Mineral White BMW M3 gets some love - New Car Prep - Xpel Ultimate

Finally with the move to the new shop and all the holiday specials we have been working on I had some time to get some work done on my own car.

I was lucky enough to pick up a 2015 Mineral White M3 without any major imperfections.

Let's start with the interior clean up first.

We pulled out all the wrapper and a few of the decals on the glass. Did a vac and wipe down with a cockpit cleaner, followed by a nice leather cleaning and conditioning to prevent denim transfer. Glass was done as well as door jambs were sealed.

Here is a list of products used on the interior.

1Z einszett Cockpit
Leather Master Strong Cleaner
Leather Master Barrier
Auto Finesse Crystal Glass Cleaner
1Z einszett Gummi Pflege Stift Rubber Care Stick

Tools used
Metro Jumbo Vac n Blow
Uber Leather and Carpet Brush
Uber Microfiber Towels
Uber Microfiber Applicator Pad

Before




Removing the tags and wrapper left in the car






















Leather cleaning and conditioning - even though the car is new I decided to clean with Leather Master Strong Cleaner followed with Leather Master Barrier to do some preventive maintenance to protect the leather from denim transfer.








Door Jambs cleaned and protected - Sonax Polymer Net Shield was used on the jambs


Door seals cleaned and protected with 1Z einszett Gummi - great way to keep them fresh and new as well as during the winter months its keeps your doors from freezing shut.



After shots








Moving on to the exterior prep and Xpel Ultimate installation.

Exterior
- Wheels were cleaned
- Tires were cleaned and dressed up with Adam's Super VRT
- Wheel wells were cleaned up
- Washed with 1Z einszett Glanz Shampoo
- Decon with Sonax Fallout Remover
- NanoSkin AutoScrub Mitt
- Clay
- Door jambs were cleaned up
- Dried
- Masking
- Paint Measurement
- Final Polish - Sonax Perfect Finish 4/6
- Cleaned paint with Menzerna Top Inspection
- Last step - Sonax Polymer Net Shield (will apply a coating when I can put more time on the car)
- Inspection with LED, Fenix and natural sunlight
- Rubber and Plastics Treated
- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned
- Exhaust tips cleaned


Products used:
1Z einszett Glanz Shampoo
Uber Clay Bar
Sonax Fall Out Remover
Auto Finesse Oblitarate
NanoSkin AutoScrub Mitt
Sonax Perfect Finish
Sonax Polymer Net Shield
Adam's Super VRT
Menzerna Top Inspection
Auto Finesse Crystal Glass Cleaner

Tools used
Uber Quick Detail MF Towels
Uber All Purpose MF Towels
Griot's 3 inch Random Orbital Polisher
Rupes BigFoot LHR 21ES Random Orbital Polisher
Rupes BigFoot LHR 15ES Random Orbital Polisher
Uber Buffing Pads
Defelsko Paint Meter
Fenix TK35
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Adam's Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster

Before shots









Wheel cleaning - Sonax Wheel Cleaner Plus and various brushes


Uber Boar's Hair Brush for the lugs


Wheel Woolies for behind the spokes and the first 1/2 of the inner wheel barrels


EZ Detail Brush for the back half of the wheels and in between the calipers and wheels - super tight especially with the stock 19's.


Smaller Wheel Woolies for between the spokes


Adam's Boulder Brush for the face of the wheels - super gentle.


Rinse them off.





Decon with Sonax Fallout Remover (it pulled up quite a bit of iron particles and fallout with only a few hundred miles on it)








After all the decon wash pressure washed off we foam the car





Rinse and blow dry



With the darker/matte wheels I have found we always need to go back and hit them up with a detail spray to ensure they are perfectly clean.


Washed and Dried - next up clay bar



Making sure the car is perfect prior to the Xpel Ultimate Clear Film installation. A good polish with Sonax Perfect Finish and the Rupes LHR21 with Rupes Yellow Pad.


After the complete prep we made sure all the areas that were getting protected with Xpel were cleaned a few times with an IPA wipe down.

Areas being covered - front bumper, full front fenders, full hood, mirrors, headlights, a pillars, front of the roof, door cups, full side skirts, luggage area on the back bumper and behind the rear wheels on the rear bumper.





















Some final touches -
Glass cleaned after the Xpel Ultimate was installed -





Getting the tires cleaned and dressed - using Stoner's Tarminator, Auto Finesse Obilitarate, Adam's Super VRT









No after shots with the stock set up we went to Ben and Mark at Rogue Engineering for some goodies.

Rogue Engineering installed H&R Springs, Rogue Engineering Spacers 12 mm, and Rogue Engineering Stainless Steel Brake Lines

stock


H&R



RE 12MM Spacers Front and Rear



RE SS Lines



Stock




RE SS lines installed


Back at DD it was cleaned it up and took some final shots.

Inside







Outside












Hope you enjoyed it, email me with any questions about this write up or anything else detailed related.

 

Fantastic Write up Phil! I loved the in depth of it!

 

Awesome car phil!!! Kinda sad you didn't get the RS5, but what a great choice!

 

great job excellent boys ....video?

 

Awesome ride. You know I'm gonna ask ... do you still have your swee S4?

 

yes this car will be gone before that 01 ; )

 

thanks! sorry no video, been too busy to get the videos up.

 

thanks!

 

this was the right choice ; )

 

Nice Phil! and congrats!

 

Good stuff Phil, how much did you charge yourself for the job.................... estimated a Yaz Marina Blue M3 tonight so I will see the car in Jan first week love this car.

When are BBS wheels going on?.

 

thanks guys!

Bob you know I'm looking into it but the previous gen e92 comp wheels (style 359) maybe what I want to rock on this one. ; )

I charged myself alot lol

 

Nice!

 

this was good job sonax is the bomb

 

for a brand new car that had a lot iron particles in it woow

 

yes I would agree, we have been doing quite a few new cars with a ton of iron particles in them.

 

With that much being wrapped already, why not just wrap the entire car? lol.

Great work! What foamer was that? Not listed in tools used.

 

we could have wrapped it but it would be much more expensive to do that, also we use the car as a test car for many new products.