Sup guys, this is my first post in a really, really long time. Good to be back :applause2: Gonna keep it short on the text for now, this was a 1.5 step correction as the paint was pretty thin. I'll let the pictures do the talking Questions/Comments are always welcome! Upon arrival, this customer drove 1.5 hours to have me detail it so it was pretty dirty: Started with the rims, just a quick clean as they were gonna be replaced in the next month: Bugs got their pre-soak with APC: Car was then foamed, twice: Fresh bar of Riccardo was chosen: Car was pretty contaminated, after 1 panel: Washer jet cover removed to clean under it: Clean: Surgery Prep: Let's see what the paint looks like :doh: Swirl-maina/hologram combo package. Even the dim lightbulb on the side shows significant marring: First paint reading :doh: :doh: :doh: Avg was in the 90's/low 100's, range from 82-120. Only 50/50's I took, was pressed for time. This was after the first hit of P203, followed up with 106FA but can only see that in the afters. This panel had the deepest scratches/thin paint, got about 85% correction, other panels with more paint I was able to get to 98-100% Some kind of etching: Etching removed: Once I got around to the back, I noticed the keyhole was COMPLETELY black. WTF? I cleaned a tiny bit as you can see just to check it wasn't supposed to be that way: 10 painstaking minutes and many Q-tips later... Polished hard till bout midnight, snapped a pic and hit the hay to wake up early the next morning as I had another client coming mid-day: Started the next morning with the mats, 50/50 of the front ones: Driver's after extraction: Steamed the entire interior, after pic of the M pedals: Sills before/after: Smoking vents Interior after: At this point the 2nd client, visible in the background, showed up so I shuffled the cars around a bit and did an IPA wipedown and pulled it out into the sun to inspect the polishing job up to this point, most of it was done, still a couple areas needed it(roof,bumpers). As you can see, quarterpanels came out close to 100, hood about 90some%. Paint is still naked. : Pulled back in, reflection's back! Wearing a Detailersdomain shirt :applause2: Finished it up, put 2 coats of Powerlock on, 24 hrs apart as I had the car for 3 days. Still needed undercarriage spray, applied later. Final sun pics: Exhaust tips shining again, insides have some water condensation: Thanks for viewing! Questions/Comments welcome
You did a great job man it looks alot better what did you use to polish out the exhaust, I am guessing some #0000 and some other products...
Thanks man :thumb: Car actually looked better in real life, the color was really hard to capture on camera. For the exhaust, I hit them with Meguiar's wheel brightener during the wash and later followed up with #0000 and some Optimum Metal Polish. Then sealed with Power lock. They took a lot of work as this car had 80,000 miles on it
Love the color too, glad I got to work on it, nice break from all of the black cars. Thanks for the compliment!
Ha me too. Back license plate is blocked out, but I asked him what it meant since it was weird... "Trouble-Maker" in Polish hahaha. Thanks for the compliment! Thanks Phil!
Amazing work on that M3. and what a lovely color. But that front plate is absolutely ridiculous. Horrible.
