Detailing a car truck or tractor

[Buppies]

Always thought I knew how to wash and wax a car truck or tractor but after reading another forum I do not. Rennlist is the site porsche 911. 991 under a gentleman money2456. The detail with which he cleans his cars is unbelievable. Not making fun here just amazed at what you can learn

 

[Buppies]

Rennlist.com discussion forums 991 close to bottom

 

[Code54]

Personally just hose the tractor off and hit it with a sponge from time to time. Mostly by the time I get it clean there is a new job waiting that is going to get it dirty again.... Seems the nature of the beast around our house!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Rennlist.com discussion forums 991 close to bottom

I couldn't find it. In any case, how I detail a car depends on why I am detailing it. With my truck, it amounts to a trip through the car wash. When I first got my '59 Impala, it took me about 2 weeks (part time) to detail it, in order to get it ready for a national "late Great Chevrolet" car show. Show cars get lots of attention, and many are never driven, only trailered.

 

[B7510HSD]

If you want to learn how to detail check this site out lots of videos and knowledge...
Auto Geek Online Auto Detailing Forum

 

[Gary Fowler]

I am not into show cars and for sure not show tractors. Mine have grease spots from FEL grease splatter, dust on hood etc. I do hose off the mud when I have been in it up to the axles but that is about it. As Code54 said, it is just going to get dirty again. I hose off the dust from the operators platform and prior to greasing it, I will take a garden hose and blast out all the grease and dirt from the zerks and around the grease joint so I can push more out while greasing. I didn't buy my tractors to look pretty, just to work hard.

 

[Gary Fowler]

As to automobiles, I do wash them off to remove the dust and occasionally will do a soap with brush wash, vacuum the inside if it gets dirty, but nothing even close to detailing. That kind of cleaning was for my much younger days. If a smoke film gets inside the windshield, I Windex it off but otherwise, not much glass cleaning either. I reserve my energy for productive work seeing as how I don't have as much now as in previous years.

 

[drajj5]

If you want to learn how to detail check this site out lots of videos and knowledge...
Auto Geek Online Auto Detailing Forum

Wow I just spent some time on the site that you suggested and I didn't know that paint could be "restored" like new. I am a person who waxes and washes his tractor. My dad was the type of person who would wax everything he owned and somehow that passed on to me. He was not a rich man but would buy Kit carnauba wax and wax his truck and Murray 900$ lawn mower till it shined like new. I would get frustrated as I was volunteered to be the (towel man). Everything got Armour Alled as well. Let me tell you going around a curve with that stuff on the vinyl seat at 50mph you had to hang on other wise you would slide to the other side of the truck. Yep, back then nobody wore seat belts. Fast forward 30 years and that truck still looks new; aside from the now thin paint. I know that tractors are going to get dirty and scuffed from being worked but I want to preserve the tractor for years. I do believe that if you keep your tractor clean and maintained it will last. There are those who don't care and will dispose of it for a newer tractor every few years, "something I cannot afford to do". Fortunately I have a son who I now volunteer to be

"The towel man"

 

[SirReal63]

I went through this exercise with my BMW 740i, (now passed on to a good home) it was a long laborious project but the results were fantastic. This is one of the best write ups I have seen that shows just how much difference a good detailer can make. The pics speak for themselves.
The difference a Professional Detailer can make. | Ask a Pro Blog

I doubt I will have the need to go to these lengths again, but you never know.

 

[Buppies]

What I was trying to say was that cleaning a car is much more involved than ever imagined and that I was doing it wrong. Yes my tractor is waxed about seven coats when it was new not so much now but since it lives inside just a rinse off and it's clean.

Sorry you could not find the thread I was referring to but Detailers Domain may offer some insight. Lots of good stuff if you like your cars to look right