Lincoln MKX – New Car Prep

Lincoln MKX – New Car Prep and Opti Coat

Subject: Lincoln MKX
Requirements: Clean up and prep for Opticoat

Exterior

– Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
– Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
– Wheel wells were cleaned up
– Washed with Adam’s Car Wash
– Decon
– Wash down and rinsed
– Door jambs were cleaned up
– Nano Scrub AutoScrub
– Dried
– Tires dressed
– Masking
– Paint Measurement
– Menzerna FG400 – MF Cutting Pad
– Sonax 3/6 Nano Polish – Uber Green Pad
– Opti Coat
– Inspection with Fenix, 3m Sun Gun, Infratech, and natural sunlight
– Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed
– Rubber and Plastics Treated
– Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
– Exhaust tips cleaned
– Windows were autoscrubed, cleaned, and sealed

Products used

Links to products used –
Auto Finesse Lather
Auto Finesse Citrus
Wolf’s Decon Gel
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
NanoSkin AutoScrub System
Auto Finesse Rejuvenate
Opti Coat
Wolf’s Glass Guard
Auto Finesse Satin Tire Dressing
Optimum Metal Polish

Engine
Optimum Power Clean
Adam’s In and Out

Tools used
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber No Name MF Towels
Rupes Bigfoot LHR15ES
Uber Buffing Pads
Defelsko Paint Meter
Fenix TK35
Brinkmann
Kranzle Pressure Washer
Cam Spray Foam Canon
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Uber Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster

Before

Presoaking the trim with AF Citrus

AF Citrus was used on wheel wells and tires

Wheel wells cleaned up

Wheels were hit with Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner and Wheel Woolies

Wolf’s Decon Gel

Using the Uber Detail Brush to hit up the gas cap, jambs, etc

Foam

Wash with an Uber Wool Wash Mitt

Rinse

Customer requested debadging
Before

After

Engine After

Rupes Bigfoot and Auto Finesse Rejuvenate on an Uber Green Pad

Auto Finesse Rejuvenate was used on the chrome trim as well.

After