As some of you may know, I got a new truck about a month ago. A 2011 Ford F-150 FX4 with the 5.0L and 34k miles on her. This is only the second time I've washed her by hand, I know shame on me, other than the touchless wash. She now has 37k miles on her and I decided I'd clean her up a little before I head up to Michigan later this week.

- Washed and foamed with CG Citrus Wash Red. 1:2 or 1:3 ratio.
- Autogeek Quart Foam Gun, Meguiar's MF Wash Mitt.
- CarPro Tar-X and Iron-X.
- CarPro Hydro2 Touchless Silica Sealant on everything after washing.
- Dried with waffle weave guzzler.
- Wolfgang Deep Gloss Liquid Seal on paint and trim.
- Duragloss 265 on tires.
- Removed Flex-Fuel emblem on tailgate and replaced it with a 5.0L Coyote V8 emblem.

No pics of Tar-X or Iron-X working because I was working in the sun. Windows had a little streaking from CarPro Hydro2 as a result of letting sit a little too long in the sun. I know you're not suppose to use them in the sun, but I didn't really have choice. Otherwise the Hydro2 is absolutely amazing. The way the water beads as you rinse it off makes it resemble a coating, water just falls right off.

Truck wasn't really that dirty before but here are some before shots from two days ago.

I have not corrected the paint yet, but it doesn't look like she'll need much correcting at all.








After CarPro Hydro2.










After WGDGLS and DG265.














The new 5.0L Coyote V8 emblem that replaced the Flex-Fuel one.













Who says silver can't shine?

 

Nice job !!! Where did you get the 5.0 Coyote badge ??

 

Thank you sir.

Got the Coyote emblem on ebay. Was like $15 for two of them including shipping.

 

Good Looking Pick em Up truck

 

Found them !! Just ordered two myself...thanks for the info

 

You can also get them with a blue accent. They are very nice badges imo.

 

Thanks man.
No problem.
Yep, quality seems very nice. Plus they look great.

I wanted to start doing a blue theme on the truck, but figured that wouldn't go well with my plates and I would need new FX4 stickers then. So, I went with the red ones to tie into my plates and the FX4 sticker. Plus I'll probably do red coil covers down the road.

 

Well done...

 

Thank you.

 

Great lookin' truck, Chris! Love little touches like the Coyote badges.

 

Thanks Dewser and congrats on the TOTM win.

 

Badges ordered! Look's good Chris!

 

Thankee, Chris!