couple E92s I worked on a while ago and a jetta

[SpecC]

It was obviously babied! I took one piece of clay bar and hit everything with it. Scroll down and there's a picture of what one side looked like when I was done. I was pretty amazed! Everything was very clean about this car except the swirls which black cars are cursed with. :laugh:

Materials

Wash & Dry
CG CWG
Grit Guard
Waffle weave drying towell

Clay
CG Clay Bar
Clear Kote Quik Shine as lube
All purpose microfiber towel

Engine Bay
CG Grime Reaper 5:1 dilution
Costco MF

Glass
Stoner's invisible glass
All purpose microfiber towels
FK #425 - stoner's streaks a bit, so this cleans it up

Paint correction
Menzerna 106FF via Green Pad
All purpose microfiber towel
50/50 Isopropyl/water mixture
Finish Kare #425 quick detailer

Tools
Hitachi rotary polisher
3M backing plate - again, this thing kicks ass
250w something halogen light

Protection & LSP
CG Jetseal 109
CG 50/50 wax
FK #425

Trim and exhaust
CG metal polish

Wheels and Tires
EZ Detail brush
Swissvax Wheel brush
P21S wheel gel
P21S total auto wash
CG CWG (I'll explain the need for all these products later)
Swissvax Pneu
Jetseal 109

What I did to wash the wheels and tires first was soak them in P21S wheel gel, but that dried up pretty quickly. So as I was letting it soak, I'd mist it with water now and then, but after a while, I felt there wasn't enough product in there anymore. By that time, it had degreased enough that I could just wash the rest with CG CWG. P21S total auto wash was for the tires. I feel it does a better job degreasing later for tire shine.

that is a really long write up... here's the pictures

Go wheel gel!

clean clay!

After polish, I realized this car had some awful orange peel...

I got bored.

Engine bay wasn't very dirty to begin with, so I cheated.. kind of.

All that, and I'm still not done with my collection!

After LSP

Hello, FMINUS

Enjoy!

 

[SpecC]

Mmmm... black... it sure makes the owners feel bad and detailers feel good

The car is a custom widebody E92 335i with M3 parts around it.

Couple notes before I start listing everything.
-3M backing plate for rotary = AWESOME
-I need more pads...
-Need a duster...
-Stop inviting friends over cause they mess with things :laugh:

Materials

Wash & Dry
Micro chenille mitt
CG Citrus Wash and Gloss
Grit Guard
Waffle weave drying towel

Clay
CG Clay
Clear Kote Quik Shine
All purpose Microfiber towel

Engine Bay
CG Grime Reaper
Costco MF towels

Paint Correction
Hitachi Rotary Polisher SP18-VA
Black pad
White pad
Orange pad
Menzerna SIP - orange
Menzerna 106FF - white or black
50/50 Isopropyl/water mixture

Protection
CG Jetseal 109
Foam applicator pads
All purpose microfiber towels
Clear Kote Quik Shine

LSP
CG 50/50 Wax
Foam applicator pads
All purpose microfiber towels
Clear Kote Quik Shine

Wheels and Tires
EZ Detail Brush - for inside of wheel
CG CWG
P21S Wheel Gel
Swissvax Wheel Brush - for wheel face
Micro chenille mitt - for tires
Swissvax Pneu
Klasse AIO

Before pictures, the paint correction process was go over everything with SIP and orange then everything again with 106FF in white. The trunk was had a clear bra over the entire thing so I just went over that once with 106FF on black. Yes, this did take forever, and black... is awesome

There are no before pictures since it was pretty clean anyway. Let's just start with the heavy stuff!

Man, this dude washes his cars with rocks!

This is a pretty nasty scuff that he got just out of nowhere. I'll update this one later!

and he is ready to start!

Did I mention that this thing is awesome?

passed with SIP and 106FF

after one pass of SIP

update on the previous scuff

it's a party when ironic's car is here!

Engine bay after clean up. No dressing. I'll get some eventually...

What if ironic went blue....?

My friends went ahead and did that while they were bored.

After LSP

Sorry, but I forgot to tell him to take some pictures of the rear too. Enjoy!

edit: I apologize for the marks on the thread that do some advertising. I will take them out, but they are the only pictures I have that show the entire car. If they bother any of the admins, i will remove them ASAP.

 

[SpecC]

First time trying PO85RD on a full detail. I knew it'd be good, but it totally blew me away!

Sponges also kinda suck to use to wash cars. Back to sheepskin mitts for me.

Wash and Dry
Zymol sponge
Grit guard
CG CWG
DI Waffle Weave Microfiber drying towel
Swissvax detail brush

Clay
Sonus Green Clay Bar
diluted CG CWG as clay lube - i ran out of quik shine

rewash after claying with car soap

Wheels and Tires
P21S TAW - on tires
P21S Wheel Gel - on wheels
EZ Detail Brush
Jetseal 109
Swissvax Wheel brush
Swissvax Pneu - tire dressing
Foam sponge - to apply dressing

Engine Bay
5:1 diluted CG Grime Reaper
Swissvax detail brush
CG Fade2black

Paint correction
Menz SIP + orange pad
Menz 106FF + green pad
Menz 85RD + black pad
Hitachi Rotary
Isopropyl alcohol wipedown

Protection
Jetseal 109
Black WOW

LSP
CG 50/50 wax

Before

Not too bad eh? WELL look at this

If that clay wasn't nasty enough, CHECK THIS!

WELL not to worry, SpecC makes progress!

^this is before sealant/wax. Just passed with SIP and 85RD

I forgot to take pictures of the engine bay before i washed it, so here it is.

washed...

and dressed!

Mirror before

then after!

headlights too?!

WHY YES!

After LSP

These are some fat tires too

tires + Swissvax Pneu FTW!

and clean wheels!

wow that is black WOW!

Man those hood shots are cool. How about another?

Yeah that's bad ass. Daytime shots rock. Enjoy!

 

[Ronkh]

Nice work.

I never had luck with JS 109. It looked great but ddin't last at all.

Hope yo uhave better luck with it.

 

[Old Pirate]

Looks great all of them except the rim of the VW, might need some Q-tips to get in there.:bigups
BTW Welcome to DC..........

 

[SpecC]

Nice work.

I never had luck with JS 109. It looked great but ddin't last at all.

Hope yo uhave better luck with it.

it hasn't gone past 4 months for me yet.... but i love the looks of it

Looks great all of them except the rim of the VW, might need some Q-tips to get in there.:bigups
BTW Welcome to DC..........

i tried but that stuff is really in there. i need some stronger stuff!

 

[Beemerboy]

it hasn't gone past 4 months for me yet.... but i love the looks of it



i tried but that stuff is really in there. i need some stronger stuff!

On areas like that a good stiff brush is what's needed...and also to let the cleaner dwell for a while..mean a few minutes.

Nice cars and great work!!!!


Come up north to Sonoma County some time would enjoying meeting you and working on the cars with you!!

 

[agentxc_02]

Awesome job on the bmw's. I really like the new e92 m3 as i seeing the bmw m3 gtr next month in florida

 

[jaybs02]

Great job on all 3 :bigups

Not too sure if I am feeling the love on the E92 with the green highlights though.

O/T
You have to be one of the few that I have seen use Swissvax products. How do you like it?

 

[SpecC]

Great job on all 3 :bigups

Not too sure if I am feeling the love on the E92 with the green highlights though.

O/T
You have to be one of the few that I have seen use Swissvax products. How do you like it?

I've only used Swissvax Pneu which is the tire shine so far, and it is my favorite tire shine! It goes on pretty easy and gives you a matte shine which seems more natural to me. the small bottle should last you over 20 applications, so it's decent value imo.

I have swissvax clay too. I just used up my sonus clay, so i'll be using the swissvax BLUE one next! I'll be sure to comment on it in a new thread coming this weekend probably.

 

[RUBigDog05]

That BMW is just plain SIIIICK! Great job on the details

 

[SpecC]

Great job on all 3 :bigups

Not too sure if I am feeling the love on the E92 with the green highlights though.

O/T
You have to be one of the few that I have seen use Swissvax products. How do you like it?

i just tried the swissvax clay this weekend and it's a lot harder to mold than the sonus one. it's just about as aggressive though, so i'd say save your money and just go sonus