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Got a call a week ago from a guy wanting his Z3 detailed... 7 years old, garaged, only driven in sunny weather, and 11k on the clock. He washes it himself.
Exterior only on this, and it turned out to be what I thought it would...and worse. The minimal sunny driving lead me to believe that there wouldn't be much in the way of bonded contaminants, so claying was a breeze... it was. The washing himself part scared me because we all know what most people think of when they wash it themselves :shocked Swirl city it was. The paint was a PITA ... I tried 6 different combos of pads and polish before I came up with a winner. The worst part was the tar... and asphalt and concrete... I have never seen anything like it... it looks like he drove down a freshly paved asphalt road and then concrete. Tar removers did nothing... it laughed at them. My saving grace was an old piece of clay, and running the hose as lube. I couldn't get it all, but got 95% of it. The clay was disgusting, it was as if I had dropped it in gravel. I need to take a pic of it
Final process was:
wash
clay
DACP with a cutting pad followed by OP with a polishing pad.
OCW
#38 on the tires, Hyper Dressing in the wells.
Total time: 5 hours
On with the pics!
The swirls:
The rear deck is more what the whole car looked like.... or worse:
This was after I had already started on it... :nervous2: It was horrible. I had to do a little and then brush (yes, brush the rocks and asphalt out of the clay from the wells
) the clay off, kneed it, and so on.
After working on it you can see I had gotten most of it out, more to do!
Other side of it almost cleaned out:
After polishing (it needed one more pass with OP to get those pesky 2% remaining swirls you can see here, but I forgot to take more pics )
Finished product:
Exterior only on this, and it turned out to be what I thought it would...and worse. The minimal sunny driving lead me to believe that there wouldn't be much in the way of bonded contaminants, so claying was a breeze... it was. The washing himself part scared me because we all know what most people think of when they wash it themselves :shocked Swirl city it was. The paint was a PITA ... I tried 6 different combos of pads and polish before I came up with a winner. The worst part was the tar... and asphalt and concrete... I have never seen anything like it... it looks like he drove down a freshly paved asphalt road and then concrete. Tar removers did nothing... it laughed at them. My saving grace was an old piece of clay, and running the hose as lube. I couldn't get it all, but got 95% of it. The clay was disgusting, it was as if I had dropped it in gravel. I need to take a pic of it
Final process was:
wash
clay
DACP with a cutting pad followed by OP with a polishing pad.
OCW
#38 on the tires, Hyper Dressing in the wells.
Total time: 5 hours
On with the pics!
The swirls:
The rear deck is more what the whole car looked like.... or worse:
This was after I had already started on it... :nervous2: It was horrible. I had to do a little and then brush (yes, brush the rocks and asphalt out of the clay from the wells
) the clay off, kneed it, and so on.
After working on it you can see I had gotten most of it out, more to do!
Other side of it almost cleaned out:
After polishing (it needed one more pass with OP to get those pesky 2% remaining swirls you can see here, but I forgot to take more pics
)
Finished product:
