2011 BMW 535. The owner bought this car at the same place as the owner of the black M37x I posted last week (they are coworkers) and apparently the same hack who "detailed" the M37 did the same ugly things to this 535.
As has been the case with the last several non-jet black BMWs, the paint was brutally hard. Had to step up to a wool pad and it wasn't leaving any haze behind.
Meguiars M100 compound, American Buffing white foamed wool pad, and Rupes 21 Bigfoot DA with lots of slow, heavy pressure passes:
Color is a bit off in the first picture, didn't realize I hadn't taken an after of the trunk lid with my camera but I did take one with my cell phone...
ONR Wash, Opti-Raser mild to clay
Meguiars M100 using an American Buffing white foamed wool pad, Rupes 21 DA polisher
Optimum Hyper Polish using an Optimum MF cutting pad and Rupes DA
Optimum Opti-Seal
Armor All on tires/wheel wells
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2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee. I see this one 4-5 times a year, as an incentive, the company the owner works for has their top employees cars washed and waxed. Nothing fancy, ONR wash and Opti-Seal. Anyway, the owner has sanded and polished his headlights a couple times but the oxidation comes back pretty quickly, plus by hand he really can't polish out the sanding marks as well as he'd like. Since he has several wash and wax jobs in the bank so to speak, he used one of them to do his headlights when we were out doing the wash and waxes last week.
To those who haven't used Optimum Lens Coating, its very apparent when you apply it. There appears to be noticeable thickness added to the headlights.
Before:
Meguiars M100 using an American Buffing white foamed wool pad, Rupes 21 DA polisher
Optimum Hyper Polish using an Optimum MF cutting pad and Rupes DA
ONR wash to remove any polish residue left behind
Optimum Lens Coating
As has been the case with the last several non-jet black BMWs, the paint was brutally hard. Had to step up to a wool pad and it wasn't leaving any haze behind.
Meguiars M100 compound, American Buffing white foamed wool pad, and Rupes 21 Bigfoot DA with lots of slow, heavy pressure passes:
Color is a bit off in the first picture, didn't realize I hadn't taken an after of the trunk lid with my camera but I did take one with my cell phone...
ONR Wash, Opti-Raser mild to clay
Meguiars M100 using an American Buffing white foamed wool pad, Rupes 21 DA polisher
Optimum Hyper Polish using an Optimum MF cutting pad and Rupes DA
Optimum Opti-Seal
Armor All on tires/wheel wells
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2001 Jeep Grand Cherokee. I see this one 4-5 times a year, as an incentive, the company the owner works for has their top employees cars washed and waxed. Nothing fancy, ONR wash and Opti-Seal. Anyway, the owner has sanded and polished his headlights a couple times but the oxidation comes back pretty quickly, plus by hand he really can't polish out the sanding marks as well as he'd like. Since he has several wash and wax jobs in the bank so to speak, he used one of them to do his headlights when we were out doing the wash and waxes last week.
To those who haven't used Optimum Lens Coating, its very apparent when you apply it. There appears to be noticeable thickness added to the headlights.
Before:
Meguiars M100 using an American Buffing white foamed wool pad, Rupes 21 DA polisher
Optimum Hyper Polish using an Optimum MF cutting pad and Rupes DA
ONR wash to remove any polish residue left behind
Optimum Lens Coating
