2008 FJ Cruiser TRD Trail Teams Edition Polished and Ceramic Coated

[The Guz]

First off this is my uncles 2008 FJ Cruiser TRD Trail Teams Edition. It currently has a 150K miles on it. I polished and coated it 3 years ago.
 

Recently he has been asking me if I had time to polish it again.  A few reasons due to it being broken into a couple years ago so the front driver door and the rear door were repainted as the locks were damaged.  The trim was looking sad and needed restoration.  Toyota used single stage paint for certain white paints for certain vehicles.  The paint had oxidized. 

 

Keep in mind this was a paint enhancement.  I was not going for a full correction to remove all the defects.  The paint is soft enough and responded well to a one step polish.
 
It arrived with lifeless paint and trim.  I had removed the roof rack to address that separately and to give me full access to the roof.

 

 

No gloss under all that oxidation 

 

 

Headlight and trim looking worse for wear. 

 

 

First up was a chemical decon and this was a bleeder.  

 

 

I addressed the headlights first.  A quick restoration and protected with ceramic coating. He is planning to purchase new headlights so this will be a temporary fix. 

 

 

After 

 

 

Engine bay received a quick clean up and dressed.

 

 

After

 

 

The paint was next once the trim was complete.  First up assessing the paint. 

 

 

The test spot.  Good cut and nice finish on certain parts of the paint.   Some of the finicky areas required another process and polish.

 

 

Taking a step back and there is gloss under all that oxidation.

 

 

 

The side panels were covered in oxidation.  Rubbing my hand across certain parts of paint resulted in my hand being covered with oxidized white paint. 

 

 

This panel among others was soft and finicky.  Opposite panel but one gets the idea of the final finish.

 

 

The paint was panel wiped and the protection of choice was the Adams UV Ceramic Paint Coating.  It was topped with their Ceramic Boost the following day before he picked it up.

 

 

 

 

Various videos can be seen on my channel.  I have created a playlist for certain aspects of this project.

 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0d6fl9SE0Ztv9UKZHbCTf-PBux5mw7hF

Edited December 7, 2020 by The Guz

[Chris@Adams]

Looks good, nice job!

[RayS]

Nice job.  I would have added a Like, but the button appears to be temporarily broken.

[The Guz]

On 12/7/2020 at 3:57 AM, Chris@Adams said:

Looks good, nice job!

 

Thanks.

 

14 hours ago, RayS said:

Nice job.  I would have added a Like, but the button appears to be temporarily broken.

 

Thanks.  Yeah I noticed that as well.  

[Rich]

Looks great. By the way, I have that same little stool for my Equinox and it got to be annoying so I got the Adam's step stool.  My advice to you is to get one!!  Longer, higher, and I don't have to move it every 4 feet.  Better quality all around.  Now my little stool lives underneath it and only comes out when I have to take my flags off the garage. 

Decent price or wait till there's a discount code, but well worth every dime. 

[The Guz]

4 hours ago, Rich said:

Looks great. By the way, I have that same little stool for my Equinox and it got to be annoying so I got the Adam's step stool.  My advice to you is to get one!!  Longer, higher, and I don't have to move it every 4 feet.  Better quality all around.  Now my little stool lives underneath it and only comes out when I have to take my flags off the garage. 

Decent price or wait till there's a discount code, but well worth every dime. 

 

Thanks.  I am not too worried about it.  I don't own any SUV's to use a step stool that often.  I also don't detail for a living to need the use of a step stool.  

Edited December 9, 2020 by The Guz