Red BMW 525i - Quick Detail by Unique Car Care!

[Rickrack]

This red BMW 325is was recently purchased by one of my good customers as a “winter beater”, which will become his track car someday. He plans on installing a cage and other goodies to make it track worthy, so he just wanted a quick cleanup to get him by for a little while and get it “red” again.





I spent then day polishing the exterior to remove the oxidation and heavy scratches and was able to get some pretty decent correction out of this single stage paint.





Here’s what it looked like after a wash and claybar treatment…

After polishing with M105, followed by M205 using a 5.5 inch orange foam pad, these are the results…

Once all of the polishing was complete, I used Optimum Car Wax as an LSP. All in all, it came out pretty well. Not perfect, but definitely a huge improvement from before!





Here are the final results…

 

[gdal]

Great turnaround RickRack ... but I believe that is a 325is ... lol.

 

[Rickrack]

Great turnaround RickRack ... but I believe that is a 325is ... lol.

Thanks!

I think you're right...:idea It is a 325is... LOL

 

[Barry Theal]

Those were the Shiit back in the day!! Great clean up for a quickie. Looks stunnning. I loved these when I was a youngin.

 

[vberch]

Great job, Rick! And this is a beautiful 325!!!

 

[grungy]

Rick - nice 'beater' he has there, especially with you taking care of it

 

[vtec92civic]

wow Rick . . . . very nice work man. I can't believe the results you are able to achieve. What was your machine of choice?



I still need to pick up that M205 . . . . love M105 when it actually cooperates with me but hate it when it doesn't.



Excellent work.

 

[Thomas Dekany]

:bow :bow :bow to the work as always.



On a side note when using 105 it should count as 2 steps since it works so well.

 

[E300Diesel]

Nice work! :goodjob

 

[gmblack3]

Outstanding work Rick! The red is glossy!

 

[MarcHarris]

modern classic with a nice following. Good choice by the client, and nice work with a proper detail to bring her back

 

[Erik1]

Very well done Rick.These vehicles are classics and played a huge role in the SA Group N Touring cars back in the day.Wish I can still find a nice example.

 

[DaGonz]

His winter beater is better than most of the cars on the road! :grinno:

 

[Rickrack]

Thanks guys!!



It was actually a pretty fun detail to do.



The car is actually in really good shape besides a few dents here & there. Not even a spec of rust anywhere...



All the polishing was done using a PCXP. The M105 (DA version) worked awesome on this single stage paint...

 

[RaskyR1]

Another awesome correction Job Rick! I've always loved that body style too!

 

[Rickrack]

Another awesome correction Job Rick! I've always loved that body style too!





The seats sucked though!

Haha.. It definitely doesn't seem too cushy inside



Still a cool litle car though...



What's new?

 

[Deep Gloss Auto Salon]

What, the owner didn't like the "pink" paint scheme



Great work (as always) on a very cool car!

 

[Rickrack]

What, the owner didn't like the "pink" pait scheme



Great work (as always) on a very cool car!

Haha... He was getting tired of the pink and opted to have the color changed to red...



Thanks!

 

[RaskyR1]

Haha.. It definitely doesn't seem too cushy inside



Still a cool litle car though...



What's new?

LOL...your too quick Rick!!! I realized after I posted that I was thinking of a different model/year and edited my post.





Not much, hoping to try out the new ONR this weekend.....my ride is SOOOOO dirty its embarrassing! :hide:

 

[Innovative Detailing]

She was BUTCHERED



Grreat save, looks like she has been restored, awesome job!