BMW M5 Enhancement

nick_s · Post by **nick_s** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 7:33 am

Morning all!

I had the pleasure of helping my mate Scott give his mates motor a bit of a spruce up before he trades it in against either a Bentley Continental or a Nissan GTR

To be fair, it wasn't in bad condition to start with, a few RDS here and there, and some general wash induced swirling.

A few befores:

The process was:

Snowfoam with Magifoam
2BM wash with ValetPro Wash & Protect
Clay using P32 as a lube and Serious Performance Fine Clay
Wheels cleaned with Very Cherry non acid, Purple Rain and Just The Tonic
Glass cleaned with Fast Glass
Exhaust polished with Autosol on a microfibre (no wire wool )
Polished using various polishes (XPert 1000 & 1500, Menzerna Power Gloss where needed, and a mystery product (VERY good indeed).
IPA wipedown between polishing stages
Waxed using Dodo Juice Blue Velvet Pro
Megs Endurance for the tyres

A few during:

Scott foaming up:

Very Cherry doing its thing:

Purple Rain working away on some pretty clean rims:

Taped up:

RDS on bonnet, dealt with by XPert polishes (see review thread for more on this):

before:-

after:-

Before polishing, pretty swirl free tbh:

Bootlid after a set:

3/4 panel after a set:

Foam rinse after polish:

Now light was seriously fading by the time we'd finished up, so apologies for the poor afters

The best bit for us both after Neil saw the car was that he was thoroughly impressed, he's reluctant to get rid now!

CrunchyAdams82 · Post by **CrunchyAdams82** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 1:43 pm

Nice job. Looks stunning.

simoncider · Post by **simoncider** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 8:56 pm

i've got no idea what most of the words mean,

nick_s wrote: [*]Clay using P32 as a lube and Serious Performance Fine Clay

but can't argue with the results. looks fab!

nick_s · Post by **nick_s** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 9:26 pm

Cheers

@simoncider, clay basically helps remove tree sap, tar deposits and other fallout from your paint leaving it smoother than a pornstars poon. Lube is just that, helps the clay glide over the paint, stopping it stick.

prelude91 · Post by **prelude91** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 11:10 pm

I'm lost too on the vocab too, foam after polish!! don't understand. Perhaps a step by step tutorial would be appreciated by us non- detailers to date. including chemicals / products used at each step.

nitin_s1 · Post by **nitin_s1** » Thu Dec 05, 2013 11:12 pm

Great work!!

nick_s · Post by **nick_s** » Fri Dec 06, 2013 7:19 am

prelude91 wrote:I'm lost too on the vocab too, foam after polish!! don't understand. Perhaps a step by step tutorial would be appreciated by us non- detailers to date. including chemicals / products used at each step.

I could do that given time

Foam after polish helps to remove any polish dust and residue prior to the last few steps being complete

CrunchyAdams82 · Post by **CrunchyAdams82** » Fri Dec 06, 2013 9:20 am

Yeah, a step by step guide would be nice; including what tools were used.

I know there are other polishing guides on here - but would be nice to see how they compare.