This car had been completely restored by Coupe King in California, a specialist shop for antique BMW coupes. However that shop did not do a proper job when it came to finishing the paint; they left sanding marks all over the place and littered the paint with deep RIDS and swirl marks. This car required a surface cleansing and protection, three stage polish, complete interior detail + upgrade, a layer of Swissvax Mystery Premium Carnauba wax, and a lot of metal polishing to make perfect.
The story on this one:
The current owner had the car completely restored 7 or so years ago, and it has not really been detailed since. the paint looked pretty good upon first inspecting it, but after wiping the car with alcohol to remove any old wax, things looked a lot worse. there must have been some type of filler wax that was filling all of the scratches and imperfections, because there were a lot.
I decided to go try to get the paint as perfect as possible on this one, so i went with M105 on a yellow Uber pad to knock out any imperfections in the paint, in some places i had to go over it 3-4 times to get the paint perfect.
When we started on this one, we couldn’t do a normal wash. because the owner is afraid of the car getting any rust, and it already had a few spots that had rusted. this car has never been driven in the rain, and has never seen a wash with a hose. so to start out, we wiped the car down with a spray of ONR diluted to clay lube strength, and followed that with an alcohol wipedown to remove any old wax.
Clay
-Special yellow poly clay
-ONR lube
Polishing
-Exterior paint
-Meguiar’s M105 / yellow Uber pad (3-4 passes)
-Menzerna SIP / orange Uber pad (2 passes)
-Menzerna PO85RD / blue Uber pad
-Makita 9227C
-3M Yellow Foam Backing Plate
-1000w halogen lights
-ISA 50/50 wipedown
-DD über MF towels
-Racatac
LSP
-Paint
-Swissvax Cleaner Fluid
-Swissvax Mystery
-FK #425 Quick Detailer
-CG 530XL MF towels
-DD Fluffy green “no name” towels
-Wheels
-Swissvax Cleaner Fluid
-Swissvax Autobahn
-Optimum QD
-Adam’s Undercarriage(wheel wells)
-Swissvax Pneu
Glass
-Adam’s Glass Cleaner
Interior
-1Z Cockpit
-Leather Master Trio
-Adam’s Glass Cleaner
-1Z Gummi Pflege
metal
-Optimum Metal Polish
-#0000 steel wool
