ScheerSpeed: E92 335i Track car Revived!

this car had some very bad oxidation on the vorsteiner hood and especially the vorsteiner trunklid. it took quite a bit of polishing to remove it all, but the results were amazing!

Wash
-Chemical Guys Citrus Wash
-P21s TAW

Wheels
-P21s Gel
-Ace Powerstick
-EZ Detail Brush
-SV brushes

Clay
-Special yellow poly clay
-ONR lube


Polishing
-Exterior paint
-Meg's M105 / Yellow Uber Pad
-Menzerna SIP / Orange Uber pad
-Menzerna PO85RD Micro Polish / blue Uber pad
-Makita 9227C
-3M Yellow Foam Backing Plate
-1000w halogen lights
-Menzerna Top Inspection
-DD über MF towels
-Racatac

LSP

-Paint
-1Z Glanz Wax

-Wheels
-Poorboy's wheel sealant

Glass
-Adam's Glass Cleaner

Interior
-1Z Cockpit
-Chemical Guy's Leather cleaner
-Leather Masters Vital / Protection
-Adam's Glass Cleaner
-1Z Gummi Pflege

metal
-Optimum Metal Polish
-#0000 steel wool


Before:

In these pictures you can really see how the sun had taken a toll on the carbon fiber parts.


















Here's a scratch from someone keying the car. i used a kit from Dr. Colorchip to fix it, and for my first time using their kit it was a very good product!




and another








back to the before pictures





the clay came out extremely dirty, this picture was after doing the top of the trunklid




For the first attempt to remove the heavy oxidation on the trunklid and hood i tried SIP with an orange pad on the trunklid. in this picture you can see it made a HUGE difference, however after wiping the section down with Menzerna Top Inspection, the surface underneath still was not perfect.

the middle part had not been touched and the two sides were polished.



here you can see after SIP there was still some cloudiness to the finish






thus i decided i needed to go more agressive and use M105 and a yellow Uber cutting pad to get out all the oxidation

here's how the hood looked before polishing it with M105





and after (please dont mind the smear marks from the polishing residue)






a picture of us working







Finished!











Perfect







the result of the touch-up























Finished Engine bay



it took from 8am until 11pm working straight only taking 1 hour off for lunch to complete this detail.

Thanks for looking,
Dom

 

From the pictures I clicked on it looks great. Wish I knew why the pics were that way though with the links instead of the actual image.

 

im trying to figure that out... looks like Flickr isnt going to work out for me.... back to photobucket

 

Still not seeing pics myself, refreshed a few times to no avail.

 

Scheerspeed: you copied the wrong link. When you get into flickr click onto the you tab up top this will take you to your photogallery. Now click on the photo you would like to use and then on top of the photo there's a tab called all size. After clicking that at the top of the picture you would want to click the appropriate size you would like to use (I'd recommend the medium size). After that at the bottom of the screen will be your picture link

 

Forgot to mention I like your 335i :headbang:

 

fixed!

 

Thats an awesome turn around on the carbon fiber parts. The whole car turned out great, I love that color.

 

Florida has some sick spots to do detail work. Almost like the complex has it's own detail bay.

Every time i see vehicles like that with oxidation in my head i know it can come out but i always question it. Just by looking at the pictures of the oxidized Carbon Fiber i would think that it was shot but man it looks good.

You guys did a great job.

 

i detail the car in my "private garage" inside the main building's garage. i keep all my equipment down there as well.

thanks!

 

Fantastic job!

 

wow that's cool stuff man. The place you live at has private garages for rent? Wish they built some of those over here. That is a sweet deal.

 

Great job on the carbon fiber parts!

 

Nice Job! :mounty:

 

Nice job guys. That CF was shot. Excellent job.

 

Great work!

 

So that garage is your? so you own th Ferrari?

Nice work BTW!

 

well i live in a townhouse that is separate from the main building, and all the townhouses get a separate garage that leads directly into your house

 

Wow that is a nice job on that BMW

 

thanks everyone!