Black BMW 335...20 hours later! 54 pics

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Envious Eric

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Black cars keep coming my way! this is the 5th car out of the last 5 that were black!



Issues with this car were super soft paint, lots of marring, water spots, swirling, light scratches, hazing, slight oxidation on this one. I am redoing my website, so I chose to take on a project car I knew would be a challenge. Its a full 20+ hour detail that completely wiped me out because 1 - its a low sitting car (lots of bending over and odd/stressful angles to reach the bottom), and 2 - I put in about 20 hours on the car as well as 20 hours at work in the same 3 days. I was completely spent this weekend, it was all worth it in the end!



Received the car at 1pm on Friday. Worked on it for a couple hours before heading off to work until 1030. Woke up Saturday to get started on a LONG day on the car. I logged about 12 hours on the car Saturday starting at 730am. Took a 5 min lunch break (made a sandwich and inhaled it), and a 45 min dinner break. Finished for the night and wrapped up around 9pm. started again at 8am on Sunday morning. Finally finished the car at 230 with all I was going to do on it. I then left for work at 4 only to arrive back home at 1045. LONG WEEKEND!!!



Products used:

hitachi rotary

PC DA

LC white, blue, green, red pads

megs 105/white

menzerna IP/green

Menzerna FPII/blue/pc

one grand omega glaze/red/pc

pinnacle souveran by hand

liquid luster wax - wheel barrels

optimum poliseal - wheel outers, and interior wood trim

megs glass cleaner -

megs leather cleaner conditioner

DP interior protectant

assortment of brushes for interior and wheels

91% ISO alcohol for adhesive removal of taillight film tint

megs supreme shine MF towels

costco blue MF towels

Excel Detail monteray waffle weave towels

megs super soap

megs aggressive red clay

megs last touch for clay lube

megs final inspection 34

megs 66 cleaner wax - door jambs

0000 steel wool - exhaust

megs mag/aluminum polish - exhaust

LED flashlight

two 500Watt halogens

plastic razor blades - taillights

megs hyper dressing - tires



Here are a lot of befores:



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As you can see, I have my work cut out for me...

 
Just based on those pics, you can tell I had a long detail ahead of me. I was ready and excited for it, but didn't really know what to expect for results before spending so long on the car. I had to step back and look at it and think to myself "I am doing this line of work why???" Once done, it hit me! THIS IS WHY I LIKE DOING FULL RECONDITIONING DETAILS!



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Obviously the rear bumper was still to be polished up in this shot. Just needed a break from the machine work so I hit the tips instead of taking a break. LOL

 
Fixed, thanks...



That hood is a carbon fiber hood that was edge painted to blend/fade from black to carbon fiber....looks really cool in person. The pics make it seem like its just the middle 1.5ft, but in reality, it follows the angles of the body lines
 
First thing out of the owners mouth "wow, it look so shiny"



then on the inside, "wow ,it looks so clean again"



knowing the owner is satisfied makes it all worth it!
 
I believe so!



105 hazed the paint, but removed defects better than IP alone

IP removed the haze, but slightly marred the paint

FPII cleaned it all up nicely!



wool was too aggressive with any polish, orange pad would have left deep holograms, so white, blue, and green did the trick
 
Awesome work as always. :bow



Having done a jet black 335i, I completely understand how difficult it is to get the paint swirl AND mar free.
 
I think that whenever I get a house, I am going to have a scissor lift installed because bending over as much as I had to on this detail will drive me insane
 
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