Orinda Auto Detail - Jet Black HAMMERED 650ci 3 day detail

[Orinda Auto Detail]

This jet black 650ci had seen better days.... The whole car for sure had been repainted but the owner knew nothing about it and bought it brand new. I didn`t know about the repaint until I washed it then I saw some of the obvious signs here and there. When I first saw the car thinking it would have super soft paint, I scheduled it for 1 day. Soon as I started working on this car I called up the customer and told them no way no how this was getting done in one day. There were some really nasty scratches on this car and the paint was hard as nails(maybe resprayed at the factory and over baked) I got most of them out probably 80-85% correction.

Wheels were washed with megs wheel bright followed by 3 different iron-x treatments. After they were polished with my rotary, 3inch cutting pad and BF metal fine metal polish.

Paint- The entire car was corrected using a rotary mostly my dewalt, but the makita saw some action as well. As far my polishing method went, I call it the "Big A" style. As using his water ways works wonders . The whole of the paint was corrected with SRC Compound, and SRC Finishing. Mostly with 5.5 CCS Constant pressure Orange, white, and red pads. Couple 3inch pads for some tight areas.

Interior was fully detailed, Leather got leatherque treatment, carpets got extracted. I was unable to do anything with the rag top because I was out of cleaner/protectant for it so I ordered some and told the customer to bring it back in cpl weeks and I`ll take care of it.

as it sat when it came in....

nasty scratched easily caught fingernail.

Wheels were trashed....

after washing and Decon

test spot on front fender, SRC Compound/Finishing.



No Look buffing!

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progress

Trunk was hammered big time


Cpl rounds of SRC Finishing polished cleared up the rest of this. I was pretty much done polishing shortly after so I took it out side to look at the paint after IPA, Before BFWD.



still a few light scratches here but they weren`t safe to fully remove. Huge improvement non the less.


I pulled it back in the bay nit picked a few area`s on the paint. Finished the windows wheels, sealed it with BFWD, ect.... It was really late at this point my 3rd day working over 12 hours a day on this car so no more sun shots but check it out.

From this too...
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Thanks for looking
Joe Torbati
Orinda Auto Detail

[mjlinane]

Awesome work, Joe!

It was hammered.

[tropicsteve]

your usual mirror finish results joe. i`m with mike, "that finish was hammered"

[Reality33]

Man that thing was rough. Great comeback!!

[Orinda Auto Detail]

Thanks guys!

[Pats300zx]

Great turnaround Joe !!!

[Mdetail1]

To say that car was a handful is an understatement. Fantastic work.

[Custom Care]

I always heard BMW`s and Mini`s had horrible brake dust issues but I honestly thought those rims were gunmetal... Fast forward to the pictures showing that they were chrome and my mind = BLOWN!!! Amazing detail.

[Todd@RUPES]

Excellent work! Thanks for sharing!

[Orinda Auto Detail]

Thanks Guys!

[dd1101]

Great job Joe, its a shame that such a gorgeous car was treated that way.

[Orinda Auto Detail]

Great job Joe, its a shame that such a gorgeous car was treated that way.

Thanks man, and yeah that car was thrashed big time. MILLION RIDS, swirls not a problem but some super nasty scratches on that car.