1995 Red M3

Lets get the bad part out of the way first.


Check out the trunk - Real bad repaint gone worse.









Polishing didn't do anything to it so I wetsanded it.

First try: 2000 grit followed by 3000 grit

Second try: 1000gr followed by 2000gr

Third try: 1000gr, 2000gr 3000gr


RESULT:



At this point I gave up. I talked with Brad and Rydawg - Thanks guys!!!!!

Nothing worked. My painter guy calleed me back who has seen the car and said the trunk will need a repaint.

The rest of the detail is pretty good.

Before

The paint was in pretty good shape with the typical swirls all over but couldn't get a good picture of it. There are some deeper scratches that are still there.








All polishing done






Finished

wash
clay
sip purple wool 1700
EC purple wool as needed 1800
3M Ultra Fina blue ccs pad 1800
ZAIO white pad UDM 6
Z5Pro white pad UDM 3 paint windows trim
Presta 1500 on lips
Armorall aerosol on tires

 

Vehicle looks great...but boy that trunk lid looks quite bad :yikes: wow what did they do to that poor thing :shakehead:

The rest of the vehicle looks great though, oooh I like that red Lotus in the background..nice..very nice :druling: :druling:

 

Nice job there on the rest for sure. Don't sweat it...some stuff just can't be saved...in the immortal words of Doc Bones "Jim..I'm a Doctor, not a Magician!!"

 

Except for that horrible trunk, the rest of the car came out great!

 

hahahaha man that's funny richy..hahaha see even if you try to be serious your funny hahahahaha :lol2: :lol2:...oh that was a good one....:lol2:

 

Great job Thomas, that red is bimming. Looks like you are over by GMU by the pictures of the neighborhood.

 

Best car ever made! but shiny now haha Good job on the detail

 

Wow I see a Lotus. Are u gonna be detailing that? . Beautiful work on the M3. I love the old school gens. TOo bad for the trunk

 

Thanks guys!!!

I have detailed the lotus - right before Xmas. The front was just repainted and the car now has scratches alll over it. I will detail it again in a couple of weeks.

AR - yes I am minutes away from GMU.

 

I thought the neighborhood looked familiar, you dont have a neighbor named Charter do you?

 

I wouldn't know. What does Charter drive?

We are in Middleridge.

 

It will be repainted.

 

That will be sweEEEEET!

 

What happended to the trunk? VEry nice effort! Sorry it did not work out. The rest of the car looks great!
:druling: over the Lotus :thud:

 

great work!

 

Very nice work Thomas!

 

Looks sweet!

 

Thank you guys!

The Lotus won 3rd place this past weekend atan allEnglish car show without me working on it. :crasy::crasy::crasy: