Getting a White car to shine like this..

[jrsb1418]

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How this late 90's corolla?? This is just after a little UC treatment before LSP

[aaronsteven]

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Really loved reading this thread and most of all Mike coming your home and helping you, been an incredible thing that happened. Wish such a honor I get atleast in my dreams!

[Bjkearns]

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This should be good
I will make a new thread as things get going
I drop my car off at the shipper on the 26th

[Yosheego]

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nj and gratz. (thumbs up)

[theeng]

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WOW! This was an awesome thread to read. Joseph, first congratulations on having your BMW chosen for the photo shoot, and second what an honor it must have been to have Mike come to your house to help you prep the beamer. I wish I were you! NICE!

[Bjkearns]

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Wow Joseph you're lucky to receive some help and training from Mike!! I wish I lived close too!

Marc, I agree 100%
training and expertise are invaluable
I am going to see if I can make it out with the team to hopefully a couple events

Mike, we are going to need to have you and your wife over for dinner when you get an evening free as a Thank you

[Michael Stoops]

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Then it was time for lunch
the parantal's cooked up some BBQ chicken,salad,pineapple, and sweet potato fry's

After lunch we put on a coat of M21 applied via DA and finishing pads
wiped this off and called it a day

The highlight of the day, actually!! This was quite a treat as the food was just fantastic, and the hospitality matched it! A huge thanks to your family for making me feel so welcome.

[Marc08EX]

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Wow Joseph you're lucky to receive some help and training from Mike!! I wish I lived close too!

[Bjkearns]

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Mike once again, Thank you so much for your help and also the 1 on 1 training

The car was selected to go up to Laguna Seca for the launch of the new BMW 3 series
Thus the reason I wanted to make it as good as it can get

http://my-3-series-star.kellz.com/My_3_Series_Star.html

That is going to be alot of fun but it VERY quickly approaching
It is getting dropped off at the hauler company on the afternoon of the 26th

It is pretty much going to be a shoot like this expect better because it is at Laguna Seca

http://www.bmwblog.com/2012/01/13/the-“face“-of-the-bmw-3-series-through-changing-times/

This car is indeed my daily driver and is really under cover when I am twisting wrenches
It spent a good majority of its life in a garage but for the past 4 years it has been outside

I started the process off by stripping ALL the previous layers of M21 that were on the car
started with a Dawn wash and then upped it to this
that was the first time I had ever used this product on a large scale WOW
stripped the wax and really cleaned deep

http://www.detailing.com/store/3m-adhesive-and-wax-remover-12oz-aerosol.html

The process started by Mike breaking out the thickness gauge and taking readings
I broke out the 7424,speed 5,5" correction disks and the D300 and did the entire car
Mike followed me around the car with the Flex,finishing pad and 205

I did indeed recently pickup some M07 from the guys at the super close Detailing.com
It was pretty much bought with the intention of using it for this prep
We were really amazed at just how the M07 reacted with the paint
put the moisture and and really made this single stage white paint pop
this was my first time using M07 and I must say this paint loved it
I will be used on a pretty regular basis
hides a little bit but the biggest thing is the pop and the moisture

Then it was time for lunch
the parantal's cooked up some BBQ chicken,salad,pineapple, and sweet potato fry's

After lunch we put on a coat of M21 applied via DA and finishing pads
wiped this off and called it a day

Helped Mike pack up his gear into his mild yet Wild PT and then cleaned up the garage

The car did indeed receive a second coating of M21 on last night
pulled it into the garage
wipe it down with Last Touch
waxed with DA with the 6.5" finishing pad
primed a towel with a bit of Last Touch
removed 21 on the paint
then wrapped it up by doing a final hand buffing of the paint with a towel that was sprayed pretty liberally with D156

The results speak for themselves
the paint prep was indeed a success
Mike, thank you so much for your help
That really meant alot to me that you offered to help

O ya, PS the lady walking by and drinking some random cleaner is not at all normal
first time that has ever happened to me lol




I do all my shopping at Detailing.com and there the sky is the limit in terms of products
I have tried quite a few other brands through samples I receive on a pretty regular basis
Mothers,Surf City,Aero,Adams to name a few

Meguiar's is a company that has sealed the deal for me,my car, and my budget
Thursday evenings,Saturday Classes,Customer service,and the overall company and atmosphere
The products can only do so much it is the people and company that back them up what makes me return and swipe the card

[Michael Stoops]

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Unfortunately, Joseph's pictures of his '93 BMW 3 Series don't really show the true shine of this car. He had asked me to take a look at the finish on his car and make some recommendations, but since he lives pretty close to me I offered to come by on Saturday and help him out. This is original, 1993 vintage, factory single stage white paint folks! For being 19 years old it not only looks really good, it is downright amazing. Yes, there are some deeper rids in this paint that would probably take some wet sanding to remove, but we weren't going to get that deep into this project. The car is, after all, a daily driver.

Close inspection of the paint revealed a lot of water spots and fine swirls down the sides of the vertical panels and some light swirling and oxidation throughout the finish. All in all, it looked fairly fantastic for it's age, but we knew it could look quite a bit better. Some quick experimentation showed that the DA Microfiber Correction System was going to be the ticket, at least for part of the job. D300 on the cutting disc removed the water spots and fine swirls, but it left a very noticeable haze to the paint. That haze cleaned up pretty easily, and since Joseph wanted to really take this paint up a big notch, we decided that he would D300 it with his DA and I would follow with M205 via rotary on a foam finishing pad. The result was fantastic, and in pretty short order, too.

So Joseph then says that he's recently acquired some M07 Show Car Glaze and was interested in using it on this car. Now, the general consensus is that pure polishes on very light colored cars don't really show a whole lot, but we decided to give it a bit of a go anyway. Besides, the paint felt pretty dry as we were working on it so this certainly wasn't going to hurt anything. We must say, however, that we were very pleasantly surprised at just how much more glow and shine the paint had following an application of M07! Finally topping it with M21 really sealed the deal (pun intended). Joseph, we're hoping you followed through and gave the car a second coat of M21 sometime on Sunday?????

[mb911]

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White paint can look INCREDIBLE on a car with beautiful lines. It really shows off every curve.

The only time it doesn't look good is if a car's shape is really ugly (shows all those curves) or black primer is showing through from chips/scuffs.

Otherwise, it sure looks striking like these videos and images.


Bjkearns - Did you use microfiber pad with the compound? Did you use microfiber with the M205 too, or a foam pad?

[Bjkearns]

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They say white is boring
I say it is clean,classy, and always in style

This is a single stage white German paint on a car that is quickly approaching 2 decades old and has over 110,XXX



before any 21 was applied
sorry about the picture quality
hack with a point and shoot,cloudy day and dying camera battery

[Bjkearns]

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it should be real nice

[Yosheego]

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Looking forward to the results!

[Bjkearns]

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Tomorrow my white paint is going to the next level

someone very well known is going to be coming over to the house and we are going to work the paint