SHOW PREP DETAIL: Custom Ford F150 Raptor

Nick@Adams

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:





















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PROCESS:

• Wheels Cleaned with Adam's Deep Wheel Cleaner / Trim & Lug Brush / Wheel Woolies / Boars Hair Wheel Brush
• Tires Cleaned with Adam's All Purpose Cleaner / Adam's Deep Clean 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 Polish 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 VRTand water

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.

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