This car is owner by a friend of mines mother. It is garage kept and kept up relatively well. There was very minimal swirling in the paint even over the year or so she has owned it, I think Ill give the credit to BMW's awesome clearcoat! I only had a day and a morning to work on this one, I spent most of the day just claying the car. In my experience with white cars, the most notable difference is before and after claybarring the vehicle. This car happened to have A LOT of fall out and exhaust soot embedded into the paint. Anyways on to the pics!

Exterior:
Dawn Soap Pre-Wash
Optimum Car Wash-Final Wash
COBRA UMF Wash Mitt
COBRA Delux "Jr" MF's
Dual Buckets with Grit Guards
3m Masking Tape
Adams Professional Clay Bar
P21S TAW
Meguairs APC+
Meguairs Hyperdressing
Menzerna SIP/White
Menzerna Top Inspection
Tons of Uber MF Towels(AP)
Black WOW
Griots Garage Wheel Cleaner Gel
Swissvax Pneu


LSP:
Lusso Oro applied with Uber Foam Applicator

Tools:
Dual Work Lamps
Dewalt Hi Speed Rotary
World's Greatest Boar's Hair Wheel Brush
Foam Pad Cleaning Brush
DD Detail Sponge
The Wheel Well/Fender Brush
The Spoke Brush
Canon Rebel XTi
Craftsmen 295MPH Vac/Blow
E-Z Detail Wheel Brush
Swissvax Wheel Brush

BEFORE:
























These were after I had cleaned the rest of the car..

 

AFTER:

 

Final Wash, Lusso beading nicely!

 

Looks great. I agree with BMW's clearcoat, it seems to be particularly resilient.

 

Dang. Great job, you can really see a difference.

I need to buy materials to detail the exterior.

 

if I am not mistaking...the clearcoat is acculy powder coat.

I am not positive but I think its BMW's that are like that

 

Im not sure of that, I just know they are hard to correct and hard to swirl.

 

yeah, it's probably like the recent mercedes and volvo who use the 'nano-particle' clear...i don't think it's "powder coat", per se', but it's very durable.

i've heard that the bimmers painted in the SC plant don't get that, but the german units do. dunno how true that is, but it certainly makes sense considering how tight the EPA is now with body shop ****.

 

Yeah, I was also under the impression it had a ceramic clear like the Mercedes Benz do..

 

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