12 years parked by the Ocean...Wet Sanding Required...2004 BMW Z4

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2004 BMW Z4

Parked outside 500' from the Pacific Ocean

Hammered Paint
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The condition of wheels are usually a good indicator of what level of care a vehicle has seen

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Severe damage on the hood. Cause unknown.

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Test Spot on half the trunk with M100, 6 1/2" Lake Country Orange Hybrid, FLEX 3401

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Hood before with etched water spots, swirls and deep RIDS

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After three steps:

- Unigrit 1500 Sanding & Trizact 3000 Finishing Discs with 3M Interface pad on PC 7424

- M100, TufBuff Black Wool, FLEX 3401

- CarPro Essence on a 6 1/2" Lake Country White Polishing Pad.

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The finished product

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Wowsa you really brought a lot of life back into this ocean side gem
 
You brought that paint back from the dead. That red is Wet!
 
Beautiful turnaround! :applause:

Some of the shots looks almost like staring at a fiberglass boat... I bet the owner is blown away.
 
AGOatemywallet said:
After three steps:

- Unigrit 1500 Sanding & Trizact 3000 Finishing Discs with 3M Interface pad on PC 7424

- M100, TufBuff Black Wool, FLEX 3401

- CarPro Essence on a 6 1/2" Lake Country White Polishing Pad.
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Wow, how much paint do you think you took off? Looks great though.

What did you have to do to get the wheels clean? Great job on them, too.
 
Just beautiful!! Excellent results and the evidence indisputable:dblthumb2:
 
Amazing work on that hammered paint! It now looks better than new.
 
Great job!

Prolly took off a good amount of paint, but to make it look like that, you probably had too.
 
Here in south Florida on Hutchinson island condos right on the Atlantic ,residents use a rinse drive through the water is well water.Then without drying the sun bakes the remnants of the well water all over the glass trim and paint.so living on the ocean is not that glamorous.without the rinse system, the car gets wrecked in 2 years the salt just ruined everything top and bottom.
 
For the wheels: Megs Wheel Brightener, followed by Sonax FE with Large Wheel Woolie and Mini Speedmaster

An average of the initial PTG readings showed 135 microns.

After 1500, 3000, Compounding & Polishing; I was seeing uniform readings of 120 microns.
 
AGOatemywallet said:
For the wheels: Megs Wheel Brightener, followed by Sonax FE with Large Wheel Woolie and Mini Speedmaster

An average of the initial PTG readings showed 135 microns.

After 1500, 3000, Compounding & Polishing; I was seeing uniform readings of 120 microns.
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Thanks, not too bad on the paint removal, not that he'll want to be doing that again soon, hope he keeps it in the garage or something...
 
Apartment with garage in San Diego, starts at $1,500

This car will spend the rest of its life basking in the Sun & Salt air

I left the Owner a Sample of Collinite 845 and some applicator pads...fingers crossed


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