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Detailer's Domain: Hired to fix another CPO'd BMW - this time a 750 M Sport

We had yet another customer pick up a CPO'd BMW, this one had a good amount of paint correction.
Take a look at the before and see the transformation.

Exterior

- Wheels were prepped with Sonax Wheel Cleaner and cleaned up with various brushes
- Tires were spritzed down with Adam’s All Purpose Cleaner and washed down
- Wheel wells were cleaned up
- Washed with Adam's Car Wash
- Decon with Wolf's Decon Gel
- Wash down and rinsed
- Door jambs were cleaned up
- Nano Scrub AutoScrub
- Dried
- Tires dressed
- Masking
- Paint Measurement
- Compound - Menzerna FG400
- Final Polish - Sonax Nano Polish
- Last step - Auto Finesse Desire
- Inspection with Fenix, Brinkmann, and natural sunlight
- Wheel wells were cleaned and dressed
- Rubber and Plastics Treated
- Exterior windows and mirrors cleaned and sealed
- Exhaust tips cleaned
- Windows were auto scrubed, cleaned, and sealed

Products used

Links to products used -

Adam's Car Wash
Wolf's Decon Gel - Iron Remover
Stoner's Tarminator
Adam's All Purpose Cleaner
Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner
NanoSkin AutoScrub System
Menzerna FG400
Sonax Nano Polish 3/6
Auto Finesse Desire Premium Carnauba Wax
Adam's Super VRT
Auto Finesse Crystal Glass Cleaner
Auto Finesse Mercury Metal Polish

Tools used
Uber Wool Wash Mitt
Uber No Name MF Towels
Griot's 6 inch Random Orbital Polisher
Rupes LHR75
Rupes BigFoot LHR 21ES Random Orbital Polisher
Rupes BigFoot LHR 15ES Random Orbital Polisher
Uber Buffing Pads
Defelsko Paint Meter
Fenix TK35
Brinkmann
Kranzle Pressure Washer
Uber Foam Canon
2 Grit Guard Buckets with Caddies
Adam's Firehose Nozzle
Metro Air Force Blaster

Before - as you can see some pretty bad swirls, holograms, scratches on the paint, buffer trails, water spots

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Prep - Wheels and Tires, Decon, Nanoskin Auto Scrub, Wash

Sonax Full Effect Wheel Cleaner



Stoner's Tarminator was used to remove the leftover adhesive from the wheel weights



Wheel Woolies to get the hard to reach areas

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Foaming



We have been using the Rupes BigFoot with much success at the shop.


Before and after of the correction process

Close ups of the imperfections around the car




B pillars
Before


After


Around the door handles


After


Rear fender


After


Rear door



After


Close up


50/50 shots

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Final Rinse to remove all the compounding and polishing dust.








Afters











I hope you enjoyed it.

DwDrummer

iTrader: (31)

Nice turn around! Shines better than new now.

Adam's Polishes

Great save Phil!

LunarWillow

iTrader: (3)

Looks really good, nice job! I can't believe how bad some people are with a rotary, those trails were horrible! lol

05TurboCGM

What do you guys use on those tight spots like around the window and door handle?

White.Lightning

iTrader: (53)

Nice work! Couple of questions......

-Can you put any car shampoo in the foam gun?
-How much shampoo did you add vs. water?
-Did you foam prior to using wolf's decon gel?
-Do you foam after wolf's decon gel?
-What are your thoughts on the Nanoskin vs. Clay bar. I am thinking about picking one up.

Products on my bucket list: Adams DWC, Decon gel, Nanoskin, Foam gun.

Thanks

Rare96LT1Formula

iTrader: (32)

Nicely done Phil. I'm assuming you took thickness readings, and I'm curious, were they inconsistent throughout the car? Good friend of mine has practically the exact same vehicle, just a different color, and I'm getting thickeness readings that are all over the map!

I'm looking at anywhere from 74-106 micons on the fenders and trunk lid, and 162+ everywhere else. I understand that this isn't unusual, it's just that the range of paint thickness is much more spread out than I'm used to.

9WhiteCamaro9

Car looks real good now.