Detailed: 2004 BMW M3 in Carbon Black

[dnoraker]

Re: Detailed: 2004 BMW M3 in Carbon Black

One would think that BMW could paint a car decent, considering other German (Audi and VW) paint jobs are pretty amazing from what I've seen.

Great gloss and reflectivity, nonetheless!

[CieraSL]

Re: Detailed: 2004 BMW M3 in Carbon Black

Excellent job! Nice work!

[Tuck91]

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awesome work, That BMW is looking its best.

[CreamPuff]

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I want to see pics of the blue m3 in the back!

[Eddie6th]

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Anyone know why I'm not seeing any pics here?I can see them on other threads except these two?

[thechamp]

Re: Detailed: 2004 BMW M3 in Carbon Black

Thanks!

The orange peel is consistent with other BMWs I've worked on. The trunk lid is a different story because it is a respray and the orange peel is worse than the rest of the car.

[Firstson]

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Gorgeous car, i can't believe how much orange peel there is on a beamer, kinda ridiculous. But its some freaking clear orange peel lol.

Peace

[J. A. Michaels]

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Excellent work. The clarity of the paint is fantastic. The flake really pops. Great work.

[thechamp]

I detailed this 04 M3 this first weekend of June. The car arrived clean but with swirls and left even cleaner. The car has a lot of swirls, some deeper scratches but mostly in good shape.

The owner's primary concern is the swirls. Because the car is driven daily, I'm aiming for 80% correction and leave as much clear coat as possible.

The car has a layer of synthetic wax (Prima Epic), and topped with Prima Banana Gloss for added warmth.

Tools and products used:
Lake Country orange, white, and black pads
Prima Swirl, Amigo, Epic, Hydro, and Banana Gloss
Makita 9227C and Porter Cable 7464
Lots of MF towels.
Lexol Leather Cleaner & Conditioner
Meguiar's Last Touch
Meguiar's Hyper Dressing
Meguiar's All Purpose Cleaner Plus
Meguiar's Hot Rims Mag & Aluminum Polish for the exhaust tips
Stoner's Invisible Glass
Black Wow for the badly faded plastic trims. This is my go to product for severely faded plastics.
Steel wool #0000 to clean the inside of the exhaust tips.
Good ol' water that California is running out of.

The interior was in a good shape. I cleaned the radio, cup holders, brushed the steering wheel to restore the tri-color stitches, brushed all the vents, vacuumed the interior and apply Lexol to all leather surfaces. The driver's seat looked a little shiny and Lexol brought back the matte color.

The engine bay was completely detailed and dressed with Hyper Dressing and Black Wow.

The gas door has some very sticky residue and it was cleaned almost completely.

It took me about 18 hours to complete this car. There's no sun almost the entire weekend so it's difficult to get the sparkly shine of the metallic paint.

On to the pics.
Before:
Am I done here? I haven't even started.






Swirls:




Gas door:


Cleaned:


Afters. Pardon the dust on some of the pics. Most of the pics below are before dusting and wax.







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Look ma, no swirls!