Hey everyone,
Had a client bring in his 335i originally for a one step polish but upon review of the vehicles paint there were tons and i mean tons of RIDS. The vehicle had light swirling which was easily taken care off. I resorted to Sonus Yellow and Power Finish and Sonus White with 3M Ultrafina for the swirling and for the RIDS and certain heavily swirled areas around the driver door, passenger door and bumper area with Sonus Yellow in combination with PG, followed up with SONUS white SIP, SONUS white PF, SONUS BLUE Ultrafina. For RIDS that did not come in bunches I resorted to LC Spot pads to keep the heavy polishing down to a minimum to keep the integrity of the clearcoat. The client was great and understood the need to take the neccesary time to complete the work properly and I appreciated his patience. He car is his daily driver and has chalked up many healthy kilometres. Anyways to the process and pictures. Wash 2 Bucket Method Meguiars Gold Class 1 bucket for Wheels Wheel Brush Tire Brush EZ Detail Brush Sheep Skin Mitts Paint Correction Sonus Yellow Sonus White Sonus Blue LC 4 inch Yellow LC 4 inch Orange LC 4 inch White Menzerna Power Gloss Menzerna SIP Menzerna PF 3M Ultrafina 3M Backing Plate RB Backing Plate Metal Polishing (exhaust tips) 3M Ultrafina P21S Metal Polish 0000 Steel Wool Equipment 2 Halogen Lights 3M Sun Gun Fenix TK10 Air Compressor Metabo Polisher Metabo x 2 LSP Zaino Z2Pro Zaino Grand Finale Befores Alright so lets begin with the before pictures. The before pictures consist of quite a few sun shots. You'll notice the obvious swirls but if you take particular close attention that the RIDS are mainly deep straight lines. I would assume that this is from road debris on the highway just skipping off or nicking the paint. It was my fault that I did not notice how deep the RIDS were. The RIDS definitely did not pass the finger nail test :). https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1192.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1193.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1194.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1195.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1196.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1197.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1198.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1199.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1200.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1201.jpg |
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https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1203.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1204.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1245.jpg Ok so lets move on to the correction side of things. The first picture below is the hood. I first started off with the combination of Sonus White and Ultrafina. That barely did anything and just did not make a significant different. I bumped it up to Sonus White and PF and it got rid of the light swirling easily however the RIDS were a different matter. I made 3 passes and it barely made a dent on the test panel. I resorted to Sonus Yellow and PF, it shaved a little off the RIDS but not enough so I finally settled on PG and yellow then followed it up with White SIP, White PF then Blue Ultrafina. The result is what you see below. https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1205.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1206.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1207.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1211.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1213.jpg 50/50 of driver side door. https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1215.jpg Driver side door completely cleared up. |
Spot pads were used to address the bumper. The trunk was opened to polish and the plastic on the trunk was taped up to protect it.
https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1254.jpg Cleared up https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1255.jpg Bumper Cleared https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1257.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1258.jpg Roof Cleared up https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1259.jpg Roof Cleared up A few after polishing moments before LSP. https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1265.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1261.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1262.jpg These were my favourite shots. The paint just looks like candy. I fell in love :) https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1263.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1264.jpg |
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https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1269.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1270.jpg AFTERS Ok so we are finally here. These are pictures of the vehicle polished up and LSP'd. I notice after taking taking the initial after pictures and looking at them on the computer that I missed a few spots that I didn't buff the sealant off. The sun just messes up your eyes after staring at it and bright lights for a while lol. By this time the client had taken delivery of the vehicle but I drove over to look after the car and buff out the couple of unbuffed sealant spots and re applied Zaino Grand Finale and took the remainder sun shots of the vehicle. I hope everyone enjoys the pictures and thanks again to the client for being so amazing. https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1274.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1276.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1280.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1283.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1285.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1288.jpg I know the towel... Sorry :) https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1290.jpg |
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https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1300.jpg This is one of my favourite pictures of the car . It shows a really nice stance. https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1301.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1302.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1303.jpg https://i573.photobucket.com/albums/...2/DSC_1305.jpg Thanks for looking everyone. |
Great job! Your work is very impressive! :thumbsup:
Thanks for always providing lots of pics! |
Great detail, very meticulous, a good trait not many people have nowadays. :thumbsup:
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Speechless :wow: :thumbsup:
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