2005 Jet Black BMW 5-Series (Oy Vey!)

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BuffMe

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So, after many months of seeing me detail cars on the weekends, my roommate finally caved and wanted her car done. She likes to keep it very clean, so for two years she has been taking it to the car wash at least once a week and had it "detailed" multiple times a year. Now, let's run with this mental image and see if these before pictures meet your expectations...



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Oh, and don't forget the obligatory, massive amounts of buffer trails...



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.... yay.





However, reading about how the later model JB BMW's had soft clear coats, I wasn't too worried.



WRONG. The entire car necessitated SIP with an LC Purple Foamed Wool (PFW).



All parts of the bonnet (hood, trunk, and roof) took 4-5 passes with SIP/PFW and the vertical panels took 3x.



Here is a shot of the hood after 4 passes...



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This is the trunk before any polishing...



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After 1 pass...



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After 3 passes...



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I ended up doing two more passes on the trunk to get it a little more perfect.





I followed this all up with 1 pass of SIP/Orange to clear up the slight haze. Here are some shots after this pass...



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I then followed up with DG #105. This stuff looks absolutely amazing on black. Overall, I achieved about 90% correction on the car and it took about 11 hours. Here are the afters (these were taken the next day after she had been driving it all day and of course the pollen had a chance to layer itself upon the paint, so don't mind some of those speckles in the pics)...



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On a side note, I absolutely hate this clearcoat. Upon wax removal with a clean, super-plush MF, I found myself putting scratches back into the car in a small area. Yes. It takes 11 hours to polish the paint down, but 3 microseconds to put them back in. Enough said. I will never buy a JB BMW.
 
Nice job, but you were able to finish out with an orange pad and SIP? IF that's the case the jet black on the 5 series is much different than the paint on my e90. Did you do an isopropyl wipedown?
 
07e90 said:
Nice job, but you were able to finish out with an orange pad and SIP? IF that's the case the jet black on the 5 series is much different than the paint on my e90. Did you do an isopropyl wipedown?
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Yep. That's what I was saying in my other thread... this paint does not fall into any one soft/hard category.
 
There are definitely stupid paints which seem extremely soft, yet hard to correct, but they finish up LSP-ready with a relatively aggressive combo.
 
BuffMe said:
Yep. That's what I was saying in my other thread... this paint does not fall into any one soft/hard category.
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I'm just suprised that you were able to finish with such an an aggressive combo. My jet black is also a pain to correct but even worse to finish of, as even microfibers can cause marring. It's definitely some of the worst paint to work with.
 
First, great work on the car!!! Second, I do find it funny that something that has a "hard" clear can be so easily scratched. You almost have to ask yourself what is the point?? I'm sure there are benefits there but that just seems odd to me.
 
shine said:
Nice work. So how did you remove the rest of the wax without marring the rest of it? JB BMWs = awful.
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I should have clarified that it wasn't when I was simply buffing off the wax that I was causing scratching, but it was when I was putting more pressure on a particular spot to remove some harder residue. Even pressure from my hand with a buffing towel didn't seem to cause scratching, it was only when I used a finger or two to apply more pressure on a small spot that it started causing scratching.
 
Great job.



And per the other thread, which isn't clear from this one, this work was done with a Purple Foamed Wool pad on a PC!
 
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