Nice pics! Are those tail lights stock? Look awesome

Added an "LSP" today and snapped some photos with the big camera

Wish I had Adams in and out spray back then. I Used stoner trim shine for some though its not bad for a OTC product and cheap enough. But greasy. My lightning

I was like "yeah something like that" haha he had to do a double take it was priceless