imported_Shea Luxury
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Here's my first contribution to the click and brag. My picture taken skills suck and I use a point and shoot that has been dropped a few too many times. Please be gentle. 
This particular detail was very exciting to me because you could see the transformation slowly unravel before my eyes. It's also a black car which is the hardest to work on but the most fun IMHO.
So what we got here is a 1988 BMW M5 which I was told is very rare in the U.S. There are 3 on this island which is known about including this one. The other which never sees the outside world and the last which was seen being driven by an old lady in the Aiea area. That being said I was kinda shock to see the car in that condition. Apparently when they made the move to their present home the garage served as a storage as they were settling in so the cars had to park on the side for some months which got daily showers via lawn sprinklers.
All in all the detail covered the span of 2 days with a total of 12 1/2 hours. I had fun!
Hope you guys like it!
Some before shots.
Partial hood
Passenger door
Passenger rear fender
Passenger front fender
More hood shots before
So the wash was the ussual. All lowers pre treated with Oil Eater Citrus Degreaser and rinsed. Full body soak with CG Citrus Wash & Gloss through Gilmore Foam Gun which was left to dwell for 5 min then pressure washed off. The car was then bathed again using CG CW&G and rinse bucket with grit guard using a Zymol sponge for the upper half and a MF Chenille mitt for the lower half. Rinsed and clayed with Sonus clay and bathed again.
Paint correction was handled by Flex XC3401VRG with LC Wool foam pad and Megs #105 followed by LC CCS Green pad and Menz 106f. For the more intricate areas a MF towel and SIP was used followed with 106f.
Close up shot of the hood after. Scratches and swirls have been leveled of but pitting was too deep for correction. Results were great none the less.
50/50 shot of driver side door. Top half corrected and bottom untouched.
Driver door before
Driver door after
After the paint correction was finished I wanted to give it a layer of DWG using my Flex and LC Black Finishing pad. It was my first try of the DWG and the results were quite nice. Very easy to apply and wipe off. It gave a very nice glow and the reflections were already amazing! the DWG didn't have a cure time in its directions but I tried to let it sit as long as I could let it...maybe like an hour. Then top it off with Swissvax Concorso.
Full hood shot after.
I had to get my mug in here some how!
Passenger side fully corrected
Wheels were cleaned with P21s wheel gel and assortment of brushes and a wheel mit. Tires and wheel wells were scrubbed with purple power and dressed with Swissvax Pneu for the tires and Megs Hyper Dressing 4:1 for the wells.
This particular detail was very exciting to me because you could see the transformation slowly unravel before my eyes. It's also a black car which is the hardest to work on but the most fun IMHO.
So what we got here is a 1988 BMW M5 which I was told is very rare in the U.S. There are 3 on this island which is known about including this one. The other which never sees the outside world and the last which was seen being driven by an old lady in the Aiea area. That being said I was kinda shock to see the car in that condition. Apparently when they made the move to their present home the garage served as a storage as they were settling in so the cars had to park on the side for some months which got daily showers via lawn sprinklers.
All in all the detail covered the span of 2 days with a total of 12 1/2 hours. I had fun!
Hope you guys like it!
Some before shots.
Partial hood
Passenger door
Passenger rear fender
Passenger front fender
More hood shots before
So the wash was the ussual. All lowers pre treated with Oil Eater Citrus Degreaser and rinsed. Full body soak with CG Citrus Wash & Gloss through Gilmore Foam Gun which was left to dwell for 5 min then pressure washed off. The car was then bathed again using CG CW&G and rinse bucket with grit guard using a Zymol sponge for the upper half and a MF Chenille mitt for the lower half. Rinsed and clayed with Sonus clay and bathed again.
Paint correction was handled by Flex XC3401VRG with LC Wool foam pad and Megs #105 followed by LC CCS Green pad and Menz 106f. For the more intricate areas a MF towel and SIP was used followed with 106f.
Close up shot of the hood after. Scratches and swirls have been leveled of but pitting was too deep for correction. Results were great none the less.
50/50 shot of driver side door. Top half corrected and bottom untouched.
Driver door before
Driver door after
After the paint correction was finished I wanted to give it a layer of DWG using my Flex and LC Black Finishing pad. It was my first try of the DWG and the results were quite nice. Very easy to apply and wipe off. It gave a very nice glow and the reflections were already amazing! the DWG didn't have a cure time in its directions but I tried to let it sit as long as I could let it...maybe like an hour. Then top it off with Swissvax Concorso.
Full hood shot after.
I had to get my mug in here some how!
Passenger side fully corrected
Wheels were cleaned with P21s wheel gel and assortment of brushes and a wheel mit. Tires and wheel wells were scrubbed with purple power and dressed with Swissvax Pneu for the tires and Megs Hyper Dressing 4:1 for the wells.
