You Won't Believe This BMW, (tore up) Seeing Is Believing

MotorCity said:
Please tell the owner that a brillo pad is not an acceptable way to cleanse the car!!!



Great work as always and the owner was lucky to find you to save the paintwork!
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Thanks, but the owner didn't do it, he bought it that way and didn't notice it till later....
 
bwalker25 said:
maybe the dirt was really stuck on there and he needed some extra bite to remove it so he tried to wash it with a brillo pad? :) maybe it was an off road m3?



I looked again, and damn what a great job ;)
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Thanks, yea I'm not exactly sure how it happened, but for sure it was done by hand. The owner has no idea how it happened either.
 
Totoland Mach said:
GREAT RECOVERY! You could probably have saved 1/3 of those 12 hours by wetsanding with 3000 grit to level the surface, then use M105 (or 3M Extra Cut). If the scratches were deep enough, you could even have done it with a combo 2500 then 3000 finish before compounding.



Toto
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Thanks, I seriously contemplated wetsanding it, but I am just not confident enough in my sanding skills to wetsand that much car. I'll do a deep scratch here or there, but not entire panels.



I'd really like to invest in a Mirka system or something similar for these kinds of jobs, until then I will shy away from doing that much car by hand.



I honestly thought it would take longer to do wetsand all that? You really think it would have been faster. It took me about 7 hours just on the passenger side panels, half the trunk, part of the hood and part of the front and rear bumpers.



Thanks for any advise Toto.

Josh
 
Tdekany, Shuskan and Shine thanks for the kind words guys and everyone, it really means alot.



Even though I wish more could have come out, I was happy with the results.



Toto is probably right about wetsanding it. I really wanted to but thought it would just take way too long.



Josh
 
:eek: I bet the car got something on it and the previous owner took a Scotch Bright pad to it, look similar to a car one of my customer's sons had.



Nice job correcting the paint, you must have added at least a few thousand dollars in value to the car. :)
 
Great work Josh! I dont think anyone would expect you to get that to 100% in less then 12 hours. I ran into the same situation on an A4 not too long ago.



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Superb Work Josh!!! Amazing pictures too:goodjob



It's amazing at how some people will damage their cars without knowing. It looks like they used a scrubber spounge with Spic and Span to wash it.
 
Thanks for the warning, but my jaws just dropped after I saw the halogen pictures. Ouch, it's kind of funny you mentioned how the owner bought it without looking at the paint. I see so many new Mercedes coming out of the lot with halograms and the owners don't notice it at all. I think it's just our eyes... who knows. This is a different story though.



What % are the tints? Great job on the car! M105 with Wool or Yellow foam, Which one do you prefer?
 
Scottwax said:
:eek: I bet the car got something on it and the previous owner took a Scotch Bright pad to it, look similar to a car one of my customer's sons had.



Nice job correcting the paint, you must have added at least a few thousand dollars in value to the car. :)
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Thanks Scott, to repaint half the car like it needed would have been a couple G's for sure.
 
[quote name='D&D Auto Detail']Great work Josh! I dont think anyone would expect you to get that to 100% in less then 12 hours. I ran into the same situation on an A4 not too long ago.

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Thanks, I feel for you, Audi paint is sooo much harder too, I would have turned that job down....:D
 
rydawg said:
Superb Work Josh!!! Amazing pictures too:goodjob



It's amazing at how some people will damage their cars without knowing. It looks like they used a scrubber spounge with Spic and Span to wash it.
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Thanks, it really is amazing what people will do with there cars not knowing what is actually happening. That's why I try so hard to educate my clients so they can better care for the car as well as my efforts not get undone in a few months time....:chuckle:
 
artikxscout said:
Thanks for the warning, but my jaws just dropped after I saw the halogen pictures. Ouch, it's kind of funny you mentioned how the owner bought it without looking at the paint. I see so many new Mercedes coming out of the lot with halograms and the owners don't notice it at all. I think it's just our eyes... who knows. This is a different story though.



What % are the tints? Great job on the car! M105 with Wool or Yellow foam, Which one do you prefer?
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Well, I think the excitement and anticipation of getting that car you really really want takes over and poeple just don't see the issues with it. In this case I know the onwer was excited to get the car, but at the same time on the metallic paint and in the right lighting/shading you may not see the damage so well, so I can see how he could miss it.



With a rotary I don't think I would ever use a yellow foam pad, way too stiff for paint. I rarely if ever use an orange pad. I mostly use a white pad with Menz SIP, IP or M105 with white works amazing as well. For heavy cutting I'd stick with the wool with the understanding that it will need to be finished down to remove any holograms.



Josh
 
Awesome job, man. It takes a lot of confidence in your skills to get it even close to the correction you did.
 
JoshVette said:
The scratches are soooo much deeper then they look in the pics. Even the windows were scratches like the paint.



This was probably the worst damaged car I've ever had to work on.
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I was actually going to say something about that! I noticed the windows in a few of those pics! That thing was hammered :( Awesome work though... those afters look sick :)
 
BuffMe said:
Awesome job, man. It takes a lot of confidence in your skills to get it even close to the correction you did.
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Thanks, I think next time I'll be a little more confident and just wet sand the whole thing and get even better results....



Now to find time to practice my sanding skills...:grinno:
 
ChrisNJ said:
I was actually going to say something about that! I noticed the windows in a few of those pics! That thing was hammered :( Awesome work though... those afters look sick :)
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Thanks, yea the windows were the same and I just don't know how to repair windows like paint??
 
artikxscout said:
Thanks, i never thought of using 105 with a white pad. I'll give that a try.
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It worked extremely nice on an M5 I did. Polished the swirls out 95% with one pass and only left a slight haze behind which was easily remideed with the PC and a mild polish.



Then again the swirl on the M5 were very heavy but not deep at all so they came out very easy. If you have deeper swirls it may take a couple passes to get it to where you want it.
 
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