Mike@DedicatedPerfection
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This vehicle was brought to me from a fellow BMW owner named Mike after watching my detailing threads over on Bimmerpost. I always post my work in my local BMW Las Vegas Chat thread as others over there follow my work and use my advice. With Mike following my work for the past year he has always been interested and intrigued by my work done and decided to contact me to bring his car over to “Mike’s Detail Shop” for some TLC. Mike has always wanted his car to shine and has taken the car to the local wash jockey’s to satisfy that clean car itch in the past. This time he decided to get serious and get it done right….
I received the car Saturday afternoon and got to work on the wash step just before the sun went down. It took roughly 2 hours to get the car prepped after all the steps. I closed up shop (garage) and left the car outside for the night with plans on doing a wipe down in the morning before the correction step and went in for the night. Sunday morning came quicker than expected and shortly after the alarm went off I awoke to booming noise of thunder. When getting outside I saw that it was raining and went in to check the forecast. Seeing that it was going to be just the early morning quick shower and a chance in the afternoon I went back out to the garage and performed a waterless wash with UWW+ on my BMW to pass the time. When I finished the rain had stopped and I just moved the wife’s wagon outside so only one black BMW would get wet if it decided to rain later. I pulled the silver car in and got to work. Come lunch time I looked outside to see dark clouds rolling in. I stopped and went in for lunch and after returning outside I was standing next to the wagon watching it get rained on. My neighbors come home and pointed and laughed as my wife’s wagon was getting rained on. I asked if they would mind if I borrowed the garage so the car was out of the rain and the husband said it was fine. I quickly moved his DD Civic into the rain and the wagon into the garage where I could perform a UWW+ wash to keep the water spots at bay. After getting it taken care of I returned to the project car to finish the job. For the rest of the day the wagon stayed in the garage as the rain passed and I retrieved it before going in for the night.
Sorry for going into length about the job but I thought a few guys would get a kick out of my car getting rained on. BTW, I do this from home and am not on an hourly rate. So taking a bit longer wasn’t an issue as I met my deadline with the customer.
Exterior
· Wheels cleaned with Wolfgang Uber Wheel Cleaner, Daytona Speed Master, and Mothers wheel brush
· Tires scrubbed with Purple Power degreaser and Mothers tire brush
· Exhaust washed and polished with P21s polishing soap
Wash
· Foam with Gilmour foam gun and CarPro Snow Foam
· Wash with 2BM and Meguiar’s Super Soap and Meguiar’s wash media
· Additional decon step with Iron-X to further the decontamination removal
· Thorough rinse down to remove all soap residues
· Cracks and crevices blown out with leaf blower
· Remaining water dried with Green Cobra Ultimate Guzzler
Correction
· Clayed with Meguiar’s blue Professional Clay and Last touch Detailer
· Taped trim with green 233+ painters tape
· Correction/Polish with 3401, Orange Hybrid Pad, and FG400 speed 3 and 6-8 passes
· Polish residue removed with Cobra Miracle towels
Coating prep and Coating
· Wipe down with Eraser and Cobra Lavender Deluxe towels
· Coated with Opti-Coat 2.0 via Meguiar’s applicator pad
· Coating leveled with Gold Cobra towel
Miscellaneous
· Door sills detailed with V07
· Wheels detailed with V07
· Tires dressed with Meguiar’s Endurance tire Gel
· Windows cleaned with Stoners Aerosol Spray
· Pictures taken with Nikon D3200, hooded 18-55mm lens, suppressed SB-700 speed light
Here you can see I recieved a clean car so this is the only before picture
The face of the wheel was pretty clean but the barrels tell a different story. Uber at its best!
I guess I get some good foam? CarPro Snow Soap
This car had quite a bit of contamination.
This was about the normal thickness over the car. PTG on borrow from rms64 or Rob.
I dont have any 50/50 pics but the swirling was evident and very hard to capture. I did run across this scratch and was able to knock it down. It was very deep that caught my nail but after few passes it was reduced.
I thought it was hard to achieve gloss on light silver?
Here my car is inside sharing space with the silver BMW and my wifes wagon is on the other side of the wall next to mine in my neighbors garage.
And some outside shots
Another happy customer leaving Mike's Detail Shop...
I received the car Saturday afternoon and got to work on the wash step just before the sun went down. It took roughly 2 hours to get the car prepped after all the steps. I closed up shop (garage) and left the car outside for the night with plans on doing a wipe down in the morning before the correction step and went in for the night. Sunday morning came quicker than expected and shortly after the alarm went off I awoke to booming noise of thunder. When getting outside I saw that it was raining and went in to check the forecast. Seeing that it was going to be just the early morning quick shower and a chance in the afternoon I went back out to the garage and performed a waterless wash with UWW+ on my BMW to pass the time. When I finished the rain had stopped and I just moved the wife’s wagon outside so only one black BMW would get wet if it decided to rain later. I pulled the silver car in and got to work. Come lunch time I looked outside to see dark clouds rolling in. I stopped and went in for lunch and after returning outside I was standing next to the wagon watching it get rained on. My neighbors come home and pointed and laughed as my wife’s wagon was getting rained on. I asked if they would mind if I borrowed the garage so the car was out of the rain and the husband said it was fine. I quickly moved his DD Civic into the rain and the wagon into the garage where I could perform a UWW+ wash to keep the water spots at bay. After getting it taken care of I returned to the project car to finish the job. For the rest of the day the wagon stayed in the garage as the rain passed and I retrieved it before going in for the night.
Sorry for going into length about the job but I thought a few guys would get a kick out of my car getting rained on. BTW, I do this from home and am not on an hourly rate. So taking a bit longer wasn’t an issue as I met my deadline with the customer.
Exterior
· Wheels cleaned with Wolfgang Uber Wheel Cleaner, Daytona Speed Master, and Mothers wheel brush
· Tires scrubbed with Purple Power degreaser and Mothers tire brush
· Exhaust washed and polished with P21s polishing soap
Wash
· Foam with Gilmour foam gun and CarPro Snow Foam
· Wash with 2BM and Meguiar’s Super Soap and Meguiar’s wash media
· Additional decon step with Iron-X to further the decontamination removal
· Thorough rinse down to remove all soap residues
· Cracks and crevices blown out with leaf blower
· Remaining water dried with Green Cobra Ultimate Guzzler
Correction
· Clayed with Meguiar’s blue Professional Clay and Last touch Detailer
· Taped trim with green 233+ painters tape
· Correction/Polish with 3401, Orange Hybrid Pad, and FG400 speed 3 and 6-8 passes
· Polish residue removed with Cobra Miracle towels
Coating prep and Coating
· Wipe down with Eraser and Cobra Lavender Deluxe towels
· Coated with Opti-Coat 2.0 via Meguiar’s applicator pad
· Coating leveled with Gold Cobra towel
Miscellaneous
· Door sills detailed with V07
· Wheels detailed with V07
· Tires dressed with Meguiar’s Endurance tire Gel
· Windows cleaned with Stoners Aerosol Spray
· Pictures taken with Nikon D3200, hooded 18-55mm lens, suppressed SB-700 speed light
Here you can see I recieved a clean car so this is the only before picture
The face of the wheel was pretty clean but the barrels tell a different story. Uber at its best!
I guess I get some good foam? CarPro Snow Soap
This car had quite a bit of contamination.
This was about the normal thickness over the car. PTG on borrow from rms64 or Rob.
I dont have any 50/50 pics but the swirling was evident and very hard to capture. I did run across this scratch and was able to knock it down. It was very deep that caught my nail but after few passes it was reduced.
I thought it was hard to achieve gloss on light silver?
Here my car is inside sharing space with the silver BMW and my wifes wagon is on the other side of the wall next to mine in my neighbors garage.
And some outside shots
Another happy customer leaving Mike's Detail Shop...
. Looks fantastic Mike.
:laughing: