BMW 535D (Carbon Black) Detail

[Nick Goodall]

This is my Dad's 2007 BMW 535D (E60) in Carbon Black

Here are the before pics taken first thing;

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I started at 8am, with a nice thick covering of snow foam

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This was then followed up by going round the whole car with some G101 and a round brush on all the vents, grills, fuel cap and any other hard to reach areas.
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After this i rinsed the whole car off with the Pressure washer, and set about cleaning the wheels with some Very Cherry, and a few different wheel brushes.

The Tyres were sprayed with some G101 and scrubbed thoroughly, I then also sprayed all up round the wheel arches and scrubbed these too before rinsing them off.
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Rinsed off

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Next stage was to wash using the usual 2 bucket method, shampoo this time was Dodo Juice Sour Power

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I then Clayed the car from top to bottom, using some CYC Blue clay, with some Zip wax & water mixed up as lube

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The car wasn't too bad, but it was surprising what the Clay was still picking up, particular hot spot as usual was the front wheel arches and lower doors. I gave the car another snow foam to remove all the lube and any remaining dirt

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It was then sprayed all over with Meguiars Last Touch which really helps dispersing the water before drying it off with a couple of XL Blue fluffy drying towels.

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Last touch working well

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And after a few sprays
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Drying towel
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All dry ready for taping up
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[Nick Goodall]

PART2

After it was all dry, i taped up the window rubbers, washer jets and grills ready for Polishing.

I decided to go with the Sonus range of polishes, and started with an SFX-2 Pad, and SFX-2 Polish. This was actually working great straight away so i stuck with it for the whole car and managed to get some good 50/50's

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A couple of areas were scratched badly so i changed to the SFX-1 Pad and SFX-1 Polish and did a few areas with this, before refining with the SFX-2 pad and polish again.

After finishing each panel i sprayed it down with Menzerna Top inspection to see the results, then after the whole car was finished i sprayed it with Meg's Last touch all over and wiped the whole car down again.

Some close ups after polishing and wiping down

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Pre wax pics
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The Wax i went for was Dodo Juice Purple Haze, applied all over and left for 30 mins to cure.
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[Nick Goodall]

PART3

After wiping down i dressed the Tyres with Meguiars Endurance Tyre Gel and wiped the wheels down with Last touch - here are the final pics, thanks for reading.

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[MatJohnson]

Good work, did you not feel the need to seal the alloys with a sealant?

[racingdwarf]

as always very nice. is that one of those new soft pussy sponges in the background in the kitchen:D

[Nick Goodall]

Good work, did you not feel the need to seal the alloys with a sealant?

No point as i hadn't taken them off but we'll be doing that next year before summer to make sure they're clean inside and out but my Dad wants to get them Refurbed anyway so i may wait for him to do that and then we'll seal them up properly.

They're pretty clean already and he washes his car weekly anyway so brake dust and dirt won't get a chance to bake on :D

[kek23k]

Awesome work as always, totally geeky but I have much respect for your attention to detail. Keep posting :D

[Nick Goodall]

Awesome work as always, totally geeky but I have much respect for your attention to detail. Keep posting :D

Hahaha it is indeed a bit Geeky but if you can't do "Geek" on an R/C forum where can you do it hey?

Thanks though, i will keep posting each time i do a car :thumbsup: