First off the M Coupe. I left my card with the vehicle when I saw it in a parking lot near my home with a fairly long but not so deep scratch on the side of the paint. The car had heavy swirls all over the car. For such a beautiful vehicle the poor paint condition begged for some love. About 6 months later, I finally got a chance to perform some love on the vehicle. The budget was limited, the area was difficult to detail in (literally in the middle of the forest), and the sun was cooking! Nevertheless, we tried out best to get the vehicle done in the allotted time that we had.
When I first saw the vehicle it was very clean, just swirled. When it came time to detailing it, the poor car had little brown dots ALL OVER the paint. This must have been tree deposits. They were all over the car and the clay bar was extremely slow to remove them. The average vehicle of this size takes about 1.5-2 hours to wash and clay bar...This one took 3.5 hours. This was because we had to actually run our hands over the surface of the paint to identify the "dots" then pick them off (very carefully), then run the clay bar on top to remove the remaining deposit.
Can you see the dots:
Today the sun was playing hide and seek but I managed to get a few before shots:
After the wash and clay barring, the following was performed:
-SIP with a pfw via rotary
-106ff with a blue css pad
-ipa wipedown
-duragloss aquawax (We were really pressed for time so this was all we could muster as the owner had to leave)
Here are some after polishing shots (please excuse some of the excess oils on the paint as the ipa was not performed yet, the sun was going down so I took some shots before it was too late):
All done (Remeber those wetsanding-look-a-like marks) The vehicle was brushed by somebody and it hadn't been repaired. It was correctly nicely, with 98% of it gone, but I FORGOT to take a picture of the exact area. It was next to the M Logo on the passenger side though:
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Onto the e46 M3...
When I first saw the vehicle it was very clean, just swirled. When it came time to detailing it, the poor car had little brown dots ALL OVER the paint. This must have been tree deposits. They were all over the car and the clay bar was extremely slow to remove them. The average vehicle of this size takes about 1.5-2 hours to wash and clay bar...This one took 3.5 hours. This was because we had to actually run our hands over the surface of the paint to identify the "dots" then pick them off (very carefully), then run the clay bar on top to remove the remaining deposit.
Can you see the dots:
Today the sun was playing hide and seek but I managed to get a few before shots:
After the wash and clay barring, the following was performed:
-SIP with a pfw via rotary
-106ff with a blue css pad
-ipa wipedown
-duragloss aquawax (We were really pressed for time so this was all we could muster as the owner had to leave)
Here are some after polishing shots (please excuse some of the excess oils on the paint as the ipa was not performed yet, the sun was going down so I took some shots before it was too late):
All done (Remeber those wetsanding-look-a-like marks) The vehicle was brushed by somebody and it hadn't been repaired. It was correctly nicely, with 98% of it gone, but I FORGOT to take a picture of the exact area. It was next to the M Logo on the passenger side though:
Onto the e46 M3...
