Okay here’s a very interesting story; Car got detailed twice at the dealership. It then went to a performance shop where, as you might imagine, got damaged, mostly on the front-end of the car but because of all the dust and stuff, you just need to touch the car to induce micro-swirls and stuff.
Car finally got detailed and bumper got painted twice because the job wasn’t nice at a body shop that I won’t name not to get into the bashing sh*t we saw lately. The owner said I was his last resort, if I can’t do it right, he’s repainting the whole car! So here I come.. to finally show him that a good detailer can actually give a second life to his 23k km bmw.
Process:
This is a showroom correction. This means that cost is not a factor, we simply do the best we can, no matter what times it takes and cost.
I started by doing a 5-step polishing (from compound to jewelling) and I put the car in the sun and…. Welllllll I wasn’t happy! Boys! So many RIDS! I had to redo a 3-step polishing but this time I tried the MF system and it did well to really remove another couples of microns to level these deep scratches to show a nice finish.
So basically, I did a 8-step polishing whatsoever. I also had to wet-sand the roof.
1 coat of Swissvax Cleaner fluid
And 4 coat of Raceglaze Special reserve made for me, Waxxon Spa automobile.
1) Engine bay:
These items are suppose to be brand new but for some reasons, I guess they were left on the floor without microfiber to protect the finish:
Polishing the scratch on both the strut bar, engine cover and under the hood:
Waxing with Hi-temp wax + black label
Trim were treated for a darker look:
Also waxed:
2) Some random pictures of me cleaning the car, see how important theses brushes are for a complete clean-up.
3) Paint before: here’s how the paint looked before
Paint reading was pretty uniform on all panels. Considering most bmw reads from 120 to 160 from factory, I’m wondering what the 3 other details looked like ? only a glaze or a light polish ? Because the reading looked like a factory paint reading without correction whatsoever. I mean if a car get detailed third, I could expect maybe 110 microns panels but I didn’t.
Taped the whole car:
So here I wanted to showcase what a compound is.. Unfortunately, most people use the term ‘’Compound’’ to say they want a polish or a wax applied to their car. I would like to be clear once for all, a compound is VERY abrasive and leave an ugly finish to the car! Every week I get asked, how much for a compound? 99% of the time, the person meant a polish or sometimes it was only a wash and wax.
So I took this car to demonstrate you what a compound really looked like: On the left, you have the actual condition of the car and on the right, you have the compound.
Sure there’s no scratch or swirls but that’s because the whole panel is hazed and ugly haha! So the ugly look is somewhat more uniform on the panel, but look closely, you will clearly look that the left side has way more gloss and definition to it.
So what happens is when the compounding step is done, we need to do more polishing step with lesser abrasive paste to get back the same level of gloss we had on the left side but WITHOUT the swirls and scratches.
After a couple of polish step, I came down to this:
Now, see the difference? A picture is worth 1000 words here.
And at this stage, I still wasn’t 100% happy with the result:
So I redid the step with another system and end up with that:
Now, we’re talking guys!
Here’s some after-after:
Car finally got detailed and bumper got painted twice because the job wasn’t nice at a body shop that I won’t name not to get into the bashing sh*t we saw lately. The owner said I was his last resort, if I can’t do it right, he’s repainting the whole car! So here I come.. to finally show him that a good detailer can actually give a second life to his 23k km bmw.
Process:
This is a showroom correction. This means that cost is not a factor, we simply do the best we can, no matter what times it takes and cost.
I started by doing a 5-step polishing (from compound to jewelling) and I put the car in the sun and…. Welllllll I wasn’t happy! Boys! So many RIDS! I had to redo a 3-step polishing but this time I tried the MF system and it did well to really remove another couples of microns to level these deep scratches to show a nice finish.
So basically, I did a 8-step polishing whatsoever. I also had to wet-sand the roof.
1 coat of Swissvax Cleaner fluid
And 4 coat of Raceglaze Special reserve made for me, Waxxon Spa automobile.
1) Engine bay:
These items are suppose to be brand new but for some reasons, I guess they were left on the floor without microfiber to protect the finish:
Polishing the scratch on both the strut bar, engine cover and under the hood:
Waxing with Hi-temp wax + black label
Trim were treated for a darker look:
Also waxed:
2) Some random pictures of me cleaning the car, see how important theses brushes are for a complete clean-up.
3) Paint before: here’s how the paint looked before
Paint reading was pretty uniform on all panels. Considering most bmw reads from 120 to 160 from factory, I’m wondering what the 3 other details looked like ? only a glaze or a light polish ? Because the reading looked like a factory paint reading without correction whatsoever. I mean if a car get detailed third, I could expect maybe 110 microns panels but I didn’t.
Taped the whole car:
So here I wanted to showcase what a compound is.. Unfortunately, most people use the term ‘’Compound’’ to say they want a polish or a wax applied to their car. I would like to be clear once for all, a compound is VERY abrasive and leave an ugly finish to the car! Every week I get asked, how much for a compound? 99% of the time, the person meant a polish or sometimes it was only a wash and wax.
So I took this car to demonstrate you what a compound really looked like: On the left, you have the actual condition of the car and on the right, you have the compound.
Sure there’s no scratch or swirls but that’s because the whole panel is hazed and ugly haha! So the ugly look is somewhat more uniform on the panel, but look closely, you will clearly look that the left side has way more gloss and definition to it.
So what happens is when the compounding step is done, we need to do more polishing step with lesser abrasive paste to get back the same level of gloss we had on the left side but WITHOUT the swirls and scratches.
After a couple of polish step, I came down to this:
Now, see the difference? A picture is worth 1000 words here.
And at this stage, I still wasn’t 100% happy with the result:
So I redid the step with another system and end up with that:
Now, we’re talking guys!
Here’s some after-after:
