HD UNO vs Sapphire Black 335

[Thomas Dekany]

The owner found me on a BMW forum. He drove by for me to look at the condition first last friday and we agreed that he`d drop it off sunday afternoon and pick it up thursday am as he was leaving for a business trip.



"I don`t want a show room shine, I just want the swirls gone" he said - my quick reply was: that is the same thing! :D



Anyway I told the customer that the amount of money he was willing to spend I can`t do 100% correction. Since I know this black paint pretty well, I thought with HD UNO I can get a 90+% in a fair amount of time. I think I ended up closer to 100% than 90%. :)



I did the correction, EZ and FK1 1000 on monday. I removed 1000 tuesday late afternoon and applied MAGIC WAX (THE LOOK WAS VERY NICE AND REFLECTIVE AFTER 1000 but I thought lets see what this combo can create, plus this car sits outside 24/7 ) Today I removed MAGIC WAX and cleaned up the wheels/exterior windows before taking some pictures.



The left front fender & the 2 doors are repaint, and not very good either (but corrected easier).



PROCESS



QEW

HD MILD CLAY

HD MOTORCYCLE QD

HD UNO - ORANGE PAD

HD UNO - PFW PAD ON TRUNK

HD UNO - 3" BLACK WOOL PAD (6" scratch the owner asked me if it could be removed)

EZ CREME GLAZE - GREEN PAD

FK1 #1000 - GRAY PAD

MAGIC WAX - GRAY PAD

NO TOUCH TIRE SHINE



Onto the pictures



BEFORE



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DURING = HD UNO



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AFTER



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Excuse the smear, it will come off tomorrow am before delivery.



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[dlocks]

Looks awesome! I am always amazed by HD Uno and your handywork!

[Petrucci_M3]

Holy crap Thomas what a save!! Those before pictures made me wince in fear.

[a_guerrajr]

HD uno huh...



looks good

[Thomas Dekany]

Thanks guys for the nice words.



Josh - this was a pretty easy & enjoyable detail. First time using UNO on sapphire black. Wish I could have done a polishing/finishing step with UNO before EZ CREME.



Oh well - still looks pretty different from before. Lets see what the customer has to say.

PS: Anytime you`ll detail Tek`s GL? Post pix of it.

[BigAl3]

thomas, did you use the Flex DA and do you find yourself using most often these days?

[JohnKleven]

Nice work Thomas. That rock hard BMW clearcoat looks fantastic.

[Tru_Shine]

Wow! nice turn out! your like a UNO magician!

[Barry Theal]

Looks nice Thomas.

[Thomas Dekany]

Thank you all once again.



I worked on another one today (330) and I actually like working on this paint. Definately not rock hard.



Al, UNO allows me to use the 3401 most of the time, but on every detail I use my flex rotary for scratch removal and a 3 inch wool pad.

[Thomas Dekany]

I saw this on one of the BMW forums the owner frequents. I didn`t remember him mentioning anything about the previous detail.




Originally Posted by pander5

Thomas, your work is nothing short of phenomenal. Thanks for contibuting so much to this forum! A couple of us recommended you on another board (BMW) and I hope this was the result.



Yeah, that your reccomendation and my car... embarrising i know. As a `gift` my parents had my car detailed for christmas and the before was the result.

[Thomas Dekany]

Missed these 2



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[Apollo_Auto]

Looks awesome buddy! I love bringing customers to reality like you did :). "Same thing..."

[Thomas Dekany]

Thanks Jesse!!! Koszi kisbaba! :D:D:D