I just recently completed a 20+ hour detail on a 2000 BMW 740i. The original plan was to spend about 15 hours but the results wouldn't have been satisfactory for both the client or myself, so I put in some extra time to exceed expectations. The car was just bought from a private seller and brought to me the next day. The car has 112k miles on it and based on the condition of the car it was never really maintained. The front left tire was heavily covered in rust. Some areas as thick as heavy posterboard. (Only thing I could think of to compare it in thickness too lol). According to the previous owner the car was driven and wore the brake pad down completely to the metal. Supposedly the car was still driven causing the metal on metal to cause huge amounts of metal rust particles. This rust was all over the car in the clearcoat down the entire drivers side and even around to the back and there was some on the passenger side but no where near as much. Due to the customers budget and time I had available to work on the car the main focus was to clean up the car first focusing on the interior, metal/rust particles embedded into the clear and the heavily contaminated wheel and to correct the paint. Car was washed with CG Citrus using Glimour Foam Gun and CG Maxi Suds II using two bucket method. This had no effect on the rust embedded in the car. The only thing that worked was some aggressive claying. Thank goodness for detail clay. I was only able to do a one step correction due to time. I went with surbuf pads on a PC DA using M205 as this seemed to be the best combination. Because the car is a daily driver paint correction wasn't the number one priority but I was happy with the results and so was the client. Tailights and headlights were wet sanded and then polished. Interior leather was conditioned using leatheriqe and all interior surfaces were protected with 303 aerospace protectant. All of the before and after pics can be found at www.photobucket.com/bigblue740i tman/2000%20BMW%20740i/P1090430.jpg[/IMG]
That looks a whole lot better!! Well done! At first I thought the wheels were bronze, and then covered in brake dust... that is a lot of brake dust lol
