Team Adam's Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 (edited) The subject belongs to Nicoletti Motorsports and they reached out to us to give this recently modded truck a little love before it headed off to the Denver Auto Show this week. Quick walk around showed a fair amount of light swirling. The wrap had more significant damage that wasn't going to addressed on this detail. Heavy water spotting on all the glass.Since it hadn't seen any offroad use yet the undercarriage was still in pretty good shape and didn't take much to clean up. Interior was in good shape, but clear it hadn't been thoroughly cleaned since purchased (5k+ on the odo) Goal was an overall cleanup, correction of light paint defects, and applying protection to all the surfaces to get it ready for display/show. BEFORE: ' PROCESS: Wheels Cleaned with Adam's Deep Wheel Cleaner / Trim & Lug Brush / Wheel Woolies / Boars Hair Wheel Brush Tires Cleaned with Adam's APC / Tire Scrub Brush / Fender Brush Exterior Wash with 2 Buckets / Grit Guards / 2 Wash Pads & Adam's Car Wash Shampoo Contamination Removed with Adam's Clay and Detail Spray Rewashed with Adam's Car Wash Shampoo Dried with Master Blaster / Great White Drying Towel / Detail Spray Correction done with Flex 3401 & PE14-2 / White Gen4 Pad / Fine Machine Polish Hand Polish on wheels and hard to reach areas with Revive and Blue Hex Grip Sealed with Quick Sealant Topped with Brilliant Glaze / Red Gen4 Pad Tires Dressed with prototype tire coating Under Hood and Exterior Trim dressed with Super VRT / In & Out Spray Interior vacuumed with Metro Compact Wall Mount All surfaces cleaned with prototype Interior Quick Detailer Glass Cleaned with Glass Cleaner / Glass Towel / Sealed with Glass Sealant Undercarriage Dressed with Invisible Undercarriage Spray UCA's polished with Metal Polish #1 Bed liner dressed with 1:1 mix of Super VRT Tires cleaned up with Deep Wheel Cleaner + assorted brushes. Tires hit with APC and tire brush Exterior was foamed and 2 bucket washed Drying off with Master Blaster thanks to Mr. Matt Butcher Not wanting to interfere with the newly applied wrap all edges were masked. NOTE FOR ALL YOU ASPIRING DETAIL BUSINESS OWNERS - Document damage before starting! You don't want to inherit something another shop did. Dressed trim with Super VRT Attacked some deeper scratches with the PE14-2 first. (not pictured) Swirl & Haze Remover + Orange Pad to address severely spotted windows Then started attacking the rest with the 3401 and the same pad/polish combo Spent a lot of time on the tubular bars polishing all sides After a coat of quick sealant I topped it off with red pad and Brilliant Glaze AFTER: Took a break to geek out on the lighting setup Outside for some all done shots Bedliner treated with 1:1 Svrt looks great! Thanks for looking. Edited March 18, 2013 by Dylan@Adams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holder Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 (edited) Awesome job, beautiful truck. Love the write up. I'm diggin the tire dressing, shiny tires work in some cases. A few observations, do you always detail with your wedding ring? Also, pull your pants up, no one wants to see that. Edited March 18, 2013 by A_HoderSS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Adam's Posted March 18, 2013 Author Share Posted March 18, 2013 A few observations, do you always detail with your wedding ring? Pretty much... my fingers are so gnarled from detailing that I can barely get the damn thing off, and its even harder getting it back on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
camaro2ssblack Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 Great job Dylan. That truck is a beast... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holder Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 Pretty much... my fingers are so gnarled from detailing that I can barely get the damn thing off, and its even harder getting it back on. I figured as much Dip it in some undercarriage spray, bet it would slide right off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris@Adams Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 Nice job Dylan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArmyAcadia09 Posted March 18, 2013 Share Posted March 18, 2013 Nice work buddy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swizlstik Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Looks awesome!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc2hill Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Sweet truck and excellent work (as usual) Dylan! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TXadam Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Awesome truck and awesome job guys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bootstrap Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Awesome job... I wish my glass wasn't scratched lol Sent from my DROID RAZR MAXX HD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE Mook Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Looks like last weekend was a ton of fun Dylan! Killer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natch02 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Looks Good Dylan. What did you use on the a-frame and the rubber moulding around the window? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WhatsUpDoc Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Nice! What did you use to apply the 1:1 SVRT to the bedliner with? I assume you didn't do it with a 4" piece of foam... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chase@InsanePaint Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Seeeeeeeeeeeeeexy bro!!! DAMN sexy!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schwag one Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Looks great and man do I want a Raptor. Silly question, but roughly how long did it take you from start to finish? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AZGTO Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Looks great! Love those trucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GaryW Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 The only that comes to mind right now.... Dang SWEET!!!! Hey man on the spotted windows Flex and the SHR? I got some bad windows also. Love the Look of tires, very hot glow to them. Prototype??????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmyAtAdamsAustralia Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Looks great Dylan! Excellent as always! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRZN Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
04silverado Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 That's an awesome write up on a sick truck man! Love the pic looking down on the tire/wheel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBlack151 Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Such an awesome truck. Nice work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K5/TBSS Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Maybe a newb question - but wouldn't the holes in that bumper completely destroy that pad in no time? Truck looks awesome!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxcustody Posted March 19, 2013 Share Posted March 19, 2013 Great job, I wish I had your skills.............I knows it comes from many many vehicles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Team Adam's Posted March 19, 2013 Author Share Posted March 19, 2013 Looks great and man do I want a Raptor. Silly question, but roughly how long did it take you from start to finish? About 7 hours on Saturday and about 2 hours of touchup on Monday morning before they came to pick it up. Hey man on the spotted windows Flex and the SHR? I got some bad windows also. Yep. Works great for getting really stubborn water spots off. Love the Look of tires, very hot glow to them. Prototype??????? Yes. Prototype tire coating. Maybe a newb question - but wouldn't the holes in that bumper completely destroy that pad in no time? Truck looks awesome!!! They weren't sharp so it didn't really, by the time I was done the pad was pretty beat up, but it made it thru the whole process. Wasn't an ideal surface to polish on, but had to get done so even if that means sacrificing a pad ya do what you gotta do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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