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2016 Mercedes Benz Airstream RV Full Correction and Cquartz

I always love a challenge. That's what I was thinking as I took on this 2016 Mercedes RV on. This customer is a good client of mine and always calls on us to detail their company and personal vehicles. They had just bought this RV and the paint was very very scratched up. The Mercedes dealership would run this vehicle through their scratch-o-matic car wash doing nothing but destroying the quality of this very expensive RV. After agreeing on a price for a 2 step polish with Cquartz coating we got to work as there was heavy rain in the forecast soon and he needed this vehicle for their family's Christmas road trip.

Vehicle State on Pickup

Here is the vehicle as we picked it up All 24 feet long with 10 feet high ready for us to detail. This customer was looking for a full paint correction on this vehicle. We were up for the challenge took the keys and drove it to the shop where it would spend the next 2 days

Time To work! Foam gun action

First we started with a full paint decontamination. This consisted of a foam bath and full 2 bucket wash. The vehicle was fully clayed during the wash to prepare for the polish.

Wheels all Sonax'd

For a new RV it had a surprising amount of iron decontamination in the wheel. This is evidenced by the Sonax Full Effect wheel product reacting and turning purple as it encounters brake dust.

During Wash

I cannot lie I spent quite a bit of time admiring this vehicle. During the wash we could tell the dealership had put some kind of spray wax on it as there was uneven water beading and the paint definitely exhibited hydrophobic properties.

Paint Correcting Time

As you can see in this picture the paint was pretty battered. Nothing like a giant black RV to make you realize you don't have any compound or polish. Luckily I was able to find some Meguiar's Ultimate compound.

After correction

Pretty nice result here. This was achieved with 1 pass with microfiber cutting pad, one pass with white hex logic pad on a griots Garage 6 inch dual action polisher.

Attempt at 50/50

Working in this garage I wasnt able to get the lighting right for a good 50/50. Plus we were on a time crunch so I didnt want to push it too hard. You can sort of see the left side free of scratches while the right side with scratches.

Before Correction

This ends up being probably the most dramatic picture showing the correction. As you can see there are lots of deep swirls and watermarks.

After Correction

WOW The ultimate compound worked really well removing the defects in the paint. The only complaint I had with it was It was difficult to remove the polish without reintroducing marring so we had to be very careful.

Cquartz Coating.

After the many hours of polishing we took it back outside to do the coating.

Luxurious Interior Detail

The interior recieved a light detail. It was in pretty good shape just a bit of dust. Beautiful cabin though.

Bright and early next morning ready for delivery

We got up early to do all the finishing details. Wheels, Windows, etc.

Window Cleaned

Tailpipe Polished

Last Check Before Delivery

We turned the vehicle around in the sunlight to check our results before delivery. We like to look at the paint in the sun to make sure the job came out exceptional. It was worth it as the customer was extremely happy and plans for us to detail it out in the future.

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2006 Chevy Trailblazer DEEP interior and exterior detail.

What I love most about this business is helping good people out. I cannot imagine how difficult it would be to manage a full time career, as well as the stresses of being a single parent. She contacted me asking to have a simple wash and wax and the interior thoroughly detailed. When she told me over the phone it may be a little bad we shrugged it off thinking hey we have detailed tons of interiors.... It will just be another job...... or so we thought.....

2006 Chevy Trailblazer Very Deep interior detail

What I love most about this business is helping good people out. I cannot imagine how difficult it would be to manage a full time career, as well as the stresses of being a single parent. She contacted me asking to have a simple wash and wax, as well as the interior thoroughly detailed. When she told me over the phone it may be a little bad we shrugged it off thinking, hey we have detailed tons of interiors.... It will just be another job...... or so we thought.....

This is what we found after lifting up the second row of seats. It seems as if the children would just quietly push their waste food in between the seats.  Years of candy, cookies, cereal, and other goodies sweet little children like to in… — This is what we found after lifting up the second row of seats. It seems as if the children would just quietly push their waste food in between the seats. Years of candy, cookies, cereal, and other goodies sweet little children like to indulge in.

Before, Second Row Behind Passenger

This as you can see there is alot of stuff collected in the crevices where the carpets meet the door sill. This can be tough to get out with the vacuum

Before, Behind Driver

Pretty good amount of staining in the seats and carpet at this point. I was noticing it was mostly food waste and the extractor works really good at removing that

Before, Front Passenger

More of the same as we look at the front

Before Drivers Side

This is after removing the floor mat as you can see there is lots of staining here on the floors.

Before Trunk

Before Behind Seats

This is what we found when we looked at that little flap that goes behind the rear seats on this particular SUV. Once we saw this we knew we were in for it.

Before Back seats up

This is what we found after lifting up the back seats. I am going to let the pictures speak for themselves on this one.

Before, Under Seats

Before, Where seat bottom meets seat back

Time to work!

We started by removing all the big food by hand. I love candy, but old melted candy from years ago has a unique smell...

During Under Seats, Bonus shoe shot

Starting to see a bit of progress

Before, Cup holders

We even remove the little rubber cupholder trays to detail them out here.

Before, Rubber Cup holder trays

Very dirty...

Before, Sun visor

Alot of detailers forget to look up when they detail a vehicle. We make sure to get the headliner and the sun visor which was rather dirty here.

During, Seats

Its amazing how much gunk the apc, boars hair brush and a microfiber towel got out of these seats. We probably used at least 40 oz of Meguiar's APC on these seats but the result turns out to be well worth it.

During Extractor reservoir

The Bissel Little green was really a lifesaver in this project. We did spend alot of time emptying out dirty water reservoirs though

After, Drivers Side

The results in this case turned out dramatic. The extraction pulled out the browning of the carpets and they look great here. I was going for bonus points with the carpet designs.