BMW 330Ci

tomee

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got to do a 330ci today. car was immaculate!

Mad_iX came and helped for abit too.



paint was in very good condition, just some light swirling . cobwebbing.



colour was a very dark metallic green / blue



pictures arent the best.



products used:

optimum no rinse

meguiars #80

meguiars #21

pinnacle souvern



gave it a wash with optimum no rinse and bought it into the garage to inspect under lights. while Mad_iX taped up the trim.

gave it a quick clay, but the cars paint was pretty clean, clay bar was clean.



here is the hood after a wash

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tried menzerna po73cp on a portion of the bonnet, took out 80% of the swirls.

decided to try po106ff on another portion.

for some reason the 106ff only removed about 60% of swirls.



i then switched pads, and moved onto #80

that tended to finish what i was after.



here is the bonnet after a couple of passes

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rear quarter after 2 passes.. can see Mad_iX and my car on teh reflection

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some light cobwebbing on the rear pillar

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one pass of #80

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boot done with 2 passes

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another bonnet shot. this section of the hood got po106ff, then 3 x #80

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polished off the whole car, side mirror and door handles got scratch-x on them.
 
here is the bonnet with #21 applied

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then topped with beauty wax souvern..

finished

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great depth

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love the LED's

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me shot

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i found applying souvern difficult... gave me alot of high spots.. tried not to use too much product either...



overall i was pretty happy with the end result.
 
Great job! I just did an 01 330xi and found the clear to be a major PITA! I guess you didnt have the same problem I did...Love souveran.
 
When i did that 01 745, the clear just wouldn't work with me at all, but i finally got it taken care of. VERY nice job on that car. Looks amazing!
 
thanks for the kind words



owner was pretty happy...



i found the clear to be somewhat hard.. i gues the swirls werent that deep..

some of the deeper scratches in parts, didnt really get removed.



should of tried #83, but got nervous thinking about using it on this car :D
 
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