Street Dreams: E92 M3 w/ the fire'

Street Dreams

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Interlagos Blue M3, 15k on it.

Drop off..

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Wheel cleaned using P&S brakebuster with various brushes, tires+wells cleaned with ARO

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Washed with FK1 concentrated wash out of their decon kit, which is just "okay", but the wash shampoo is actually very good.

Clayed with poly clay using ONR lubeness

The entire hood, front bumper and rear bumper had 3M clear film. It needed some extensive work to clean it up and restore some clarity, yes you can restore clarity to film:shead:

Some of the issues, stains, streaks and RIDS and hazing

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Used the flex DA with M105, followed up with 106FA again on the DA and came back to finish it out with 85rd on the metabo, using the rotary after a DA may seem counterproductive but it works and thats all there is.

50/50 after first pass using 105

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The FA helped clean up some of the haze M105 left behind, although it did actually finish down well on the DA

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After the M105 and 106FA, video using the fenix LED 50/50



Film before..

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After..

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The front fenders had film as well and were treated to the same process as above.

The finish wasnt in terrible shape but the clear was very hard, started out with heavy polishing foam and P203s and ended up using the new LC cyan cutting pad with M105 for several passes.

Followed with 203s to refine the finish via rotary and then jeweled it out using Megs 205 on the DA... I think a DA is where M205 shines

testing out the new LC orange foam, leaves a great finish and cuts well but this clear needed a more agressive foam, the new blue LC pad worked far better on this car

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After first pass using M105, about 90%

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Finished down after the IPA

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B pillar before..

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After

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Before correction haze under the infratech

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After correction

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Took a lot of combos to get what worked best for this car.... I ended up using all of these at some point during the detail

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The side mirrors were tough to correct so I used a polishing pad with a 203s and came back with a finishing pad with 106FA... I kept the rpms around 1000 or less

before

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during

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after, with the grooves in the black plastic plastic and it being right near clear film I didnt chase the last few RIDS with a cutting pad (cutting foam = more heat)

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working the 105

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after finishing under the phene-ix

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The trunk has some more severe defects which needed wetsanding

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Sanded with 2000 unigrit followed by 3000 unigrit

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After the 2000

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I corrected the sand scratches with a 3" tufbuf wool pad, followed by M105 again on the DA with cutting foam (2x for the whole trunk)

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Under LED

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There are still some shadows from the scrathes left over, they were cut deep unfortunately.

After correcting the rest of the trunk I went back over it with the DA and 205

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After the wipedown

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finishing out the carbonian roof

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after

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Interior was kept very well, the leather needed the most attention if anything.

After...

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Some finishing touches. Wheels sealed with Jetseal for protection. Tires dressed with SV Pneu, front lower and rear lower grills dressed with "the sauce" etc.

Hood vents dressed

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touching up on the wheels

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I applied blackfire wet diamond sealant for LSP. First coat was machined on with the DA using a gold lc pad at speed 4 which I let cure for 40mins or so, it buffed off super easy.

BF hazed and being buffed off... how can this part not be the most enjoyable part of a detail?

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The car was supposed to go back yesterday but religion and rain had other plans, lol. So I took it outside this afternoon in hopes of some sun but there was none.

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Pulled it back inside to apply another coat of the BF WD and do the final wipedown.

All finished, snapped some pics tonite before it left

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Thanks for looking :wink:
 
Wow that is stunning work. That M3 is exactly the color combination I will take mine in please, after you detail it for me!
 
I of my favorites to detail and love it when you show this one off, just stunning as always!:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:
 
Wow that is stunning work. That M3 is exactly the color combination I will take mine in please, after you detail it for me!

Enjoyed working on the car and the end result, IMO looked great... BUT interlagos is far from my color choice, anything blue, red, yellow etc is too flash for my tastes. Im Mr. Conservative, for me its either black or gray. Although after spending an hour in it working, I do like the red leather;)
 
Another awesome job, pictures, and write up Dave !!
I am glad that you have the mad skills to keep busy with just beautiful cars.

Thanks for taking the time to show us more ways to do this better.

DanF
 
Phenomenal work on a phenomenal car. Thanks for sharing it with us. I love those mirrors but they looked like a b***h to work. They came out great though.
 
great work Dave a super nice automobile. what does a customer say when they their car looking like that? i would be blown away and tip you handsomely... those cars next year will have 410hp v8's
 
great work Dave on a super nice automobile. what does a customer say when they get their car looking like that? i would be blown away and tip you handsomely my friend... those cars next year will have 410hp v8's
 
great work Dave a super nice automobile. what does a customer say when they their car looking like that? i would be blown away and tip you handsomely... those cars next year will have 410hp v8's

The owner is bring me a black carrera tomorrow as well. He was ecstatic to see his baby blue again (I held onto it for a while due to bad weather as he was not driving it home in the rain.

BTW the E92 M3 (pictured) already has a V8.. with 414hp.
 
Beautiful work on a stunning vehicle!

If I were to get a new M3, it would be exactly like that, I love the color combo.
 
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