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Thread: 97 Ford Expedition, came in pink left red and coated!

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    97 Ford Expedition, came in pink left red and coated!

    This Expedition came in as a coating to protect it for years to come. It was in an accident last year and has been rebuilt and they wanted to keep the outside protected since it is in such good shape for a 1997 with 100k on the clock. It came in Friday evening So I started with a wash/paint decon and wheel cleaning.
    Wheels were hit with Megs wheel bright, tires were cleaned with APC (from ZEP) and Tuff Shine tire cleaner. It took about 4 cleanings to get the old Megs Hot Shot tire dressing off he had been using! Paint was fully washed, top to bottom with Megs Gold Class, Americana Amerrid for Iron removal and Speedy Prep medium grade with ONR was used.

    The before pictures aren’t great, it was after 5pm in Ohio but I did the best I could!
















    I proceeded to try and clean up the black pillars first. First I tried menz 4000 on a white pad, no luck, 2500, no luck, 400, no luck, 300 and they were still looking terrible. I tried and orange hybrid pad all the way down to 400 again with no change. Ultimately I was able to get SOME cleaning up with Menz 400 on a MF cutting pad! The rest was cleaned up with a blue hybrid pad and Menz 400 with finished out very very well. A cleaning with prep all to prepare to coat with Americana Americoat wrapped it up. The paint went from a pink/grapefruit color to RED! I was very happy with the end result and he signed up to get his car done next with Americoat.
    Tires were coated with Black Pearl, for the trim I tried Black Pearl but it did not stick very well and I ended up using PERL with three coats to get a decent finish!
























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    I love shiny things Merlin's Avatar
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    Gotta love the Nice work!

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    Looks great, thanks for sharing!
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    Looking good P!

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    Excellent job! Thank you for taking the time to post!

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    Looks really nice. Great work!!

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    The exploder looks great

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