1988 BMW 535is Paint correction

Audios S6

Audios S6

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The owner of this car actually has most of 3 of them. This is the frankencar, the other 2 are donors. When he got the car it had 250K miles on it, he put in a donor motor and tranny at 70K. Put new new suspension, weather gaskets/seals, window trim and numerous other bits. The car was also repainted at some point. I was asked to handle the paint as the owner is great with the mechanical bits, but not the finishes.


Process:
Washed with megs D114 using GDM
Clayed with ONR and speedy prep towel
Mounted trim was cleaned with Mothers Back to black restorer
Removable trim was cleaned with Zep citrus via tornador, OPC and brushes
Exhaust got a new AGO product soon to be released
Paint was corrected with the rupes UHS system and a 21
wheels got a RW with D114
Tires got the BF AIO T&T protectant
Mounted trim was protected with UTTG
removable and intricate trim was protected with Maxima SC-1
The spoiler was protected with Carpro DLUX




The exhaust only got the new AGO product, no APC or anything, it just melted away the carbon to reveal this. As I was doing it, the owner was on the other side of the garage an told me not to bother since he was going to put chrome tips on it. I told him not to bother with the chrome tips.





Front grilles were all removed since there was a ton of splatter on them. Final result along with the bumper trim and chrome





Rear spoiler was covered in TOGWR, it came out very nice with the Mother's cleaner, and DLUX brought back quite a bit of the original color. Taillight chrome was polished by hand.





Quarter panel before and after. The swirls were moderate over the vehicle. Unfortunately, there are a ton of deep sanding pigtails that remain on the driver's side. Eventually it will get sanded or a respray.








A few more after shots















That V12 jag is up next.
 
Way cool, nice work! Those E28s really are great cars. Here's my 88 535is before the Florida sun baked my thin clearcoat away:

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Accumulator said:
Adios S6- Hey, nice work on an interesting car!

I think it's great how he's kept that on the road!
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Technically he has kept it on the road, but he has definitely spent more time restoring it than driving it, hopefully that will change. He had considered an e32 interior swap but abandoned it in favor of restoring the original seats; they should be done this week.
 
Loach said:
Way cool, nice work! Those E28s really are great cars. Here's my 88 535is before the Florida sun baked my thin clearcoat away:

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That's beautiful. They are striking cars with actual lines. You don't find lines like that on modern cars,; in a sense, all modern cars look similar, while these 20+ year old beauties show some soul. I can't even tell an A4 from an A6 anymore, sad on several accounts.
 
Audios S6 said:
That's beautiful. They are striking cars with actual lines. You don't find lines like that on modern cars,; in a sense, all modern cars look similar, while these 20+ year old beauties show some soul. I can't even tell an A4 from an A6 anymore, sad on several accounts.
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Heh heh, agree completely...that's a huge part of why my wife and I have simply zero interest in today's cars. BMW-specific, watching their TV ads where they show the old cars and then the more modern ones, it's downright depressing to see the trend-towards-ugly.
 
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