This saw a trip out to a BMW garage in Bristol as Jon (DW member m33porsche) recently purchased this BMW 650i and wanted it looking its best before he collected it. The car is only a year old but was very swirled with lots of RDS. Due to the colour of car I struggled to capture the swirls and I gave up trying in the end. The vehicle in total recieved 21 hours of work put into it. Before we start I would just like to remind members never to let the dealership wash or prep your car as you will get this probably at most dealerships Vehicle on arrival: First up was to clean the wheels using P21S wheel gel and an assortment of brushes. Then vehicle was soaked in P21S TAW and then given a wash using a Lambswool washmit and Megs Shampoo plus using TBM. Vehicle was clayed with Sonus green Plates removed in preparation for Jon's private plate sticky tape removed with Tardis Some of the defects present: Some wet sanding marks left behind This is the best shot I could get of the swirls but doesnt really highlight how bad they were After trying several combos I settled on using 3m FCP on a 3m cutting pad. Not many correction shots due to fact it was hard to capture the defects due to colour of vehicle. Before After Before After Also some areas required wet sanding using 2000 & 4000 grit After all correction was carried out the vehicle was refined using Menz 85rd on a Megs Finishing pad. Paintwork was then given a IPA wipe down in preparation for 3 coats of Zaino Z2 with ZFX, 1 coat of Zaino CS and a final wipe down with Zaino Z8. Wheels were cleaned with Zaino AIO and 2 coats of Zaino Z2 and tryes dressed with 2 coats of Zaino Z16. Arches dressed with Megs All season dressing and exhausts polished with Autosol Glass cleaned with AG glass polish and sealed with Carlack Leather was cleaned and conditioned with Zaino. All plastics and vinyl cleaned with Einszett Cockpit Premuim Before After Before After All carpets and floor matts cleaned with APC and fabric guarded with 303 Before After Engine bay dressed with Swissvax Pneu Some finished shots As always thanks for looking
nice work !! any thoughts on zaino's leather cleaner/conditioner? i've been thinking about the two for a while. i just have'nt pulled the trigger yet.. looks like a nice job on the interior
Wow great job there Jayplay, vehicle looks incredible :applause: I've always been curious about the UK vehicles and having the steering wheel on the right side :thinking: Any who, vehicle looks great :applause:
:nod: you bet they will, Rich, owner of Polished Bliss is a great guy to deal with. I've ordered from him several times...oh by the way Ben from Rubbish Boy (sponsor here) has the exact same tool and his shipping is incredibly fast :nod:
Gorgeous work, looking good in the showroom! Love the pic of the chap washing the 3-seris with a broom...
Trim paint for the scuffs that didn't come out on the lower half of the seat plastic, not that its necessary, just a thought
Great work! Man I love this color on the 6-series, stratus metallic I believe from the photos? Looks amazing! Oh, and I can tell you exactly what the process is for BMW prep work and washing, I worked at the downtown Chicago BMW center (Perillo). Step one, rinse car and clean rims with brushes and heavily soiled "soap" water (it's pitch black water). Step two, take community brush and do back windows + lower half of vehicle. This will drive you nuts: all specialty vehicles were handwashed with the same exact brush ON THE ENTIRE VEHICLE, not just the bottom half! Can you say DESTRUCTION!? I've seen Alpina B7's and Alpina Z8's destroyed by this step. Step three for non priority cars is take the car and drive it in a community small automatic wash system with car wash "soft touch" brushes. Afterwords, vehicles are dried by hand using 4 community chamois (these 4 chamois, which are often dropped and thrown around like footballs by a bunch of goofballs messing around...are used to dry the 120+ cars a day, and are seldom rinsed besides wringing them out). Thank god at least the door jambs are not touched at all! This is considered a "courtesy" wash. But the problem is the customer does not care enough to require dealerships to consider more safer method of washing/cleaning. The emphasis is on speed, not quality, again 120+ cars are were washed daily at the downtown Chicago center...so the employees are not trained in proper car care, it's really not the employees fault, and I wouldn't go so far as to put ALL the blame on the dealership (definitely most of the blame though), but the average customer doesn't know a thing about detailing to make them change their process. Very little complaints were filed, and RARELY a car was notified to not be touched by the porters. The detailing section took more "safer" approach, but still use community brushes and the automatic wash before claying and polishing. Sorry to hi-jack the thread, but I couldn't help myself when I saw the first picture, just reminds me of what I saw daily! :crash:
