Another BMW M3 Get's ready for Spring

[TTQ B4U]

So a multi-vehicle previous customer of mine brought me another fun ride. He has one of the coolest collection of daily drivers out there and this is certainly one that I really enjoyed working on. NICE car for sure!

It's a 2008 V8 M3 with a bad ass sound system under the car. Super deep, clean growl. That's my opinion just on a start up and blip of the throttle. I can only imagine the glorious sounds this thing would make up to the 8,000+ redline it has when warmed up.

Anyway, detail wise, he admits that he hasn't cleaned it up much lately and she was proudly wearing the effects of winter still. LOVE the wheels, but they were layered in brake dust and gunk for sure. Badly contaminated to the point that it was like sandpaper on the hood and the doors back were loaded with ferrous partials rusting on the surface. Let's just say the iron remover turned the entire car purple.

I can do a lot with a little and with this being an all-around daily he wanted to simply give it my Basic Polish & Protect package and use the extra money to top that with a 2 layer ceramic the second of which is not only a second hard-coat layer or protect, but it also has a super slick top-coat built in that helps repel water spots even more so than the newer formulation of coatings do already. Together they will help keep it cleaner longer and most certainly make day-forward cleaning a snap!

Here's what I had to start with.


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Bad but not horrible. Seeing the above makes for a true make over look once done. Now one would be hard-pressed to see this as a 13 year old vehicle with over 133k on the clock. http://www.columbusracing.com/ubb/cool.gif


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Thanks again to Eric for continued trust in my work and having yet another beautiful ride to enjoy for the summer and beyond!


Process included:



Wash
Iron X
Nano Mitt Medium
Tar removed with Mineral Spirits
Flex XCE with L.C. Orange light cutting pad with CarPro Essence
Panel wiped with Optimum Paint Prep
Ceramic was CarPro UK 3.0 then a layer of CarPro SiC over top of that
Meg's Hyperdressing on Tires
Rust Oleum Never Wet for Glass on All Windows
Meguiar's D4510 Plastic & Vinyl Coating on grill work

[Rsurfer]

Nice job, nice car. Was the SiC as slick as Gliss?

[Texchappy]

Nice job, nice car. Was the SiC as slick as Gliss?

I’d like to know too!

[JDGolden]

What a major visual difference. Bad ass car, too.

[PaulMys]

More good stuff!! :dblthumb2:

[57Rambler]

Looks new to me, nice work !

And D4510 is the bees' knees for these PITA honeycomb grilles. If the designers were forced to detail a few of them, they'd disappear from vehicles real quick.

[TTQ B4U]

Thx all. Yes SiC is slick like gliss. Its nice to use both UK 3.0 as it's then easy to see and where the layers begin. Essence is slicker than UK so it's easily to see and feel where you have been. SiC is slicker than UK so there too it's easy to feel where you have been.

[Kamakaz1961]

Beautiful work

[Klasse Act]

Nice E92, love those rims! Surely the owner was happy[emoji106][emoji106]

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[Sizzle Chest]

Nice work getting that M where it needed to be! Looks great!

[dgage]

Nice work on a nice car. Thanks for the feedback on UK/SiC, which I plan to deploy whenever work calms down.

[oneheadlite]

Beautiful work as always! (Both on the detail and the photography)

Have I ever mentioned I'm glad we've got so many miles between us? I swear if you were in my state I'd just trade in my machines and have you do it!

Love me the E9x M3's - as a guy that works mainly on BMW's it's the only V8 BMW I'd actually recommend. The rod bearing issue is real (I've done at least 10 sets of them here at the shop), but outside of that those things are solid! (Don't believe the Blackstone analysis - Some of the cars had "clean reports" but were very much due for replacement).

Also - I love a clean white M3 - both my E30 M3 and E36 M3 were Alpine White on Black. :D

[TTQ B4U]

Beautiful work as always! (Both on the detail and the photography)

Have I ever mentioned I'm glad we've got so many miles between us? I swear if you were in my state I'd just trade in my machines and have you do it!

Love me the E9x M3's - as a guy that works mainly on BMW's it's the only V8 BMW I'd actually recommend. The rod bearing issue is real (I've done at least 10 sets of them here at the shop), but outside of that those things are solid! (Don't believe the Blackstone analysis - Some of the cars had "clean reports" but were very much due for replacement).

Also - I love a clean white M3 - both my E30 M3 and E36 M3 were Alpine White on Black. :D

Thank you sir. The owner did the rod Bearing fix. He does all his own work. Been a flawless car from track to street. He has a slight oil filter area leak. Simple fix. He does an oil analysis on every change. He's OCD like that.
He is also developing the idle issue. Just started last week. $325 part and some time so he's fixing that this coming weekend. 133k on the Odomoter and he's shooting for 200k. It's a daily.

He has a V8 Cayanne GTS with a 6spd, the Blue X5M I just did, another E90 Series M Sedan too.

[oneheadlite]

Thank you sir. The owner did the rod Bearing fix. He does all his own work. Been a flawless car from track to street. He has a slight oil filter area leak. Simple fix. He does an oil analysis on every change. He's OCD like that.
He is also developing the idle issue. Just started last week. $325 part and some time so he's fixing that this coming weekend. 133k on the Odomoter and he's shooting for 200k. It's a daily.

He has a V8 Cayanne GTS with a 6spd, the Blue X5M I just did, another E90 Series M Sedan too.

Awesome to hear it's in a good home. Have him check his P/S belt tensioner/dampener - most I've seen have leaked their fluid and it makes it look like an oil filter housing leak.

I'll confess I'm a little anti-oil analysis as my experience has been it's a step people take as an excuse to under-maintain their cars (Just my opinion from my experience - but I'm guessing the true passionate folks are the ones doing it themselves at home).

Last side track to your thread - While I'm traditionally a coupe guy as far as sporty cars, I do really like the E9x M3s as sedans. :D