Monte Carlo Blue BMW M5 - Detailed by Lawrence

**LawrenceSA** · 11-20-2014, 01:08 AM

Well....its bigger than I thought it would be. I reckon the bonnet is the single biggest panel I have polished to date

But with good reason obviously... the 4.4l twin turbo V8 making 560 HP. The owner was gracious enough to allow me to take it for a drive when he collected it on Sunday evening (my deepest thanks again bud :hug: ) and its quite astonishing how the quickly near 2 tons can be hurled at the horizon

So early on Saturday morning I pulled the car out the garage and managed to snap a few pictures.

The paint was in much better shape than his Alpine White M3 I did last weekend http://www.autopia.org/forums/click-...-lawrence.html but was definitely in need of some love.

The boot lid did however did have a rather nasty scratch in it

So after getting set up and ready to start cleaning the wheels, mother nature decided it was time we experienced some rather ridiculous wind....something we hardly ever get in my part of the world... add this to the behemoth that lay before more, it was head down and no more pics for a while.

I did manage to capture some bleeding on the wheels - everyone loves a bleeding pic

So here is what happened before the camera came back out again.

Arches, Tires, Wheels
-HP rinse arches, tires and wheels.
-Clean arches with a prototype APC, which even in its developmental stages, creates a long lasting better dwelling foam that rinses away easier, and cleans better, than my current go-to APC, using a Mothers Fenderwell Brush
-HP rinse
-Clean tires with Meguiars All Wheel and Tire Cleaner and a Mothers Tire brush.
-HP rinse
-Repeat tire cleaning
-HP rinse
-Wash wheels and brake calipers with VP Bilberry Wheel Cleaner @ 1:6, Daytona and Daytona Jnr brushes and Valet Pro Boars Hair Brushes
-HP rinse
-Dry
-Remove tar using Autoglym Intensive Tar Remover
-Spray with APC and HP Rinse
-Dry
-Remove bonded and embedded ferrous contaminants on wheels and brake calipers with Valet Pro Dragon`s Breath Daytona and Daytona Jnr brushes and Valet Pro Boars Hair Brushes
-HP Rinse + flood rinse
-The faces of the wheels were then polished using a MF Applicator pad and Mothers Power Metal
-Later the tires would be dressed with Optimum Optibond and the rest of the wheels sealed with Menzerna Powerlock and the arches dressed using Shield Sheen

Engine bay
-Blow loose dust off with compressor
-Clean with APC, MF Towels and various Brushes
-Clean/Polish/Protect (AIO) using AF Tripple by hand, and using the Shield DA with 4" LC White pads
-Plastics dressed with Shield Sheen

Exhaust Tips
-Cleaned using APC, MF towels and various brushes
-Polished and protected using Mothers Power Metal

Wash
-HP rinse
-Applied Valet Pro Citrus Pre-wash via a spray bottle, left to dwell
-HP rinse
-Applied Valet Pro ANSF via a MTM Hydro, left to dwell
-HP rinse
-2BM wash using lambswool wash mitts and the same shampoo I was busy testing last weekend. I am liking it a little more :thumbup:
-HP rinse
-Flood Rinse
-Dried using ONR and WW drying towels

Decontamination
-Tar removed using Autoglym Intensive Tar Remover
-Iron removed using Valet Pro Dragon`s Breath
-Remaining contamination was clayed off using Shield Heavy Duty clay with ONR as lube.

Paint correction
-Paint readings (avg 105µ on the Ferrous panels / avg 72µ on the Aluminium panels)
-Flex 3401 / Menzerna SF4000 / 5.5" Tangerine Lake White Pads.

I managed to get the car outside in a brief moment of sunshine

Paint protection
-Soft 99 Fusso Coat Dark

Interior
-Vacuumed
-Seats cleaned with APC then protected with Collinte 855
-Plastics and dash cleaned with APC then given a final wipe using Autofinesse Spritz

Glass
-Glossworx Glass Cleaner

Door rubbers, window rubbers, exterior plastic trim
- Cleaned using Shield Heavy Duty Vinyl and Rubber Cleaner
- Protected using Aerospace 303.

By the time all of that was completed on Sunday afternoon I put 28 hours into the detail.

But the wind was still howling like crazy so I wasn`t prepared to take the car out to get pictures and have it covered in dust before the owner got to see it.

So this is all I managed to snap in the way of afters, mostly just with my cell phone

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