Reply With Quotegreat job. so much time and effort but its always worth it seeing the finished product. i will try help out with the section.
I say it's for Beau, it's for anyone interested - just he likes his deutschwagons!
Only a short write up this one really. I'll make this the last one I do til someone else spends some quality time on a car of their own!
So this was on arrival..
Wheels were totally fubarred - they need refurbing really, but the owner's looking to sell the car, hence why it came to me!
You wouldn't believe it if I told you, but the bloke has been using acidic oven cleaner to clean these wheels
Interior was pretty rammy, and a bit unorganised..
So, it was only booked in for what I call a Protection Detail, and further instruction to clean the interior (not detail, just make it look pretty to the untrained eye).
The process carried out:
• Vehicle rinsed then snow foam applied to suspend dirt and left to dwell for 5 minutes.
• Wash the vehicle using the double bucket method.
• Wheels cleaned using non-acidic alloy wheel cleaner.
• Lower third sprayed with a non-caustic traffic film remover and then rinsed.
• Panel gaps, door shuts, and badges cleaned.
• Clay bar used to remove bonded contaminates from paintwork (inc door shuts and wheels).
• Vehicle re-washed and dried.
• Autoglym HD Cleanser applied.
• Autoglym HD Wax applied and carefully removed using plush microfibre.
• Door shuts waxed for added protection.
• Door seals and rubbers cleaned and protected.
• Interior glass cleaned.
• Exterior glass sealed using a water repellent.
• Tyres cleaned and dressed.
• Exterior plastics dressed.
• Stainless steel/chrome cleaned and polished.
Now I have access to a unit, as I have mentioned in other threads, so I chose to do this job over at Shinearama (also my supplier) mainly due to the cold and our garage being full. As "time is money" I didn't get chance to do any during pics, but Phil, the guy who runs Shinearama did take some of me in action and some pictures for his own purposes (I tested some new products for him on this job). He's going to forward those on I hope, so if he does I'll post them up.
For now here's the finished product.
You can see on the pic above, if you look at the nsf wheel, some sort of green substance - well, that's from the friggin' oven acid the owner has been using on them, it's lifted the lacquer!!
Some more afters from when I left the unit....
Tyres were dressed using Poorboys Natural Look rubber dressing.
I found out during this job that the drivers door had been repainted at some point and there was hardly any clearcoat on it at all - very poor finish, it was rough like sandpaper! You can see looking at that final picture, it's a different colour.
Hope you enjoyed reading.
Matt.
great job. so much time and effort but its always worth it seeing the finished product. i will try help out with the section.
first thing i was going to say was the drivers door's been painted, but then you stated the obvious
shame your far not local, all my cars need the paintwork sorting out.
Good work that man, looks acceptable now!
The water in the lights let it down abit but hey its not your car.
Cheers mate. Will be good to see some other peoples efforts.Originally Posted by punto gt turbo2
Yes, it is a bit of a problem I suppose - this took me 5hrs, and it is my entry level detail. Some of the more complex ones take days, and when you're the other end of the country, it is just not practicle.
Thanks. It was a shame about the water, but there you go! The wheels were the biggest let down IMO. The owner was really pleased though, so much so I may get a similar job from his dad who also has a BMW.
I've been given some more pics of the job that the guys at the unit took for me, so here you go.
This one shows a better state of condition the wheels were in..
Cleaned these using various combinations of brushes, 2 different dilutions of Bilberry, Tardis to remove the tar, and also neat Poorboys APC! That's how bad they were
Snow foaming
aaand one of me doing some buffing
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