Horizon Detailing - 2003 Laguna Seca M3

[Darkstar752]

Hey guys,

Got a chance to detail a rare Laguna Seca Blue M3 this weekend, amazing car and color to work on! The DSLR even had a hard time catching the true beauty of it, but the pics will have to do Let me know if you have any comments/questions/PM's

Car was had 80,000 miles and showed it, took ~17 hours


Upon arrival, this customer drove 1.5 hours to have me detail it so it was pretty dirty:

Started with the rims, just a quick clean as they were gonna be replaced in the next month:

Bugs got their pre-soak with APC:

Car was then foamed, twice:

Fresh bar of Riccardo was chosen:

Car was pretty contaminated, after 1 panel:

Washer jet cover removed to clean under it:

Clean:

Surgery Prep:

Let's see what the paint looks like, Swirl-maina/hologram combo package :facepalm:

Even the dim lightbulb on the side shows significant marring:

First paint reading. Avg was in the 90's/low 100's, range from 82-120.

Only 50/50's I took, was pressed for time. This was after the first hit of P203, followed up with 106FA but can only see that in the afters.

This panel had the deepest scratches/thin paint, got about 85% correction, other panels with more paint I was able to get to 98-100%

Some kind of etching:

Etching removed:

 

[Darkstar752]

Black keyhole:

10 painstaking minutes and many Q-tips later...

Polished hard till bout midnight, snapped a pic and hit the hay to wake up early the next morning as I had another client coming mid-day:

Started the next morning with the mats, 50/50 of the front ones:

Driver's after extraction:

Steamed the entire interior, after pic of the M pedals:

Sills before/after:

Smoking vents

Interior after:

At this point the 2nd client, visible in the background, showed up so I shuffled the cars around a bit and did an IPA wipedown and pulled it out into the sun to inspect the polishing job up to this point, most of it was done, still a couple areas needed it(roof,bumpers). As you can see, quarterpanels came out close to 100, hood about 90some%. Paint is still naked. :

Finished it up, put 2 coats of Powerlock on, 24 hrs apart as I had the car for 3 days. Still needed undercarriage spray, applied later. Final sun pics:

Exhaust tips shining again, insides have some water condensation:

Thanks for viewing! Questions/Comments welcome

 

[Rocket]

Nice work. I've only seen that color in person once and it is pretty cool