WaxWerks Detailed: Black E36 M3 Paint Correction

[bretster]

Customer contacted me, was local, and asked for a full paint correction and interior wipedown, plus wheel polish, exhaust polish and engine bay cleaning. I actually had severe allergic reactions while detailing this car halfway through and was sent to the ER for a little while, unsure at this point if it was the detailing products or something I ate. I'm doing okay now and the M3 came out great, so onto the writeup!

What was done:
- Before pictures
- Wheels hit with Sonax full effect and iron x
- Tires treated with Adams APC and prima nero
- Engine sprayed down and treated with in and out spray
- De-Bugged with 1Z Bug and Tar Remover
- Exterior wash using lusso auto bathe and foam gun w/ CG Citrus Wash
- Door, hood and trunk jambs cleaned
- Prima nero, 303 Aerospace and CG QD Spray on undercarriage
- Aquartz Iron Cut to decontaminate
- Clayed entire exterior including windows
- Taped up
- 3 step - m105 -> menz sip -> opti poli-seal
- Rubber and vinyl cleaned w/ In and Out, Prima nero
- Exhaust tips polished
- Suspension polished w/ Optimum Metal Polish and Poliseal
- Windows clayed again and cleaned with prima clarity
- Wheels waxed with Prima Wheel Armour
- Exterior Wax -> 1Z Glanz Wax

Interior:
- Vacuum
- Trims treated with Prima Nero, Adams in and out and 1Z Cockpit Premium
- Interior glass cleaned with clarity

Products used:
Exterior wash:
- Lusso auto bathe + CG Citrus Wash
- Gilmour Foam gun w/ CG Citrus Wash
- Uber Sponge
- Uber super drying microfiber towel
- Great White Drying Towel
- Prima nero and 303 Aerospace on undercarriage
- Aquartz Iron Cut
- 1Z Bug and Tar Remover

Engine:
- Adams APC
- Adams In n out spray

Interior:
- 1z Cockpit Premium
- In n out and Prima Clarity and Nero to clean the trims

Paint correction:
- Porter Cable PC 7424XP
- Flex 3401
- Flex PE-14
- Uber green and blue 4/5.5 pads
- Surbuf pads 5.5
- Megs 105
- Menz SIP
- Opti Poli-seal
- 1z Glanz Wax

Onto the pictures

Before
















Clay

[bretster]

Compounding with M105 on a 5.5" Surbuf


CG Carpet Brush on a DA, works magically



Some Correction Pics

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Reflection Shots






Post Polish Wash




1Z Glanz

Trim Restoring

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Exhaust Polish During









Engine Bay Cleaning- Before

After
















Delivered at customers house


Thanks for looking

[c0r3y.af]

Looks great Sorry if I missed it, but what product did you use for the plastic trim? I'm trying to find something that will help to restore faded trim.

[bretster]

Looks great Sorry if I missed it, but what product did you use for the plastic trim? I'm trying to find something that will help to restore faded trim.

Thanks man!

It's called Chemical Guys "New Look" Trim Gel

[c0r3y.af]

Thanks man!

It's called Chemical Guys "New Look" Trim Gel

Thanks, I'll check it out. Meant to ask you one more thing... do you know where I could find one of those carpet scrubbing pads for your DA? This would save me a TON of scrubbing

[bretster]

Thanks, I'll check it out. Meant to ask you one more thing... do you know where I could find one of those carpet scrubbing pads for your DA? This would save me a TON of scrubbing

My partner bought it off the CG site for a real low price, unfortunately I don't know what it's called but we got our most recent restock off Chemical guys, so try there. Goodluck