Trashed Sapphire Black BMW Paint Correction by Unique Car Care!

[Rickrack]

This nearly brand new Sapphire Black BMW 328i was scheduled for an exterior detail / extensive paint correction. The car was brought in to the dealer to have the rear bumper repainted and somehow the car ended up in worse condition than when it was brought in.





It was clear that someone at the body shop had no clue what they were doing and did more harm than good. Excess polish and wax was left in just about every crack & crevice, not to mention all of the swirls and scratches that were left behind. In addition, there was overspray on each and every panel which needed to be removed.





The dealer called me and asked if I could help them out since the customer was supposed to pick up the car in less than two days. I told them to drop off the car as soon as possible so we could get working on it and have it back in time.





Getting right to work prepping the exterior…

Once the car was washed, all tires & wheels well cleaned and the paint was stripped free of all previous waxes or sealants from the body shop, it was time to give the car a claybar treatment to remove any overspray before the polishing process.





The hood had the most overspray, which you can see in the picture below…

The pictures below show how horrible the paint was prior to any polishing…

 

[Rickrack]

 

[Rickrack]

Ryan and I got right to work and fired up the buffers, but we weren’t able to take any during pictures, as we were in a huge rush to get this done in time.





We ended up polishing the complete exterior with 3M Extra Cut Compound using a cyan Hydra-tech pad via rotary, followed by Menzerna Super Intensive Polish using a tangerine Hydra-tech pad via rotary and finished off with Menzerna Power Finish using an orange 3M ripple foam pad via Porter Cable.





Alcohol wipedowns were performed between each polishing step to ensure no filling was taking place and the car was given a quick wash before the last polishing step to remove any product spatter from the cracks & crevices.All tires and wheel wells were dressed with Opti-bond tire dressing, all wheels were sealed with Opti-seal and the LSP of choice was Blackfire Wet Diamond.





Here are the final results under halogen lighting…

 

[Rickrack]

 

[Rickrack]

Final results outdoors…

 

[gmblack3]

Gloss, gloss, gloss.

 

[D Tailor]

That's some Chiney Work Mang! Terrific turnaround.

 

[Rickrack]

Thanks guys!



Gotta love body shop hacks!!

 

[dsms]

Insane correction, sun shots, brilliant work as expected!

 

[Flashtime]

Beautiful work!



I'm quite certain the dealer didn't use a body shop. They normally don't

for minor repairs; which was likely performed by a mobile repairer painting

in the lot.

 

[Rickrack]

dsms- Thanks Dave!

Beautiful work!



I'm quite certain the dealer didn't use a body shop. They normally don't

for minor repairs; which was likely performed by a mobile repairer painting

in the lot.

On this particular car, the dealerships body shop did the work, but I know that 95% of the cars I usually see from dealers will have a mobil repair company do the work. As you can see in one of the pictures, the color match wasn't the greatest...

 

[Pats300zx]

Beautiful job Rick

 

[Thomas Dekany]

The work is perfect obviously, but what is more stunning is the condition of the paint in the befores. How in the hell do you do that type of damage to a new car? Please do show that stealership these photos. Unbelievable.



PS: Good thing the snow storms in the NE missed your area.

 

[imported_DJ Mayo]

Awesome job my brotha!!! My 3 correction jobs this week got postponed with three feet of snow



But I agree with Thomas, show the dealership this write up.

 

[Eisen Hulk]

Pretty much perfect!!!

 

[tssdetailing]

now I understand why Scotwax made mention of the super-pic threads being a little overbearing.



Congrads on the resto. That overspray was terrible!

 

[Rickrack]

Thanks everyone!



It's actually a funny story how the dealership found about us in the first place. My customer with the black BMW 1-series was unhappy when they did the same thing to his car and made the dealer pay for the detail. The write up is here: http://www.autopia.org/forum/pro-de...tensive-paint-correction-unique-car-care.html



Seems as though this was happening a lot, so the dealer finally decided to bring it to a professional. At least they realized that their "detailer" just wasn't cutting it.

 

[LS1-MEX]

u really saved that car

 

[imported_rydawg1]

This was actually a fun job for us Rick, considering all the hell jobs we had before it. Haha.

 

[Rickrack]

LS1-MEX- Thanks!

This was actually a fun job for us Rick, considering all the hell jobs we had before it. Haha.

No kidding!



Everything seems easy after that Audi A6