Petrucci Detailed: 1995 BMW Avus M3

[Petrucci_M3]

Petrucci Detailed: 1995 BMW Avus M3



Wash:

Chemical Guys Citrus Wash & Gloss

Chemical Guys Heavy Duty Bucket

Grit Guard

Chemical Guys Super Fluffy Mitt

Gilmour Foam Gun



Clayed:

Meguiar’s Medium clay

Chemical Guys Synthetic Quick Detailer



Paint Correction:

Flex 3403 rotary

3M Backing Plate

Gloss-it 3 inch Backing Plate

Menzerna 85RD

Menzerna Super Intensive Polish

Menzerna Nano Polish

CM5300

Fenix TK10

Orange LC pad

White LC pad

Blue LC pad

Grey LC pad

Detailer Domain Uber Towels

Highline Paint Gauge Meter



Protection:

Jetseal109



LSP:

Pinnacle Souveran



Trim:

Aerospace 303



Glass:

Stoner’s Invisible Glass



Wheels:

EZ Detail Brush

Swissvax Wheel Brush

Chemical Guy’s Grime Reaper

Surfcity Tire Shine





Wash:

Driver Lower Rear Panel - Before:

Driver Lower Rear Panel - After:

Driver Lower Rear Panel - Before:

Driver Lower Rear Panel - After:

Passenger Lower Rear Panel - Before:

Passenger Lower Rear Panel - After:

Passenger Lower Front Panel - Before:

Passenger Lower Front Panel - After:

The roof was a DIY job and after inspecting the area I had to approach this differently than the rest of the body. First off there were spots in the roof showing the OEM blue, this led me to believe that in some areas the paint was thin. So my plan of attack was 1100 rpm (lowest speed on my rotary) on a white pad with 106ff, very carefully. Here are the results, an improvement but nothing I'm pleased with.



Roof - Before:

Roof - After:

If you notice in some of these shots the rear spoiler is full of heavy orange peal and sanding marks. The rear spoiler, rear bumper, side skirts, nosepanel, mirrors and bumper are all the same way in appearance. Since my meter cannot read the levels of microns on these body panels, I had to approach it the same way I did with roof.



Trunk - Before:

Trunk - 50/50:

Trunk - After:

 

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Hood - Before:

Hood 50/50:

Hood - Before:

Hood - After:

Hood - Before:

So again, from this to this



Hood - After:

Passenger Front Fender - After

Passenger Rear - After

Passenger Door - After

Driver Door 50/50:

I pulled the car out to check my work, the following pictures have no LSP at all.





Various Sun Shots:

 

[Petrucci_M3]

Final Shots

 

[vtec92civic]

car looks incredible man! The transformation was just simply amazingly done. Blue's always tend to come out real nice when prepped properly and that you did! Keep up the excellent work.

 

[imported_Todd]

Excellent paint correction!



The paint chipping and the hood and front bumper are horrific, much more than typically seen in E36 M3's I've seen. A bumper respray wound do wonders for the looks.

 

[ocd dave]

Great turn around, beautiful correction!!!!

Gotta love Menzerna!!!

 

[Thomas Dekany]

Simply stunning once again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Love it!

 

[ReLoaDeD BuLLiT]

love that car. amazing turn-around!

 

[MichaelSpoots]

Excellent job returning the gloss to that shot paint!

I did a similar '99 M3 (but convertible) whose paint was very similar, and while the swirls were removed, a lot of that knick-knack chipping action & miniature CC failure whatnot (I don't know what it's called) remained.

That gloss is great!

 

[Petrucci_M3]

car looks incredible man! The transformation was just simply amazingly done. Blue's always tend to come out real nice when prepped properly and that you did! Keep up the excellent work.

Thank you for the kind words

Excellent paint correction!



The paint chipping and the hood and front bumper are horrific, much more than typically seen in E36 M3's I've seen. A bumper respray wound do wonders for the looks.

Over 200k miles for this guy. It needs a respray badly, if I was the owner I would do it for sure. Thanks again!

Great turn around, beautiful correction!!!!

Gotta love Menzerna!!!

Thank you, Merzerna all day long!

Simply stunning once again!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Love it!

Thank you good sir

love that car. amazing turn-around!

Thank you!

Excellent job returning the gloss to that shot paint!

I did a similar '99 M3 (but convertible) whose paint was very similar, and while the swirls were removed, a lot of that knick-knack chipping action & miniature CC failure whatnot (I don't know what it's called) remained.

That gloss is great!

I've noticed that a lot on BMW's (primarly the only cars I do), seems so common .



Thanks again! :2thumbs:

 

[Eisen Hulk]

GREAT save! Those 50/50 shots are unreal.



Those are still great looking cars. I just need an f'ing M3. Haha.

 

[dkblue05]

Amazing turn around!

that blue looks great.



I had to do a double take because of the location of your pics, it looks familiar