Today's modded coupes - v. 330ci & 350Z Show Car

G35stilez

G35stilez

Ari Gold
First up, le 330ci.

This is a pretty regular client of mine. I Zaino'd his car back in late August and it's still beading and has some slickness to it. He keeps the car outside 24-7 and has it washed every 2 or so weeks.

Today was just a quick job and part of my new "Weekly Wash" service that I updated recently with a free coat of OCW for each customer. The process was as follows:

Interior
-Vaccum and dust vents/cracks/crevices
-Soak interior with FK1 #425 and wipe away with respective MFs


Exterior
-QEW
-Meguiar's Wheel Brightener cut 3:1 for wheels, tires, wells
-OCW

-Meguiar's Hot Shine Tire Foam in wells and on tires


Before
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After
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Next up, a 350Z Show Car. This belongs to a client who uses me 2-3 times a year to do various cars for him. He owns a performance shop on Long Island (www.z1auto.com). Like I said, this car is one for show (and go)...Recently it was featured on azines.com (http://www.azines.com/linked_cars.asp?pid=54). I was prepping the car today for SEMA next weekend. I only clayed and polished "from the windshield back" since he will be painting the entire nose this week.

The car was in very nice shape; only some light swirling and contaminants on the lower panels. The interior was just dusty and the mats had light soil content. My finals were:

Interior
-Vacuum and dust the cracks/crevices/vents
-Kids & Pets to clean entire interior
-CG VRT on vinyl, rubber, plastic
-Poorboy's PwS to polish all clear plastic and silver trim
-FK1 #425 final wipedown

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Exterior
-Z7 Wash
-Optimum Clay with Z7 as lube
-Optimum Car Polish via rotary and red LC finishing pad @ 1200 rpm
-IPA wipedown
-Z2 Pro by hand
-Z8 to finish up

-Z16 on tires
-Flitz on exhaust

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Questions/Comments, please feel free.
 
Thank you all.


Richard: I use a Rigid vacuum and at the same brush the vents with a Meguiar's Horse Hair brush. The brush dislodges, the vacuum removes. If necessary, I will soak the vents with Kids & Pets and wipe with an MF.
 
GSRstilez said:
Thank you all.


Richard: I use a Rigid vacuum and at the same brush the vents with a Meguiar's Horse Hair brush. The brush dislodges, the vacuum removes. If necessary, I will soak the vents with Kids & Pets and wipe with an MF.
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Ok cool that is pretty much how i do it as well. I just thought maybe you had some special attachment on the hose or soemthing.

Richard
 
"Soak interior with FK1 #425 and wipe away with respective MFs."

Tell me more....

Are you using #425 on everything in the interior except the carpet (or cloth seats)?

Did you dress the leather on the BMW? (If that's just #425 -it came out pretty nice).
 
John: Yep, everything but clothed surfaces. I just spritz it on panel by panel and wipe "in". It cleans lightly, darkens, and produces a light sheen. I have noticed my weekly customers vehicles have almost no dust on the interior when I treat them like this on a regular basis.
 
wow both rides looking great :)

Apologize for my ignorance, but isn't #425 a QD? Is it ok to use QD on interior (except leather)?

Thank you
 
derekbmw said:
wow both rides looking great :)

Apologize for my ignorance, but isn't #425 a QD? Is it ok to use QD on interior (except leather)?

Thank you
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Yes, #425 is a QD.

Try it on everything but cloth and you will be happy...honestly.
 
GSRstilez said:
Yes, #425 is a QD.

Try it on everything but cloth and you will be happy...honestly.
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Thank you sir.:)
Have you tried other QD's on interior by any chance?

EDIT : I just made on order for #425...i need to stop spending.....:D
 
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