2004 Jet Black M3 Ultima`d; hacked by dealer...

[countrysquire]

I was contacted by M3forum.net forum member migstwo (Harold) and he was wanting to get his M3 polished. He told me that she was in need of some love so we set up a date and today was the day. After I washed the car we looked over it in full sun and it was obvious that some inexperienced hack ran his rotary over it. We pulled it in the garage and after I clayed I began to try out different pads and products. After trying a few different combinations I was getting the best results from Menzerna IP and Orange pad. I went over the whole car twice with Menzerna IP and orange pad and then finished her off with Menzerna 106FF and green pad. Although I did not get the cars paint 100% (it could take another 10 hours of polishing) I believe that I made great improvement and that it is 95% swirl free. I used Ultima PGP for the LSP. Unfortunately after I finished the sun was down behind the house so I could not capture the final look very good! But I am really, really liking Ultima PGP. It takes less than 10 minutes to apply and if you apply thinly you will have no streaking. When we pulled the car out it was much wetter than what is showing in the pictures and was extremely slick. The one thing I like to do after the Ultima has dried is to go over it with Ultima’s detail spray and it seems to sharpen everything up a bit. It was an exterior only detail and took 8 hours.

Enjoy the pics...





P21s Wheel Gel

P21s Total Auto Wash

Ultima Shampoo

Four Star Tire Gel

Wheels sealed with Opti-Seal

Sonus Green Clay

Menzerna IP Orange Pad

Menzerna 106FF Green Pad

Ultima Quick Detailer Wipe Down

Ultima PGP







BEFORE-

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AFTER-

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AFTER-

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50/50



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BEFORE-

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AFTER-

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BEFORE-

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AFTER-



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[baseballlover1]

looks good bro!

[PTJD]

Nice work!

[Jake11375]

Nice job...

[2000firebird]

wow i`d make the dealer foot the bill for that one.

[kennysride]

Very impressive job.

[.VorteX.]

You did an awesome job on that BMW. Great job on bringing it back to life.

[smokin180]

Hood shot looks very good.

[Old Pirate]

Great correction on the M3, looks great!........:usa

[MightyZR1]

What would be the cost of your 8 hour labor repair? Fabulois job...my car next? :cool:

[Clean Dean]

Very nice work !!! Thats paint perfection !!!

[David703]

EXCELLENT WORK!

EXCELLENT PHOTOS (especially the hood shot with the house in the reflection)

And great shots of "before". Sometimes its hard for me to actually capture all the imperfections.. You did a great job!

[imported_artikxscout]

great job on the car.

[kaval]

cleaned up very nicely. loving that hood shot!



great job!

[Rickrack]

Looks amazing!



Huge improvement between the before and after pictures!