Been a slow year again for Dan and I but we got a beautiful M3 to come and visit us for the day. The car is a 2009 BMW M3, 18k miles on the ticker. The car has been well cared for but beginning to show RIDs and then there is the issue of someone unskilled in the use of a rotary showing up after the wash.... This car came by way of a good friend who is also a good client of ours. The owner was looking for us to bring the car back to showroom before storing the car for the winter. As you will see the paint was in good shape apart from some RIDs, chips, and buffer holos. Dan and I spent 18 man hours working out as many defects as possible and restoring the finish. We ended up around 97-99% corrected. The car has a dark blue hue to it in certain light and black in most. After our work we help bring out that blue in low light conditions and the color is just fantastic in low light conditions. Car would certainly look awesome rolling through some city streets at night. Dan and I truly enjoyed working on this car and gained further appreciation for the body style, one that I was not keen on to start, but really digging now. Thanks in advance for viewing! Materials: Porter Cable 7424XP Flex Random Orb. CG Citrus Wash and Gloss Westley’s Bleach White Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner ONR Clay Bar Dilution IPA wipe down Dilution Menzerna PF2500 Menzerna SF4000 Menzerna Power Lock Autoglym HD Spray Away Glass Cleaner Mequier’s Natural Finish Dressing Lexol Leather Cleaner and Conditioner Mequier's NXT 2.0 CG Xtreme Shine CG Bare Bones CG G6 Prima Hydro Mother's Chrome Polish Uber 5.5” & 6" Orange Uber 5.5” Green Uber 5.5” Black Uber 3” Orange Uber 3” Green Swissvax Wheel Brush Uber Boar’s head brush Uber Wheel Brush Wheel Woolies Swissvax interior brushes Uber UFO Red Applicator Pads Uber UFO Blue Applicator Pad Misc MF Towels Shop vac Q-tips 3M Painters Tape Process Exterior: CG Citrus Wash w/ Micro Fiber Mitt, dried, taped,PF2500 w/ Orange (1 pass + touchup), SF4000 w/Green (1 pass), IPA wipe down, Powerlock w/Black, topped with Autoglym HD. Wheels: Sonax Full Effect, Westly’s Bleach White, Wheel Brushes, dried, Hydro'd, tires dressed with CG Xtreme Shine Interior: Vacuum, Door jams cleaned with ONR and sealed with NXT, hard plastic Mequier’s natural finish wipe down, Glass cleaned with Spray Away Glass Cleaner, Leather Lexol treated Engine Compartment: Misc brushes and dressed with CG Xtreme shine Before: Findings after washing... Looks like we got some buffer holograms and some RIDs to deal with... Under the lights... Before and Afters... Home Stretch... Final wipe down. Autoglym HD works excellent with this paint to really make the car glow with all the metallic flake and deep blue hue... Done! Out for pictures in the evening light and some shots the following morning before delivery... Thanks for viewing!!!
