BMW 550 and Suburban

[imported_weekendwarrior]

This is probably my favorite BMW color. The car was just purchased, and was covered in buffer trails. I vacuumed, used 1Z LeatherCare on the seats, and Meguiar's QID on the hard surfaces. For the exterior, the wheels were soaked in P21S, and then washed with Dawn. I then did a 2 bucket wash with 1Z Pearls.



For correction, I used the new Menzerna 203 on the Flex, white LC pad, and waxed with Collinite 476. 1Z Vinyl / Rubber care was used on the tires.



Befores...the swirls you see on the hood, were all over the car...

Gotta love BMW dust...

Here are after shots of the interior. I didn't take befores, because it's a new car...

Afters...

Next up...Suburban

 

[imported_weekendwarrior]

This was a clean up for sale. The car has been washed with automatic car washes (not the touchless ones) for a loooong time now. I cleaned the engine with ONR, and used various rags and the Swissvax brush. I dressed the engine with 4:1 Hyper Dressing.



On the interior, I cleaned the carpets with Adams carpet/upholstery cleaner, wiped down hard surfaces with QID, and used 1Z Leather Care on the seats.



For correction, I wanted to experiment. I did a QEW wash, used Accumulator's combo of 3.5" PFW pads on the PC with 1Z Intensive Paste. I followed with SIP on the Flex with an orange pad, and finished with Menzerna 203 on a 4" white pad on the PC.



Before...The whole truck looked like this...

I basically got it to this point since it was a "for sale" clean up...

1 after shot of the interior...

Engine After shots...

 

[Labster]

Very nice, not to crap on your thread but the tires on the bmw seem to not be dressed. Maybe it's just the pics.

 

[imported_weekendwarrior]

You are right. Today was the first day of daylight savings time, so I pulled the car out to take pictures before dressing the tires.



Edit - my time / date stamp is off by an hour...the sun was dropping behind his house quickly, so I wanted to try to take advantage of what little sun there was.

 

[Accumulator]

weekend warrior- Good job on both :xyxthumbs



Glad (but not surprised ) that PFW/1Z combo worked on the Suburban. Big job though, huh?



The Suburban's engine compartment cleaned up well, the plastics appear in good condition.



Out of curiosity- why did you do the final polishing with the PC/4" white instead of the Flex?

 

[imported_weekendwarrior]

weekend warrior- Good job on both :xyxthumbs



Glad (but not surprised ) that PFW/1Z combo worked on the Suburban. Big job though, huh?



The Suburban's engine compartment cleaned up well, the plastics appear in good condition.



Out of curiosity- why did you do the final polishing with the PC/4" white instead of the Flex?

Well, it could have gone either way. I had achieved the correction level that we were going for, so I just used the PC...I like using the PC, since I can basically use it with 1 hand. I think I actually ate 2 slices of pizza while using the Menz 203 on the PC - LOL.



Even though it was a HUGE vehicle...I did ALL of that in 8 hours (no breaks).

 

[Accumulator]

..Even though it was a HUGE vehicle...I did ALL of that in 8 hours (no breaks).

Heh heh, that's pretty quick!

 

[somebody]

Nice job, and 8 hours for all of that you must have been working fast.



Brandon

 

[imported_wagonproject]

Wow both look amazing!



And I don't think I would ever have enough patience to do a suburban with a 3.5" pad on a PC.

 

[socalv-dub]

awesome job.

but is it just me or do bmw wheels have some sort of cosmic attraction to break dust?. every time i see one around town they all look just caked with the stuff

 

[Thomas Dekany]

Both cars came out excellent.:2thumbs::2thumbs::2thumbs:

 

[backwoods_lex]

Holy cow! 3 step plus engine and interior in 8 hours? I'm amazed at how a lot of you guys pump these vehicles out. It came out very nice. Great correction and the engine looks fantastic. I have yet to ONR a motor.



Great job on the BMW too. Nice improvement.

 

[Rickrack]

Wow, big improvement on both cars!!



How are you liking the P203S??

 

[imported_weekendwarrior]

Wow, big improvement on both cars!!



How are you liking the P203S??

Thanks...I really like the 203. I think on cars that have been corrected and maintained well, it will serve as a good 1 step, once a year via the Flex to maintain them. Should be a real time saver.