Detailer's Domain: Hired to fix another CPO'd BMW - this time a 750 M Sport

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Detailer's Domain: Hired to fix another CPO'd BMW - this time a 750 M Sport



We had yet another customer pick up a CPO'd BMW, this one had a good amount of paint correction.

Take a look at the before and see the transformation.



Exterior



- Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes

- Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down

- Wheel wells were cleaned up

- Washed with Adam's Car Wash

- Decon with Wolf's Decon Gel

- Wash down and rinsed

- Door jambs were cleaned up

- Nano Scrub AutoScrub

- Dried

- Tires dressed

- Masking

- Paint Measurement

- Compound - Menzerna FG400

- Final Polish - Sonax Nano Polish

- Last step - Auto Finesse Desire

- Inspection with Fenix, Brinkmann, and natural sunlight

- Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed

- Rubber and Plastics Treated

- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed

- Exhaust tips cleaned

- Windows were auto scrubed, cleaned, and sealed



Products used



Links to products used -



Adam's Car Wash

Wolf's Decon Gel - Iron Remover

Stoner's Tarminator

Adam's All Purpose Cleaner

Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner

NanoSkin AutoScrub System

Menzerna FG400

Sonax Nano Polish 3/6

Auto Finesse Desire Premium Carnauba Wax

Adam's Super VRT

Auto Finesse Crystal Glass Cleaner

Auto Finesse Mercury Metal Polish



Tools used

Uber Wool Wash Mitt

Uber No Name MF Towels

Griot's 6 inch Random Orbital Polisher

Rupes LHR75

Rupes BigFoot LHR 21ES Random Orbital Polisher

Rupes BigFoot LHR 15ES Random Orbital Polisher

Uber Buffing Pads

Defelsko Paint Meter

Fenix TK35

Brinkmann

Kranzle Pressure Washer

Uber Foam Canon

2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies

Adam's Firehose Nozzle

Metro Air Force Blaster



Before - as you can see some pretty bad swirls, holograms, scratches on the paint, buffer trails, water spots



























































Prep - Wheels and Tires, Decon, Nanoskin Auto Scrub, Wash



Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner

 

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Stoner's Tarminator was used to remove the leftover adhesive from the wheel weights







Wheel Woolies to get the hard to reach areas







Foaming







We have been using the Rupes BigFoot with much success at the shop.





Before and after of the correction process



Close ups of the imperfections around the car









B pillars

Before





After





Around the door handles





After





Rear fender





After





Rear door







After





Close up





50/50 shots









Final Rinse to remove all the compounding and polishing dust.

















Afters























I hope you enjoyed it.

 

[DaGonz]

Now that BMW is the way it should be! Nice work!

 

[RoccoVA]

Beautiful afters, and great color! What a turn around!!

 

[hotrodtodd]

What kind of light is that on the stand? I've been looking everywhere for one just like that.

 

[hkpinc]

Good turnaround. Thanks for the links to the products/tools you used.

 

[PhatHoodDetail]

nice job. did I see 3 audi's next in line??