How Trokiando blows water out of billet wheels and badges with BLOWZER before an OBS truck giveaway

A truck channel that gives trucks away

Trokiando is a Texas truck channel built around a simple, generous idea: build a clean classic pickup, run a giveaway, then drive it to the winner's door. Each truck gets a number. This episode is TKOG17, a 1996 OBS GMC Sierra, and the winner is Francisco Garza in the Rio Grande Valley, the 956.

The crew drives it down from Houston to McAllen, a trip they put at about six hours, and the video follows the last stretch of the handover: a wash, a tank of fuel, a ride and some rolling shots.

The BLOWZER segment: water out of billet wheels

Before the delivery, the X6 gets its own produced minute, filmed on a different truck: a lowered white Sierra parked in a shop, sitting on polished billet wheels with spiked lug nuts.

The host frames the problem every detailer knows. "We all know how hard it can be to take off every single drop out of the wheels," he says, "especially if you got billet wheels." On screen, the X6 is aimed into the wheel face, around the lug nuts and along the polished lip, and the beads of water run off the metal. A cutaway shows the retail box, the case and the X6 laid out with its nozzles on a table.

Mirrors, badges and trim

Then the shots move up the truck. The X6 goes over the wheel again, then the side mirror, then the chrome SIERRA badge on the door, the kind of seams and edges where water hides after a towel has done its part. "Hit the mirror caps, hit the trims on the truck," the host says, and his point is about what water leaves behind once it dries: "you don't get no hard water spots."

He also says the X6 is not only for vehicles and lists camera equipment, keyboards, mice and headphones as other jobs for it. Those uses are talked about, not shown, in this video. His own summary of the tool: "this thing has some power, it's also gentle."

Back to the 956

After the minute with the X6, the video returns to its real subject. The OBS Sierra gets a fresh wash at a coin-op bay in McAllen, because, as the crew explains, every giveaway truck is handed over freshly washed and with a full tank. "Troque limpia, full tank," as one of them puts it.

Francisco gets the keys, the crew pops the hood, and they call it "one of the cleanest trucks that we've given away." The day ends with rollers from Joe of Ace Graphics and the promise of TKOG18 soon.

Why it matters if you wash your own truck

The X6 never touches the giveaway truck in this video, and it is not drying a whole vehicle. What the BLOWZER segment shows is narrower and more useful: getting standing water out of the places a towel cannot reach, the lug nut wells, the gaps around a mirror and the letters of a badge, before it spots. If you wash a truck with detailed wheels, that is the job worth copying.

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