The Twanksta

After detailing Tim's RX-8, he brought me his mothers Chevy Avalanche. Not only was it in for a full exterior detail, I also had to remove the nearly disintegrated pin striping from the truck. Overall, the truck wasnt in that bad of shape, it was just BIG and dirty! Everything went well until my buffer broke in the middle of the detail! I wanted to get a new one anyways, and heres a good excuse right??

Products:

Exterior:
Dawn Soap Pre-Wash
Optimum Car Wash-Final Wash
ONR diluted to clay lube
COBRA UMF Wash Mitt
COBRA Deluxe "Jr" MF's
Dual Buckets with Grit Guards
3m Masking Tape
Adams Professional Clay Bar
P21S TAW
Meguairs APC+
Meguairs Hyperdressing
Menzerna SIP/Wool
Menzerna SIP/Orange
Menzerna 106ff/white
Menzerna Top Inspection
Tons of Uber MF Towels(AP)
Swissvax Pneu



LSP:
Lusso Oro applied with Uber Foam Applicator

Tools:
Dual Work Lamps
Makita Hi Speed Rotary
World's Greatest Boar's Hair Wheel Brush
Foam Pad Cleaning Brush
DD Detail Sponge
The Wheel Well/Fender Brush
The Spoke Brush
Canon Rebel XTi
Craftsmen 295MPH Vac/Blow
E-Z Detail Wheel Brush
Swissvax Wheel Brush

BEFORE:




















The old pinstriping has to go..


A little specialty tool..




And you get this..

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After the initial wash..








Some 50/50's on the hood..






There were some scratches by the driver handle..


Now Removed..


After 1 pass with SIP/Wool..

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The one after shot in the sun I was able to get before it went down..


And in the halogens..

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A couple overall vehicle shots..






And now..a ton of reflections!

slanguage

Another good one, Billy. I wish I lived somewhere where the winters weren't cold. I'm having detailing withdrawals.

shotgunjimmy

looking good man. what kind of time do you guys put into vehicles that big?

JSWhaler

Looks good, I was busy today removing snow.

jlb85

This is my favorite one




BTW, what did you do to dress all the exterior plastic?

The Twanksta

Thanks everyone!

I actually decided not to dress the plastic since there was so much of it. It was in pretty good condition anyhow, if I would have started it Im sure it would have came out blotchy or uneven somehow..

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Yeah, and I am sweating here!