BMW X5 Correction & Beeds Coating

[cf2121]

X5 Correction & Coating


This is the second car I’ve done for this client, he was the one with the Marauder I posted a couple weeks ago.

I’ve never done a BMW before this, but I had always heard about how hard their paint was. I was not expecting it to be this hard though. I was able to one step this car with FG400 & M105 in some spots and not be left with any micromarring.

Besides the frustration of hard paint, it wasn’t anything out of the ordinary. Typical correction work and I applied Beeds HD to the paint afterwards. It was just a big car; luckily I had the majority of the weekend to work on it. I didn’t document it as fully as I’d like, but again, it was a big car.


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Products used:

Wheels, tires, wheel wells:

Adam’s Car Shampoo

Optimum Ferrex

Meguiar’s D101 4:1

Various brushes

Gyeon Q2 Tire Gel

Carpro Hydro2 (lsp)

Wash:

Auto Finesse Avalanche (presoak)

Carpro Reset

Decontamination:

Optimum Ferex

Wolfgang Uber Rinseless 1:16

Adam’s Visco Clay

Correction:

Rupes 21

Rupes Mini

Menzerna FG400

Meguiar’s M105

Rupes Yellow Pads

Lake Country Orange CCS pads

Lake Country ThinPro pads (3 inch)

3m automotive tape

Carpro Eraser

LSP:

Beeds

Glass:

Meguiar’s Glass Cleaner Concentrate

Nanoskin Rain (lsp)

Exhaust tips:

Meguiar’s APC 4:1

Poorboy’s World Chrome Polish

0000 steel wool

Ultima Paint Sealant (lsp)

Trim:

Mother’s Heavy Duty Trim Cleaner

Ammo Mud

Interior:

Vacuum

Carpro Inside

Total time:

~20 hours

Thanks for looking & reading!

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[rlmccarty2000]

Great work! Did you try a Rupes blue pad with the corresponding polish? What did you use for a test spot? I`m looking to get an X5 for my wife with the diesel engine. I`ve got a 335d and the engine is outstanding. I hate the leather seats in those cars. The leather looks and feels like hard vinyl. I`ve tried everything to soften up the leather, nothing works.

[cf2121]

Great work! Did you try a Rupes blue pad with the corresponding polish? What did you use for a test spot? I`m looking to get an X5 for my wife with the diesel engine. I`ve got a 335d and the engine is outstanding. I hate the leather seats in those cars. The leather looks and feels like hard vinyl. I`ve tried everything to soften up the leather, nothing works.

Thanks!

I did not, because I don`t have any stronger Rupes pads then the yellow ones :/

I started with Essence and a yellow pad, then tried meguiars microfiber cutting pads...they didn`t cut enough. Had to step up to a proper compound.

I actually found the leather to be really nice and soft, especially after hitting it with Inside.

[Ronkh]

Nice work!