2011 Ford Ranger - Detailed!

[RooflessVW]

Can you describe the process you used for the engine bay?

Truck looks great! Hope they pay you well, cleaning vehicles and doing a thorough job is a lot of work.

For this engine bay - for most engine bays, actually, I:

-Foam it with the foam cannon
-Spray APC on any heavily soiled areas
-Agitate with a detail brush
-Quick wipe down with a dedicated wash mitt
-Rinse clean (avoiding sensitive electronics)
-Blow dry

Final step is to spray it down with Hyper Dressing and let it self-level. I do my best to wait until it is full dry.

 

[simple_gifts]

Looks good; I was always curious if an interesting side job would be to retro fit a 23NS duratech found in the 2WD only model into the 4WD chassis. I think that would have been a killer combination as the 2300 is a solid motor and is economical when it counts.

 

[AutoMechanic]

I see these often in my area. Love them. So much better than those fake new ones they have.

 

[RTexasF]

Hard to believe it's a 2011 and your hard work made it as new. It's apparent the owner does take care of it which is refreshing.

 

[Rufus711]

Nice! Do you use anything special on the white lettering on the tires?

 

[RooflessVW]

Nice! Do you use anything special on the white lettering on the tires?

Normally I would use an acidic wheel cleaner but these wheels had too much pitting for me to use that safely.

 

[Oildudeny]

Very nice job.. if I were ur way I'd hire you.. also very sweet truck and it has the 4.0

 

[ekrampitzjr]

Just got a 2011 Ranger in the same color with 101,000 miles. It was a trade-in at a new car dealer, very clean overall, but it has its little blemishes. Now I'm gonna have to try to get it to look like that one...

After I get some maintenance and other work done, of course. It's got the 4.0 V-6 too. Just got the auto trans flushed and filter and fluid changed.

 

[RooflessVW]

This Ranger is local to me. Just passed it walking into the grocery store. It has been almost a year to the day since I detailed it.

Griot's 3-in-1 is good stuff.

 

[bbhero]

I have a soft spot for these Rangers. It's all my dad drove growing up and this brought back all those memories.

Had a blast bringing this back to pristine.

Interesting... My dad's last truck was a 89 Ford Ranger. He had it until he died in January 2010.

Amazing that truck made it that long as he was not the greatest with maintenance. A manual transmission on that truck that was tricky to get moving. Had amazing ac for the first 5 years.

 

[01rangerxl]

Wow, that's some nice water beading for a whole year. Too bad you're not local, I would bring you my 94 Explorer.

 

[RTexasF]

Really nice work

 

[The Critic]

This Ranger is local to me. Just passed it walking into the grocery store. It has been almost a year to the day since I detailed it.

Griot's 3-in-1 is good stuff.

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I think these spray-on/rinse off si02 products create a film build on the surface overtime. My wife's Accord was coated in 2015?? with CQuartz UK 3.0 and receives a spray-on product every month or two. For a while last year, I applied nothing to the surface for several months and it was still beading very well.

 

[CB22]

great little gas guzzler.

What's a gas guzzler? 25mpg? 20mpg?

 

[Killer223]

What's a gas guzzler? 25mpg? 20mpg?

I average 16, can sometimes squeeze out 19-20 on the freeway only road trips. mine is 11, xlt 4x4.