A while back I was contacted by a fellow car enthusiast to do a little polishing and jeweling action on his BMW M6. This passed weekend I carried out the work we had planned a few times in the past but with some issues in both of our agendas we were unable to do it then, however the 3rd times always the charm! Friday morning the car arrived from a longgg drive down. This car has been modified in very unique, distinctive and great ways. For instance the wheels have been changed to two piece amazing wheels. It also has an exhaust upgrade which is absolutely AMAZINNG. Anyways, On to the detail. Now first I apologise for the lack of detail in the pictures. The fact that the car had VERY VERY FEW swirls and defects combined with the fact that it was extremely hard to capture the defects because of the met flake in the paint. Anyways, Not many pics of the wash process. The wheels were done with a sheepskin wash mitt and P21S wheel gel. The engine was soaked with Megs super degreaser. The heavily sooiled parts were agitated with a brush and then the engine bay was rinsed off at medium pressure. I then used Born To Be Mild and the wookies fist on the paint (my sample of the supernatural shampoo came the next day). The car was then clayed using dodo gentle grey and born slippy. The car was then taped up and tested a few different combinations of polishing. I settled on Menzerna Power finish and 3m UK's polishing pad. And then to refine and jewel the finish I used Menzerna PO85RD and the 3m UK's blue finishing pad. Now the only places where I found actual swirls that were moderately bad was on the lower rocker panels (very bad), wing mirrors, rear brake light lenses (didnt get any pics) and the rear end. (a sonus red finishing pad was used in place of the 3m blue finishing pad because I ran out of pads.. however I also really like the red sonus pads for finishing) Since the polishing was finished I then applied 2 coats of Supernatural. The car came out EXTREMELY WELL, however it has been raining for the passed 3 or 4 days so I did not want to pull it outside to get a couple of finished pics. Here are the few inside shots I have: (I also put the car up on jack stands and polished the mufflers) I hope you guys enjoyed and a big thanks to the owner as I enjoyed working on the car along with talking cars. I hope the drive wasnt too long!
Great work! Those two Menzerna polishes are what I have planned to use for my own Sapphire Black Metallic car. Nice to see how well it turned out!
haha the crocs are not my prefered style. I only wear them when im washing a car. They work well! and thanks for the compliment. Its a great combo IMO! (AS long as you dont expect too much correction) Thanks! I spent a lot of time last summer working on it! It also is heated and cooled .
Good job. I use Menzerna on my 4.8i. How did you find the paint to work on? I found I had to hit diffucult areas a couple of times. I think the paint is fairly hard.
Wasn't that long back especially going 90 in a nice stretch of road but I got bulled over for a ticket for the tint < pity lol you would think I would get stopped for going 90, I guess he just wanted to take a look at the car? Dan did an excellent job on the car, been really busy with work lately and had no time to work on it for a summer detail, but Dan came to the rescue very nice guy and really studied his craft very well like most here! I also bought from him the following to try out Supernatural pot Dodo towels 2 50mil born to be mild soap 2 Quick detailer and lime prime also got a tester for SN as a gift (Thanks Dan) Thanks bud and looking forward to the next time around!
I appreciate everything! And I will be in contact with you tomorrow. I have a meeting time to talk to the guys tomorrow. Thank ya sir! I used zaino Z16. Arent they nice!!!! I love those HRE's. Thanks! It still isnt finished. I need to hang up some more photos. O yea. I mean I think that pic was taken at like 1am or 2am so I was a little tired at that point. Thank ya sir! hahaha, thats the clear bra.
Yup! Glass. My father has a huge system of it back from his clothing store. It works and looks great!
